Thursday, June 18, 2009

Frogs... ribbit! !

My latest project is Shakespeare's Peddler's "My Weary World Rejoices". Usually this kind of design is not my cup of tea, but I'm loving it, despite the fact that I'm having serious colour issues with almost every cross that I stitch. Luckily Staci's hand-dyed evenweave is a joy to stitch on and is making up for the problems with the palette!

Today, it's GREEN!!! Seriously, the place is infested!

The slimy creepy crawly's are tormenting me and my stitches. I feel like I'm doing more frogging than stitching at the moment! Please, someone tell me that said glorious morn will be breaking soon! Like, maybe, now, even though the working day is done, the pizza is in the oven and the sun is setting... And yonder is actually quite close... right!??

O well, in the meantime I can lavish my eyes on a teeny tiny work of art!! Just to show you how tiny, I added a DMC floss wrapper to the picture...

It's an egg (duh... Not sure what kind, though) and look at the tiny stitches with ribbon and thread! Isn't it gorgeous?? My goodness, the work that's gone in it, it looks so delicate! My parents gave it to me as a belated birthday present, but they didn't dare send this by mail... ;o)
It's tucked away safely now in a place where curious cats and swishy tails cannot reach it, but adoring eyes can still enjoy it!

Until next time!!

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Goodies!!

A surprise package arrived this week with gorgeous birthday goodies from Deb!
This sweet, wacky woman added a BEAUTIFUL fob... yet to be finished...LOL!! She added a piece of gorgeous backing fabric and some floss for the cording so I am good to go!! Sweet Deb doesn't trust her own finishing skills, which, trust me, she has in buckets!! Gertrude Vile-Emma is proof of that!!
Thank you for all the wonderful gifts, Deb!!

Some more birthday stash thanks to a lovely gift certificate + inspiration from Vonna.

On Saturday I hosted the Stitch and Bitch.... Yes, I know some of you prefer to call it a Sip and Stitch but that just sounds so ladylike and trust me, I ain't no lady... ;o)... Plenty of coffee, tea and FUN, though!! We stitched and we chatted, we noshed on 'broodjes Mario', Margaret tossed her floss, both Heidi and Margaret tried to lure me into the Mary Wigham SAL... and just look at the goodies they surprised me with!!

A stunning box Margaret painted and decorated herself!!

And here's Kisse showing off Heidi's beautiful bag!!
Thank you, ladies, for your gifts and your company!!

Until next time!!