tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-109859612011-08-19T12:01:03.029+01:00Ramblings of a stitch and stash addict.Jacquihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17443628340258643476noreply@blogger.comBlogger5351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10985961.post-76381293882917123852010-01-04T21:13:00.001Z2010-01-04T21:13:45.425Z

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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We started to 'bud' in our blouses at 9 or 10 years old only to find that anything that came in contact with those tender blooming buds hurt so bad it brought us to tears. So came the ridiculously uncomfortable training bra contraption that the boys in school would snap until we had calluses on our backs.Next, we get our periods in our early to mid-teens (or sooner). Along with those budding

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You might not have known this, but a lot of non-living objects are actually either male or female. Here are some examples:FREEZER BAGS: They are male, because they hold everything in, but you can see right through them.PHOTOCOPIERS: These are female, because once turned off, it takes a while to warm them up again. They are an effective reproductive device if the right buttons are pushed, but can

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Avoid cutting yourself when slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold them while you chop.Avoid arguments with the Mrs about lifting the toilet seat by using the sink.For high blood pressure sufferers: simply cut yourself and bleed for a few minutes, thus reducing the pressure in your veins. Remember to use a timer.A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from

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The difference...Men are just happier people. What do you expect from such simple creatures?Your last name stays put.The garage is all yours.Wedding plans take care of themselves.Chocolate is just another snack.You can never be pregnant.You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park.You can wear NO T-shirt to a water park.Car mechanics tell you the truth.The world is your urinal.You never have to

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Taken from the Sentenella #62 Axarquia EditionRecently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D - Age Activated Attention Deficit disorder. This is how it manifests:I decide to water my garden. As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide it needs washing.As I walk towards the garage, I notice post on the porch table that I brought up from the postbox earlier...I decide to go

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While we were in Spain we had access to this great little booklet called The Sentinella, which is full of jokes and stories, and is hilarious. I'm going to share some of the entries with you.Taken from The Sentinella #62 - Axarquia EditionHALF OF BRITS INJURED BY BISCUITSMore than half of all Britons have been injured by biscuits, accoring to a new survey.An estimated 25 million adults have been

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After we left Nuneaton in the evening after the meet-up, we drove down to Folkestone to get the train through the tunnel to Calais. Keely was as good as gold all the way to Spain, as you can see from the photo below. Driving towards the Sierra Leone mountain rangeThe photo below was taken about an hour after we arrived at Cafe Bar Nautico, the bar that Craig's cousin Marion runs with her partner

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On Craig's birthday, 2nd October, we drove down to Nuneaton for another stitching meet-up. It was after 11pm by the time we got to the Travelodge (it was so well advertised and the bloody postcode was wrong on the web site!) and all three of us were absolutely knackered - Keely came too - but our first stop was the room next door to ours to visit with Kathy and the twins. We had a birthday

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I haven't done much stitching lately so nothing to show and tell about on that front. Had a great holiday in Spain, visiting Craig's cousin and her partner. Keely came too and she had a wicked time. I'll post some photos soon, I promise. In the meantime, here's a joke. Sorry if it offend you, you could always not read it, but it IS funny. LOL. A lonely widow, aged 70, decided it was time to

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Last Wednesday it was Keely's 1st birthday. To be honest, it doesn't seem like a year since I was in the hospital with a petrified Kate, waiting for the baby to make an appearance. I think she was a bit bemused with all the attention she was getting. She got some lovely pressies including this pushalong thing with an activity centre on it, and the ride-along in the photo below this one, that

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...just in case anyone was wondering! I haven't really felt much like blogging for a couple of months (or is it more?) but thought it was time I got back into it.I've been busy stitching the last few weeks, here's some pics of what I've been working on. The first one is by The Drawn Thread and is called erm...Sampler of Stitches. This is part 1 almost finished. It has been finished since this

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I finished stitching these baby feet today. The chart was in a cross stitch magazine and I thought it would be perfect for Keely. I'm eventually going to make it into a quilt square and then into a quilt for her, but I need lots more things stitched first. I've had a fairly quiet weekend. Kate and Keely are in Hull visiting Steven and his family (Kate's Dad) so I've been able to get on and

