Cross Stitch Cafe 2011 ..... part 2

flowerofscotland

Beautiful - this will look stunning when finished

augustsmummy

Hello,
Thank you for your birthday wishes.
DD had a fabulous day from start to finish. The party was a success, and my crafty bits went down rather well. I am totally worn out now lol.
The best thing is I managed to get Lottie framed on Friday night, so she was sat waiting with the other pressies for DD, who was thrilled to see it.

I have tried uploading pics of Lottie, but picture bucket has had a total hissy fit, so I will try again tomorrow. I am now off for a well deserved rest!
Night
AM x

augustsmummy

PS Louise - that is lovely, can't wait to see it finished

mrs-moneypenny

looks lovely louise
picked up a couple of stitchy bits at the carboot this morning, some sdia with gold threads running through, a book of motifs and two mag freebies - one was charts for christmas bookmarks and the other sharts for christmas cards on laminated card so you can cross them out with highlighter as you do them and then wipe it off to reuse. only £1.50 for the lot
got nearly all the border done on the needelcase alst night just the flower and the backstitch to do then putting it together
have a good stitchy day all

Judellie

Louise-that's looking lovely:j. Can't believe how quickly you finished the mermaid-you must have the quickest hands in the west:rotfl:
Well done augustsmummy on the party. I hope everyone appreciated how much work you put into it.:T

I've finished the 2 footie piccies for ds3


Untitled by Judith0909, on Flickr

Untitled by Judith0909, on Flickr

Now back to the backstitch on Tenby Harbour.:eek: Here's a close up of what I've done so far

Untitled by Judith0909, on Flickr
and here's whats left to do

Untitled by Judith0909, on Flickr
It's going to take ages to do and I'm really fed up with it already. I may do a page of backstitch and then reward myself by doing another chart in my stash. Must get back to it now or I'll never finish it. See you all later.

*Louise*

Judellie - loving those footie characters, they are really cute.

OMG at all that backstitch to do!!!:eek::eek: I don't envy you one little bit. I always backstitch as I go along, I would never get it finished otherwise It will look amazing when it's done though

augustsmummy

Hello,
I am returning with pics as promised .
Firstly Lottie finished and framed:


Then a few of the party crafty bits:

That is a little treat for the party bags, and contained a Cinderella slipper, a ring and a necklace with a shoe on it. Went down very well, especially with my nephew .


These are the bracelets I made on a Tinkerbell theme, which were in the party bags.


These were prizes for my Snow Whites challenge game, I made them using very shiney ruby red beads from ebay and silver plated apple charms also from Ebay.

My homemade game, the apples were stuck on with blue tac, so each child could pick an apple from the tree and do the challenge on the back. 2 of the apples were win a prize (being one of the apple bracelets).



Tinkerbell's shoe buns, took ages to do, but well worth it in the end.


And most importantly The cake:


And the Lolly Tree!

With 146 lollies :eek: on it. There are a lot fewer now! :rotfl: It went down very well, especially with the big kids! Everyone got a bowl of fairy dust (rainbow crystal sherburt) too.
Hope you don't mind me posting all these pics, I know a pp asked to see them. I haven't included all the crafty stuff I got up to, the banners and bookmarks didn't photograph very well, but everyone liked them.
I think most people realised how much work had gone in to everything, and loved all the little unique touches.
That said, next year might be a play gym affair, much less cleaning for me to do! lol.
Well, time for a well earned cuppa and 5 minutes with my new challenge, to stitch "On The Beach" before November!
Hope you're all having a lovely sunday,
AM x

23rdspiral

Ahh... coffee, cross stitch and CSI... Off we go...

augustsmummy

Is CSI not a little distracting? Or do you use your cross stitch to hide behind? :rotfl:
Enjoy your cuppa 23rd

*Louise*

AM - I think I speak for everyone when I say we certainly don't mind you posting your creations, what gorgeous stuff!!

LOVE the tinkerbell shoe cakes and the snow white bracelet, those are my faves but everything is lovely and sounds like your hard work was appreciated

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