So I've finally been paid :D

Since I've finally been paid again. Second Pay of the year and it's 7 weeks in... not good but the boss is now back from overseas so it should settle down. He really picked a bad bad bad time to go away.

But the reason I'm saying this is I want to buy myself a treat but what ...

I could afford to buy all the cottages so that I have them....

Country Cottages Jan-Apr

OR
I could stretch a bit more and buy this pair ... they are stunning designs and ... a little bit more expensive at 16 each! but they are such stunning designs....

Woodland Vines & Brambles

OR...
I could go for this design which is absolutely stunning as well.

Cirque Cercles

OR

Baroque

OR
and this a big or I save my money so I can go to the craft fair in March and buy a whole pile pf fabrics so I can do some of the charts that I actually own.... except I'm not really fussed about this craft fair ... I could just buy fabrics online ...

Ohk so here is where I need your help!
Should I buy a new chart ... or save my money and buy some fabrics for charts I already have. There are some gorgeous fabrics out there ...

Or just stitch what I have anyway. I think as much as I want more stash ... I am heading towards maybe buying the fabrics I need and leaving the stash for a while I feel very picky with money ... my boss is so frustrating with it!

But please vote over which chart/charts I should get ... I love to hear opinions.
Caitlin

TUSAL and I won :D

well here is a photo of my VERY VERY VERY VERY late TUSAL for February.

He's still sitting among the lego but there is a penguin in there too :D There is a bit of the fabric from my biscornus, the threads from boxer and a whole pile of threads from afternoon tea. Not that you can tell much of a difference between the boxer threads and afternoon tea as they are all browns.

Also a couple of weeks ago now I won a surprise giveaway from minnie over at all xx's which was such a lovely package to get in the mail this week!

It's full of all sorts of wonderful charts and I love the magazine it has a JE christmas angel and a peter rabbit design. I'm in heaven :D

Caitlin

My Crazy weekend!

Now some of you may remember I have mentioned that I am a joey scout leader. Well this past weekend we had a sleepover at the scout den for Founders day, then we went up to the local lookout for a special founders day parade before coming back for a Joey/Cub scout Rally.

Now I was already tired since I'd worked Saturday morning. 4hrs of Back on Back students including a couple of really energetic classes. Which meant I went home and slept and then woke up with a start realising I had to pack! Now the weather was against us! It was raining and miserable all day and just when I needed to load the car it started to pour! Lucky me.

The joeys, when they started arriving, were so excited about having a sleepover that they were hopping out of their skins. I was really glad I decided to get them there before the cubs as I had a chance to calm them a little before the 'seasoned' campers came in. We had dinner and settled down for games and a movie which was wonderful but when the movie ended no one wanted to go to bed. It was nearing 11 before the last kid settled down to sleep. Then we could finally go to bed and I tossed and turned all night. I really couldn't settle.

Then at ungodly hour of the morning 5:45 to be exact (it was extremely early considering my lack of sleep) my alarm went off. Which signalled to me I had to get up and get ready before waking up my Joeys. They mainly got up well except for one kid. He got up realised he hadn't (nor had his dad) packed his uniform and then hopped straight back in bed. Nothing I could do could get him out of his funk until I picked him up and carried him to the breakfast table. From then he was fine. Crazy kid.

The rest of the day went smoothly lots of activities and kids running around everywhere. I had 7 joeys all up and they were all crazy! By the end of the day they were so happy and exhausted and so was I! I went home and slept!

But in between some of the craziness I did manage to do some work on my Afternoon Tea :D The border part at the top is almost finished now (for this page) and I've started filling in the black. I realise now why they say 7 skeins of black! There is so much between the leaves of the background the next page is half black and this one is 1/3 black!

I'm loving working on this piece it is so much fun :D the colours are awesome and it's always such a surprise what is going to appear next.

Hope your weekend wasn't as crazy as mine.

Caitlin

WOOHOO!!!! Late IHSW Happy dance!

Well Tuesday Afternoon I put the last stitches in boxers :D

Aren't they wonderful? I haven't taken it off the framed or removed the guidelines. That is happening at the moment then it goes into the wash.

I changed the eyes :D I made them a dark grey and much smaller! They look wonderful and they are no longer trying to beam my eyes out.

WOOHOO!!!

Oh and if anyone is wondering about my obsession with boxers here are the lovely dogs in my home.

Oscar wants to play with my little cousin but he's not allowed!

After the baby had left :D

The last photos are some of our figurines :D and the penguins are in the cabinet on the right as well. Many many many boxers around our home and mum is so excited about this one.

Caitlin

Finished Biscornus

Did you think I forgot this design?

Carres Du Printemp has now been made into ten little cute biscornus. They now only need something to tie them up with. I'm not putting buttons on these becayse the designs are too gorgeous in the centre to cover.

Remeber how I mentioned my celtic woman obsession yesterday... well guess what I was watching while taking these photos ...

Don't they look so cute ... I am so excited to see these finished and they will look wonderful on my christmas tree this year... hopefully in our own home.

Caitlin