The Tea Party

 The second party for my Party book has now been completed… a Tea Party. Rosie invited her friends to a tea party and told them it would  have a pink them, she planned to wear her favourite dress.

And they came wearing pink dresses

 

There were pink Teacup party hats for everyone 

And party games included Tic tac toe which Poppy won the most games.

And everyone enjoyed the afternoon tea with a special cake for the occasion that Rosie had prepared

And she had goodie bags and balloons to thank her guests for coming.

Everyone enjoyed the tea party.

A little stitching

 Fiona, Diane and I stitch together on Wednesday mornings, we are currently working on etui the ones Fiona and I are stitching are for our granddaughters  while Diane plans hers as a gift to a friend. We are using the layout of the Robin etui I stitched some years 

My “Robin from the secret garden”  etui.

Fiona has three granddaughters, and is planning to stitch an etui for each of them here is the progress on her first two.

The theme for this one is  Strawberries  and the next one is ladybirds. Her third one is just started so will share it later.

Diane has a cat theme for her etui

I will share mine one when I do the next update as I have yet to get photos. 

Something different

 Jan has asked me to do a photo story book for Ronan’s birthday, we decided to make it the story of some bears who live in a tree house in the forest, she was able to bring plenty of items  for props.

Yesterday I completed a story about the bears going to the beach which will form one chapter in the book.

Setting out car, caravan and boat, off to the beach where Father Bear and Benny Bear will go fishing.

 

I’m pleased how this set of photos for the story worked out

Happy Easter

 It’s been good to be able to move round with just one crutch, allows me to do more, so yesterday with Finn’s help we set up background and dolls for some Easter photos,  I decided to use chickens and some tiny Easter eggs.

After I had finished Finn added bunnies and birds to the display for his version of the photo.

I am enjoying the calendar I made for this year with the dolls photo, and planning to do the same next year, being able to plan ahead means I can take photos specially for each month, rather late to post but this week I finally managed to take the photo for March, had chosen St Patrick’s day as the theme.

Now I plan to get back to the party theme and pink dresses are needed for the next one so time to get busy with needle and thread.

A little gift

 It’s good to be back stitching again, yes needle and thread does make my day complete. 

I’ve just finished a small gift for a special friends birthday this week, we both share the love of fine linen and count thread work,  The scissor fob was stitched on 40 count Permin linen using DMC perle 12 thread, plus a little gold thread to highlight the design.