Happy New Year!

A Very Happy New Year to All My Followers.

I thought I would share with you the Christmas gifts I sent to my friend Mary Grace in Malta.  I sent her some Hobbycraft kits to stitch and she has already stitched them!   She has also reminded me that I did not share with you the Christmas Card I stitched for her in 2010.  So here they are:

Joan Elliot Design - Christmas Card 2010.

Hobbycraft Kits.

Hobbycraft Kits.

What's new in 2012?  

• Well, I have got a new picture on the top of my blog, called "Kiss Me" which is designed by Margaret Sherry. 
• I have also joined a new blog group called "UFO/WIP Stitch-a-Long for MSCSG Group".  So I will be stitching lots of my "Un-Finished Objects" and  showing you my "Work In Progress". 
• I've also decided to start stitching for Christmas.  I was rather late starting last year and did not stitch as much as I wanted to.  

Until Next Time, Happy Stitching Everyone

Merry Christmas Everybody!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all my followers and friends.  I also want to welcome all my new followers to my blog.  I'm always amazed when I see more followers, so thank you for joining me.

The first thing I want to share with you is the Christmas Card I sent to my friend Mary Grace in Malta.  

It's called "Away in a Manger" and is by Derwentwater Designs.

Away in a Manger by Derwentwater Designs.

Words to "Away in a Manger"

I pasted the words of the carol inside the Christmas Card.

Next is an Angel that I stitched for my daughter in 2000.  It comes from the magazine
"Jill Oxton's Cross Stitch Australia".

My daughter has asked me to make the Meerkats again, but as a Christmas Tree decoration.  I have just finished stitching it.  I have also added a snowflake to the back.  Here is what it looks like.

Front - Meerkats.

Back - Snowflake

Before you go, do have a look on my sidebar to see all the wonderful "Giveaways" that are on.  There is still time to enter the Christmas Eve draws.  You never know you might be lucky and win something.

Well, I think that's all from me!   So, until next time Happy Stitching Everyone.

Christmas Stitching and Snow!!

Here is the finished "Forever Friends" Christmas Card I stitched for my daughter.  I had some difficulty finding a card with a large enough aperture.  So I had to cut the one I had.  There was a couple of cuts showing, so I used stick on ribbon to hid it.  I think it turned out not too bad.  Anyway she loved it.

Forever Friends - from Cross Stitch Crazy issue 157.

I found some lovely Blackwork Angels by Prairie Schooler and just had to stitch them.  

And here are two that I have stitched so far.

 

 

Blackwork Angels by Prairie Schooler

I've made them into Christmas Tree Ornaments for my friend Janet who loves Angels.

- ooOoo -

Look what I woke up to this morning!!  Snow!

As a child I always wished for snow on my birthday, but it did not happen many times.  

But the snow today did not last very long, so  I was able to go out and do some Christmas Shopping.

Not long now until Christmas!  Are you ready!!

Until next time, Happy Stitching.