2017 Goals – How did I do?

At the start of the year I wrote a post about my goals for the year. All of them. From my craft goals, to blogging, to reading, to Spanish, to my etsy shop. All of the things I planned to do this year. You can check it out here if you want to but I'm…

Cross Stitch Progress (SAL)

I finally managed to unpick all of the backstitching on my Peter pan quote and can show you a proper picture of the finish. Here it is framed and hooped. I'm pretty proud of the fact I designed that and as always for any patterns I make it's available in my etsy shop as a…

Cross Stitch Update

First off I want to say thanks for all of the advice I got on my last cross stitch update. I've given a few of the ideas a go since then but I have to say it hasn't gone well. I tried back stitching in brown like a couple of you suggested, then green as…

Sal Update

I've gotten quite a lot of cross stitching done these last three weeks and its time to share my progress with you as part of our SAL. The stitch a long is a group who posts their progress every third Sunday. We all do our own projects so its really fun to see what each…

Cross Stitch SAL update

Hello everyone, it's time for another update on my cross stitching. Last time around I showed you another pin cushion finish but this time it's back to my Peter pan quote. Most of this stitching actually got done before I left for holiday as I've been feeling quite ill since being back. But there is lots…

Cross Stitch SAL update

Exciting milestone alert! No I haven't finished a piece but I have finished a section of a piece. The first leaf is done! (as well as a couple little forays north with the left over threads) And I've moved onto doing a little of the green leaves at the bottom too. Here's where I was…

New Cross Stitch Project (SAL)

It's time for another link up with the stitch along. We post updates on whatever stitching projects we're working on every three weeks. Avis / Claire / Gun / Carole / Kate / Lucyanne / Sue / Constanze / Debbie / Christina / Kathy / Susan / Margaret / Cindy / Helen / Steph / Linda / Catherine / Wendy Check them out as they have some brilliant projects…

15 Books of My Life

It's world book day today, I have to say I had no idea until I looked at Twitter when I woke up at lunchtime. But I thought I would make a post in honour of World Book Day 2015. 15 books that have guided my love of reading over my life. Starting with 3 of the…