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Last night I dragged Craig along to my High School reunion, which was at the Three Mile pub in Gosforth. There weren't that many of us there, just five from my year group (Susan Hunter, Michelle Spence, Michelle McFadden, Deborah Marcus and me) and one from a couple of years above us - Barbara (I can't remember what Susan said her surname used to be). The pub was heaving, mostly all

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WOOHOO! It's finally finished, last years Ozark Sampler SAL. Sorry this isn't the best photo in the world, some of the colours are a bit insipid, whereas they're not IRL. I put the last few stitches into it this morning. No idea what I'm going to do with it, so it'll go in the finished drawer for a while till I decide. I took Keely to visit my parents this afternoon. While I was there I

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I've been trying to embed a video clip into my Blog, but not having much luck. I did have it on here, but then when I tried adding text the video didn't work, so I'm going to do the writing first then add the clip in a separate post. I suddenly remembered this afternoon that I can take video clips on my digital camera, so I tried it out on Keely this afternoon. She was doing her crawl - we're

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http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v499/cushie1966/Family/?action=view&current=P5200467.flv

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Keely cut her first tooth today. Those of you who are lucky enough to be in my mobile phone book will already know this. LOL. Dunno if it came through over night, or this morning, but I was the one to find it...when she let me put a finger in her mouth. It seems to have been fairly pain free, no more whinging than usual anyway. Not that she whinges that much. Wonder if that was why she was

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I've been working on last year's Ozark Sampler SAL this week, to try and get it finished before I start the next photo chart. Oh, I found out the names of the children. The little boy is Harry, and his sister is Olivia. I don't have a photo of the SAL yet, I want to wait till it's finished, sometime over this weekend with any luck, but I do have a couple of new photos of Keely. In the first one

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...Jaffa Cakes?

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...Still got one to do. This is the first one though. I put the last stitches into it at tea time today. Will have a couple of days break before I start gridding the next one then get stuck into it. Took this photo of Kate with Keely the other day. Don't often get Kate on photos so thought I'd make the most of this one. Keely will be 8 months old on Saturday, doesn't seem two minutes since

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Just had to share this photo with you. Dene came over last night. Can't remember WHY he came but he did. Anyway, while he was here I got him to put his crash helmet on Keely to see what she would do. She thought it was hilarious so there was a mad dash to get the camera and Kate took a photo with her phone. I would have taken one of her smiling but the batteries went dead and no-one could be

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But first a photo of Keely. Kate was down in Nottingham recently for Laura's 21st birthday. She came back with this Tigger door bouncer for Keely from Laura. Keely loves it and screeches her head off with laughing every time she's in it. I've just finished page 5 of the first photochart that I'm doing. Instead of going on to page 6 next I think I'm going to do page 7 and work along the top

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Hi folks, sorry I haven't posted in a while but to be honest I've not had much to say. We had a busy Easter weekend moving all my office and craft stuff from the back bedroom into the spare front one...well Craig and Kate moved things, I just supervised and bollocked them when they got things wrong. LOL. The back bedroom is now the spare room and the front bedroom - which was Ainsley's room -

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Hi everyone. I got Craig to draw names out of a hat this morning and the winners are....drum roll please...LYNN (Lindylou)URSHRACHAEL (Broken Fairy)Well done ladies. You should all receive something handmade by me within the next 365 days. Once I have your addresses that is. Rachael I think I may have yours but please send me it anyway just in case. Cheers!

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I had a great weekend in Nuneaton. I picked Jayne up just before 12.30pm on the Friday afternoon and drove down to Nuneaton with Keely. The baby slept virtually all the way there, apart from about the last 20 mins or so, when she decided she was famished and wanted to let everyone know that she was famished. LOL. Jayne was staying at Ursh's so I dropped her off there and we emptied the car. Ursh

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Evening all! Remember those LK Flipits that I finished last Thursday? Well I started the Double Flipits more or less straightaway on Thursday evening and I finished them last night, including the charms! It's not a brill photo but you get the general idea. And then I had to start something new, so I raided my holiday stash from when Craig and I went to Chester and chose this little LHN design

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I won a PIF by Tammy on A Crafty Natty. As part of the deal I now have to Pay It Forward to someone else. If you would like to be considered as a recipient then please leave a comment below, and at the end of March I will draw five names - or three depending on how many people leave comments - out of the hat. Those winners will then receive something made by me in the next 365 days. Good luck

