The 12 Days of Christmas_Days Three and Four ....

 In my Boxing Day post, I told you that I had joined a FB group called Stitchmaynia and that I had taken up the 12 Days of Christmas Challenge , and showed you my Days One and Two progress.  Well, here are Days Three and Four of the challenge.

[Each of the twelve days from Christmas Day to January 5, you stitch on something related to that day's theme - A partridge in a pear tree, etc.  Being the traditionalist that I am, I am stitching, yes, you guessed it!  The 12 Days of Christmas!]


Day Three:

Day Four:

The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery's 12 Days of Christmas

Stitched on 28ct Cashel linen, Serenity. 

Mixture of suggested floss and my own choices.

And, as it is so very hot here at the moment (30 degrees celsius/86 degrees fahrenheit overnight!!!!!), I woke up very early this morning, watched a movie  (Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren in Arabesque - what's not to love?) and got a good head start on Day Five - pic to come next post).

One positive of this very hot weather is some spectacular sunsets.....

I actually went to the movies, again, yesterday.  This time with my Dear younger sister.  We went to see La La Land...

Now, I know that this has been getting rave reviews but .... I didn't love it, I really wanted to, but I just didn't.  I thought that Emma Stone was great but Ryan Gosling just didn't really seem to love her enough in the movie, I thought, to make their romance really real for me.  Don't get me wrong, I am happy to have seen it but I would only give it Four Stars, not the Five Stars that every one else seems to be giving it.

Now, a movie that I would give Five Stars to, every single time, is The Princess Bride, which all watched on Netflix last night.  Such a wonderful film!  (Too hot to do much except watch movies or the test cricket on TV).

Just to finish off, here is another video, this is Furio, going ga ga for my chlorine laden shoes after I came back from water aerobics.  Does anyone have any idea as to why he would do that?

That is all from me for today, 

hugs, 

Boxing Day....

As Boxing Day is DS2's birthday (24 this year - oh, my baby is definitely all grown up!) we traditionally go to the movies as a family.  All I can say is thank goodness for film franchises: seven Harry Potter films; six Tolkien films and the various Xmen and superhero films!

This year we went to see the new Star Wars film:

Now, I would have to say it was okay.  A bit slow in parts (I must admit that despite two coffees at lunch I was so very tired that I kept dozing off during the film - that must say something about it, mustn't it?) and the heroine was too similar to the heroine in The Force Awakens, we all thought.  I think that I would give it three and a half stars.

Now, onto my Christmas Stitching.  I have joined a FB group called Stitchmaynia, which I think that some of you may already belong to or have heard of, and I decided to take up the 12 Days of Christmas Challenge.  Each of the twelve days from Christmas Day to January 5, you stitch on something related to that day's theme - A partridge in a pear tree, etc.  Being the traditionalist that I am, I am stitching, yes, you guessed it!  The 12 Days of Christmas!

Day One:

Day Two:

The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery's 12 Days of Christmas

Stitched on 28ct Cashel linen, Serenity. 

Mixture of suggested floss and my own choices.

Well, that is all from me for now, 

hugs, 

Christmas Day ....

.... and a Merry Christmas was had by all!

Giving the pudding a drink of brandy!

My dear Dad's 97th Christmas ... rather bittersweet as he is getting very frail.

Making Peking Duck for entree...

 Some earnest political discussion going on.

 My niece loved her Xmas cushion (not sure how it went from being an ornie to a cushion - it just grew like Topsy!)

Let's see, what else... Baby Joe, looking askance at his Christmas ornie made by me (photo kindly sent to me by his mama from Casino, NSW)

A few Christmas gifts, a kitten calendar from my Dear younger sister....

... and my summer reading all sorted, courtesy of my dear younger sister (again) and DS2.

... and, of course, some stitching to finish... this is for my FB group (just joined - wonderful group), Stitchmaynia, 12 Days of Christmas challenge (we stitch on something related to each of the 12 Days from December 25th to January 5th).

The 12 Days of Christmas

The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery

28 ct Cashel linen, Serenity

Floss: some suggested colours, some my own choice.

I hope that everyone has had a Merry Christmas and is now looking forward to a Happy and Healthy 2017.

hugs,