Here is my stitching/crafting pie for October.....

Okay, what is a Stitching Pie, I hear you ask?

Well, I am "stealing" yet another great idea from my dear Stitchy and Bloggy friend, Jo, from Serendipitous Stitching. Each month she includes a pie graph of which projects she has been stitching on - showing how much time, proportionally, has been spent on each one in that month.

I really like this idea, so I am copying it, thank you Jo, I hope that you don't mind, so here we go for October 2018 .....

Altogether I stitched for 7.8% of the month.  This is less than last month which was 10.3%, but I did have a few days this month when I did not stitch at all! October has been a busy month for me, what with 60th birthday celebrations, lots happening with the house (I spent a lot of time this month getting quotes for blinds, etc.) plus work has been quite busy, too.  So, I suppose all of that explains my lower figure this month.

So, what has all this stitching been?  Let's take a look, taking it from the top....

Peas and Qs by The Cricket Collection

Surprised Santa from More Bah Humbug by Sue Hillis Designs, 

Hangover Santa from Bah Humbug by Sue Hillis Designs

Alice by Aury TM

Christmas Goose by Stacy Nash

(if you think this looks familiar, I did stitch this about five years ago - check it out here - but I love the pattern so much that I am stitching it again as I think that I gave the first one away).

Frosty Hopes

Elephant Baby Sampler

Xmas Trees (on the right) from Nordic Holiday, by Prairie Schooler (Book #191)

Pumpkin Man from the Boo Man booklet from Prairie Schooler.

Partridge in a Pear Tree from Nordic Holiday , by Prairie Schooler (Book #191)

Broken Ornament from More Bah Humbug by Sue Hillis Designs

So, in all, still a busy month of stitching for me, I think.

Thanks for visiting, 

P.S. Click on this pic below to find out all about my latest Giveaway - closes next Sunday.

Gifted Gorgeousness_October 2018 Update

After not posting for GG since June!!!!! I finally have an assorted range of goodies to show you.

(Click on the pic above to find out what Gifted Gorgeousness is all about)

First up is this gorgeous Elephant Baby Sampler that I am stitching for my dear friend Marie's (of Sunday walks around Princes Park fame) DD1, who has just had her first baby.... a little boy, Sebastian David....

Isn't he a darling little baby?

Next, I have these wonderful gifts sent to by my dear stitchy friend, Mia from Craftartista.

Some lovely Anchor and DMC floss...

Two pairs of sweet earrings...

Some hot chocolate (which meant that the parcel was opened by Customs to check it out)...

Some wooden cross stitch pieces ...

I was also lucky enough to win a prize in the raffle at a Spring Carnival evening I went to a week or so ago ....

(There were actually two packets of chocolate biscuits plus a bag of chocolate-covered liquorice as well but I gave them to my dear friend Lisa's mother, Barbara, who loves chocolate - the Spring Carnival evening was held at her Nursing Home - it was a wild night, started at 5.30pm and I was home by 7.30pm - lol!)

 "Speaking" of Barbara, I was helping Lisa clean out her mother's house (it has been sold to enable her to move into the nursing home) and I managed to score Barbara's buttons. This ice cream container was full of buttons but I managed to fit them nicely into this Twinings tea tin.

There were a couple of extra small containers of buttons, too....

....so they went into this tin.

This is my entire button collection now.....

My favourite tin is the one on the right, which show Collins St, Melbourne c1960s, I think by the design of the cars.

Well, that is all from me for now, 

you can check out the other GGers by clicking on the pic below.

hugs,