Recent Cross-stitchery

Hello world, yes I've been kind of quiet lately on the blog front life has been pretty busy. I'm having surgery tomorrow (don't worry nothing major) which means I will be in recovery for a couple of weeks. I figure during that time I can catch up on some blog writing and reading.

But seen as I am well overdue on writing a post I thought I'd share some recent cross-stitchery.

First up it this wee cross stitch I made for our friends Laura & Andrew, they invited us to spend Christmas Eve with them and their son Sam so I  thought it would be nice to make them something for their house. They bought their house a few months after we bought our flat.

I thought they would like something that was simple with clear lines, so I went with this simple pattern from galaborn patterns on esty, you can buy the pattern here if you like it. Galaborn shared the final version of my cross stitch on their instagram page which was kind of awesome.

I really love the aida fabric I used for this project, its kind of natural looking whilst at the same time having glittery bits through it - I've still got enough left for one or maybe two projects so I'm sure you guys will see it again.

The next project was a birthday present for my sweet friend Jo we met through sewing but have other shared loves including everything kawaii and bunnies.

kawaii bunny pictures

Given our shared loves I decided I needed to make a cross stitch which included both - I ended up making Spring Day at Carrot Farm by Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery.

It's so kawaii! I  love it! I kind of didn't really stick to all the colours in the pattern and just made it up as I went along. I love the bunny so much.

Look at his cute little bunny face *squee*.

Well that's all for me now, wish me luck for tomorrow and I shall back more frequently over the next week or so!

Halloween Swap 2015!

Hello All and Happy Halloween!! I hope you all have some kind of creepy fun times planned today. I've going out to lunch with my lovely club friends in theme and then a few of us are heading to Tretham for the Pet Festival, apparently there is a costume competition for pets. I'm pretty excited about that.

Anyways I thought I'd share a post today of the things I received from Vany craft ninja for our Halloween swap this year.

Due to the cost of postage and well, LIFE being busy we decided to cut down our number of swap days from 13 days to a week. Still a week of Halloween is still a pretty great time!

DAY ONE

This is day one's package, which I was really puzzled by, I mean what could be in HERE! One big box and a bunch of pod shaped packages?

The big package was these Hello Kitty kinder surprises - Vany told me about these ages ago. I was so happy to have a box of my own.

But guess what was in all the pod shaped packages? A bunch more Kinder Surprise capsules, fulled with Hello Kitties.

This little dude was  also  in one of the capsules, he's a Natoons character.

This package was so much fun to open, who doesn't love a package made up of a heap of tiny packages.  Also so much Kitty - yah!

DAY TWO

Day two came in its very own box with three wrapped packages inside - two small ones  and one big one. What was in the smaller packages?

 Inside the first small package with this this cute Hello Kitty skeleton patch - I LOVE the wee bow.

The second little package was this ADORABLE My Melody ghost patch - its one of the cutest things ever. I love it.

What was in the big package? My favourite German chocolate - so delicious!

DAY THREE 

On day three I found a note from Vany that I had totally missed previously! This is our third year of swapping at Halloween times, hard to believe!

 Here's the package for day three - what's inside?

Something to reflect my love of lavender and visiting lavender farms! Some really beautiful soap! She also made these two cute scent sachets filled with lavender - skully bird and bunny.

DAY FOUR

 Day four was a day of craft supplies that included a DIY felt bird kit, very cool shark ruler, cross-stitch phone charm and creepy cute patch.

DAY FIVE

Day five was a cross-stitch day and included this awesome "What we do in the Shadows" cross-stitch.

DAY SIX

Day six was a day for all thing tea related! I received a box of tea, complete with a skeleton dressed as a bunny and a little plate for putting used tea bags on. I have a bunch of teas from Germany to try now!

DAY SEVEN

Vany has made me SO MANY amazing things over the year, but this was really next level. I don't know how she got so many things I love into one item (and also how she new my current bunny slippers were totally past it).

 That's right people, she made me zombie bunny slippers and in case you were wondering, the nose is a tiny skull.

The bottom of the slippers says "zombunny"  obviously! So amazing!

Well that's it for my Halloween swap package from Vany - pretty amazing right? I'm excited for next year already!