Poor neglected little bloggie...

...I haven't posted anything for ages.

Things have been busy here, I've not done as much stitching as I'd like lately, and the things I have done I can't show at the moment.

I have been out in the garden a lot though, (David has dug me a lovely new vegetable patch, and I have great plans for it), and today we had one of our cliff path excursions:-

From the top, Port Quin, Port Quin again, ponies and pudding!!!

And the winner is...

I put the numbers 1 to 35 (34 answers on the original post, and one on the reminder post making 35) into a random number generator, which came up with the number 2. You'll have to take my word for it as I can't figure out how to copy the little widget over here. Sorry, but sometimes the 21st century is just something that happened to other people...

Anyway, the 2nd person to post a reply was Gaynor, so congratulations Gaynor. If you could email me with your postal address, and some idea of your favourite colours, likes and dislikes etc. I'll make a start on your giftie.

The other winner is me! Yay me! Karan very kindly gave me this award :-

The award details are: "These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these kind writers. When you pass the award along please include these guidelines. I am to choose eight friends to share this with."

Now I find this choosing business very hard. I hope I don't offend anyone by missing them out because if I comment on your blog then I think you deserve this, equally I hope no-one minds getting this more than once, but trying to sift my list by who has already won this award would make choosing even harder, so my eight, in no particular order as Philip Schofield is fond of saying, are:-

Karan - right back atcha ;D, Julie, Mylene, Helen, Sharon, Elisa, Sally & Dani

One day left to enter my Giveaway

See post below

Flowers, Blogoversary Fun, and a February Challenge

Here is my "reveal" for the February Challenge at Stitch and Stash The challenge this month was to stitch a design from Elisa's Passions on this link. I liked the DoDo design, but didn't think an extinct thing struck quite the right Valentine's chord for a February challenge, so I chose this little heart design, which I stitched over 1, using Carries Creation's Hearts on Fire.

I finished it as a little brooch. Wish I'd put something in the picture to give an idea of scale.

The other finishes for the month can be found in the album here

And here is a picture of an amyrillis, just because its one of the lovliest ones I've ever grown. I actually bought two at the same time, if you look at the picture you will see that the 2nd one hasn't budged at all. I suspect it is mocking me.

And it is my 2nd Blogoversary! Go Blog! Its your birthday!

I've decided to celebrate by giving away little giftie. If you want to recieve a little something stitched by me just leave a comment on this post before next Sunday, and I'll draw a name on Monday.

Back home...

Got back from the Trade Show yesterday. This was my stand :-and here, as promised, are pictures of the new designs :-
Little Empress (a thimble nanny), made origami-style from a folded square of stitched fabric (fan charm is included with chart) and Twilight Rose, which is shown here worked in two different colour schemes, but which could be done in almost any colour combination you cared to think of as it only uses three shades of thread

Sneak preview

Of a new release. This is just a little bit of "Twilight Rose" (If you read my Yahoo group as well, the picture on there is a different part of the same design, worked in a different colour scheme)

Off to the trade show tommorrow, will update when I get back next week.

A little finish

Naomi is obsessed with things Japanese, and has just had her bedroom redecorated in a Japanese style (or at least, what I imagine to be a Japanese style), so when I saw this design I had to stitch it for her. I sincerely hope the writing says "Happy New Year" or "Year of the Ox" or words to that effect, rather than "You Stink" or "Bum"...