Prickles , fur and crosses .

Just over a week ago (Friday 19th) me and the kids were walking to school when someone told us there was a hedgehog running around on the road a bit further on .The kids were pretty excited , so off we scurried to try and catch a glimpse of it. It was just entering someones' driveway and going under the car ,so we left it alone and carried on to school .
 On the way back , I saw it again , running along the road , and getting pretty close to the main road. I was very worried as it was past 9 am , and already getting pretty hot , plus I did not want to come back and find it squished on the road . Luckily , I had a biggish fabric bag with me , so I scooped up the hog and put it in my bag and brought it home. Then it had the joy of being put into a cat carrier and left in my daughters' room (the coolest in the house) with a saucer of water and some cat biscuits.

Later that day , we took it and let it go in a field behind the houses where I found it , so hopefully it found its' way home again . It was lovely , as I remember feeding and looking after hedgehogs when I was a kid , so it was nice to relive it with my own children. They thought it was amazing .

On to the fur , just wanted to share a couple of pics of my boys ,lol.

 Fraser having a lazy moment , and Finley giving me "that" look. (He does it a lot .)

Stitching time , yay !

Here's a finish I did for Gaynor I have not yet decided how to finish finish it though .

 And , progress on Rosita. I am almost finished with the first page , but have decided to have a little break .

Still loving this one though , so pretty .

 This is what I decided to stitch over the weekend. It for a charity quilt. The theme is hearts and the person it is for loves purple , and also loves food . I am thinking it needs something else to fill in though , it looks a bit bare to me. Thinking of  putting some smaller hearts around the cupcake , what do you think ?

I have also sent and received packages in the Birds , Bees and Butterflies exchange through Stitched with Love Exchanges , but can't show those yet .

 And, I have posted out parcels to Cucki and Julie. So sorry for the delay in sending out your give away prizes ladies , but I hope you like what you get .

Has anyone looked at the "Pimp your Blog" section ? I am wondering about just having scheduled posts about new blogs rather than having it on the sidebar .

 Thanks for dropping by , not sure when I will be back with it being school holidays , but hopefully soon .

 Cath x

A little update .

Hi everyone , not much stitching getting done due to the weather. Sorry to all you sun lovers out there , but I have had enough of it now . Way too hot , and making me feel ill .
  Here is a shot of where I left Rosita last night.

I spent most of yesterday stitching , after not picking it up for nearly a week . Lots of school events and warm weather made it fairly difficult to stitch .
 I have also finished up a small for an exchange , but can't show that yet , so you will have to wait .

 I have changed the blog in my "Pimp your blog" section , over there => , and will try to do so every week , so please keep checking it out, you may find some new and interesting blogs .

 Thanks for dropping by ,
 Cath

Old, new and in between

Welcome to my new followers, hope you enjoy your visits here. Please feel free to comment and if you have a blog ,let me know so I can pop over.

 Also , a big thanks to everyone who went over to Marshas' blog. She now has well over 100 followers. so I'm really pleased for her.
 In light of this though , I am going to add a new little bit to my blog . Over on the sidebar a new section will appear called "Pimp your blog". Every week (or there abouts) I will list a new blog for you to check out , it may be a new one , or an old one with fewer followers or even a well known one with lovely eye candy , we will see ,lol.

 Anyway , on to stitchy stuff. when I finished Butterflies , I wasn't quite ready to start my next HAED straight away. I needed to make a cover for my scroll frame so I don't end up with grubby stripes across the fabric, I did still want to stitch though , so I got out my old WIPs I guess they should be called UFOs now. I stitched a motif on Christmas Recipe , just need to do the back stitch on it .

 I really want to get this one and my little owls finished this year , so I have kind of promised myself to stitch on them at least once a week , ahem , not quite managed it this week yet ,as I have just wanted to stitch on Rosita , and this is where I am now .

 I do love seeing the squares coloured in on the chart .

  And now for the new . Heaven and Earth are running a reward programme , so I sent in pics of Butterflies and got a free chart . I chose QS Sunny , as I have liked this one since seeing it on someone elses' blog ages ago .

Not sure when she will get stitched, but she is mine , all mine.

Thanks for dropping by ,

 Cath