A Happy Easter....

Well, despite a few "Downs" this past Easter weekend:

• Dear BIL being taken to hospital with pneumonia on Thursday but luckily he responded quickly to strong antibiotics and was sent home on Good Friday
• The garage door (which opens from the lane to our backyard where we park our four cars (!) - now both DD and DS2 drive we have a carpark! lol!) broke down on Good Friday - no way to get it fixed for two weeks!
• Rushing DD to the 24 hour clinic to get a tetanus shot on Easter Sunday morning after she cut her foot badly at her work late on Saturday night on a rusty metal container

We managed to have some great "Ups" over the long weekend;

• Visited the Mornington Farmer's Market on Saturday (see last post)
• Caught up with 6 or 7 episodes of "Downton Abbey" - such a treat!
• My Dear Uncle came to stay for a few days, here is on the right (TraderVic on the left) enjoying a nice glass of red wine

• Caught up with friends and family
• Lots of baking

Chocolate Fudge Cake

Peanut Crinkles

DS1 made a delicious Key Lime Pie

• Plus I made some delicious Lentil Soup and Tuna patties on Good Friday and a hearty Lamb and Vegetable Soup on Easter Monday (no pics, sorry)

• Plus, of course, lots of stitching:
• Some progress on The Faerie Queene:

This section in brown (below) is done over one (not my favourite stitching to do):

• ..and lots of progress on Autumn in New York:

So, in all a Happy Easter,

I would love to hear all about yours, so please let me know.

hugs,

Belated FNSI...

Not a lot done this FNSI or this past weekend, for that matter, I have been busy with stuff to do with my elderly parents plus a great day out to the Yarra Valley yesterday (pics to come in my next post).

Here is my progress on Autumn in New York by Primrose Designs:

... and Black Oak Lane by Full Circle Designs:

Have a good week, everyone,

hugs,

Lots of stitch progress on lots of projects...

I have been rather a busy bee stitching around my rotation.  Do you want to see what I have been up to?

Before and After photos of The Faerie Queene (Nicola's Scarlet Letter Year SAL project)

 A New Year Start (I began this on our Mulwala trip) - Autumn in New York by Primrose Needleworks.

For my Christmas Ornie SAL, I decided not to go with my first choice when I saw this quartet of nutcrackers.  I am stitching the Soldier for this month's Christmas Ornie.

I am doing a Heart swap for Valentine's day (organised by the lovely Cheryll) - here is a sneak peek.  Lovely colours but I don't think that these photos give too much away!

Lastly, still stitching the Travelling Pattern - Summer Garden - whilst on the train to work - here are my Before and After photos - as you can see, a lot of progress is happening here.

What are you all up to?

hugs,