Gifted Gorgeousness SAL_April Update

I know, I know, my blogging mojo seems to be in a bit of a hiatus!

If you look at my sidebar, you will see that I started the year racing, straight out of the blocks - with 19 posts for the month, the next few months were less than half that and this post is only my fourth one for April and the month is nearly over!  

Oh dear, I wish I knew where my blogging mojo has gone but I am still stitching A LOT, however I am finding that I am using Instagram a lot more (and then I share to FB and Twitter).  If you would like to follow me on social media, my user name is Kaisievic (or you can see some links in my sidebar)

Lately, I have also been posting more on two of my other blogs - Kitten Stitching and Friday Frolics and the Americana SAL - so you can check out what I have been up to there, as well.

Anyway, I had better get on with the post - there is lots to catch up on

So, here is my very late (fourteen days and counting) Gifted Gorgeousness April Update.

Now, if you do not know what I am talking about ...

Gifted Gorgeousness (or GG) is a SAL run by the wonderful SAL Mama, Jo from Serendipitous Stitching.  Basically, on the 15th of each month, we post anything which is stitchy gift-related.

.... and I have so much Gorgeousness to show you - I really don't know where to start!  

But start I will, with the Tea Cup and Mug Exchange, organised by the wonderful Stephanie from the The Enchanting Rose.

This was the Tenth Tea Cup and Mug Exchange that Stephanie has hosted and I decided to enter into both.

First of all I received this gorgeous tea cup and other lovely gifts from sweet Libby.  

Thank you so much, dear Libby, I l love everything and thank you for your lovely letter, too - I promise to email you very soon.

Then I received this great mug package from Augusta - more lovely goodies, thank you, my dear.

And this is what I sent...

My Mug package for Janae.

... and my Tea Cup package for Tanya. 

(sorry for the sideways pictures)

Such a wonderful exchange, thanks for organising it, Stephanie.  Click here to see the big reveal post on Stephanie's blog.

Next up is the Easter Exchange, which I hosted.  Not sure if I will host one again, as I am not sure I have the time to commit to the administration of it.

I sent my Easter gifts to Ariadne.  

This is what I received from dear Carmie (no blog)- I love the needle book, thank you, my dear.

I also have a couple of other GG projects....

This is my progress on "Afternoon in Paris" by CCN, which I am stitching for a friend's 60th birthday.

and here is my progress on "Nutcracker Sampler" (the design was gifted to me by my dear friend Melinda.)

I have nearly finished the Santa nutcracker.  I am thinking that I will back stitch each nutcracker when I finish him - that way the back stitching won't be too overwhelming.  What do you think?

Okay, I am finally done with this post.

If you would like to check out all of the other wonderful GG posts for this month, please click here.

Have a great weekend, 

hugs, 

Last Gifted Gorgeousness post for 2016...

December Update....

But first, in case you do not know what I am talking about ...

Gifted Gorgeousness (or GG) is a SAL run by the wonderful SAL Mama, Jo from Serendipitous Stitching.  Basically, on the 15th of each month, we post anything which is stitchy gift-related.

I haven't done many exchanges this year (as I find them a bit too stressful - I always have grand plans for getting everything done early and then LIFE gets in the way and, well, you know the story!)

Anyway, the few I have done have been run by the Tuesday Girls on the No Fuss Swappers blog.  There are two things I like about these swaps:

1. Plenty of time before the deadline.

2. Absolutely straightforward, no sending of extra gifts.

So, I took part in the Bah Humbug Mug Rug exchange and I was lucky enough to have the gorgeous Teresa send me a few gifts.

A mug rug, a Christmas mug and a delicious gift, all wrapped in a Christmas fat quarter.

Isn't it all so very gorgeous and Christmassy?  Thank you, so very, very much, dear Teresa.  I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas. 

I, in turn, sent my mug rug, mug, delicious gift of a mini panettone and Christmas fat quarter to Nor.

I hope you like your Chrissy gift, Nor.

This next gift you have seen before, it is Baby Joe's first Christmas, which you can see in more detail in this post.

Next up is Oh Holy Night, which I made up into a little felt bag, which I filled with Christmas goodies to give to my best friend, Kim.

... and, of course, we have more progress on Amy's London blanket. I am on the last colourway but alas, it will not be done in time for Christmas!

A bit hard to knit with Furio around!

 ... and last up, a girlfriend was having a clean up and gave me all of these lovely Jill Oxton cross stitch magazines and a Cross stitch Samplers book.

If you want to check out what everyone else does for GG, please head over to dear Jo's blog.

Well, time to sign off now, 

hugs,