Ornament beginnings

It's been awfully quiet around here recently hasn't it. Day to day happenings have kept me away from my blog. Some personal issues have been causing considerable stress on my part and so I have not been able to relax enough to enjoy any form of sewing or crafting for a couple of months. Thankfully, some of those issues have now been resolved and I have the urge to pick up a needle once again.

Disclaimer

Those of a nervous disposition may want to return to this post after Thanksgiving.

It's all christmas, christmas, christmas from here!

In an effort to try to kick start my stitching mojo, I took part in a christmas ornament exchange on HoE.

This is the wonderful ornament I received from Diana. She designed this herself, and it is beautifully stitched and finished. If you hop on over to her blog, Diana has very kindly offered this chart as a freebie, so you can stitch one too :-)

Thank you Diana :-) I love it.

A few weeks back I asked if anyone wanted to do a magazine swap for the JCS Christmas ornament issue. Syd got in touch and offered to send me the magazine, no swap needed. Wasn't that so kind! Thank you Syd :-) as you will see I have been busy!

First up is Winter Squirrel from Victoria Sampler. In our house he has already been named Nutty, after a soft toy DH bought for DD years ago.
I went with beads from my stash rather than having to order buttons and wait.

This next one is Merry Christmas by Country Cottage Needleworks. Those of you with a copy of the magazine will notice that I have not followed the colour scheme on this one. In the magazine, the colours are pastel pink, green and aqua, and although very pretty it would not fit in with my red/gold christmas colour scheme. So I changed it to suit me.

* Edited * I've had quite a few requests for my conversion so here is a list of the colours I used.

DMC 304(red) 319(green) 535(grey) 3045(gold) Blanc(white)

and

Crescent Colours Brandied Pears(brown)

Last up is Deer in a Forest by Niky's Creations. I really like this one, although DS Cameron looked at it and said the bit at the bottom looks like a fire and it looks like it is melting the deers legs!

So now I'm calling it Deer in a Fire!

Sadie x

Everything must go

I'm downsizing my cross stitch stash.

I've listed some christmas themed charts on ebay, my seller id is sadiew2006.

There are some L*K, Prairie Schooler, Bent Creek, Country Cottage Needleworks, Plum Street Samplers, Heart in Hand, JBW Designs, Imaginating and Milady's Needle.

Take a peek and grab yourselves a bargain!

Sadie x