February's Stitch from Stash

£0.63

Well yet again it has been a successful month with hardly penny spent by me. I needed some ribbon for the 'thing' I am making for Justine. The lighting is a bit harsh in Hobbycraft and I couldn't decide which ribbon to get so I brought both home for the grand price of 63p!  Must be my cheapest ever shop there!

 I have been very lucky to as Colin bought me both of these, one to cheer me up and the other for Valentine's Day.

I was even luckier when I won Linda's blog giveaway which is a gift certificate for 123stitch.  Sadly it wasn't for $500 so I am trying to narrow it down a bit.  It's quite ironic, once upon a time I would have spent it 3 times over and paid the extra but now I am trying to be 'good'.  It's hard though as there are quite a few things I would like!  Thank you Linda xx

Treat from Colin

I was off work for a couple of weeks recently with workplace related stress.  Actually I debated whether to tell anyone that because it has a kind of 'you just need to get on with it' connotation to it, a bit like if you tell someone you are depressed and get told to 'pull yourself together'.  But there it is.  Anyway, last Monday I came home from my first day back and burst into tears as soon as I got out of the car.  Colin, bless him, missed all this as he wasn't home from work at the time but when the children told him about it, he decided I needed a cheering up treat.  He found my wishlist here on my blog and treated me to this.

Now, I'll be honest, as cute as I find many dragon designs it is not something I would normally choose to stitch.  But...look at that cute little face...and the chocolate and the title of the book...seriously how could I NOT love 'The History of Chocolate - a love story'.  So this is what I may possibly have accidentally started the other day.  Being the dimwit that I am, I confused 3371 with 3771 and ended up having 79 pale peach stitches instead of 79 dark brown.  Not much difference there then!  I won't bore you with photos of my dark brown blob especially as it's over 1 - it's even more boring than my normal blobs!