(Some cool giveaways at the end of the post so please feel free to scroll down, if you wish)
I am finally starting to feel a sense of normalcy again after the passing of my mother and the funeral. I still cannot quite believe that she has gone and every now and then I have a little cry but I will get there. I am just so grateful that she is no longer in pain and as I keep saying, so thankful for all the support of all of family and friends - both offline and online! (Who would ever have thought that sort of statement would make sense when we were young?)
I received so many lovely cards, good wishes via messenger, FB, comments and lovely flowers and gifts! Thank you all so much.
Here is a pic of my latest floral bouquet to arrive at my home from one of my ex-colleagues and friends who is now one of my authors, too. (These will feature again a bit later as they are the backdrop for my rather late TUSAL update)
So, I am getting back into my stitching routine, thank goodness. This past Friday I was able to actually take part in Friday Night with Friends! Yay! I actually had a Finish! Double Yay!
I had a Happy Dance for my next fairy, The Ladybird Fairy for my Joan Elliott RR:
She actually pops a lot more in real life.
I still had some stitching time left in the evening so I moved onto a stitchery I have been doing off and on for a while but I am not sure that I have shown it to you before (actually I have - 22nd July is when I started it - you can read that post here, if you like). It is called Troubled Waters and is part of the Bad Neighbourhood series by Ink Circles. I am using some wonderful Australian silk threads to stitch this piece.
Here are my latest progress pics:
Gorgeous colours, aren't they?
I finally got around to taking a photo of my TUSAL - this is two month's worth:
Train/Hospital TUSAL:
Home TUSAL:
This year's TUSAL in its entirety:
Not sure what I am going to do with my ORTs (I still have the last two or three years as I never quite know what to do with them). What do you all do?
I finally got around to starting my Saturday SAL "Fall Welcome" by Diane Arthur. It is a SAL I am doing with my very good SAL buddies Linda and Debbie. They started a few week's ago but as I have been so distracted with everything else I have only just this weekend had a Saturday free to start! Not much progress but at least it is something!
Then on Sunday night I actually got back to stitching some more on Santa's 12 Days of Christmas (PS) SAL, which I haven't touched in weeks. This SAL is also with Debbie and Linda.
Before pic:
My latest progress (unfortunately there was a bit of frogging happening!):
Lastly another THREE Christmassy Giveaways:
Caitlin from Naughts and Crosses is having a giveaway of one of her designs, it closes on Friday 13th December, please tell her I sent you.
This is the design I would choose if I am lucky enough to win!
and
Kim from Wisdom with Needle and Thread is giving away some gorgeous Sweetheart Tree Nutcracker patterns - I adore nutcrackers, see my last post for my nutcracker snow globe - so please tell Kim that I sent you.
Missy from Missyllaneous is having a fabulous giveaway of two lovely pairs of scissors for the winner plus a gift certificate for the winner's friend - how cool is that?
Please tell Missy that I sent you.
Well, that is all for now.
hugs,
