gifts, finishes and wips...

Today was my niece's 10th birthday, so we did some celebrating... picked her up from school, went to the mall where she wanted to go to build-a-bear. She got a puppy from there, and then we came home to balloons, and flowers. We had at her request pizza for dinner, and of course birthday cake and presents.

Here is what I stitched her, as per her request...

She got a lined bag with a skull and crossbones on it, and you can just see the lining peeking out - hot pink spiderweb fabric, which she will also get a pillow case made from it, and she got a little ornament pillow with another skull and crossbones.

It is a freebie, that can be found here.

I stitched it up on 14ct damask aida, the last in my stash. I've always loved the colour of this fabric, and only had a small piece left and have been hanging onto it literally for years for the right project. I love the way it turned out and judging by my niece's reaction, she liked them too.

I also finished up La~D~Da's Flowery Alphabet. From my last post, all I was missing was my initials and the date so here you go...

And last but not least, my minimal progress on Elizabeth... I'm not sure what is going on with this project, but it seems that I'm stitching on it and stitching on it but I'm not going anywhere! Hopefully now that those two birds are out of the way, I'll be able to progress a bit more. For some reason they were just taking me forever to do!

She is still an enjoyable stitch, just a very slow going one!

I'm not sure what to work on this week. I have a little bit of new stash that is just calling my name as well as several other projects that I would just love to start but then my pile of WIPS is just sort of languishing... so I'm sort of stuck as to which to pick up for the next few days...

I guess I just see which one it is that calls the loudest tomorrow night!