Christmas is coming ... ahhhhh!!

Good Morning all!

I hope everyone is well and preparation is well under way for the Big Day!

At the weekend we went to visit the main man himself!! The children were totally delighted!!

All kiddies together!

Cara and Katie posting their
letters to Santa

Me!!

Crazy children

Conor, Katie and a penguin! 

We put our Christmas tree up at the weekend too!  I am in the process of putting all my cross stitched ornaments on too!  Here is one that a very good friend of mine stitched for me way back in 2008!!  I must say, its been a very long time since I was in a Round Robin or an Exchange so I think I might sort a few out for 2017!! 

Beautiful!

I have done a few bits of sewing but as they are for gifts I cannot show you!!  I have been teaching the children in Year 5, at the wee ones school, to sew!  That was great fun!!

I am now in the process of setting up a sewing club at the school!  I'm really excited! 

Here is me looking very serious lol

I got my Christmas present early off Laura (my eldest) and her Hubby-To-Be Johnny ....

A craft work space in my bedroom!!

This is totally brilliant!!  Now, I can leave my machine (and mess!!) out and use it when I want too rather than keep moving everything so we can use the dining room table!!  WOW!!  I am totally delighted!!

No other news really!  Just busy busy busy getting organised for Christmas!!

Keep safe and well!!

Hugs

Heather

xoxox

Knitting Katie, WIP day and Gifted Gorgeousness (a little late!)

Good Morning!

Well the sun seems to have his hat on and spring seems to be springing!!  All great stuff!!

I was going though my photos for my gifted Gorgeousness photos and i came across this photo taken the other week, of Katie, at the school knitting club :D  She certainly is very 'crafty'!!  :D

Katie at Knitting Club at school
this was taken on mad hair day which
is why her hair is a 'funny' colour!!  

After a good few days of a serious spring clean ... honestly where does all the 'junk' come from as we have only been here since October?!!  lol ... I forgot to post my Gifted Gorgeousness post so here is a photo of a few gifts that went to mine and Katie's pen pals!

A few gifts for our Pen-pals

After all my heard work of a total de-clutter and clean up (along with tons of washing and drying as I stripped down all the beds ... I never though of the washing and drying at the time lol) I am now going to have a lazy day on my bottom and stitch on this Joan Elliott SAL which Joan Elliott herself organised, designed and re-charted the charts to fit the boxes :D 

Joan Elliott Mystery Faces SAL

I hope you all have a great day!

Bye for now

Hugs Heather

xoxoxox

Happy Mother's Day to all you yummy mummys

Have a Great Day 

The past week or so I have been organising and stitching for school!!  I am on Parent's Council at Conor, Mark, Katie and Cara's school and we had organised a Fitness for Fun Fundraiser.  One of the other parents is mad about Zumba dancing so we had her in to do Zumba with the kiddies and it was fantastic!  400 odd kids coming into the school hall over two mornings to do Zumba was amazing!  I have never seen so many happy kiddies in one place at the same time!

Then on Thursday we did Cupcake decorating!  Between 9am and 12 noon we had 400 odd kiddies come into the hall, get a plain cupcake then decorate it! We had a blast!! Great fun! Here are Mark, Katie and Cara with their buns! I have a photo of Conor somewhere on my camera or the Headmasters camera!!  I may have to go bug him for photos!  

Mark

Cara

Katie

Me and Cara

Then on Friday it was Mad Hair Day and own clothes day!  I love non-uniform days on a Friday because I can get the uniform washed and dried early lol 

It was Integration week and I stitched this hanger for the school as a surprise!  The Headmaster loves it :D 

Katie and Cara with stitched hanger

Mark, Conor, Katie and Cara

Katie

Cara

Conor

They had pink, green and blue in their hair topped with glitter hairspray lol  They looked a treat!! Shame it does not really show up on the photos! When I sprayed the glitter on I made them stand outside lol We must of looked a little silly if the neighbours saw us haha  Oh well, never mind!

Have a great day everyone.  I am off to do a bit of letter writing and stitching :D 

Hugs

Me

xoxox

Happy Leap Year!

Hello there!

I hope you all enjoyed or are still enjoying the extra day in this year!!

I have been super busy with all kinds of things and most of this week I am helping out at school!! Tomorrow we start our 2 days of fitness!!  oh heck!! lol

I have stitched and finished (and posted!!) a hanger for a pen-pal :D

Front!

Back!

Close up of the lovely thread colour!! 

I haven't really done much that I could chat about other than run about like a mad fool haha!!

So, I will be back soon!

Hugs
Heather
xxxx

Gifted Gorgeousness January Update

Hello to all you Gorgeousness people!  

Gifted Gorgeousness is hosted by Jo from Serendipitous Stitching 

First of all I am so sorry my first post is late!!  Ekkkk ... I forgot posting as I have had an upside down weekend!  I just do not know where the days are going!  

I am also participating in Debbie's Crazy January/February challenge hosted by Linda and within this challenge I started some kits that i was given as gifts.  I am also stitching/making gifts for my children's teachers as their end of year gifts!  Ok, I am starting early by I have 4 children of Primary school age so that's 4 teachers and then each classroom has a few teaching assistants .... so now you can see why I have started early lol  

So far I have started ...

A Baby sampler

A very small start

This is a baby sampler that I was given by a very dearly departed friend ... Its about time I made a start but as the year goes on I will get more (ALL!!) of it done :D  

This was a birthday chart given to me last
year by another wonderful friend.
Just a small start again ...
but its a start!!  

My next posting will be ON TIME and more interesting lol!!  I hope to machine sew a few gifts too using a few motifs I have stitched.  All being well they will sew up great and make lovely gifts :D ... I will keep you posted!!

Bye for now, keep safe and well,

Hugs

Heather