MIA - back again!

Gosh, what a long time since I have blogged!  Well I managed 15 days of NaBloPoMo which is much better than my paltry 3 last year!

Hard to see in this pic but Luke's nose is very swollen
and bruised.  He has been a real star about it though!

The last couple of weeks have not been good health wise in our house which is why I haven't blogged or stitched much.  A quick run down is 2 bouts of tonsilitis for me with 2 different courses of antibiotics of which I am still taking the second lot.  A quick question - when you have a throat that feels like someone has shoved a couple of golf balls down it, why do doctor's insist on giving you the biggest tablets they know how to prescribe?  Colin has had some mystery bug that actually caused him to have a day off work and to admit that he shouldn't have gone in the next day either.  Rachael has had a bad cold and injured her back - not together!  Poor Luke found out today that football boot + header = broken nose.  The poor lad currently looks like he went 10 rounds with Mike Tyson!  The hospital said it is too swollen to tell if it is broken and to come back in 10 days when the swelling goes down if it looks mis-shapen.  We are keeping him dosed up with Calpol and Calprofen so it doesn't hurt too much at the moment. So all in all it's not been great although thankfully everything is minor in the grand scheme of things :)

On to stitching news...

I signed up for the Santa's Village autoship from The Patchwork Rabbit.  Karla was really pleasant to deal with and I got the first installment this morning.  It looks even cuter in real life and I will be sorting out some fabric for it later.  Once I finish Nicola's 'thing' (not giving anything away!!), I will stitch the first part.

The first installment of Santa's Village!!!

In terms of actual stitching I have worked on an exchange piece which is winging its way 'somewhere' in the world, so I can't show that.  I am working on Nicola's 'thing' so can't show that either.  I have worked a few stitches on a RR which is shown below and a little of Confetti of Hardanger which hasn't seen enough progress to make it worth a photo - 3 more eyelets, that's all.  There is a little progress on ATW but again not a lot. Cinderella got a little progress too.

RR stitching

ATW - part 5 completed

ATW - so far

The other night Biskey and Smudge were curled up on the sofa.  So cute...

Biskey and Smudge....awww
Smudge is black and white

2 Posts in 1 day - a new L*K SAL

When I was busily following links for the Halloween blog hop, I stumbled upon several new blogs not just from people involved with the hop but people who commented and seeing blog lists too.  On one of these was the details for a SAL involving the L*K 6 Fat Men from last year and the newly released Snow Belles.  Now I did originally sign up for a 6 Fat Men SAL but never got very far with it so hopefully this will inspire me.

Below is a photo of my fabric and threads with the minuscule progress that I made on it.  I don't actually have the Snow Belles yet...hint hint Colin.

Last night I stitched on it a little.  My plan at the moment is to do all the borders and then 'fill in' with the design.  Denise designed a template with all 12 designs intermingled but sadly my fabric was not big enough to use it.  At the moment I can't really justify spending money on fabric when I have a good piece already to hand.  It's such a shame that I cut it down when I bought it!!  Oh well, you live and learn.

NaBloPoMo

I had a go at this last year and managed 3 days. This year I am going to try to beat it!!

So I am accepting Dani's challenge/dare and going to blog every single day for a month.  Yikes...what will I talk about every day!

Well anyway, I guess this is the first day done!!

Ooooh before I go.... I need to say a big thank you to Jo for hosting a Halloween blog hop.  I discovered several new to me bloggers and got a few new followers.  I *nearly* have 150 followers now and was thinking that maybe a small giveaway may be in order once I reach it.  So what would you rather receive?  Please vote in the poll over on the right and let me know.  If there is something else you think of you can add that to the poll yourself!!

NaBloPoMo

Ok Dani has challenged the world - well her blog readers/followers to join her in NaBloPoMo this month.  All you have to do is post to your blog every day.  I accepted the challenge, after all, how hard can it be..hehehe.

Well that's one day done anyway.