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I never seem to have time these days to keep up with the blogging, mainly I suppose because that since my office/craft room has been moved upstairs I don't spend as much time at the laptop. I can't decide if that's a good thing or a bad thing. LOL. I do however have a finish to show you, almost two finishes in fact. This first one is the LK Flipits from 2007. I started them a couple of weeks ago

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We've had a busy day today. This morning we went to Knowsley Safari Park which is over by Liverpool. We went round a couple of times to make sure we saw the animals we missed the first time round. There was a lot of empty space, and in my opinion it's not as good as West Midlands Safari Park, but it was a day out and we enjoyed it, although the weather wasn't crash hot.After leaving the safari

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It was Lynn who told me all about the Nimble Thimble, so it stands to reason it's her fault that I am now skint! LOL. Love ya really Lynn, what a great shop. Will definitely have to come back down here so I can have another visit.

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I fell off the stash wagon today and it bloody hurt. I didn't realise it was so high. LOL. More about that later.We've had a great day today. I was greeted with a dozen red roses when we went downstairs for breakfast this morning. It was a lovely surprise, but it means that Craig is sneakier than I thought he was. He arranged all this last week over the phone. But hey, I MADE IT TO SEVEN YEARS

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After a delicious breakfast in the B&B this morning we tootled into Chester to have a look round the shops. I bought Craig a new watch, it's not copper but it's something he needed and what he asked for, so that's what he got. He hasn't bought me anything yet. We then went to find Evans as Craig was going to buy me a couple of new pairs of trousers. We eventually found the shop but they didn't

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This was taken about halfway down the M62 at some service station we stopped at to get water cos the windscreen was manky. Didn't have batteries for the camera till we got to here and there wasn't much snow about by this time. Wish I'd had batteries earlier, snow was much worse further north. Ah well....

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I've never mentioned this lately - at one point when Ainsley was being a pain I was refusing to come away at all! - but this weekend is our wedding anniversary. We were married 7 years ago on Valentine's Day in Nottingham Register Office. Seven years is something of an achievement for me as I've never actually made it to seven before. So we decided to do something special, and have come to

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Hi folks!No photos I'm afraid for today's post, unless you go to www.smokingneedles.co.uk and have a look at all the new thread sacks that I made over the weekend. There are also some new needlecases on there. So yes, you guessed right, I was busy making thread sacks at the weekend. Last night I also started a patchwork project that I'm doing for an exchange on A Crafty Natter. I'm doing the

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I know I haven't posted anything on here for a couple of weeks, but I've had nothing to post about, apart from the stupid things that Ainsley gets up to, but I don't want to bore you with her. LOL. I do have a couple of finishes to share with you though. The first one I finished on Sunday and is a traditional sampler that I found in a Cross Stitcher magazine. I didn't have all of the colours it

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I finished this yesterday, it's called Somebunny To Love and the chart was in an issue of WOCS. One of the feet went a bit wrong but it doesn't look too bad. I hope.

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Told ya I'd have this finished today. LOL. I don't normally do stuff like Popcorn or Tatty Ted cos there's far too much backstitching to do on them, but seeing as this was just little I broke my own rule. Keely's getting very clever, she can sit up all by herself now (with a few wobbles) and she can roll from front to back, and has been for a while apparently, but I only saw her for the

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HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! Did you all have a good C'mas? We sure did. I got lots of nice pressies, lunch was scrumptious made by the multi-talented Craig, and no one fell out with anyone else. Perfect! LOL. Keely was a bit bemused by the whole thing but she was very good all day. This is her trying out one of her new toys. There are things that go over the top but I took the photo before

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On the 18th day of Advent, my gift from Rachael was this gorgeous fluffy scarf, being modelled here by the devil child...I mean Keely. On the 19th day of Advent I opened this box containing lots of cotton buds, cotton pads and balls, very useful for the females of the house, even the two that don't actually live here!And today's present was a fluffy pair of gloves to match the fluffy scarf. I

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Yesterday I opened a lovely little lavender bag kit, which will definitely be used. And today I received a pack of John James petite needles, which are my favourites, and a Star De-tailor, which is useful for pulling those pesky thread ends through. Thanks Rachael, I love 'em. When Keely was at the clinic on Monday to be weighed (she was 12lbs 6ozs!), the health visitor advised Kate to start

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On the 13th day of advent I opened a piece of off-white evenweave material, always useful. On day 14 it was a pair of fluffy socks, they're ever so soft. And today was a pack of playing cards in a useful case. Whenever we go away we take a pack of cards with us so these will end up being well travelled. LOL. Thank you Rachael for more great gifts. Not long now till the biggie!

