"Home Sweet Home" Cross Stitch and "Home is where my heart blooms" is back from the framers.

Hello,

At the moment I am enjoying doing cross stitch at night while watching absolutely nothing much on the television. The next day I have a wonderful time sorting out what will go with the cross stitch like buttons ric rac and fabric. Of course each project has some Lavender put in with the stuffing.

This is the "Home Sweet Home" cross stitch  I finished making up last Thursday. I used DMC 2726 to do the stitching.

The fabric is some that Lucy brought back for me from one of her trips to New Zealand and the buttons came from my Sister Chris. The pink ribbon has writing on the other side. It is a lovely cotton ribbon and originally came from a beauty package. My girls know to save the ribbon from packaging for me.

The cross stitch pattern was a freebie from a Cathy's blog which has lots of beautiful patterns available.Cathy's  blog is perelles.canalblog.com 

I have something else to share today.

"Home is where my heart blooms" is back from the framers. It has been ready for a while but as my framer is about  80 km's away I have to wait until a family member is heading in that direction.

Happy days.
Bev C

"Thankful" Cross Stitch."

Hello,

I created this with some leftover linen 27 count. I found the freebie pattern on the net but unfortunately when I printed it out I found it doesn't have the designers name on it. So thank you to whoever you are for the delightful pattern.

I used DMC 815. I tucked some dried Lavender in while I was stuffing this so when you pick it up you get a lovely perfume of sweet Lavender.

This Sunday we get to celebrate Mother's Day. A time to be thanking our Mum for all their love and work on us over the years. I will be celebrating with three of my children. David is still backpacking. I got a email to say he had been swimming with reef sharks in Fiji and even touched one. I am sure we all gave him a list of things he wasn't allowed to do. We forget to mention swimming with sharks.

David did tell me the Fijian word for Goodbye. Moce which is pronounced Mo-they.


Enjoy the weekend.

Moce.
Bev C

"A Chaque Jour Suffit Sa Peine."

Hello,

I have been kept occupied lately, lots of washing to do.

 Some quilting has been done. Even the birds have been fed and the flowers are growing.

Plus yesterday I finished the Blue Sampler.

"A Chaque Jour Suffit Sa Piene" is a French proverb meaning "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof"


 à chaque jour suffit sa peine
sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof (lit.: for each day there suffices suffering; i.e.: deal with today’s difficulties without worrying about what might come tomorrow; n.b.: from the New Testament, Matthew 6:34)

So I guess that means have a Happy day.

Happy days.

Bev C

Blue and White Cross Stitch and some creating at Kainga."

Hello,

Surprise surprise I have started another cross stitch. This one is from the book called Cross-Stitch Samplers by Marjorie Massey.

 I am using DMC 312 to stitch this, just started the second skein of thread.

On the weekend we put up this old door that my Mum had and she didn't want. This door is very very old. We had to pull some nails out of it as we had to do a bit of re-constructive surgery down the bottom and we found that the nails were made by hand. The door knob is a insulator thing that are on the electricity poles. We found this in the load of wood we purchased recently. Just perfect for the door knob as it came with the screw already for us to put on.

 This is the other side, so much character on this door.

Bonnie made this stool at school many years ago in Woodwork class. It has been in the shed not being used. So yesterday I got to it with a coat of "Gilly Stephenson's dark restoring and new timber polish. It now matches in perfectly with our other furniture. It was plain pine before.

Hope you enjoy the rest of the week, can't believe it will soon be May.

Happy days.
Bev.