Stitchy weekend

Well, it's rained so muich this week that even though it's been sunny this weekend we can't get out in the garden - the lawn is so waterlogged that we'd trash it if we started weeding, and it's still to wet to cut the grass. I really dislike clay soils... So we decided to have a lazy weekend - so spent yesterday watching DVD's, cooking, and of course I did lots of stitching. I've even got back into Benjamin Bunny, and made lots of prrogress, just 2 more bunnies and a hanky to go, then I'll be onto the BS. I wn't share a pic now, because a) hopefully I'll get lots done today and will share one later and b) I've not taken a photo yet :)

Ruth, just for you, here's a pic of the lunch/tea (I didn't post it before as I had too many photos to upload)


I tried to upload some more holiday pics, but Blogger isn't my friend today....

Did I mention my holiday stash purchases? I found a craft shop that was having a clearnace sale on xs supplies, it was moving in the knitting direction. While this general trend towards knitting really vexes me, I did get some bargains: a Art Nouveau florals chart by DMC, 2 hardanger booklets, TW's Chestnut rocking Horse (all for £1 each - bargain!!) and TW's In a Garden kit for £5. But best of all were the beads. On a shelf there was a basket full of beads, mostly Mill Hill, but some other brands too, with a label '4 for £1'. So I thought, hmm, good opportunity to get a good lot of stash for very little money, and started to rummage. Ed came over to help, and we decided to dig out 1 pack of each Mill Hill seed bead, which meant sorting through the basket. This took a LOT longer than expected, as the basket was almost TARDIS-like in proportions, but Ed vaiantly helped by checking I'd not picjked out any duplicates (it was raining heavily so this was a cunning way of staying dry too). So, when I counted up the non-duplicates there were 88 packes. I thought about going through them again but rationalised that a) they were a bargain 2) maybe the shop keeper thought I was bonkers c) Ed was probably quite bored by now and d) I@d only paid for 2 hours parking, I bought the lot. I've not had change to catalogue and sort them yet though...