Mystery Animal SAL part 5

I've finaly been able to pick my needles back up and stitch the 5th part of this SAL. I had originaly already started this part back in november and done half of it, but when I started the bird, I noticed I had forgotten that there was an overlay of 3 stitches, big booboo! (and not good for my high blood-pressure, lol!) So after frogging it all, I didn't feel like stitching anymore at all! But after a few months (and new stash...), and my BP doing better (let's keep fingers crossed it stays that way!) I started this one again.

So here's part 5:

Curious about the stash I mentioned? Well... I bought this one I'm sure you can image for who this will be :-) I hope to start this one soon, but would like to have the animal SAL finished first.

I still also have 'Egypt' lying around, but the part I started seems wrong compared to the pic provided by Lanarte, it looks like 2 colors are switched, it's probably me who's wrong, but I asked Lanarte anyway, back in october already, they don't seem to find it necessary to answer :( It's a shame, this has been a really expensive kit, and this has diminished my trust in them (I mean, really, is it so hard to at least acknowledge my message?), but well, maybe I'm wrong for feeling that way (being overly emotional and all, lol)?

And to end the newyears-month, I want to thank everyone again for the cards I recieved, I had a nice display in my house with all the cards

Last post of the year

I hope everyone had a great Christmas. Mine was spent with the family, a little bit with sadness, as we had a funeral on the 24th (an uncle of mine).

Someone asked what was wrong with my fur-baby, she had an infection of the uterus. It was already that bad, that there was a little hole in it, and the infection had spread in her tummy. The vet wondered how we didn't notice before, but really one day she looked perfectly fine (still coming for cuddling, eating normaly, going outside when she needed, jumping in the sofa by herself) and the next day, she couldn't walk anymore. But she's all fine again, as you can see in piccie below :-)



Still no stitchy updates...

Wondering were the updates are? There won't be any very soon. Stitching has come to a complete stop, I just can't seem to do it, high blood pressure is making things difficult. But I've got meds now, so hopefully everything will get sorted out soon.

On the positive note, my little fur-baby has made a great recovery! She was really shaking when she had to go back to the vet to removed the stitches out of her tummy, and she was really weak for about a week, but now she's back playing with her toys (and that at almost 13 years old!) I'll try to get a pic of my little one up next time.

Fur-babies

Last thursday we had quite a scare, my little 12 year old fur-baby suddenly didn't seem to respond to anything anymore. So she was rushed to the vet. He operated on her the same evening, she almost stayed in the sedation, but my tough little girl pulled through. Recovery is taking a while of coursse, but she's definately doing better. Here's to hoping here recovery continues and she can stay with me for a couple more years.

Birthday Stash

So, today is my 29th birthday, and yes I got new stash from my family! I recieved the Lanarte kits Day and Night by designer Maria Van Scharrenburg. These have been on my wish list for a long time. So I'm a happy girl :-)

The Egyptian Empire

Well, being confined to bed is no fun! And of course, stitching is quite impossible as well. But, I did get some stitching done before my enforced bedrest, and my mother took a piccie of it for me :-)

I was working on lanarte kit The Egyptian Empire by Maria Van Scharrenburg. I did a look of work on Toetanchamon. This Farao demands lots of work, because there are tons of backstitches in it, and most of those backstitches are in DMC gold metallic, and that's not always fun to work with.

So let me know what you think of it so far.



and now it's back to bed for me...

Mystery Animal SAL part 4/10

It's been a while since I've updated, oops!

It's not because I haven't been stitching though :-) I've been working on the mystery SAL, this time with a print-out. It seemed my printer was hungry for more ink, silly printer not telling me such a small detail! So after feeding the printer, I got a very nice print out of it. That did help a lot to get the stitching done faster. And this is the result...



I've also been practising my culinary skills, by making a vegetable quiche and a clafoutis for dessert for a dinner party, but well that hasn't got anything to do with the subject :-)

Anyway, can I also interest anyone in an update on the Great Empire of Egypt?

And a stupid question, what do I have to do to get a notification when someone leaves a comment on my blog?