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Keely was getting ready for her party at Mother & Baby group today while we were visiting my parents. Here she is doing her impression of Superbaby! I wonder if the pants over the tights will ever catch on! And here she is all ready for her party, which apparently she mostly slept through! The outfit will get another airing on C'mas Day then put away in her memory box as it won't fit her next

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I think I'm going to have to try and find my backup digital camera so that I can take photos upstairs of my gifts without having to remember to take the small camera upstairs all the time. LOL. Anyway, here are the last three days pressies, including today. Day 10 was this pack of 8 book rings, extremely handy for keeping bobbins on while working on projects.Day 11 was a very cute tray with

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This morning I opened a packet of yummy Strawberry Flavour Nougat. Being diabetic I'm probably not allowed to have this, but hey, you only live once right? I'll take some over to Mam's later when I go, she can share the sugar....she's diabetic too. And I might let Craig have some, we might as well ALL have high blood sugar. PMSL. Thanks Rachael, another lovely gift.

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I didn't get round to posting yesterday so you're getting a double dose of advent pics today. Yesterday's gift from Rachael was a packet of material squares, all C'mas designs, so they'll come in handy for backing ornaments or C'mas pinkeeps in 2009. And today I opened this groovy set of storage tins from Ikea. I haven't decided what to put in them yet but I'm sure I'll think of something. Thank

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Today I opened a really pretty ornament. At the minute it's hanging on my message board thing but it may make it downstairs if I remember one of these days. I've had a really quiet day today. As usual we had Keely last night (and tonight) and today when Kate and Ainsley came round they got her ready then went down into Blyth to have a look round the shops. Dene came round for his tea before

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My gift from Rachael today was a pair of bellpull ends. I think I may have something to put on these, though I have no idea how to attach them without making a complete bollocks of it...which is what would happen. I'll figure something out. And seeing as I posted a photo of my Dad with Keely yesterday, I thought I'd better add one of Keely with my Mam. Just so she doesn't feel left out cos I

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Just look at that cheeky face...and Keely's! She has her Great Granda wrapped round her little finger, and always has a huge smile for him whenever she sees him. When she's lying on the floor he gets down there with her, gets her to do her exercises and tickles her. She laughs her head off, it's really funny.

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Any regular reader of my blog will know that last year on the Tranquil Stitches message board I took part in their Advent Exchange and got lots of pressies from my partner. As I enjoyed it so much last year I decided to take part again this year. I had to buy for Kathy (and she got her parcels back in August when Craig and I were down in Bristol for the weekend) and I received a big box of

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Seems like ages since I last posted on here and people have been nagging me, so I thought I'd better do something about it. First off we had Keely's christening on 16th November. The service was at 9.30am and I'll have you know it was flipping freezing in that church. Luckily the church is only a five minute walk from our house, you can see it from our sitting room window, so at least we didn't

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We've finally started decorating the sitting room, ready for the christening on 16th November. The walls were stripped at the end of last week, and Craig spent his spare time over the weekend plastering the walls where the dado rail was removed and last night he glossed the woodwork. Today we went to the shop first thing this morning and bought the new wallpaper and my Dad came over to make a

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Kate took Keely to the clinic this morning to get weighed. She was TEN POUNDS, FIVE OUNCES!!! What a little guzzler. That's only 5 ounces lighter than 5 bags of sugar. I suppose the bottle of rice and milk she has last thing at night is helping. LOL.We had a great holiday in Skegness last week. The caravan was clean and on a nice site. Not too far from the town centre and the beach. The weather

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All of these have been finished in the last couple of days. They will all be made into needlecases, but possibly not till I get back from my holiday now, as I won't have time tomorrow to do them.We're off to Skegness on Saturday. Well...technically speaking we're not, we're off to Derbyshire on Saturday, to the Crafty Natter MB get-together. Then we're going to Skeggy on Monday, staying in a

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I've had a couple of finishes over the last couple of days. There's another one as well, but I forgot to take a photo of it so it'll have to wait till next time. I've done this first one a few times, in different colours. It needs buttons sewn on and then it'll be made into a needlecase. It's a design called Buttons & Lace by The Calico Cat. This next one is by Blue Ribbon Designs and I think

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I've finished these over the last few days. They're both going to be made up into needlecases for my shop site.

