Cross Stitched Birthday Tags

Hi all. Hope you're enjoying summertime. We are lucky this year with quite a lot of sunshine in the UK (so far!) I've got plenty time for myself these days :) So alongside with preparing for the driving exam (the less appealing bit!) I'm trying to do some blogging, photographing and of course crafting. I've got 3 projects on the go so I alternate them - a crochet one, a knitting one and a cross stitching one. Just a thought popped into my head: Is this way to keep a multi-crafter happy? What do you think?

 Sothis is what I have stitched recently: a set of birthday tags. They were a freebie to the Cross Stitcher issue 281. 

It's nothing much but I just fancied a small quick project in between the larger ones like Riverdrift House samplers for example :) It was good fun to stitch every of them.

I'm pleased how they turned out. My favourite is the blue tit, strawberry and cherries. All perfect for summer birthdays.  

Today I'm going to join the Hand-made Monday blog hop, no. 179. Get clicking guys!

Spring Sampler (4) Almost there!

Hi all. I haven't blogged here for a while. Sorry for being silent and not visiting your blogs, I'll be trying to catch up with you over the next days. Too many things have been occupying my mind recently that my focus of attention has shifted away from blogging towards priorities. But now it's summer! It's holiday! It's time to craft and enjoy the sunny days of freedom and this is exactly what I am doing right now. It's my second day of holiday as the Welsh schools broke up for summer on the 18th July. So let's enjoy!

Currently I am still working on my Spring sampler (the design from the Riverdrift House company) and I am trying to finish it off as soon as I can as we are already in summer! 

This is what it looked like a few days back with still a "small" quarter to go. 

Today I worked hard to finish off this sampler as I've got a new summery one waiting in queue to be stitched :) So today my working station looked like this: plenty of charts, needles, threads and cold drinks on the side...

Almost there! The spring sampler is virtually finished. In the meantime this is happening :) 

Excited!!! Love the new hot summery colours! More photos tomorrow :) Will keep on posting! 

Cheerio! x