stitching frenzy......

I started this book last year while waiting for a plane at the airport.........reading bits here and there..........but last week we had no power one dreary morning and it was too dull to stitch so I got back into the book and finished it.......I cannot imagine living anything like this...........some people sure have some weird ideas.......is there anywhere in the world where one woman has many husbands and they just do as they are told????

I order Di Morissey's The Silent Country - Sunrise (morning show here in OZ) has started a book club and this is one of the books of the month..........also since the $$$ is so good I ordered some Elm Creek books.......can't remember who it was but one of the Aussie girls has got stuck into them and I have read one or two awhile ago and enjoyed them so hope they will be here soon..........

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have been busy tracing off stitcheries........

totally stuffed up the lawn mower as the pen I used faded a bit and I thought I had free drawn it right but obviously not and I undid the right hand wheel and all the middle I had stitched and will wash it and retrace that part again..........

ran out of thread this morning but I may have another one of these DMC threads floating around otherwise an essential shopping list item this week........

see progress is being made

even working on this stitchery that should have been finished ages ago..........I keep swapping what i am stitching.....

Just call me Peg........i am feeling as productive as she is at the moment with my stitching...........so what has changed........well time has gone back to normal and it is dark early now........also with it cooling off I just don't have the bugs i get in the warmer weather hanging around my lights annoying and biting me etc.........usually I can't/don't stitch much in summer of an evening........

also we have had school holidays and no bus runs to do etc.........this all heaps with extra bits of time........it is amazing what you get done with a thread here and there..........please remind me of this statement when I fall off the stitching wagon - Fairy girl is even in the stitching mode too..........

last day of school holidays tomorrow.....we have had a lovely time..........

Catch you later..............

Chookyblue

Stitching is so much better now............

Meet my new pink glasses cool hey..............Tutti Fruiti do you think I will look like a granny in these?????

I find I have to use them all the time now when stitching it is so much easier to stitch...........well sometimes i can thread an needle but it is so much easier..............

and this is what I have been stitching............block G of Gardener's Journal and an extra stitchery from block B.........

Catch you later..............

Chookyblue

Another blog book..........

A random photo............a feather

I ordered another blog book last month when the $$$US was good and I had a discount......

I love flicking thru the pages and seeing what I did and posted about during the year............

Catch you later..............

Chookyblue
PS 15-4-10  just got an email from Blog2print and they have updated things and made a few changes and at present extra pages are cheaper try this link to there new site

need some motivation????

if you need some motivation to get some stitching done there is heaps going on at the Stitch-a-long blog...........just about every post is full of stitching or block piecing........and there has been lots of posts........

I have my first 2 blocks stitched but need to piece the block now.....

.........take care til next time.....Chookyblue.........

thanks.....

Hi Everyone

Thanks heaps for all your comments......and thanks HEAPS for continuing to visit my blog it is very much appreciated........I won't reply to each comment......

......seems most of you have no problems loading my blog except it is a bit slow so i have reduce the number of posts to 5 that load when you open my blog.......maybe that will make it a little quicker.......

Also with the Stitch-a-long blog I have reduce it to only show posts from the last 5 days.

Hope this helps. No real solution for Trash but she will read me in bloglines...(thanks Trash)

.........take care til next time.....Chookyblue.........

Site crashing????

Just hoping this isn't you but Trash emailed me asking if I have done anything to my blog in the last few weeks........when she opens my blog it crashes her  computer.   The only thing I have changed is my template.........I went to one of the new ones  Does this happen to anyone else???  .........Catch you later.....Chookyblue.........

prezzies..........

I am so behind in showing you some prezzies I have received over the last months...........

AnneMarie sent me these goodies..........

Peg sent me this journal...........lots of lists in here already.........

Lurline sent me this "Icecream"..........hope your shoulder is coming good Lurline and soon you will be able to return to stitching...........

Lurline hand quilted it............something I must learn to do.........

Carole sent me this little bundle of Rouenneries by the French General ...I had held of buying some of these but they are so beautiful.........now to plan a special project......

Thanks everyone for your beautiful gifts......

Catch you later..............

Chookyblue

In the garden.........

I went out playing with the camera today........just my pink baby point and shoot camera...........

look at the fancy frilly edges of this mushroom............

this bee is loaded with pollen just look at the yellow on his legs...........

a beautiful pink hibiscus........

how does nature know what colour goes where and all the different parts............

more snaps here

Catch you later..............

Chookyblue