The new beginning

Happy New Year everyone!

I hope you had a wonderful great start to 2013 and I want to thank  everyone  from the bottom of my heart for following me along on my crafting adventures and the occasional journey in life. Big thank you especially to you who stop to leave me with your lovely comments, it meant a lot to me for your words inspire me to keep on blogging and sharing this passion.

The days before Christmas
I thought I could end my post for the year with my Christmas post but there was this one ornament that got left out, not intentionality but because it didn't arrive when it should and I had the postie to blame for the delay it caused.

The design is actually from a Black Cat Silhouette, I used variegated threads on this kitty hoping to get it to resemble the fur of a Siamese kitty, and I failed miserably didn't I?

It wasn't even close enough although I had one living right under my eyes, that's my princess, LOL

I also finished this into a Bell shape and keeping the design clean and simple by adding only  lace and a tiny bell for the kitty's neck

At the very least,  I gave kitty its signature blue eyes and added a bit of holly? For that added Christmassy touch. It’s after all a Christmas Ornie for Jess W and I stole this snap from Jess too when I forgot to snap a closeup before I mail. Thanks Jess ;P

One last final finish. This was from last year's, never got to finish it then. Backing was in green velvet. No fancy finishing for this.

On Christmas day, we were at  Genting Highlands Resort for an evening with the Australian Bee Gees. Glad the kids enjoyed it too and they recognized some of their songs to actually sing along.

Some bakes before Christmas, Chocolate Brownies with Chocolate Chips

 My first attempt at baking a Fruit Cake, I am naming it, Crumble Fruit Cake, because half of it actually did crumble like this, LOL. Another disaster from my kitchen. I haven't figured it out where have I gone wrong.

This was dinner the evening before we left for Genting, Bake Chicken and Shitake Mushroom with Mashed Potatoes, my version of a one pot dish.

The New Year's

No, I did not pen down my resolutions. I am not a resolution type of a person. I rather put things into action with whatever ideas that came racing into my head and see it materialized rather than staring into a piece of paper over what need to be done.  It's also the last few days to prep things for DD who has been conscript to join the compulsory (once selected)  National Service for 3 months.

 Surprisingly, I manage some few hours of quiet time to stitch this WIP from over a year ago.  Once Upon A-Time the final chart of three, Hope. Although that few hours was from a day, I did get some good amount of progress on this. I will need a couple more hours of a day or two, I hope. Until another update then.

To all who came by, THANK YOU  for a great year of stitching friendship !

I wish every one of you a year full of joy, good health, love, success and dreams come true.