Cross Stitch Cafe 2011

23rdspiral

After all the talk on storage I looked up those bobbin boxes online... And realized I have 2! have them to store my quilting squares / hexies and can spare one for my floss bobbins , so I got some more when I was out. And the 99p store threads I have I've put into some zip lock bags I and from holiday last year.

Thanks for the ideas everyone!

Observer

Shelly - I like the finished playroom
PAP - hows the gorjuss coming along
Chicky - I personally wouldn't chase the mag for prizes quite yet but maybe by about wednesday I would and I think the saying you were out and unsure if you missed the delivery was a good idea.

No-one round me appears to stock this mag anyway! I'll keep looking but was gonna decide whether on not to buy once looked at the front page. I wonder if they realise their lack of basic admin and courtesy skills have upset so many of their potential readers!!

I personally prefer to talk to you guys on here rather than via facebook - Although I look at FB every day I am not one for adding pages or links or liking pages at all - I just want to be nosey and see what my 'friends' are doing but more than that I'd rather do elsewhere its a much better atmosphere here :T

I finished something else last night.........

08072011247 by Observer!, on Flickr

for my friends birthday next week.

Edit: I made the colours up on this out of what I had and the design itself had a lot of gaps which I decided to fill with the white and the flesh and it looks WAY better than how they were supposed to look!

My next plan is to do a christmas card design I found thats on blue aida.

But now I really MUST get ready to go out - I did have 2 hours before I turned the laptop on.....after ordering from Ama#on and consulting this here page I now have 50 mins. oops lol.

Have a good weekend, well a good Sunday anyways, everyone :beer:

shelly

Evening ladies.

Observer. That cupcake card is lovely.....I love cake! We bought a treat last night from MrT's. Finest carrot cake was on offer and it was rude to leave it on the shelf :rotfl:

Today I chose my next kit to stitch. It's one of my favs out of my stash, it's of a tiger. Will post a pic of it on Monday but might start actually stitching tomorrow during F1. I have copied charts and sorted threads so I'm eager to get going!

*Louise*

Just a few small 'inspirational sayings' pics I've been keeping busy with this week:









*Note to self: Take pictures in daylight from now on!

23rdspiral

They're really lovely Louise, I especially like cherries and flowers.

Keiss_21

Lovely designs Louise, are you making them into coasters, cards or framing them?

Take care, and have a ((hug)) from me x.

blue_eyed_girl

They're really lovely designs Louise - sometimes a few words says much more. Still thinking of you all.

Take care

x

blue_eyed_girl

Bet your friend will love her cupcake Observer - it looks quite yummy

Observer

I too thought it looked yummy lol! It was also much bigger than I thought when I started it - not that thats a bad thing ha ha.

Louise I love those designs, really nice I can't pick a fav :T

ERICS_MUM

Louise, those designs are lovely, the shading behind the cherries etc is really effective.

Hope you are taking care of yourself - make sure you eat and sleep as well as you can.

Linda xx