Its coming so fast

Hard to believe there is just one more saturday after today and then christmas really will be with us. Im not doing too badly this year I almost have everything under control but then again its so easy when mostly all you have bought is clothing because you have teenage boys. Boy do I miss all the fun and excitement christmas used to bring when the children where small. How excited they would be as christmas creeped up and the anticipation on christmas eve night. The older they have got the less of that there has been but we still manage to have a lot of fun which is great but I do realise they will be grown and gone before I know it. I guess then christmas will have a different meaning to it in this home.

Here are some updates on my current wips to show you although I have got a little further with Draco so I will show you that next time. I will properly be slowing down on the stitching this close to christmas with so much other things I have to do although the cold and chest infection I have been suffering with the last few weeks has already slowed me down so much it is so nice to seemly be getting over it.

The plan was to try have at least one of these finished by the new year but now especially with the dragon dreams freebie coming on facebook that is looking less and less likely but we shall see. 

Its begining to look a lot like christmas!!!

So our town Christmas carnival today and as is our family tradition its time to stay in and decorate our home insted. It is always so cold in town and crowded not to mention the fact that as a teenager I used to enjoy it a bit and when the children where small but now I just dont see the fun in it anymore the fair is expensive too so we make our own fun!!! 

i also wanted to show you our puppy all dressed up!!! As I really dont think this will still fit him by christmas as he is growing so so so fast!!!!

So I just wanted to share the cards I have made for my boys they are made with krenick so they glitter ans parrkle in the light and once the lights go out they glow and I just love the affects!! See not just a pretty face hehehe!!! 

Christmas stitching and life!!!

Woohoooo!!!! I have finished it!!! Here is my dragon dreams 12 days of christmas from facebook last year and I just love it!!! I just have to decide how im going to get it finished now so I can put it up with my santas dragon.

Cant believe quite how much stitching I have acually got done in time for christmas this year so Im a happy girl :-)) here are some more cards I have finished too!!! I guess it just goes to show you can do it if you really try and a whole lot of late nights most deffinetly help. I just cant believe how slowly I seem to stitch these days since the accident with my wrist but at least I still can and that is the main thing!!! as they say slow and steady wins the race eventually I guess!!! So what is next??? well I am still working on my wolves and my draco pieces as well as haveing two haeds started which are no go at the momment if I am totally honest I just dont seem to want to do anything apart from get the wolves done its just such a large piece and I would love to have it finished this year but there seem so many distractions. Not to mention since injuring my shoulder no exercise has been done for weeks which isnt giving me the energy for doing much I need a bit of get up and go at the momment as I am struggling with the symptons of my peri menopause. But hopefully it wont last too long as I have too much to do for christmas!!! but at least all the decorating is finally almost done downstairs and thats a big help -))

some christmas stitching

I decided i would stitch the 12 days of Christmas freebie from dragon dreams last year on face book, but i decided i wanted to create a border. This is how its going so far xx I have always loved her designs so this has been a lot of fun and it should all be finished in a few days which
is great as I have a whole heap of cards that need doing before christmas!!! 

October already!!!!

Where is this year going? It seems to be flying past us so very quickly, it wont be long and it will be Halloween then Christmas!! Its already starting to get cold here and the nights are quickly starting to draw in which I love as my cats are in early and safe and warm at home but also as its the perfect time to curl up and stitch :-) Saying at here is my latest finish all ready for Halloween.

Halloween is my favourite holidays, don't get me wrong I do love Christmas but you don't get to dress up and have fun like you do on Halloween so it isn't the same. But I am getting ready for Christmas too as I have two cakes all baked in the last week ready I just have to feed them with dark rum now for the next 10 weeks and they will be lovely and rich and yummy!!! I am also going to be working on Christmas cards and stitching hopefully I will have something to show very soon. I have also been playing with my pc stitch and some supernatural pictures I am really hoping they will come out good but we will have to wait and see I guess. 

Wip updates

We have been sooo busy decorating our home that I haven't had much stitchy time lately really!!! But I have managed to get a few stitches in here and there so here are my updates on the two projects I am currently working on, first here is Draco I only seem to be working on this on light days which isn't great as we are just starting winter!!! but there you go. 

And here is my progress on my wolves, I am keeping my fingers crossed at least one will be finished this year hopefully both but with my Christmas stitching to do as well i am not really hopefully of that!!! 

weigh in week 6

I've decided  that I am not even going to look at the scale this week after everything that's been going on I don't want it to put me off or make me give up after the crazy week its been. x

What a crazy few days

I had a phone call from my Dad yesterday morning asking what I was doing, nothing much I replied ok he said I will be down in an hour just going to the drs as my chest is playing up. That's nothing unusual for my Dad so I didn't worry. I should of, because half hour later he was phoning me back asking me to drive him to the hospital as they thought it was his heart and had told him he was not allowed to drive. We spent all day at the hospital while he underwent tests and I had to go collect my step mum to visit him that evening as they decided to keep him in. I to relax that evening when I was watching big brother and was so happy when Sam won, had a few glasses of wine and heard nothing from the hospital.
Then this morning my Dad phoned said they wanted his medication up to the hospital, so I cycled down and collected it from the house, came home and then my husband walked up to the hospital with me, its a lovely summers day so it really was quite pleasant. I was speaking to the staff and they weren't really sure when he would be coming home even though all the tests where coming back normal he just had to wait to see the cardiologist team to find out what would be happening next. We walked home and had some lunch and a rest before the evening visiting hours when I would have to take my step mum back up to visit him , when I had a phone call from my Dad saying he was aloud home. I went to the hospital to collect him when I discovered that it was muscular they had decided so all the fuss had been for nothing!!! I'm just glad my Dads ok though :-)) but now we are getting in so I have had to get a take away tonight, it feels so naughty.

week 5 weigh in

Just as I though there has been a 1lb increase this week which I am sure will get worse with my wedding anniversary creeping closer and the meal I know will take me over what I should be eating in a day but as I want to watch myself change I am showing my start photos and my one month in, look away now if you don't want to see a fat girl!!!

