HAPPY MAY everyone, not sure where April went but it came and went very quickly!!!
It seems a long time since I celebrated and shared a Happy Dance with you all and the postal service is the main culprit! I sent a couple of Easter packages out well before the big occasion, one to Barb which arrived as it should have but the other took over 2 weeks and missed Easter altogther?
I was so pleased with Barb's bunny pillow and wanted to send her something in return so decided on Little House Needleworks 'Lavender Hill' along with the required DMC threads and as I know she has a very big soft spot for sheep some chocolate ones were perfect from the Easter Bunny! (sorry forgot to take a picture but I'm sure most of you know which chart I'm talking about).
My second Easter package was to Annette http://annette-werkjes.blogspot.com/ in The Netherlands and that was the one which would have arrived quicker if I had set off on foot! Annette's blog is lovely to follow and she has the most adorable children, little Noah and baby Kira, she is superb with needle and thread and makes the most gorgeous items for her home and children.
I thought this would look nice in baby Kira's room (it's never too early to fall in love with bunnies) . . .
It's only a small design from the CrossStitcher magazine stitched on 28count evenweave but I thought it was sweet and I stitched the flowers to match the lilac fabric. The Easter Bunny took Noah a little parcel of chocolates which I hear from Annette he wanted to eat all at once (whoops!!!)
A second Happy Dance is Beatrix Potter's 'Benjamin Bunny' finished in my usual pillow style.
I couldn't find any buttons to match and as it was the Easter weekend and all the shops were closed I decided to stitch small cabbages instead !!!
A strange choice maybe? cabbages? but I wanted the colour to match the fabby on the reverse . . . .
Ahhhh, so sweet and if I get fed up with looking at the cabbages I can look at this side instead!
I started my next stitch over the Easter weekend but because I was waiting to hear when my RAKs arrived so I could share them with you, this first photo is a little out-of-date . . . .
This is Little House Needleworks 'The Mercantile'. I can't remember the last time I stitched a building of any sort and as my bunny stitching has been multiplying at great speed I felt it would make a nice change.
It's a lovely design of a Country Store and I'm building it with Gentle Art Sampler threads, most of them as listed but substituted a couple of them with shades almost the same and I'm really enjoyed it.
This second photo shows it to-date but alas I've run out of wood for the top of the store and my usual supplier has a message on her website saying she's away until middle of May ~ there are other suppliers in the UK and I hate to sound like I'm penny-pinching but when you can buy a skein for £1.20 with minimum postage cost when others charge £2.06 and an excessive standard postage cost not matter what the item, it seems silly not to wait.
I've just planted a tree (left of the store) and am keeping my fingers crossed that it will grow and reach full height as we've had no rain here in the South of England for over 4 weeks ~ my flowers and shrubs are suffering already from lack of water and we're only in May!
Thank you everybody for all your good wishes for the happy bonding of Tilly and Oscar.
As you will see from the pics below there is happy harmony between the two of them and they are now inseperable ~ it's lovely to watch them together and they're great fun to be around.
I have to admit that I did worry if Tilly found her true mate then would she still be my best pal too?
Yes, yes, yes she loves me too and our lovely cuddle times are just as they always were. Oscar has come on leaps and bounds and is a real character, he is soooo nosey and periscopes all the time to get a better view of everything, he has gained great trust in us and now knows he lives in a loved and safe environment - how did anyone ever subject this dear little bunny to such cruelty???
Thank you for stopping by and all your lovely comments, it's a great treat to read them all and I appreciate you taking the time to do so.
HAPPY STITCHING
xxx
