Giveaway win, World Book Night and Cotswold Farm Park

Hope you've all enjoyed your weekend it's been glorious here. we've been out and about this weekend to visit family and spend sometime together as it's been the bank holiday.

I was very lucky to have a giveaway win from Carolyns blog taking one stitch at a time last month and I won this pretty chart for a humbug and it comes with a very pretty pin to put in it. It's just my cup of tea as it will fit in lovely in my biscornu bowl.

Another lovely bit of post I had last week was a World Book Night copy of the Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry fron Joan. We are reading it as part of the 50 books challenge, although I'm desperately trying to get through my current book so I can start it along with the other group members. It has a lovely inscription inside too.

We celebrated both childrens birthdays last week and as their birthdays we visited the Cotswold Farm Park. It's a lovely day out if anyone watches BBC's Countryfile - it's Adam Hensons farm. (last time we went he was in the cafe!) So here are a few pictures of the Rare breeds that live there.

We had a fabulous time, we got to  feed goats and lambs with bottles and feed other animals in the park with the feed. We had a tractor ride and went on the bouncy pillows and did the small maze. We had a great day and I'd thoroughly recomend it to anyone with children.

Well my next post will show you my picks from the amazing travelling box!!

Christmas Presents

Hello and Happy Boxing Day as DS said to his Nanny this afternoon. I thought I'd quickly show you a couple of presents I made and also received from my wonderful stitchy/blogger friends Laura and Steph.

I was a very lucky girl to receive this fabulous parcel from Laura. It was filled with lovely Christmas decs and also chocs, stickers and Christmas confetti

I love the little crochetted stocking and the mittens are so sweet with lovely embroidery on them. The cat cushion is simular to one I had from the Christmas Travelling Box so it's nice to have a pair on my tree.

So I sent Laura a parcel too and in it was this lot...

I made Laura and her Hubby mini stockings with their initals on, filled with chocs - after all it is a major food group at Christmas, a Humbug decoration from Kincavel Krosses,  Snowflake feltie, a bag of ribbon, buttons etc, Christmas Socks. A necklace I got from the our local Victorian Fayre and a little glass pig from the Frankfurt Market.

I also made this little beaded candle decoration for Laura's Mum, I copied the design from one my Penpal Sarah-Jane sent me this week. I also made the stitched bird feltie to match the square ones Laura had from the travelling box.

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I also sent Steph a filled stocking too with a bag of bits and bobs and a mini humbug decoration

I got this gorgeous Kokeshi doll from Steph, Isn't she cute! She's crochetted in two of my favourite colours too, with little seed beads in the flowers and in the hair.

I hope you all have had a wonderful Christmas day and are not suffering from the overindulgance of Christmas pud. A quick hello to my new followers too. One more and I have to have a giveaway as My 101/1001 target was 20 new followers and I'm almost there!!!!! If I'm not back before, have a very Happy New Year.

bah humbug!

Well not quite Bah Humbug but I did finish a gorgeous humbug design last night for the ornament exchange on Bubble. The design is one I've wanted to stitch since I saw it at the beginning of the year. It's my first attemp at a humbug, but like the biscornu, very addictive. The design is one of 7 different humbug designs (including Bah!) on the Kincavel Krosses site and is called Holly Jolly.

So here it is before I sewed it up. It was stitched on 14ct gold/cream lurex aida with DMC threads 700 (green) and 666 (red) and finished off with pearl seed beads and Mill Hill antique glass beads 03048 (lustred red).

So here come the pictures from all sides.

I'm completly in love with this design and I hope my exchange partner does too. Just to add to the mountain of christmas stitching I already have to do, I would love to stitch a few of these for my tree too.

Well thats all folks for today, bit of backstitch and a biscornu awaits me tonight. Hope you're having a good day. x