 

 

 I am starting to see a change, and my clothes are all falling off so I know something is working!! but as I am doing zumba, ufc training and I have an exercise machine as well as healthy eating and I have also been out on my cycle and walking I don't know whats doing me more good!!!! But I do have to remind myself this is just the start.

  



And hopefully I will get down to what makes me happier, but people have started to notice which does make me smile :-)

My august stitching

Here is my wip for this month lets see if I can finish it before the month is out and I have to start on my christmas stitching!!!!

titching!!!!

4th weigh in

This week has been a very big struggle for me to keep on the right path. I was hurt badly by my oldest sons girlfriend. After trying so hard with this girl for the past three years including her in everything we have done as a family welcoming her in to our home and hearts she decided to tell us that we were not good enough to be a part of her life and then to add insult to injury she went and posted a video to face book hidden from us all insinuating that I was a bad mother, which I am grateful to my son for putting her right, but its beside the point really.
I cant understand where the hate is coming from as we have been nothing but welcoming to her. Needless to say for the foreseeable future the door has been closed on this part of my life and if my boy would like to continue the relationship that is his call but I do no longer what to play any part in it.
I have managed to lose a lb bringing me down to 190lb but I can see that going back up after hitting the wine as I was so upset. But onwards and upwards I guess, lets see what happens next x

3rd weigh in update

So here we go again, gee has it really been a week already??? Is that possible??? Oh well looks that way doesn't it. Ok I've been walking this week and I've been trying to cycle. yeah that's right trying hehehe I really don't cycle very well but I did give it a go :-)) So it was time for my weekly battle with the scale.....and I was 3 lbs down!!! woohooo that's 9 lbs in two weeks :-)) I seem to be doing ok at this, lets just see how next week goes xx

second weigh in time!!

So here goes, I have to say yes, I was very nervous setting foot on the scale but at the same time I knew I had been working very hard to try get myself motivated to cook differently and exercise even though I must say I've been loving it all!!! As I am peri menopausal atm (yes i know I'm only 38 but all the tests at the drs have proved in over christmas last year) I also knew that this was going to be no easy thing especially when I am having those days where I just don't want to do a thing!!! But do you know its working!!! I have lost 6 lbs this week :-)) So I am now down to 195 lbs and counting!!!

I know I said I wouldn't!!

But we did!!! Meet Jenson our new fur baby isn't he just soooo cute!!!!! It just hasn't been the same without a dog, I still miss Bud every single day and wish he was still with us he brought so much love into our lives, lets hope this little bundle will do the same xx

Its time for a change

I have started getting lazy again, it is time to get my bum in gear and get back to the healthy eating and exercise so here goes, as of today i weight in at 201 lbs its now or never time to stop being so lazy!!!!! wish me luck, I will be doing zumba and ufc trainer I also have a new exercise machine, I will be back next week to weigh in wish me luck!!!!

Happy 18th birthday Jake

Well today is the day you go from a boy to a man I hope you are ready for the big wide world Jake, I hope you understand that life is about to change and I really do hope all the decisions you make are the right ones for you and you will be very happy with them. Have a wonderful day xxx

My June stitchy update

With the heatwave we have been having here this summer I thought it was only fitting to have a summer finish!!!

Update on Sammy

Well I phoned the vets a lot yesterday he seems to be doing ok and I'm just thankful he made it through the night, He was still very shock up and sore and not eating very well I just feel so bad that I couldn't be with him but as he wasn't out of the woods yet he had to stay where he was. But when I phoned this morning I was allowed to go bring him home which was great but quite scary too as I knew I would have to drive on the motorway to go get him, but I wanted him so much I braved it and fetched him.

They think he may have a skull fracture and has bleeding on the brain but his jaw isn't broken as they first thought, only thing is that his eyes are very dilated and we will have to see how he goes he's not out of the woods yet and we aren't sure how his eye sight is working either. Lilly wasnt sure of him at all its like its not her Sammy so we will have to keep a close eye on them both  I am just so glad he is still with us and safe at home xx

I feel like my hearts been ripped out again

Tonight is a very sad night I cant believe what happened it was all so fast, Sammy had only been out for 10 minutes when there was a knock at our door asking if we had a little white and ginger kitten. I didn't recognised the lady that knocked so I just said yes why?? Oh she said I'm sorry but I think he's been hit by a car, my heart almost stopped no it cant be my Sammy... 

Leon and me followed her just around the corner from my house and there he was half laying in the road I very gently picked him up and he purred briefly. He was bleeding from his eye, nose and mouth I was so afraid he just didn't look like he was going to make it. I couldn't believe this was happening so soon to losing our dog it just wasn't fair!!! I got straight on the phone to my Dad who drove us up to the vets in Swansea and we had to leave without him. I cried all the way home with my jacket covered in his blood it was horrible to just have to leave him there. But he is in the best place and now the waiting begins.

My stitchy update for April

 This month was a quick stitch, it was also a very easy decision to make after the start of the year I have had, I need to learn that I am too giving always there for everyone but when I need understanding it seems like that's just too much to ask. And what's worse was I really had no idea what was happening until my son told me I needed to step back from a situation and see what happened. I guess its easy to see what's happening to someone else that it is when its happening to you. It especially made my mind up the day before my birthday, lets just say we all know my track record with birthdays and what happened made this one no different.Never mind when every door closes a new one eventually opens xx