Surprise phone call

I've just had a lovely phone call from one of the 'tea ladies' at St Cadfan's Church. The Flower Festival was a huge success and the tea/coffee and cake stall raised £820 in total over the four days.

The ladies work so hard with all their baking, as well as serving/washing up on the actual days.

Brilliant work everyone :)

Holiday update

We've had a great time in Wales, a bit of time just me and DH and a few days with Philly and her boyfriend. I managed to get quite a few things done, mainly because I have had to sit still a bit as my back has been giving me a lot of trouble. I did go the docs before the holiday and he gave me some anti-inflamatories and some strong painkillers.  Unfortunately the tablets really upset my insides and I felt like my body fromthe waist down was trying to get to Australia lol. Anyway I stopped the tablets and things are improving, still have back ache though :(

So the things I got done were:

firstly catching up with my post - I sent letters and gifts to friends I had neglected a while, both home and abroad :)

secondly I made a huge amount of cards for the church

and thirdly I started making the church crosses - none quite finished so photos will have to follow.

I spent a lot of time at St Cadfan's this time, helping with the teas and coffees as it was the Flower Festival - the church looked gorgeous.

I made cakes too for the tea/coffee stall (they were actually bargain packet mixes from Sainsburys but they turned out great)

We had some fun on the beach and on a few trips out, especially to Llanfair PG which has the longest place name in the world.

I'm not sure what's happening the rest of the hols - I have many things plans, jobs at home, friendsto see, places to visit but I'll have to see how my back goes before making any real plans. The re-painting of the garden fences is definately a no go but I might get some of the other garden jobs done.

Have a great summer, thanks for reading my blog, hope you liked the photos x x

Stitching HD at last :)

I have not been stitching or blogging much lately :) lots of reasons but this is not a post for moaning. I am hoping to be back to normal (if that's possible) soon.

I have finally finished Chris' RR - I have needed the whole six weeks and it's not really a big design. I did the strawberry bowl, the french knots were worrying but I think they look ok :) This RR has just one more place to visit so next posting allour Robin's come home - Dusty, Chris, Lynn, Jaclyn and Tina are you as excited as me??

We're off to the caravan today for 9 days, just me, DH and Ruby until Sunday when DD and her BF join us until Friday. We then have another weekend just us before coming home next Sunday. I'm looking forward to some relaxing time and a chance to catch up on many many things.

Because I have not been stitching I am so far behind with the stitching for the church Christmas tree. I have decided to change Symmetry as I will not get enoughstitched now in time. The new name is 'The Cross Stitch Tree' and I am going to stitch crosses :) It's a very simple chart and I am going to use up lots of my tiny scraps of material, canvas, floss and wool so there will be a variety of sizes.

If you would like to stitch a cross here's the chart (you can edge and back it anyway you like).

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Thanks in advances to those who I know will be sending crosses - if you need to contact me my email is aimetu.clare@hotmail.com

and finally - does anyone fancy joining in a non-stitchy exchange? I thought this would be fun, no stitching panics and enable new online shops :)

Sign up by posting on this thread and by emailing me the following details. I will need:

your blog address

your full name

your postal address

your contact phone number

You will need to go online to ANY stitchy shop and buy £5 worth of goodies for your partner and have the parcel sent straight to them.

All goodies must be ordered by 25th August so that all goodies are received by 1st September

Sign up closes 9am Monday 9th August - all details will be sent that day by 6pm.

I think that's all from me - hopefully I will be back to blogging after my hols AND I'll have some stitchy news :) take care everyone and have fun x x

The Black Dress ...

...was perfect :)

I had a brilliant timeat the school prom - it was such a good atmosphere,a great feeling of togetherness.

The black dress was perfect - and I now know where I'm heading next ;)

This was me and Michael before I went out hee hee

 No stitching news but it's school hols soon so maybe then :)

Slimming World - on the move again

I'm feeling quite rough at the moment with a summer cold. I came home early yesterday and have decided to stay off today. Hopefully I can rest on the sofa with my stitching :)

I just wanted to blog my SLimming World success - it's taken me 18moths but I have lost 31lb (2 stone 3 pounds). I am so pleased and after a few months of staying at the same weight I am finally loosing again.

It's our school prom next Friday and I have a black dress that I am hoping to wear so if I lose a couple of pounds this week it will be prefect :) positive thoughts :)

This is fat me at bowling Xmas 2009

and this is skinny me on the beach in Wales June 2010

So hopefully the next photo will be me in that black dress next Friday :)

Another month on :)

I'm so slow at the moment in lots of things lol. Lots has been happening - too much to blog in detail so here it is in pictures.

Philippa was nominated for a sport award at her schools equivalent to 'Sport's Personality of the Year' - we had to go posh :)

Then it was her prom night and she looked fabulous :)

Then we had a weekend in France and bought just  few bottles of wine for our wine rack.

And this weekend we've had a new BBQ and made twists for pudding :)

No stitching this month but I am working on my RR.

I hope to be blogging much more soon as we break up for summer in just three weeks :)

Long time no see

I haven't blogged for a while - no real reason, time seems to be running away with me just lately. Anyway here's a quick update of what's been happening.

We took DS and DD tothe caravan over the half term. They took their girl/boy friends and Ruby came too lol. It was a car full but thankfully with having three bedrooms the caravan was big enough. DD's boyfriend did have to block the way to the lounge at night so he could sleep on the sofa without Ruby dive bombing him in the night hee hee. Here's a few photos:

Me and Ruby, Michael & Amii, Kieran and Philly

Philly and Kieran on the Estuary Walk

Amii and Michael at Aberwstwyth Castle

Ruby having a dig

Me and Nick having a go at Just Dance on the Wii - it was so funny.

Well that's about it - I have no more news apart from I have finished my part of Jaclyn's Round Robin - the next posting is Saturday so I'll soon have another piece to work on.

I have set myself a rotation as I don't seem to be doing much (not just stitching). Hopefully this will help:

Monday - Symmetry stitching (ornaments for my tree at church)

Tuesday - Slimming World and reading the latest book I have on the go

Wednesday - Little House Needleworks (I'm still on the Pears lol)

Thursday - Bible Study

Friday - Round Robin and blog update

Saturday - Round Robin

Sunday - whatever I fancy (and yes I know St George isn't on here but he may be the occassional Sunday)

So that's all from me for now, thanks for popping by.