Monday, 23 October 2023

Catching up since my last post....

It has been a while!  Time has run away from me as there seems to have been a lot going on, so I thought I should catch up a bit!  As a result, this is going to be another long post!  What have I been doing?  Well, I had a long weekend trip to Thessaloniki in Greece to attend a friend's wedding.  The weather was hot and the wedding was beautiful.


We had a lovely day visit to a beautiful National Trust property called Stourhead (which is where they filmed some of the 2005 version of the film Pride and Prejudice).  Such a beautiful house and gardens.



Then we had two and a half weeks away in our camper van travelling through France down to the border with Spain and back.


We travelled back via Switzerland.  The first time I have been back since we moved back to the UK in 2021.  It was lovely to see it again.


I have also had a couple of trips up to Norwich to visit family including a quick visit to help my daughter move house.  Needless to say with all the travelling from place to place I haven't had a lot of time to stitch but, I did take my watercolour paints to France and you can see some of my finished sketches here on my 2023 projects page.

I am hoping that things will settle down a little now and I will be able to get back to my needlework projects.  I did attend a Regional Day held by my Quilt Guild on Saturday just gone and followed that with a workshop on Sunday with guest artist Kate Findlay.  I loved the workshop and was delighted with the piece I made.

I just need to get it framed!

Well, that's all for the moment.  Hopefully I will have more needlework projects to show you next time!  Until then.... 😊 xx




9 comments:

  1. You are so talented, I just love seeing all that you do, thank you so much for sharing!

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    1. Thank you so much Shelly, that's very kind of you! Christine xx

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  2. Well you have been busy. That wren is adorable. I love those tiny birds. Mum had one nesting in her clematis, loved seeing her hop about.

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  3. Sounds like you had a lovely summer. So nice that you got to do a bit of traveling. You can catch up with your stitching over the winter. I love the wee wren nestled among the flowers.

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  4. Looks like a lovely time away.
    Your little bird is lovely.
    Maria lifeontheblock

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  5. Thank you Maria. We had a lovely trip away but it's nice to be home again. Christine xx

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  6. Love your little bird! You are a very clever gal! Wow, such a great trip. Looks like an awesome time was had.

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  7. Oh dear...I am anonymous again.....Ondrea.

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    1. Thank you so much Ondrea. I was really pleased with the finished wren. Hope you have a good week! Christine xx

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