Update :)

Okay…. feeling much better on the stitching front now This week has been a busy one! I have laced and framed Ivy for my niece and sent her off, I laced and framed a small piece for a friend (she stitched it) and she is happy with it so I am LOL I laced and framed Celtic Summer for Stephanie and took it around to her, her expression was worth giving it up I then finished up Crescent Dreams, except for the name, for baby I will show you a picture tomorrow Its a dull day here so no point taking a picture Today I have worked on Cirque des cercles (hubby’s birthday pressie) I will show you a picture of that tomorrow too……. promises, promises LOL

On Monday Kristin and I are starting our sal on Celtic Autumn and this time Mel will be joining us   I can’t wait and this one will be for me!!  YAY!  I also found a great framer, who is very pedantic and proper (a good thing) who is also not very expensive so I have decided that all my big pieces with be properly framed from now on and I will only frame my little things.

On the baby front I have made a very large decision, with the agreement of my darling, if all goes according to plan we will be having a homebirth, this is not a direction I would normally take but the system in Timaru is just so antiquated I feel that I have no choices!!  Which really suxs!  I have had trouble free labours with all my natural births and no pain relief needed, so apart from Ella’s birth which was only a c-section because of breech presentation I have been blessed with natural easy births, so going to a hospital as soon as my contractions are 10 mins apart (say what?!!) and having to be on my back with a monitor on the whole time is not my idea of a great birthing experience!  I have talked to a local independent midwife who was very positive and I am meeting her tomorrow, she  was lovely and I finally feel at peace about the birth.

Anyway….

*hugs*

Andie

A feeling of let down…

I have had 5 finishes this year, 4 of them big ones and none of them are for me *sob*….. I think I need to work on some me things for awhile…… so does that mean I can have a new start?……. No probably not LOL  Although I will be starting a new project with Kristin in the next week or two as we have decided to continue on with our sal, this one will be Celtic Autumn which will be for me

I need to get xmas Fae finished (its a late pressie for my nieces birthday) and then I want to get 5 different colour ways done for my nieces/daughters of L&L’s Judy’s freebie angel for xmas.   I was planning on working on Watergarden as my next big wip……… but……. do I need a finish for me sooner than that?  Will a new start make me feel better?  Nope it will probably add to my big WIP pile and make me feel overwhelmed……  I really need to get butterfly – day done for my Dad…… its been a wip for about 4 years now…. but I want something for me……. waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh  Maybe I could start our wedding sampler?………

Thanks for listening to me whinge!

*hugs*

Andie

Shes done!!

YAY!!!

Celtic Summer – Started 7th November 2006 Finished 24th August 2007

Stitched on 28 Count Belfast Custom Dye from Countrystitch

For Stephanie

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Andie

WWRRUFO

A few of you may recall that I signed up for the WW RR UFO, I sent out Three for Tea and in return recieved Fairy Dreams (L&L) so here is a picture of the UFO I have been working on (now that Paula has seen it)

As I received:

As I will send (tomorrow hopefully)

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Andie

First up

Celtic Summer

Okay…. I so hoped to get her done last week but realized I didn’t have a bead number I needed…. rushed down to LNS… nup not the right beads there (was a bit of hopeful thinking) so had to order them online, they arrived yesterday so hopefully tomorrow will be THE day

Next Noreen was a sweetie and sent me this great chart “Calliope” from Stab and Stash as a late birthday pressie, Noreen also made me this beautiful scissor fob!  Thank you so much Noreen you are a sweetie!!  *hugs*

Next up is a challenge, also from Noreen to “post your stash” well I still have sick kids home so I am just posting my fabbies for now

First picture is: my plain fabbies 2 meters of 32 count Belfast and 2 meters of 28 count evenweave, these fabbies were for sale on Trademe really cheap and I couldn’t say no, I am sure I will find a use for them some time

Next is my small cuts of Hand dyed fabbie:

And then my fat quarters:

And my 3 fat halves (for specific projects)

And Noreen was right!  I had more than I thought LOL

*hugs*

Andie

Stitching Finished!

Beading started

I am so happy!  Another sal day and she should be all complete!!

*hugs*

Andie

Latest baby picture

You will probably all be sick of these by the time baby is born

Thanks for looking

*hugs*

Andie

Ivy – Finished

Well I finally finished Mira’s Ivy yay she is a present for my niece’s birthday…. which was at the end of February… oops, she is all wrinkly still but you get the idea.

She is stitched on a Countrystitch fabbie, it was 32count Belfast – Hazy Dayz, I used Cleadal’s conversion for the dress, converted the wings myself to look nice and sparkly, I removed all the beads and just did them in krenick to match the wings

Thanks for checking her out!

*hugs*

Andie

Celtic Summer update

So close and yet so far away

Here also is Waiting for Ships where I left her at the end of July

I am trying to use webshots for my pictures.

*hugs*

Andie

Goals for August

1 page of Midnight Boo (model)

UFO RR *every other night*

Wednesday SAL

Monday Stitching group (crescent Dreams)

This months Wip is Ivy *every other night*

*hugs*

Andie