Off to ASIA...& July giveaway!

We are off to Asia tomorrow for 4 weeks to visits family and friends. We'll be back the 5th of August. It's been pretty busy here the last days as it was really nice weather, either we are at the swimming pool or at the beach. Yesterday, the weather has cooled off and today quite some rain, so i am glad i don't need to water the plants. Whew! i really feel sooo tired as it's been a bit crazy today. In between packing, cleaning, friends and family stopped by. Better go to bed early as we have to get up at around 4:30AM.

For the July giveaway, haven't had time to make one but i don't like to skip it out so this will be an open one, a finish item of your choice...like pinkeep, flatfold, mattress pincushion, biscornu, a floss ring tag or a needleroll..., do need an idea of the theme preffer though. Everyone is welcome for the draw, but please indicate if you want to be added for the draw and if possible to leave your e-mail address so i know where to contact you. It will be open until August 7.

Happy Birthday Karan!. Hope you can have use of the decoupage patterns. I do miss making this kind of card making but just don't have much time anymore.




Flower for my friend Mattress pincushion
Elisabeth Foster
32ct.linen
DMC + WDW threads






Just read that Shari received the package. So glad it has arrived safely. Hope you will have a wonderful birthday this week.




Hope you all are enjoying the summer! Here's a recent finish but can't find an appropriate fabric for the back so it is not really finish yet. This lovely freebie can be find here.


Thanks so much for stopping by and all the kind comments with my previous post. See you all in 4 weeks!

Needlerolls!

July, August, September Birthstone & flower samplers
From a booklet of The World of Cross Stitching
(no designers was given)
Stitched on 28ct white evenweave
DMC threads

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Finished the three samplers into a needleroll a few days ago but was quite
busy with the kids acitvities, also DH came home yesterday for the whole afternoon as he needed to do some paperworks regarding his position at work. Atleast we had some time together before he got back to the ship. Just a week more then he'll be home!

It's the last week of Grace school last week and they had a kind of 'project week'. Parents were welcome to go and see what they had done last friday. Here's a picture of Grace(right) with her friends with what they had made out that was assigned to them.

Chris still have this week for school. He really wish it's also over like his sister.
For this week they join the swimming acitivity at the open pool here in town which starts at 6:00pm till 8:30pm where they will do 20 or 40 laps everyday. It's called 'zwem avondvierdaagse', don't know the term in English. Anyway, i am the chauffeur and have to wait, atleast i have enough books now for company. But there are friends there too with there kids so probably won't have time for reading just like this evening.
Here's Grace and her friends, both girls are in the car with us too. That's one of my friend holding up her hand, doesn't want to be on the picture.
Haven't got a good picture of Chris but he's the dark head farther left. and here he is playing with one of his classmates, he said he likes the girl or rather both likes each other. kids...kids...!

Thanks so much for stopping by and all the kind comments. Hope you are all having a good week.

Our tickets to the Philippines now booked!!!

Finally, DH had booked the tickets last night so in about two weeks we are flying off to visit family and friends. We had waited for booking expecting that the prizes will go down a bit but there's not much really difference at all. Still around 4200euro's(5878U.S dollars), we have to go this summer and can't postponed because of the kids school and dh's work.
Oh my, now that it's booked and just over two weeks i really need to do lots, like packing or things really needed especially for the kids and arrange some things around here too, for watering the garden and Grace weekly newspaper round.
DH will come home the 6th of July and we are flying the 9th. We are flying with Singapore Airlines this time, previously were ussually with Cathay Pacific.

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Daisies scissorfob
OakHaven Designs
32ct DMC linen
DMC threads
white beads

Really need a quick finish and thought of this cute freebie. It's on the OakHaven Designs yahoo group.




I really appreciates your visits. Thanks so much for stopping by.

pc is fix!

Thanks to one of the guy who took over part of dh's computer business. After trying to find what was the problem through the phone with hubby, with lots of diffrent wires at the back of the main pc we really couldn't follow through which is which connected to what so hubby called one of the guys to come and look at it. I think he's been here for about 15 minutes and everything's working again or atleast ours with the kids are all working. Dh have to look more into it when he's home in about two weeks now!

Been busy here lately with birthdays to go to and other celebrations. So haven't done much stitching, only small update on the sampler and a LK design for a gift so can't show that yet.

Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you're all having a good week.

Computer is out of order!

I am here at a friend's place using her pc, wanted to drop a line here that the main pc at home was broken and i have to wait till i can contact DH whom am i going to ask for help. The kids aren't happy, i am not happy but it might take a while. So you won't hear from me for a while.

My best wishes to all and thanks so much for stopping by.

Zumba trial classes are over!

We really had fun with the Zumba workout the last four weeks, even if we had dificulty following some of the steps especially the movemnets of the hips and shoulders all at once. There were enough people who are interested so there will be classes which will start in September. I sure signed in too and can't wait...I do try though to practice here at home with the help of films through You Tube. I noticed though that the more i am busy with this workout the more i crave something to eat especially salty snacks. hmmmmm!!!
(you can click on all pictures to enlarge if you want)
I had been stitching and finished July, August and September Birthstone & flower samplers. After finishing the June one for the giveaway i decided to try and stitch all of them, from a booklet of The World of Cross Stitching. Just have to do the hemstitching for July and September then they are ready to fill in.

Received a box of Nora Roberts books this afternoon, English ones! I miss reading english books and all they have at the library either i've read it or it's not to my taste. I know one of my friends at the mainland buys lots of English books(that's her hobby) so i ask her to lend me some as you can see, one of the authors she loves is Nora Roberts...me too actually, so i especially asked for it. She does has different crime books but i've chosen the romance ones.
This sure distract me from my stitching!!

I will leave you with a few pictures of my flowers at the backyard.

Planted these violets last march, aren't they lovely!

And these flowers, can't remember the name anymore!



These my other peony finally in bloom!

I am feeling much better, THANKS so much for all the kind comments.

Hope everyone's having a good week!!

Thank you all so much for the get well wishes!

I feel much better today. Though still a bit of headache but my throat is not as sore as it was the last days, running nose much better too. Thanks again to all for the well wishes. It means a lot to me. I want to send each an e-mail back but most doesn't appear your e-mail address with your comment. I hope you all see/read this post and know that all comments are very much appreciated.

Here's a card i finished lately and just heard that it has arrived.


Happy Happy Anniversary, Olga!
Hope you both have had a wonderful day yesterday.








Anniversary card
Cross Stitch Crazy 2008
design by: Maria Diaz
14ct Aida
Dmc threads

Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend!!