Well I Never!!!

I wrote to the Cross Stitch Magazine last week or so, to thank them for there great magazine and how it helped me to start cross stitching,and they sent me back this e-mail


Hi Shiela

Many thanks for your email to us here at Cross Stitch Crazy. We’d love to feature it in the mag but the pic you sent is a bit small. Do you have the original picture file that you could send us, before it was re sized?

Thanks for getting in touch!
Best wishes

Elinor


So you can imagine my excitement, me!!!!in a magazine ( well my letter)oh I sent them back 2 pictures, so I don't know which one they will pick, but for you all reading this here is a preview of pictures

Go On!!!!

Go on have a go, and see who you are??????

Take the Quiz here!

New Beginnings

Well it's spring time again and all the flowers are in bloom, the birds are nesting, oh I love this time of year, all new beginnings, and thats is why I have changed my blog template again to a more colourfull and fit for spring, a spring clean ya might say, on blog's
I love the templates that lena has designed at
http://www.simplyfabulousbloggertemplates.com/
there is a wide range of templates..

I've won a blog award!!!!

I have won a blog award from Suse-the-slow-knitta http://wishidaskedmygran.blogspot.com/

So now for the speech the fun bit.

I'm speechless!!!hence the reason I'm typing this..

I never expected to win this award, and I am delighted and I accept this award graciously.

I would like to thank alot of people, ,The producer, and the staff of the blog, namely ME.

I also would like to thank my Family, for all the times I never cooked/cleaned/ironed/ for them, because I was to busy on my blog or couldn't be bothered.

I want to praise my needles/ hands, without them I would not be able to knit/crochet/ and produce the crafts for my blog....hee hee oh and hubby's money to buy the materials.

I especially like to thank suse for the award and for the nice accolade she gave and I quote :"Iam the Sport's widow is always colourful and lively and I admire Sheila's zest for life." #

Lastly I would like to thank Lena for her beautiful blog templates @ simplyfabulous......

Thank you all....sniff sniff

Now for my blogger award choices

http://cookknitwine.blogspot.com/ her blog gives me the giggles, and her writing is brilliant.

http://knittingstopsmeunravelling.blogspot.com/ Rowena work is beautiful and gives great insight to her life and loves

http://knitternicky.blogspot.com/ Nickys blog is of everyday life going's on

http://stitchingmadmum.blogspot.com/ beautiful, beautiful, work and blog is great too...

http://alifetimeofstash.blogspot.com/ another great and beautiful work/blog

http://mystitchyblog.blogspot.com/ clairs blog/crafts are awesome.

http://tamiesnow.typepad.com/roxycraft/ lovely amigurumi's and good blog

1.Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award and his or her blog link.
2. Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you’ve newly discovered. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

Competition

I won this in a competition on one of my cross stitch groups,I was delighted because I never win anything, plus I had only joined group about 3 weeks ago, some more cross stitch items that I can start of a new stash ....

Shopping Spree

I went in town Saturday just to do some shopping (well window shopping really) go to markets, and my favorite charity shops, and here is what I bought, all in charity shops,

this was £1.50 to keep my sewing in and in another charity shop I saw this and had to get it........

A sewing basket and it £2.50

I also bought 2 cross stitch books they cost me £4 for both...

Hubby dragged me out of the charity shops in case I saw something else, so we went to markets and in the indoor market I discovered a knitting shop, It's called Stitch and Knit, it's a small shop and the owner is a lovely lady, and I got talking to her and asked her advice about cross stitching and what would be the easiest project for a beginner and she showed me loads of kits all in differ ant price range's, so I bought one, (hubby should have left me in charity shop lol )

She also has beautiful wool, but I was very self controlled on wool hee hee

Cross stitch

I'm so thrilled that I finished my very first cross stitch project, I even framed it, well come on it's my first one hee hee I will say this that it wasn't easy, I kept dropping my needle, I had to use a magnifying glass and I had to work out instructions myself, what kind of stitches cos it didn't have any, but over all I'm happy with it and I know it will get easier as I do more, can't wait to start another though

here is a small one I did as well, took me 2 evenings to do....

Yesterday

We went for a walk yesterday,weather was lovely so we decided to take dog's out, plus I wanted to go for a walk and to-day I suffer, but hey I enjoyed the walk especially since I got out of house..

To-day I have been doing absolutely nothing because I can't move, so I'm looking at blogs and new sites I found for my hobby,and reading a book by Harold Robbins called Memories of Yesterday, I read it before I like Harold Robbins I have a few and read a few of his books, but this evening I will do some crafting, plus it's my TV night, Holby City and new drama called All the small things, and then what ever is on after that, hubby can have TV back then hee hee

PROGRESS

Just to show my cross stitch progress, I'm enjoying stitching, complete difference from knitting or crocheting, have to wear my glasses, alot though and you need very good lighting also..


This one I could use a hoop as you can see from circle mark on it, but I am assured that when finished and washed the mark will come out....

This is one of the kits I bought my daughterit's a big one and Iwill need a square hoop thingy for it,and I think this will take me ages/months to do,
mind ya if it's gonna take me months to finish, wonder how long it would have been for daughter, (year's) no wonder she never done any of it, hee hee

Kits

I have started a new craft, It's cross stitch, I bought 2 cross stitch kits in 2008 for Christmas along with 2 rug plan kits, for my daughter as a hobby, and as I was in one of those clearing out mood's, I came across them in a box unopened, cross stitch kits were unopened and one of the rug/cushions kit was unopened, and as she has flown the nest so to speak I thought she took them with her, I rang her and asked if she wanted me to post them to her she no that she wouldn't have the time to do them plus she forgot she had them, there's gratitude for ya, well at least I know now what not to get her for presents again....

So looks like I will do them and give my knitting needles and crochet hook a rest for awhile, looking forward in doing them, the cushion/rug I know how to do, I did it years ago with my mum, it was one of those hooks that I fell on, and injured my back an silly accident and I never did one of those rugs since, I was about 12yrs old when it happened, a long time ago.....