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

Summer ? maybe .

We had a lovely few days towards the end of last week and over the weekend. Today has been a little grey and dull , but not too bad.
 I have been doing a bit of stitching on the tiger , this is where I am now .

 It is coming on nicely , I am hoping for a reasonably quick finish with this one. Not had chance to pick up Butterflies yet this week, even though the kids are back at school , I have been really busy .

   We went out for a teatime picnic on Saturday, and went for a walk along the canal . Saw lots of lovely water birds .

 Cute and fluffy ducklings, there were four of them but I couldn't get a good pic of them all together ,they were moving about too much.

 Lovely blossom on the way

  I think this must be a favourite scratching spot for the sheep.

The kids thought it was great and gathered up some of the wool to bring home. I have washed it ,and it came up quite nice. shame there's not enough to do anything with though .

 Thanks for dropping by ,
 Cath

Brrrr ,it's cold !!!

And I have been made up with cold for over a week now. It is just not funny. I've had enough. With last week being half term too , it made for a pretty boring week for the kids. Most of the time , it was too cold/wet /miserable to do anything. though on one of the finer days ,we went for a (muddy) walk around the local park . I was pleased with a couple of my photos .

  Love this one of the gull flying, it was pure luck as I've got lots of other shots that are all fuzzy or missing bits ,lol .

  Some idiot had thrown prawn crackers in for the water birds to eat.

  And i realised that I haven't shown any recent pics of my boys. It has been so cold ,they have had to resort to snuggling up together, lol .

 I've made a fair bit of progress on Butterflies . This is where I got to before moving the fabric up on the frame .

  Here's the before :

And the after .

 This is where I am now . Not done any for a few days with having this rotten cold and the kids being off. Got the shopping done today , so hopefully tomorrow will be a stitch day .

 So , last week I managed to finish of this cat . It was started in 2011, and was originally meant to be a charity square for a quilt , but the quilt got made earlier than the deadline and so this got left  .

 I quite like it , and think it may well end up going in my sons' direction ,lol.

 I like to have a small easy to pick up project on the go as well. At the moment I'm stitching a small All Our Yesterdays cover kit , but it should be done fairly quickly.
 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