Happy Valentine's Day...

Hope everyone has been spoilt to death with cards, flowers and chocolates.  I know I have.  Not expecting anything else, Dave brought home a box of chocolates for me.  What a lovely surprise.  I made him this card and bought him a Thornton's chocolate heart.

Dave's Valentine's Card...

Sorry this one is a bit late. I've been battling with the old black cloud for the last couple of weeks and it's taken all my energy just to go to work and come back again, never mind do anything extra like cleaning, talking, caring ...or blogging.
This is the card I made for my wonderful husband Dave for Valentine's Day. Why are there hardly any cross stitch cards that would appeal to men for Valentine's? I was lucky to find this one on line, but it's always a struggle.

Dave's Valentine's Card

This is Dave's Valentine's Day card. Is it just me or are there very few Valentine's designs that are actually suitable to give to a man. They all seem very feminine and girly to me. This was the best of a bad lot - I chose the cakes because, well, he likes cake?

Better Late Than Never ...

I was meant to start this new blog on 1st January but I've been so busy being unemployed and floating round the house all day that I just haven't had the time!! Anyway here's what I've been doing this year.

First finished project was Jill's birthday present. Thought that a hand-made gift would be a good idea considering the lack of funds and more time on my hands - it seemed to make sense. As she is a total cat-obsessive I naturally went for a Margaret Sherry design.

Next to be finished was Dave's Valentine's Card which was a freebie from Passione Ricamo.
Next up was Esme's birthday card, from Cross Stitch Card Shop which I stitched on 28 ct Jazlyn from Silkweaver in Baby Blue stiched in DMC threads and Kreinik blending filament.

Then I started to get really creative and stitched this ornament for Dave's Valentine's Day gift. This was another freebie from The Chocolate Cat stitched on natural evenweave in DMC N0. 498.

Shazza's birthday card was a bit of an afterthought, was going to buy her one but she said she would pop round and so I experimented with my new magnifier and stitched her this one over one.