First little humphrey completed.

I am very excited to show you my first humphrey completed and all cross stitched, half stitched and backstitched. I managed to finish him off last night and he is my favourite of all the little elephants. :-) I love how he is sleeping with his little doggie teddy, very adorable. I think the backstitch has really bought him to life, and I am loving the colours in it. I also love how the fabric is coming through in the piece.

One thing I am not loving, which I seem to forget with every anchor pattern I stitch is the backstitch isn't always easy to follow with the thick lines they like to use on their patte. But I just take my time and it seems to work out. I do like the anchor patterns so I generally just remember what they're like after I've finished all the cross stitching. :-)

What do you think of him?

And this is a photo of the bubbles I've started backstitching too with the elephant beside them.

My weekend has just started tonight as I worked today and we are having a quiet weekend with a few things to do tomorrow but I think I will be able to get in some stitching time. I am looking forward to it, and I am sure my pattern will be on it's way to being finished sooner rather than later. I hope you all have a nice weekend and get some stitching time in too.

Happy Stitching xx

P.S Thanks for your lovely comments about Matilda our dog, we think she is pretty adorable too.

Back from Wye river.

Our little family had such a lovely time away in Wye river over the weekend. Thanks so much for all your lovely comments about the weekend, I hope you all had a nice weekend too. Many of you mentioned the toad fish but thankfully we didn't come across any which was good. Carol, I hope you didn't get too much of a scare when it came up on your computer screen. :-)

And Vinniey, I'm not sure Matilda would even think about the fish making her sick, she might have a memory like a gold fish in that respect, but maybe she would I'm not sure. Because you would like to see what she looks like, I have posted a photo for you. I think she is very cute!

Here she is on our way to Wye river waiting patiently in the car.

And this is our little family, with bub in my tummy (so there are 4 of us in this pic really). :-)

We had such a nice time away together, the views were just beautiful and it was so relaxing to look outside and see the bush and the sea at the same time. At night time we could hear the waves crashing. We spent most of our time hanging out, going for walks, having bbq's and of course I got some stitching time in there too. What is a weekend away without stitching? I stitched by the log fire like I said I would and actually got quite a bit done. I've almost finished all my cross stitching now, next I will be onto the backstitch. I took a photo of where I was sitting cross stitching and the view I had when I looked out the window.

How nice is that view? I thought so. I wish I had that view every time I looked out my lounge room window at home, but sadly I don't. But I guess it's what makes going away all the more special.

I hope you all got a little bit of stitching done over the weekend, I am going to do some more now.

Happy Stitching xx

Weekend away

For some reason I always seem to post on my blog on a Friday. I guess because I never work Friday nights which is nice. :-)

My husband Adrian, Matilda and I are going away for the weekend tomorrow to a lovely beach side town called 'Wye river'. We have rented a log cabin and we plan to just relax, go for walks and spend time together. I really need this break as does he so we are very excited about it. We thought it would be a good chance to get away before bub arrives. I think Matilda is really going to enjoy herself too. :-) As long as there are no toad fish on the beach!!

I am planning on taking my cross stitch with me and since the weather is supposed to be terribly cold and wet as it is today it will be nice to light the log fire and stitch by it. A glass of wine would go perfectly with this scenario but I am pregnant so that won't be happening. :-) Some chocolate can counteract this though. :-)

It has been a busy week and I've worked the last three nights so I've not had much time for stitching unfortunately, but I will show my progress off anyway. The little elephants are so adorable, I've started on the last elephant now but i've only stitched white thread so it won't really show up.

Sometimes I wish we celebrated halloween here in Australia because I am loving all the halloween stitching people are posting about on their blogs at the moment. They are all so quirky and cute. Some of the shops stock halloween costumes and ornaments etc.. here for I guess people that do celebrate but it's not big like it is overseas. Thanks for sharing all your halloween stitching though, and of course the people who haven't stitched halloween patterns I just love reading your blogs too. I hope you also enjoy my posts. :-)

I hope you all have a lovely weekend, and happy stitching xx

Spring is on it's way.

I was so thrilled and I appreciate all the lovely and kind comments you left about my dog Matilda, it was so nice to read them and brightened my day. It is nice to know I have such wonderful followers. :-) Matilda is doing much better now, she has fully recovered as long as she doesn't eat more poisonous fish. :-) I am more aware down at the beach now, I stop walking when she does.

I have had a good few nights of stitching on my humphrey's corner sampler and now that daylight savings has started and the sun is up longer I think I will get even more stitching time in (here's hoping). I have been excited about the beautiful weather we have had the last two days, looks like Spring really is on it's way. I am so over Winter! It's been so lovely and warm and it makes me feel like getting out into the courtyard garden for some stitching time in the sun. I am going to make the effort to do that this Spring.

Anyway, this is where I am up to now on Humphrey.

I am suprised how fast this piece is coming together, I guess the pattern is not overly huge or anything but it's still coming together really well. I can't wait to start the backstitch on it as I think it is really going to bring the little elephants to life. Tonight I plan to stitch after I log off of blogger and watch some of season three of gossip girl. I know, tragic! :-) I like girlie tv shows.

