Flower Fairy finally finished!!!!!

Here's my first finish of 2010. It's taken me nearly 2 years to finish (on/off). It's for a gentleman who asked me to do it as a present for his wife. It is lovely but I wouldn't stitch one again. Now I just need to clean, iron and post it.

Nearly another year gone!

I can't believe how quick this year has gone. This time last year Seren had only just started sleeping through and was still a helpless baby. Now she is walking, throwing tantrums and being a general madam lol! I'm close to finishing the dreaded Flower Fairy and I can't wait. I'd like to think I can move onto something nice for myself but that won't happen. I have a long list of projects that really need doing first.

I need to sit down and work out my stitchy goals for 2010. So far they include completing my collection of Anchor threads and finding a decent framer. I don't like the one I've been using and she's expensive. I went to see about getting a birth sampler framed and I wanted it in a white box frame. She wanted to spray paint a wooden frame white! I want it to look professional not DIY - that's why I like to pay to have it framed professionally. Honestly - spray paint!

At least a new Hobbycraft has opened in Cardiff and I can buy supplies there. I'm afraid my nearest LNS is too far away and it is cheaper for me to use a ONS. It's a terrible shame but even though we now have a car, I can't justify the petrol to get there for just one or two threads.

Anyways I will end this post with a pic of the Flower Fairy (though it's not the most recent at all).

Still working on it...

I'm being really good and I'm still working on the Flower Fairy though I did start another kit last week. It's for Craig though and it's on black aida so it'll only be stitched on when he's not home and Seren is in bed - so not very often lol! Went to Hobbycraft this week for a thread I really needed and got the wrong one :( I got some Anchor threads too. I've got all the DMC so now I'm working on getting all the Anchor threads. Like I don't have enough already lol! I relocated all my cross stitch stuff into my new wardrobe today also so now it's all in one place and out of Seren's reach. Brill!

Flower Fairy progress

Well it's coming along slowly. I'm desperate to finish this - it's getting on my nerves!! Here's the latest pic

At last some piccies!

Here's the birth sampler I did for my friend's baby girl Niamh:
Here's Finley's dinosaurs (still not framed yet):

And my Flower Fairy though I've done a lot more since this pic: