A Snowman

Last Friday ,  I finished up this little stitch

 It is one of Nancys' designs (Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe). When Nancy had her Christmas give away , which was massive , she offered to send out a set of charts to anyone who hadn't won  one of her other prizes. There are more charts in the set that I will stitch as and when I fancy .
 Anyway, as I finished ,I was sitting watching the snowflakes falling , and thinking that I ought to be stitching a snowman . Then I remembered that I had won a kit in a giveaway quite a while ago so rummaged through my bag and found it .

This is Cromwell The Snowman by The Trilogy , I have just finished him .

  I stitched one or two lengths of the white than did a bit of colour to break it up a little. I haven't had much chance to stitch this week really, the kids had a snow day on Monday, then the car has had to go for the MOT and various other things have kept me busy, but I enjoyed stitching him .
 Now , can you spot the difference with the chart ?

 Look a little closer .

  On the cover picture, his right hand is stitched to look as though he is holding the tree, yet on the chart , he is waving with the tree behind him . I stuck to the chart as I couldn't see why he would be holding a tree ,lol .

 The main problem with looking out this kit , I came across my stash of other charts that I've kitted up , like Bent Creeks' Winter Row ,  and it made me want to get them out . So far , I have resisted ,lol .

 Here is where I've got to with Butterflies , a little more definition to the face shape . Still loving this one .

  I can't wait to get further down , and I'm already planning my next one . I've got it bad .

 Last night brought a few more inches of snow , but it has been melting today, so hopefully it won't be around for much longer .
 I have been playing with one of the fox photos. This is my favourite one.

Isn't that little face gorgeous. BTW , they have been on the front garden again , we had tracks in the snow this morning .

Thanks for dropping by ,
 Cath

A Visitor

I was not at all happy to be woken up at 6.30 am yesterday morning by our neighbour clearing the snow from his drive . So when Hubby came into the bedroom this morning to wake me up, I was ready for throwing something , but all is forgiven , after all , it's not often you get the opportunity to take photos like these.

This little guy/gal was on our drive early this morning , so hubby went out to shoo it off because of the chooks. He was amazed when it didn't run off , so came in for the camera and was even more amazed that it didn't scarper when the flash went off.
 He stood watching for a while and when the boy came downstairs, decided that we should all share so woke up me and our daughter. There we all were , outside , fox watching in our pj's ,lol. but it was worth it .
 We came in and had a warm drink ,got dressed and went back out to take more snaps. He was around for a good couple of hours ,and seemed a little confused. I'm fairly sure it's a youngster , as we have a family living round here ,The kids saw them the other night. so , we're not sure if it was lost or waiting for a parent or what , but they do not normally stay around .
 It has gone now , so I just hope it gets home ok .
 My daughter also took video footage , so I'm going to put that on too .

 Hope you like our little visitor.
 thanks for dropping by ,
 Cath