HAED - Another Page

Yay I finally finished page 2 of my HAED design Cruising the Information Highway.  Here it is so far

Cruising the Information Highway

Heaven & Earth Designs

Stitched 1 over 1 on 25ct

Took me ages to do the last bit as tons of confetti but finally finished this morning. Page 3 all ready and thankfully lots of lovely blocks of colour.

We Had Sun!

Yes don't faint but we've actually had some sun here in Yorkshire!  Last weekend the weather was absolutely glorious so we finally unearthed the kids bikes from the shed and took them out riding. Here's my 3 enjoying the weather....

Put the stabilisers back onto Lukie's bike as it has been a year since it's been out. Darcy had to have a new bike as we discovered she's grown a lot since last year and her bike was miles too small. This is her new one, pink and white as ordered!!

But I have done some stitching in between all the usual taxi-ing around of the children and here's where I'm at on my main projects...

Castles in the Air by Papillon Creations.

Part 11 all finished on the left hand side and part 12 printed out ready.

Around the World in 80 Stitches by Papillon Creations

Parts 1-11

Cruising the Information Highway by HAED

Showing April's progress. Not as much as I'd like but you can see my little dragon starting to appear.

As it was my birthday in April DH and I went off to Bakewell in Derbyshire to visit Wye Needlecraft. The clamp for my daylight lamp had broken hence not stitching much on my HAED (1over1 on 25ct isn't wonderful on the eyes!) and Wye had an adapter for my Lowery Workstand. One visit and many pennies later and I had the attachment plus a magnetic board holder for my charts, DH put it altogether that night for me. Now I can stitch on my HAED happily with plenty of light :-)  so watch out for a new update at the end of May as I've been working quite a bit on it.

Castles in the Air

Whilst waiting for the latest part of Around the World to be released I've been making more of an effort on my CITA, managed to finish parts 8 & 9.  Here's what it's up to...

Part 8

Now I hadn't put any beads on until this point so picked these colours out of my stash.

 Part 9

How she's looking altogether.

And if you want to join in with the latest SAL just click on CITA at the top and it will take you to Papillions website.

Boo!

Our eldest Peter (Boo) taken in September 2009 during Sheffield Dragons Summer in the Square competition.

He'd not long since started the Little Dragons karate class.

Now he's my little Black Belt.

He spent 2 days grading at Sheffield Dragons and on Friday 5th April 2013 he was presented with his 1st Dan black belt.

As you can see we bought him a special belt. He's been seeing these belts since he was a Little Dragon and knew that was what he wanted to have one day.

Luckily for us he's got 2yrs before he can grade again for his 2nd Dan so lots of time to train and the belt will get plenty of wear!!

Boo's Album
Boo's Belts

HAED Cruising the Information Highway

March seems to have gone before we know it so it's time to show my HAED after another month of stitching. In March I managed to stitch over 3400 stitches, there were parts that seemed to be all confetti and took a lot longer than I wished. Though standing back and looking at it they are worth the effort and the design is starting to come together now.

Cruising the Information Highway by Randal Spangler

Heaven & Earth Designs

Around the World in 80 Stitches

Finished part 10 of my ATW which means I've finally caught up...yay! Part 11 not out yet, apparently problems with the computers at Papillion Creations (haven't we all been there LOL!)

Around the World in 80 Stitches

Papillion Creations

Where's Spring???

Lately my stitching mojo has been on a little break, I put it down to the weather. One minute it's cold with snow and the next spring is coming, then snow again :-(  Some nights I'm so tired and cold that the thought of picking up a needle doesn't enter my mind.

Mind you I have managed some stitching inbetween the kids activities....here's where I'm at:

 

 Around the World in 80 Stitches - speciality version

Papillion Creations

 Confetti of Hardanger

Bee's Needleworks

Fabric "Aries" by Sparklies 

 Castles in the Air

by Papillion Creations

 Cruising the Information Highway

Heaven & Earth Designs

Mary Wigham SAL

Other big news at our house is to do with my 3 children... Peter Boo (8)  Lukie (6) Darcy (5)

In March Lukie passed his dance exam which was the Waltz, no pictures of his presentation yet as it's in April. He's now learning the Jive for his exam in September. His piano teacher says he's doing really well so fingers crossed he can carry on with his lessons when he moves school in September.

Peter Boo graded in his traditional karate class and gained his orange belt, he's now training for his green which hopefully he'll be taking in August/September. He's also grading this month for his 1st Dan Black Belt in All Styles karate. I'm hoping to cut his classes a bit from 4hrs a week to 2hrs sometimes 3 then!!

Darcy is practising hard in her Tap and Ballet classes. She's working on a piece from Swan Lake for her ballet exam, don't know when it is yet but she's enjoying herself immensely.  Her other big news is that she no longer wears armbands in swimming class and can happily swim without them, her little face lit up the first time she swam on her back on her own :-)

AND ME???  Apart from feeling like I'm running a taxi service I'm managing to get quite a bit of reading done waiting around for the kids. DH and I are working this Sunday at the WTKA Best of British Fighting so no Sunday stitching for me :-(  Going to be a good day though as there's some wonderful kickboxing talent coming through from the younger end, heavy guys aren't on til late so I'll be flaking in a corner by then!!

Hope you're all getting plenty of stitching done and thank you for your wonderful comments and emails.