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The money in my PayPal account was burning a hole, so I decided to explore the sites in my favourites and spend some of it on fabric for my patchwork and finishing projects etc. This second lot is what I bought from eBay, a selection of Laura Ashley fabrics, which I love.And finally, I can't let too many days go by without the obligatory baby photo. I took this earlier today when she was

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Hmmm...I was going to put some photos up from my holiday last week in Great Yarmouth, but they're not where I thought I'd saved them so I'm going to have to hunt for them...later. LOL. Today I started work, after a gap of almost 7 years! It's not a job as such, it's a work placement, arranged for me by the Shaw Trust who try to get disabled people back into work. I'm doing administration work

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Craig and I took Ian to the Hilton Hotel in Gateshead at lunch time so he could do his charity abseil. Only took him about 10 mins from getting there to getting down. LOL. I managed to get a couple of photos but they're not very good ones.

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But I don't know how, she's all scrunched up and doesn't look at all comfortable. However, she's been asleep like this for the last 2-3 hours, the longest Kate's held her in one go, so she must be. Doesn't she look cute?

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"Hmmm...this is the woman who puts her teeth in the washing machine by mistake...am I really related to her? LOL." "And this is my Great Granda...sun's in my eyes Gt Granda!"We've had a busy day today. First of all Kate, Keely and I went down to the shops in Blyth. By the time we got there Keely decided she was hungry, so her and Kate stayed in the car so she could have a bottle. I went to

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AAAARRRGGGHHH!!! There's that bloody woman with the flashy thing again! Lovely and comfy here, nice soft pillows. My cousin Michelle's son, Jordan. He's been itching to hold Keely since he saw her on Tuesday.My first bath....splish splash. Where's my little ducky?Well some of them are from yesterday but I forget which ones...oh, the ones with the striped sleepsuit. LOL. Kate is looking a lot

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Kate rang me a short while ago, she's being discharged today. She was just waiting for the nurse to come and do her blood pressure, temperature and check her wound, then she'll be discharged. She reckons about lunch time. I've got some clothes ready for Kate, just need to go round to her house and pick up a couple of things for Keely, then I'll go up and get them. The car seat is in the car

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I took my Dad in to see Kate and Keely this afternoon. I couldn't get in the car park I normally park in (supposedly for patients) so I had to park in the main car park and PAY for the privilege, then had a 3 mile walk to get to the main entrance. I was knackered by the time we got to the ward - almost turfed Kate out of her bed so I could have a lie down. LOL. Kate looked much better today,

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Yes I know, you're all going to be bored rigid with all these baby photos, but I don't really care, it's MY blog and I'll do what I want...so there! Here's Kate wearing her sexy socks. She's still hooked up to the drip at the moment, thankfully not the one who impregnated her (sorry couldn't resist that one!) but I expect it'll be taken out tomorrow, along with the catheter. Kate with Keely

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...KEELY ALICE METCALFE. Kate was in labour most of yesterday and finally let us ring the hospital at about 6.30pm. We rang the hospital and then for an ambulance, and arrived at the hospital at just before 7pm. Kate spent most of the next few hours away with the fairies with the gas and air - lovely stuff - and had a shot of pethedine too to help with the pain. At midnight, she was examined and

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Although the baby still isn't making an appearance, she's making her presence felt. Kate woke up in the early hours of yesterday morning with a wet bed and jammie bottoms, so she got up and changed them and went back to bed. Next time she got up they were wet again. She was having pains every 5 mins throughout the day, lasting for approx 13-15 seconds. And she hadn't felt the baby move all

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Kate is still hanging on to her bump. She's six days overdue now and she's really fed up. I bet you she has to be induced next week. She's tried caster oil and wasn't impressed. Tonight is curry night! Will probably have the same effect as the caster oil...LOL. I wish she would hurry up.We've had Ainsley's social worker here the last couple of days. She had to ask lots of questions of

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MEGA SALEon my shop site...follow the link on the right. Many things are half price or less. Pefect for those exchanges and Christmas pressies...it's sneaking up on us, only about 125 shopping days to go!

