A for Alphabet, B for Birthday....

C for Certainly been a full on fortnight between birthday, now Easter and projects. So here is a little round up of what I've been up too. 

• You know my sneaky shots from my last blog post, well heck I finished it! I am so super happy with how this Alphabet display piece turned out. 26 individually stitched letters. Yes, in my favourite trailing stitch, think I need treatment for this addiction. Loved making it so much so that I want to do another one, and I will because I've already purchased another display rack. Thinking a different colour way and different stitch. Interested in purchasing, head over to Etsy. 

Q for...uhm...Queue? Qwerty...

Now you know your A, B, C's...next time...

• Who knew about laminating fabric could be so much fun...now have a fab new mousemat! Go on, crack out that laminator.

• What did I do for my birthday? Lots of hanging out with my family, yay! And double yay, as I went to the freakin' Harry Potter Studio. Cue feeling like a massive kid, and I was, so many small people...still it was so much fun. And totally worth the ticket price. Totally rode a broom, wore a Slytherin cloak, and bought a chocolate frog.

Sort of loving the pink ombre tiles...

Squee, Dumbledore's Office...

• Enjoying the Easter break! Not one to like keep still or anything, I've been flicking between decorating my bathroom, which I can now say is finally complete! Huzzah. I do not want to see a paintbrush for a while. Eating chocolate has been the order of the day, as has drinking copious amounts of tea (duh), and stitching. Just flitting about playing about with things half finished. Like rather large 1 1/2 inch hexie's I had the fabric cut out for an age, and I really couldn't remember what the plan was, but heck I thought do something or put it away. So out came the lovely rainbow coloured threads again. When it's spring time, you just need to bust out the colours even when it's a grey, April day. Tomorrow there will be more working on this random project, and if it looks good I'll give you more of a heads up on how you can make a totally random hexi thing too! 

• Think also get the Wonderland piece back out to see about getting that a little closer to finishing.  
• Oh! I managed to give my website a little bit of love. Updated pictures, and tweaked the little store that's on that site too.

For now my dearies, I need tea and some more chocolate! Happy Easter xx

Happy Bee and Milestone Beacons

It has been awfully quiet on the stitching front for me at the moment, mind has been wandering to other things and life has gotten a little bit busier. Especially since I decided that it was about time that I learned to drive, have started the process of decorating the hallway and have been planning multiple celebrations for my pending 30th birthday. 

So today was probably my first full afternoon of doing nothing but stitching in over a fortnight. Last weekend was a bit of a wash out as I was still getting over a cold and my mind just wasn't willing to crack on with the projects I wanted to do, so spent most of last Sunday filling in holes in the hallway. 

The weekend before that I was down in Kent helping my Aunt, who was working on some costumes for a film. On the Sunday, I got to meet Michele Carragher, if your not familiar with the name you might know her work, especially if your a Game of Thrones fan. She's the very talented lady who does the embroidery for the costumes. She came to my Aunts to work on the dresses my aunt was making, it was so fascinating watching her work and to talk to her. She's really lovely!

Back to the present, today I've been stitching the sample for the Happy Bee embroidery pattern. In fact I've actually done all the stitching so what remains for me to do is to write the instructions and put the pattern together. 

Which needless to say isn't my favourite thing to do mainly because sometimes writing how to stitch a detail, makes my brain implode but thankfully with this design it shouldn't present too much of a headache. The pattern, if your interested, will be available to purchase in April.

It would have been sooner than that but I have two weekends of birthday celebrations coming up. Starting with next weekend, which will see and my family in bonnie Scotland, Edinburgh to be specific, somewhere I've been wanting to go for a long time. Then the week after that I'll be having a long weekend with my old school chums. 

Oh and slotting in the odd driving lesson around that too....

I hope everyone is enjoying the springtime sunshine, depending where you are in the world!

Want it Wednesday: A little bit more Organised

This is a very simple Want it Wednesday. I've been uber forgetful of late and this has meant so many birthday cards have been neglected to be popped into the postbox, despite having the cards ready to post. So next year I am aiming to be more on the ball - fingers crossed! I think this friendly calendar will do the job nicely!

Birthday Calendar by Zubinski

What have you been uber forgetful about lately?