I'm still here, anyone miss me? :-)

Hi everyone,

that's if I have any followers left? probably not since I last posted in April this year. Where has 5 months gone? I can't believe it's been that long.

Well, I can believe it's been that long since I last posted, I've had my hands full the last 5 months. I've been spending all that time with the love of my life, my beautiful daughter Tabitha. She is 7 months old now and growing every day. She's so much fun and I am loving being a Mum and able to spend time with her to see her grow and learn new things every day. Time really does fly when you're a Mum (as I'm sure it does when you're not a Mum either, haha) but it really does!

I've been floating around on blogger and checking up on all your beautiful stitching, haven't had much time to post but I have been stitching a little here and there. I made it to the last stitchy meet my friends held, hadn't been to one in quite a few months, so that was fun and I did some stitching. Currently I am stitching my nephew a birth sampler, it's a tatty teddy one called powder baby, he is sweet. I am close to almost finishing the cross stitching so will soon start on the backstitching. After this sampler I will start on my other nephew's birth sampler, who was born in June. I have yet to pick one.

I gave my parents 'Achoo' all stitched and framed and they loved him! He is now sitting proud as punch on their lounge room wall. The framing I chose, compliments their lounge room really well too, so I picked well. I'm glad I found a nice home for him.

My plan for my stitching is, after I have stitched the two birth samplers I want to stitch my husband a wedding anniversary gift. Our 2nd year anniversary will be coming up in March next year and the traditional present is to give each other a gift symbolising cotton. So I wanted to stitch him a gorgeous pattern I've had my eye on for ages called 'to the moon and back' by Waxing moon designs. It's not too big, so I think I can handle it. We will see. :-)

Amongst all my stitching I am scrapbooking an album for Tabitha which I am also loving. There is not enough hours in the day for hobbies, and as much as I would love to stitch all night, sleep wins hands down. :-) Haha.

I will get myself moving onto taking some recent pictures to show you, but at this stage I just wanted to let you know I'm still here and stitching slowly. It's always nice to see what you have all been stitching too, will post again soon.

For now, happy stitching.

Happy Easter

Happy Easter to everyone that celebrates. :-)

We are having a busy next two days with family. Today we are having a lunch at my in laws and tomorrow we are having lunch with my family. It is Tabitha's first Easter which is very exciting for us, I think the Easter bunny has brought her a special egg. Tabitha is exactly 3 months old today! Three months has flown.

I am happy to say I finished stitching a message on achoo for Mum and Dad and finished off Tabitha's birth sampler finishing in her details. They both look really good and I am going to wash them next week and hopefully take them to the framers sometime soon. I also ordered a baby sampler to stitch for my nephew Baxter. I ordered a tatty teddy design called 'powder baby' from 123 stitch which is very sweet. Now I am just waiting for it to arrive as it will be my next project.

I hope you all have a lovely long weekend and happy stitching. x

Finished!

Last night I finished Achoo! I am so happy he is all done, I wanted to post about it last night but it was getting late and I really needed to get to bed.

He is so cute, and I would love to keep him but he is for Mum and Dad and I can't wait to give him to them, I am excited about it. All I need to do now is date it and I want to write a little message in the corner.

Here he is here in all his glory.

I started achoo on the 10th of November 2010 and finished him on the 13th of April 2011. I think 5 months is pretty good, well good for me anyway. I am not the fastest stitcher there is out there. I found achoo a very easy stitch and I enjoyed it. Once all the cross stitches were done, the half stitch stitched up quickly and the backstitch took no time at all, so if anyone was wanting to stitch achoo at all one day, I recommend it.

He is stitched on 29 count jubilee evenweave and the brand is dimensions with their own dyed thread.

Here is a close up of achoo.

Isn't he cute? :-)

I think the backstitch really brought achoo to life so I've taken a photo of the backstitch to show you, even though you probably won't get a great view of it.

Now that he is done, I want to finish the details on Tabitha's birth sampler so I can then get the birth sampler and achoo washed, ironed and taken to the framers. I then want to start on my nephews birth sampler which I am going to have to order in the next few days.

Thank you for all your comments on my last post, you helped motivate me to finish achoo, and I am glad you all loved the photo of Tabitha. She is a cheeky girl, and that is one of my favourite photos of her.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend, and get some stitching done. I am off to a day spa on Saturday as Adrian bought me a day spa voucher for our first wedding anniversary back in March and I am going out for a few hours by myself to spoil myself, I am so excited!! :-) It's nice that he will be spending time with Tabitha on his own too.

happy stitching everyone. xx

Nearly done!

I have almost finished stitching Achoo!

I have finished all the cross stitches and just finished all the half stitches last night. I stayed up three hours after Tabitha went to bed to finish off the half stitch and thought to myself I will probably regret it since she will be up in a few hours and she was!! I was pretty tired when I woke up this morning after not getting enough sleep. But it was worth it really as I only have the backstitch to complete. This is where Achoo is at now.

I've really enjoyed stitching this little guy, he is very cute. And he's not taken me that long either. Tabitha has been going to bed at a reasonable hour at night and it's given me time to stay up for an extra hour or two to do my own thing, which is normally stitching or scrapbooking. I really want to get this finished for Mum and Dad so I can start on my nephews birth sampler. My nephew Baxter was born on the 5th of March, he is so cute! Only 6 weeks behind Tabitha. It's been nice stitching of a night again as I find it very relaxing and it's time to myself.

Tabitha will be 11 weeks old on Sunday, now I believe when people say how quick time flies, it really does. I can't believe she will be 3 months old soon. I don't want her to grow up too quickly. Here is a photo I took of Tabitha this week.

She is very smiley. I am so in love with this little girl. We are off to her first real birthday party on Sunday, it's her cousins Heidi's third birthday party.

I hope everyone has a lovely weekend, and of course happy stitching xx

I will post back when I've completed the backstitch.

A little stitching

I have actually managed to complete a little bit of stitching on Achoo, I had half an hour one day last week when Tabitha fell asleep in her pram. It was nice to be able to get a few stitches in. It's amazing how busy my days are now with a little one, and I thought I was busy before in my day job, haha. When Tabitha is sleeping, it would be lovely to sit down and stitch for a few hours but it is hard when there is so much else to do around the house etc..or sometimes it's nice to get in an hour of shut eye myself.

When I picked Achoo up again I hadn't actually noticed how much I had done on him whilst I was still pregnant on my maternity leave.

I am enjoying stitching this little puppy dog and he is really almost finished, only have a few more full cross stitches to put in and then the rest is half stitch which won't take up much time at all. I know that Mum and Dad will love him.

This is Achoo at the moment.

Tabitha is 8 weeks old today, and two months has just flown by really. I am loving being a Mum, it is a big job but well worth seeing her grow every day. She is always changing and the best thing she's been doing the last few weeks is smiling. Her smile melts my heart all the time.

I hope everyone is doing well and getting in much stitching time. It is so lovely to see what everyone has been working on. Hopefully I will have another update soon.

Happy Stitching x

Thank you!

Hello to all my followers,

I just wanted to thank you all for your lovely comments on our baby daughter Tabitha. Things are going well and Tabitha is exactly one month old today! Time does go fast, she's growing every day and has just started smiling which melts my heart. :-)

I've not had time to stitch of course as when she goes to bed at night I do too. And when she naps in the day there are other things to do. Hopefully I get a chance soon, but in the meantime I am enjoying catching up on all your lovely blogs when I get a few moments even though I haven't been commenting. Thank you for sharing all your lovely stitching.

Happy stitching xx

Tabitha Faith