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Today was D-Day...the day the baby was due. Needless to say it's going to be a stubborn little bugger like it's mother. Kate had a midwife appointment this morning at 9am, everything is still fine. Hilary did a membrane sweep (basically - for the unsqueamish - it's an internal where the midwife separates the membranes at the neck of the cervix). She said the head is well down in the pelvis

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Defense Attorney: Will you please state your age?Little Old Lady: I am 86 years old.Defense Attorney: Will you tell us, in your own words, what happened the night of April 1st?Little Old Lady: There I was, sitting there in my swing on my front porch on a warm spring evening,when a young man comes creeping up on the porch and sat down beside me.Defense Attorney: Did you know him?Little Old Lady:

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Kate came round after 9am yesterday for me to take her to her midwife appointment down at the health centre. She wasn't happy as she'd spent ages trying to get into the trousers or jeans that she's been wearing all the time. She'd had to resort to a pair of trackie bottoms, with elasticated waist. PMSL. She's got all the way to 39 weeks in her jeans and normal trousers, and is now gutted that

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We took Ainsley back to Leicester yesterday, in time for a case conference with the social services (she's been in foster care for the last 8 or 9 months), and after a two hour meeting it was decided that she could come back to live with us. The SS have to do background checks on me and Craig, CRB checks, and the social worker needs to come and do a couple of assessments on us - YIKES! I have

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Seeing as I had the camera out I took some sneaky shots. The first one is Craig and Kate after a couple of hours decorating. Don't often get a photo of Kate smiling properly. And this is Ainsley. She's my 14 yr old step-daughter and has been staying here for a couple of weeks. She goes back to Leicester on Monday.

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The kids are finally moved into their new homes. We spent the weekend laying carpets, putting up curtain rails and curtains and moving Dene and his belongings into his new apartment. He was all in by Sunday night. There are still a few things upstairs that belong to him but they can be boxed up and taken over in the car at some point.On Monday, Dad and Craig finished papering Kate's room and got

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Kate had a midwife appointment this afternoon, just after lunch. So we trundled along there and for a change saw the midwife that has been allocated to her. She's usually either on the sick or on holiday. Anyway, she had the usual checks for blood pressure, urine, measurements and heart beat. Then the midwife was having a feel of Kate's tummy to see where the head is, and couldn't decide if

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My ex-step-nephew turned up this afternoon with his friend Michelle and her 15 month old daughter Molly. Michelle brought a load of baby clothes with her for Kate so we spent a good half an hour going through them all and saying how cute they are. LOL. We're sad, it's official.

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Here's some pics for you to choose from. I don't have as many white tiger charts as I thought I did.

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This is going to be my next new start. I'm sorting out my thread boxes at the moment, then hopefully tomorrow I'll grid the material, 28 count evenweave, and make a start. It's a big one this one, not just a quickstitch, so will probably take me a hell of a lot longer to do.

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Yahoo!!! It's finished. I'm rather pleased with myself, and to celebrate I'm going to start another HAED after tea. This tiger is for my ex DH Mick for C'mas. Thanks for looking, and please feel free to leave comments, they're always appreciated.

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I got Kate to take some photos of her house yesterday while we were there. The first photo is of the sitting room. There's a gas fire behind that sofa, and the door in the corner is an under-stairs cupboard which is quite roomy and contains the electric meter. The two-seater sofa and matching armchair she got for nothing from Freecycle.Next up is the bathroom, which is downstairs. It's

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Here's the 35 week bump photo. As you can see she finally has some corker stretch marks (YES! There is a god!) which she isn't too happy about. Told her she could get loads more before the baby is born. I love to cheer her up. Kate hates having her photo taken, but I managed to get this one yesterday not long after she'd been to the hairdressers for her hair trimmed. We went on a girly

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Kate went round to her new house today to meet up with someone from the housing department. After checking that all the repairs had been done, she signed her tenancy agreement and received her keys. The back garden still needs clearing but they're behind with gardens due to the bad weather we've had recently. Since we got back I've sorted out her gas and electricity and she's currently on the

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Well here we are again, with yet another tiger update. There's not much left to do on this, then I just need to get it framed and put away for Christmas. On the housing front, Dene should be able to move into his new apartment at the beginning of August, when all the building work is finished. Kate had a phone call from the housing department today and she has to meet someone at her house on

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I've added lots of charts and threads to my shop site. Please feel free to browse.

