I didn’t do as much

as I would like, but I did manage 394 stitches  I am still hoping that I will have her finished by the end of the month. But I haven’t done any stitches since Monday. I am going to try today, but I will be driving from 2.30-8.30. Then tomorrow I shall be driving again from 6.30 until I finish.

Anyway thank you for reading *HUGS*

Here is Gathering Dew

before the final SAL compertition on the Heaven and earth BB.  I am going to be driving tonight, Saturday. But I am hoping that I will get some, rather a lot of stitching done Sunday and Monday. If I were to sit and do 300 stitches a day I think that she would be finished in about 13-14 days. So I am going to do my best to get it finished before the end of the month.

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I know that I have been

a bit quiet and a bit distant on here lately, now I can explain why. I am going to move tomorrow, my parents are buying the house for me and I am going to pay them back. So as you can imagine I have been a bit stressed with getting all the things sorted for the move, and a bit daunted by the fact that my parents are paying for the house. So at one point I was very low with it all. Any way here are some pictures of what it looks like  and here is the floor plans    

Well tomorrow I actually get the keys and will be moving things about. So unfortunately I won’t be doing a lot of stitching. But as soon as I am settled Gathering Dew will be back in my hand, as she is so close to being finished.

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I would like to start

by saying thank you to everyone who left comments and sent prayers and all well wishers after Chaz passed away. They all really helped. So thank you.

I would also like to say thank you to Liz, as she RAKed me with a Sampler by Selina Fenech  and I would also like to thank Melenie (Meldmac) as she RAKed me with Lisa Victoria’s QS Hearts Desire

Rusty was given the all clear from the vets on the Wednesday, my Birthday! He is still bruised but slowly getting back to himself.

We are still missing Chaz, and Charlie is still blaming himself for what happened, even thought I try and convince him that it wasn’t his fault.

Stitching wise I haven’t really got alot done. But I did partisipate in the SWIP/Halloween SAL on the HAED BB and managed 3061 stitches on Lily of the Valley by Rachel Anderson. Here is what she looks like now .

Thank you for reading and for all your support *HUGS*

Rest in Peace Chaz

Today my son was taking my dogs for a walk, I have a Shih Tzu called Joey aged 5, Shih Tzu crossed with a Chihuahua called Chaz aged 7 and a Yorkshire Terrier crossed with a Jack Russel Terrier called Rusty aged 14 months old. When out of nowhere a greyhound came flying up to them and first attacked Rusty, and then Chaz sort of having a go at Joey, but because the others are smaller they were attacked more. Chaz was flung around like a rag doll.

My son and his friend tried so hard to get the Greyhound off of poor chaz, so much so that they ended up with cuts on there hands and my son ended up with a load of blood under his nail and we ended up in A & E.

Anyway they eventually got the dogs back to the house, and I washed Chaz and Rusty down as they were covered in saliva and blood. When Chaz was in the shower he didn’t shiver or anything. He didn’t really want to hold his head up.

I finished showering the dogs and rang the vets and took them there as soon as I had finished the phone call.

I should say that the partner of the owner of the dog was very sympathetic and said that they were going to pay the vet bills.

Anyway the vet saw the dogs and saw how floppy Chaz was and sent him off for a chest x-ray and keep him warm and give him a drip. Rusty was also kept in as he had a lot of bruises and making funny bubbling noises near his chest. Joey was fine.

So I left the two dogs there and took Joey home. And then took the kids to A & E to have there cuts looked at. Charlie had his nail pierced to get rid of the blood under the nail. And Scott had this hand scrubbed with Iodine and they were both given Anti-Biotics.

We then went to McDonalds and had lunch before going to Homebase to look at and buy wallpaper.

While there I got a phone call from the vet saying that Chaz had died at about 12.00 possibly from a head injury. He had suffered broken ribs but she thinks that he had suffered head injuries and that was what had killed him.

REST IN PEACE

Snow Pixie on the 17th

of October 2007. I managed to get 412 stitches done on her.  As you can see I am working on the left side of her.

I also got a Tatoo done on my arm  it is at the top of my arm, so I can show her off or not as the case may be.

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After the compertiton SAL

Well I managed 1150 stitches on Gathering Dew this weekend for the HAED SAL Competition weekend. So here she is . I even managed some stitches when I went to the Knitting and Stitching show at Alexandra Palace.

Speaking of Alexandra Palace,this is what I bought  the chart, materials and mono canvas. I also bought  this was also sold by West End Embroidery.

From Chameleon designs I bought some floss to do some Christmas projects with and also a Loopylou design called Fleur  some of the special threads are done my Chameleon so that is why they had them on there stand.

I also bought 3 pieces of Large DMC 25 count fabric from The Black Sheep, this is for Christmas projects from the 2003 Just Cross Stitch Christmas Ornaments Magazine.  it is to make cones to put sweets in on the christmas tree.

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Here is Gathering Dew

before the HAED BB COMPETITION SAL Weekend.  I only managed to stitch on her twice this week, Monday and Thursday and I did 515 stitches on her.

I hope to do more on her over the weekend, however I am going to the Knitting and Stitching Show at Alexandra Palace on Sunday for the day so I don’t suppose I will get a lot done that day.

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New picture of

Gathering Dew after the week and stitching 1290 stitches on her, and finishing page 11 off. So only pages 8 and 12 to do and she will be finished.  However I haven’t got alot done today as I have been swimming with the children and doing some sorting out. So really I should get off of here and do some stitching as I won’t get any done tomorrow as I will be shopping with Mother in Cambridge and then going and trying to sort out my friends computer in the evening.

And then on Wednesday I shall be working on Snow Pixie as it is QS Wednesday on the HAED BB.

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Here is an update

on Gathering Dew. I did 809 stitches on here since last time I took a picture. So here she is  I hope to do more again this week. And I hope to get page 11 finished this month too.

Thank you for reading *HUGS*