I hope you have all enjoyed your weekends and happy stitching x

Thanks ladies for your kind words about my stitching and the little car accident we had. I can't believe it but this morning I had another drama.

I took my dog Matilda down to the beach for a walk this morning and she managed to eat something fishy! I tried to run to her before she could swallow whatever she found but being pregnant and running on soft sand didn't really help the matter so as I was running she was running away from me and eating this thing in her mouth. I was so annoyed and I am very paranoid because I thought it might have been one of those puffer poisonous fish, but wherever she found it, it wasn't close to the water so I wasn't sure it would have been.

Anyway I was very worried about her as she did swallow it so we went home straight away and I cancelled going into work as I would have hated myself if I had left her home on her own. I am so glad of my decision because an hour later she was violently throwing up and she started shaking alot and was finding it hard to breathe. I don't think I've gotten Matilda into the car so fast and sped off in a panic to the vets which is also an animal hospital. I was so upset in the car almost hyperventalating myself which is not good I know being pregnant and all, but she is my baby and I just kept having the worst thoughts come into my head with these stupid puffer fish. She threw up in my car and then when we got to the vets she kept throwing up so they had to give her an anti vomiting shot and some charcoal tablets. She was still shaking at this stage and the vet was concerned that if she kept doing that and was still throwing up when I got home we would have to take her back and do some tests and put her on a drip. He said she had been poisoned but with what he didn't know. The vet was lovely and offered to keep her at the hospital ( I think he saw that I was pregnant and was worried if she collapsed or something I couldn't pick her up) but my husband was also worried because I was so distressed that he cancelled his job at work and came home so we could monitor her together. The vet said if she did get worse we would need to take her back. Apparently with these puffer fish they can actually restrict their breathing and dogs often collapse and can't walk, but she was still walking fine other than the shaking.

So we got home and she was still trying to be sick but nothing was coming up but outside we did find some sort of seafood and white flesh that she had brought up earlier (I was dry reaching when I saw it) and we gave her water but she is not allowed any food. She was still shaking but since she's had the medication the vet gave her she has improved alot. She is breathing better, her shakes have stopped and she has wanted to drink.

I am constantly looking at her but she has just fallen asleep as she did fight it for awhile and I now have a headache. I was so upset at her for eating such a yucky thing but she is a dog after all and I do forget that at times. :-) I am just glad she is better and that I made the decision to stay home because she did definately need some help. I have not even felt like stitching, but now that she's ok I think I might be able to start some now.

I can't believe the luck I've had in the past few days. I hope everyone else has had better days, and happy stitching x

More humphrey

I just wanted to thank everyone for your very kind comments about my feather fairy and stitching, it makes me happy and thanks for spending the time in looking at my blog to all my readers and my new followers too.

This week I have really enjoyed my stitching time of a night and I've finally been getting some good stitching progress in. I've really missed it and I've loved working on my sampler again. This is where I am up to with humphrey now.

I love this pattern and am enjoying my time stitching on it. I think it is because I love the colours so much since I am a lover of pastels and the pretty fabric. I am always itching to get home from work to do more. :-)

Today my husband Adrian and I went looking at cots and prams for our bub on the way and I came across a humphrey's corner cot which is white. That's the colour cot I want, it is so sweet and it would be so perfect for our nursery since I am cross stitching a humphrey's corner sampler. Adrian couldn't get over the smile on my face, but other than it being cute we have to look at other things of course with the price, how strong it is, how easy it is to operate etc..some cots were better than others. Anyway we had fun looking around and have narrowed down what prams we like and we left in a good mood until as we were leaving we backed into someone else's car by accident. The shop we were at is very hard to get out of and back onto the road and we were too far out on the oncoming traffic and a truck was heading our way so we reversed in a hurry only by a meter at the most and someone was very close to our car and bang! My bull bar went through the next persons car's bumper but there was no damage to my car. So it kind of put a dampner to our day, but at least no one was hurt at the end of the day.

I hope you have all had a nice weekend and happy stitching x

Another update

This past week has been really busy at work which includes me working quite a few nights so I haven't found much time to stitch except for last night which was really nice. I am loving the way the sampler is looking so far, I love pastel colours so that's why I think I am in love with this design and my fabric choice. Here is where I am up to now.

My two friends Gayle and Bek came over last Monday and we had a nice stitchy afternoon/night together. We had chinese takeaway for dinner and chatted and caught up on each other. I hadn't seen Bek since she got married in April so it was great to see her. I thought I was making good progress on my sampler until I realised I had gone wrong somewhere and it took me a good part of the night to find out where I had gone wrong. I just couldn't work it out, and I ended up finding the mistake late at night. So most of my work was pulled out which was a shame, I was back to square one again. Other than that it was a good night and it was good company.

I also picked up my feather fairy from the framers and I love how she turned out, she is beautiful. I am happy that I didn't go with any matting, the frame looks lovely on it's own. Here she is here. She will look much better when the wall behind her is painted nice, I can't wait to get rid of the wallpaper.

I am hoping to get more stitching done this week, I hope you all find some stitching time too.

Happy Stitching x