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I'm back! I had a great holiday in Kefalonia and could have stayed for another week. It was very hot every single day, I saw maybe 3 tiny little clouds that didn't stay for long, and the scenery when we got out and about was stunning. The resort was lovely and the food was gorgeous. Our resort was near Katelios, not far from Skala, right at the south end of the island. This is me sunbathing

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I wasn't going to do this till Tuesday morning before I go off on my holiday to Kefalonia, but thought I'd better do it now while I remember. As you can see the tiger almost has a whole eye, and some whiskers. I'll get some more done before I go away but the rest will have to wait till I get back. Thanks for looking.

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Ta da! Here's the cake that Laura made on her first attempt at baking. She made another one the following day for Ian and my Mam's birthday. Both of them were absolutely delicious.And her is the latest photo of the HAED tiger I'm busy stitching. I'm going to be working on this until I go on holiday next Tuesday. I've been trying to decide whether or not to take any stitching with me when I go

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Kate's best friend Laura from Nottingham, is here for the week. She's never made a cake from scratch before so Kate taught her how to make one today. It's just come out of the oven and once it's cooled down she's going to show her how to ice it. I'll take another photo later of the cake before it's eaten.Here's the 28 week baby bump. To be honest it's not much bigger than two weeks ago. Kate

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I know it's not perfect, but it's the biggest patchwork/quilting project I've ever completed and I'm really chuffed with it. Kate loves it too. I finished hand stitching the hexagons at about 7am this morning, then machine stitched the border/binding. Kathy and I had a trip up to the Calico Barn this afternoon so I could buy the wadding and the backing fabric - a yellow check that is also on

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Kate had her 28 week scan a week early. The hospital rang her up this morning and asked her if she could go in today as they didn't have any free space next week. So after we'd been to Burnopfield to spend some money on stitching stash, we trooped off to Blyth hospital. Kathy came too. LOL.The baby is progressing well, growing according to plan. And the sonographer reckons it's A GIRL!!! Kate

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Obviously it's not finished yet, but this will give you the general idea of what I've been busy working on over the last few days. All those little hexagons are only about 3 inches across and by the time I'd finished cutting them out I was losing the will to live. I've been sewing them together by hand, but will probably finish it off with the sewing machine. Kate and Craig are impressed!

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OK, here she is at 26 weeks. She doesn't think she looks very big till she sees these photos, and she still doesn't have a bum. I hate her. LOL.And the photo below is how I left the HAED tiger thing before it went back on the bottom of the WIP pile.I've now started something new, called Indigo Dragon that I charted up myself a couple of years ago from a picture I got off the net. Unfortunately I

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Here's what I've been working on all week, Spirit Of Fire by Amanda Robison, a Heaven & Earth Design. It's just the quick stitch, but it's still a fair size. Going to be working on it till I go to bed tomorrow night then move on to something else for the next week.

Jacquihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17443628340258643476noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10985961.post-10429325252090559982008-05-11T12:08:00.003+01:002008-05-11T12:12:21.213+01:00

I've been taking part in a needleroll exchange over on Tranquil Stitches, and this is what I received from my partner, Diana, the other day. Isn't it gorgeous?And this one below is the one I've just finished making up to send to my partner in the US. Don't think she reads this blog so it's safe to post the piccie. Mine is a design by Col's Creations called Nicola's Needleroll. Unfortunately I

Jacquihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17443628340258643476noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10985961.post-83314811780646906452008-05-10T17:30:00.002+01:002008-05-10T17:39:57.592+01:00

First off, the bump. I know Laura has been waiting to see this so I thought I'd better put this photo first. This is at 24 weeks. The baby seems to be all at the front, she's got no bum, the bitch! LOL. The most recent piccie of the HAED storykeep I'm doing. I've actually stitched a bit more since this was taken, the whole of that column has been done and I've started the next one. And

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This is my progress so far on this year's Ozark Sampler SAL. I have done a bit more of the borders than what is showing. More WIPs to come when I get to them.

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...ARE SO PICKY! And yes Laura, I do mean YOU!

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