Oh Dear

That Steam fair that I was due to go to this weekend has been cancelled :( for the first time in it's history because of the amount of rain we've had the last days and the forcast is for worse over the weekend.

BUT we didn't find out until we arrived at the field at 1.01pm (your not allowed on the field before one, talk about good timing!) so I just had to turn round and head back home again.
On the way back we decided that as the caravan was packed and I did OK towing Mum would see if we could get on the site they alway use in Wales and we could so tomorrow lunch time I'm towing the caravn to Wales for the weekend, back on Monday.

Sharon, a Steam Fair is like a car rally but it's steam traction engines/ fairground rides etc, although I refer to this weekend as a steam fair it's proper name is Malpas Yesteryear Rally and they have vintage cars/trucks etc there

Celtic Bookmark Exchange part 2

After 2 long weeks the bookmark I sent to Australia has finally arrived, boy was I getting worried! I stitched Bookmark H from Celtic Bookmarks 1


Here's everything I sent over, I've never made a bookmark before so I'm quite pleased with how it turned out, flaws and all

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Sharon asked how my Dad's knee was, well it's getting better slowly and he can now bend it a little but not enough to drive so I'm currently the family taxi which also leads onto something else............. Remember how in cartoons whenever they were scared their knees whould be knocking together, fingers nails would get bitten off like a saw and they would generally shake all over? Well that was me yesterday afternoon!! Because my Dad can't drive I had to have a lesson in his 4X4 to get used to the handling of it ready for Thursday when I'll be doing all the above and more when I tow the caravan for the first time in my life! Talk about a crash course, I've gone from being quite happy in mine and my Mum's car to driving my Dad's huge one to driving Dad's and towing all in the space of a 4 days! I've always known that I would have to learn to drive it at some point and have been putting it off for as long as poss but my time is up now. Oh and in case your wondering what's this weekend it's a steam fair that we go to every year with the stall and the carousel I blogged about earlier in the year will be there, if I can escape the stall long enough I'll get some pics.

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Mel had a phone call on Friday from Reaseheath and they want to put her on a higher course than she orginally applied for that they has suggested when she went to register for a place. She had planned to ask when we go to enrol on the 12th if she could do the higher course so she's really pleased they want to put her on it

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The missing Q-Snaps have turned up, Yay. I was sat here yesterday morning thinking that a sure fire way of finding them was go out and buy a new set a little later in the week when I was struck with a sudden urge to go and check in the Blanket box at the bottom of my bed and there they were, what I can't figure out is how they got in there in the first place as it's not somewhere I keep stash (OK well I do but not stitching stash, it's where my rovings are for spinning). I can't even claim they got put in there when I moved because I used them not long after we had

August Progress & September Goals

For August I said
Finish Oriental Orchids I barely even touched it
Finish my bookmark for the exchange and mail on time Done and it took 2 weeks to arrive! (call back later tonight for a pic)
UFORR Done
Stitch an ornament Errrrrrrrrm would you believe me if I said yes?
Birth Sampler No. Naughty Granma, sorry Caleb

For September I'd like to
Finish Oriental Orchids (need to do this one, all encouragement welcome)
Stitch an ornament
Pick a new UFO for the RR
Birth Sampler
Not start anything new unless I can finish it within the month or I have at least 4 finishes

Time wise I stitched for 84 hours and 47 mins, had 4 new starts and just 1 finish.

Yet another new start

How I'm ever going to get my number os WIP's down is beyond me, I keep starting new ones! This time it's LHN My Needle's Work
I've got no idea what the fabric is apart from it's cream, 32 count and came out of my stash (at least that's one of this year's goals getting worked on!)

Oh and by any chance did someone see where I put my 6" Q snaps???? I can't find them anywhere and could do with them so I can work on at least 2 of those *cough cough* 49 *cough* WIP's and get them finished next month

Bigger Stash update

This year's birthday start and for once I'm in with a chance of finishing it in the same year :)

That R seemed to take ever more and a day to do, no matter how much I worked on it it just didn't seem to get anywhere so I started switching with the Bleesed Jess underneath and it went so much quicker

In other news, my Dad hurt his knee going upstairs last night and I took him to have it checked out today, turns out that he's pulled the ligaments around it so it looks like my time off looking after Mum is at an end and I'll have 2 invalids to cope with instead of one

St Basil's update

I worked on it over the weekend and made a little progress, not huge amounts but enough to keep me quiet :)

Oh remember that simple blood test I had to go for a little while back? Well they didn't do something they should have or something went wrong and I got called back for it!

UFO RR

Last one of this round, a little later than it should be. It belongs to Annette it's one of the Mill Hill Buttons & Beads Winter Range, Christmas Village.

As it arrived

And as it leaves

What you can't really tell from the pic is that a fair bit of what I've done is the beading part of it so it doesn't really look like I've put many hours in on it but I have! I'm off to the PO with in the morning, fingers crossed Annette's happy with the progress I've made

My first award!

Lovely Sue has given me this award (my first one ever) and with it made my day :) Thank you so much

For those of you who have been awarded, please post the following rules on your Blog:

1. The winner can put the logo on their Blog.
2. Link the person you received your award from.
3. Nominate at least 7 other Blogs.
4. Put the links to those Blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message on the Blogs of those you've nominated.

I've been thinking about who nominate on and off since I found out yesterday and in no particular order........
Joy
Lorna
Velda
Jo
Dani
Gill
Sharon

And one more for luck Annette

TW Celtic Bookmark Exchange Part 1

This morning the postman brought me this from Jen for the TW Celtic Bookmark exchange over on the Rotation BB, she got it spot on for colours :) and I love it
Here's a much better pic of the colours Jen used, the bobbins you can see under it in the pic above are the rest of the skeins she used along with a skein of a limited edition of Gloriana (I didn't even know they exisisted!)

GCSE Results

For those of you outside of the UK today is the day that the results come out for year 11 High school students, the next step of education is based on these grades and each course has different requirements. Mel needed 4 C's for the course she wants to do starting in September.
We've not been back very long from getting those results and she has 4 B's, 6 C's and a D but given that she expected to fail the subject that one's for she's quite pleased with it.

Congratulations Mel