The festive catching up

This is another piece long in hibernation and from my UFO pile that I took  along with me during the festive holidays. It's one of my TO DO & TO FINISH THIS YEAR project. I have not actually listed any of the projects I have in mind on my TODO list, knowing me I will never be able to follow through the list. It all depends on my mood of that particular time, impromptu, always make do of a situation.

The last time I work on this, I  added a couple of cherries and blueberries.

That weekend, I have added the beaded raspberries' and strawberries. It is finally filling up.

Next I will need  some un-ripe strawberries, now that will need some time to produce

Freebie Biscornu design by Kristen Schmidth. This was almost done, except that little bee when I had to put it down for something else and never got to pick it up again to finish it until end of February. I have never stitch a biscornu with such different and interesting design in one. Since it's mine to keep I have made some colours change.

32count linen

Floss DMC

The lighting in my room somehow effected the color of the tea colored fabric looking like grey.

A weekend with some light meal after all the festive good food. It's also the day I rummage my fridge for anything left overs or what's left in the fridge after the festive seasons. One thing thou, there's sure are lots of mandarin oranges in the house.

It's Friday here, so wishing you a great weekend and thank you for visiting.

Another new month

To begin my April post, here's my current progress on Traveling Stitcher. Its good feeling to have completed all the words, but not after frogging the 'whatever' first as I found that I had stitched one square too high.
Next, another piece from my closet, Berry Garland. This has been hibernating way too long. I decided that I better start rooting what I had made onto the garland as I need to see if I had wrap enough of the berries before I move on to beading the raspberries. Here's the progress, thus far..........to be continue, when the beading is done.

The Berry Garland design is from here
Thanks for stopping by, appreciate your sweet comments especially on Mary and have a good Happy Easter Weekend.

Progress so far...........

Stumpwork progess # 2. It took me more than 4 hours almost 5 just to complete this few berries and I need a whole lot more to fill my garland. It will be another while for another progress on this. Finishing this will be along wait!

Crochet crop top , done! Sorry for the bad photos, DD is not too happy to model for me and I just can't get it right. Its one of the something that have been sitting in my basket for awhile.

"Tales of Wonder" , Dragon Dreams, one of my longest UFO. Only a few stitches left. It became a UFO because of a mistake i've made on the 3rd band and was undecided if I should frog then. Looking back, I should not have given that a thought and finish it instead. What do you think ?

Thank you everyone for coming by and sharing your opinion on the samplers. I've choosen New England, maybe someday I'll get the other one.

Lody, a very special and very talented lady tagged me with this 7 Random Facts about me. I've done this once in 2007 with only 6 weirds, Can't remember if it was mandatory for 6 or 7 then but I've found only 6, LOL. The rules goes as follows :

The Rules:
1. Once you are tagged, link back to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the Rules on your blog.
3. Post 7 weird or random facts about yourself on your blog.
4. Tag 7 people and link them.
5. Comment on their blog to let them know they have been tagged.

Sounds interesting ? Well, it is, you may be surprised with the things unknown to you within you. LOL

Wanna play ? Well, I will not name anyone here but go ahead and copied the rules and let me know that you have done so and I'll come and visit you, just to get to know you better.

Lody, I hoped you do not mind that I am putting a twist to this and thank you for thinking of me.

Everyone, I wish you all a very happy weekend and I wish all of you, happy stitching.

PIF and Sweets

My beautiful gift, from the PIF came from Mylene . Thank you so much, yes I loved it, Mylene, your finishing is fabulous, never expected it to come so soon either.

The whole package that came from Mylene

Cupcake or Sweet Exchange organized by Jess for NNC . Yeah! I have enough of donuts already..LOL

I need to comeup with something for this exchange and the first thot was something to do with a hook and yarn but I had no instructions. Its an awful position to be in huh?? So, I took with me a couple of yarns and a hook, carried it for a couple of days everywhere I go until one day in January I just told myself its time to cook something or my partner is not going to get any.....and came up with this, my first cupcake, a strawberry with cream and colored sugars (pins) . Its a trial piece and since I came up with the design from my head, size and all there is no instructions and am too lazy to take notes either.With that, I proceed to my second one, a chocolate with cream icing. If I recalled correctly, I think my partner is a chocolate lover and since this is the better looking one, it shall be the exchange piece. Just hoped my partner will not scream..yikees !!

My package to my partner, Rose includes the donut (pincushion), an ice cream cone (fridge magnet) and a sweet recipe which is also a must. Now, don't blame me for the toothache Rose, blame Jess! LOL.. (just kiddiiing) ..oh ! there's the Hershey's chocolate too which I left out for the photo.

My recipe which is a must to go with the exchange, I choose a book simply titled 'desserts', a mini cook book with 35 easy to follow yummy recipes by Marshall Cavendish Cuisine

A peek inside ,(clockwise) : Thai mango rice and pancakes with grated cocount

And the most embarrassing part was, I got the mailing date mixed up and mailed it out like a month early!! HORROR !! The actual due date was yesterday and I've spoilt the fun for my partner! I was sort of under the weather last month with a bad cough and I blamed that for being so blurry. So, I secretly began planning for a 'surprise' something' for mailing out on the actual mailing date, can't lived with the fact that my partner is not going to get anything in the mail comes the actual due date and missed all the excitement with the rest of the gals.

To tell you the truth, nothing came into my mind until last weekend, somehow I managed to re-produced an old design, the cup and saucer pincushion which I had one made ages ago. Guessed that gave me the idea of the mini chocolate cake with coffee and vanilla cream, topped with a mint and a red cherry served in a purple bowl (partner's fav color) and saucer. Those pinkish color sugared lookalikes are actually the pin heads. Think it measured approximately 4.5".

Am now able to revealed, after Rose J, my partner, received the surprised gift yesterday. Whew! am truly relieved.

This is how the 3-D veins look like when done. Not totally a satisfaction I would say and its not an easy task for me to hold the wire and the floss at the same time.

Thank you everyone for your visits and leaving me your lovely comments.

My bags are packed and I'll be away for about a week, so this will be my last post for now ;P

Thank you everyone for visiting me and leaving me with your lovely comments. I am much better, only the cough refused to go away but its better than having to carry a box of tissue around...LOL

and here's a lil'peek into my progress of the Old Sampler, Part 5 is out and I managed to work on it a little last nite, this will be travelling with me back to my in-laws. I hoped to complete Part 5.

About 3 weeks ago, I took a lesson in stumpwork. I have since completed the leaves and stems and will work on the veins next with wire to create a 3-D effect. I am so anxious for my next lesson. I hoped to work on some berries but it will have to wait till after the festivity. Yes, this will be coming with me too :D together with the Rose Sampler.

See you in a week......ta..ta !