Look what happened to me.....

..... three days before Christmas! 

I was out for a walk and somehow stumbled and ended up having an argument with the footpath. You can tell who won! Lol!

So, it was straight to the local emergency department for me and I will see the plastic surgeon this coming Thursday to see if I need to have a nose op! Fun times - NOT!

So, looking like this, I had to host a Christmas for seventeen people (including three from overseas who had never experienced Christmas before let alone an Aussie Christmas - boy, were they in for a shock as we rocked on for 14 hours!)

Despite, my Elephant Man looks, we managed to have a wonderful day - lots of yummy food (unfortunately, I was so busy hosting that I only got a couple of photos of the food, my sister did but she is yet to send me the pics), nice wine and champagne and lots of fun playing Yankee Swap for our Kris Kringle plus lots of games - Sicilian Scopa (traditional card game) and a game called Werewolves, mainly.  As I said, we went for fourteen hours (we started at 9.30am for our traditional breakfast of croissants and pannetone (Italian bread cake) and finishing with Taiwanese dumplings (made by myself and my DDIL) and leftovers at 11.30pm.

Here are my pics, at random:

... and on the stitching front, I have just posted to my New Start Sundays blog (the first time for thirteen months!).  You can check what my new start is by clicking on the image below:

Thanks for visiting, 

hugs, 

December Smalls SAL

Hello Lovely Bloggers, 

The Smalls SAL is hosted by Mary's Thread

I feel a bit of a fraud posting in the Smalls SAL for December since I didn't post all year but please click on this Advent Calendar post. If you would like to see my year of Christmas Smalls for 2019.

hugs, 

Friday Frolics Returns.....

So, as I think that my blogging mojo may have returned - yay! Thanks to a push from my dear friend, Jo from Serendipitous Stitching, I felt the need to start my stitching regimes again, starting with my Friday Frolics. This is a very loose SAL, whereby I and any other member, will randomly pull out a WIP/UFO on a Friday and stitch on it.

As 2019 has been a year of stitching Christmas smalls (see my last post) - I thought that I would work on a Christmas WIP - "Snowflake Serenade" by CCN.

Please check it out at on my latest post, Nearly a New Year, on Kitten Stitching and the Friday Frolics.

Happy Stitching everyone, 

hugs, 

fri

2019 - ONLINE ADVENT CALENDAR - DECEMBER 7th

Ho! Ho! Ho!

Merry Christmas everyone.

Here is Day Seven of Serendipitous Jo's Online Advent Calendar

(Sorry it is a bit late but DS1 and DIL are home for Christmas after two years away in Brunei - so I am just a tad busy at the moment).

Also, I must admit that this is only my second post for 2019!  For some reason, I have totally lost my blogging mojo but Jo has managed to lure me out of my funk for the Advent Calendar.  Hopefully, I will feel the need to blog again next year but who knows?

However, I have been stitching all year long and, as luck would have it, I have been stitching "Christmas"!  

Let's take a peek....

I literally just finished this little beauty this morning in lieu of breakfast before I went to work at 7am.  I added the Christmas 2019 to the design.

... and here is everything else Christmas that I have stitched this year, in various stages of finishing and in no particular order (The named ornies are for my work colleagues).

Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas and New Year.

Now, don't forget to pop back to Jo's blog to see all the other days.

2019 Advent Calendar

hugs, 

P.S. Ooops, I forgot to tell you my favourite Christmas movie(s).  I have three:

It's a Wonderful Life

Miracle on 34th St (1947 one, preferably)

Love Actually (DS1 and I watch this every year - even when he is living overseas!)