tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33991163803939745552024-02-20T17:51:36.421+00:00Created with StitchesStitching, managing family, foster children and crafting.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07326436116255855916noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399116380393974555.post-71647281078039069792015-01-18T21:17:00.002+00:002015-01-18T21:17:57.690+00:00Quilted Place Settings, Coffee, Sugar and Tea Mat, Valentine's Material for gift bags and Charlie Bears<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This week
I have been battling a heavy cold/flu with making up some table place
settings for an order. I have to admit though it has been a struggle
trying to cut the material, stitch up and turn out when your body is
feeling like lead and your head is pounding. It even felt at times when I was
pulling the outside through after stitching the front and back material together that I was going
to lose the battle. I just did not have the strength to pull the
material through. I must be feeling weak when material is stronger
than me!! Now this order is complete I have another cushion order to start on for a forthcoming wedding in April and can't wait to get started on it.</div>
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Feeling
thrifty, I even found up a remnant of material in my cupboard of a cow, sheep
and pig material and have made a little mat to hold our tea, coffee
and sugar jars....which have a cow, sheep and a pig on them which I
purchased last year on holiday in Holmfirth. I also have some
material left to make up a kettle mat for our kettle to stand on.</div>
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I also had plans to go out and get some material for Valentine's Day, but due to being under the weather I finally managed to get out of the house yesterday and go shopping. I am going to make up some little favour bags filled with love hearts and
chocolate hearts with a little backstitched message to sell both online and at a pop up shop. I love the heart material I picked out with a red background and I managed to get it at a really good price. </div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">I must have been ill as I only walked out of the shop with this material, I usually end up walking out with loads of material. That's one of my big weaknesses, buying more than I need. But then, I bet quite a lot of people who do read my blog have a cupboard that is heaving with material, cross stitches, wool etc., and I defy anybody to deny this publicly in the comments box. In fact, I think this cartoon sums up my long suffering husband when I go material shopping.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Whilst I am on the subject of weaknesses, apart from material and cross stitches I do have another one. It started the year before last when I purchased my first
Charlie Bear, Oakley, named after one of our looked after children
from years ago whilst on holiday in Derbyshire. Then last year, at the end of our holiday in Holmfirth, Steve surprised me when he purchased Inkspot.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">However, just after the New Year celebrations we took everyone
down to London for a couple of days to visit Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park and some
of the London landmarks. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"> My biggest test, which I failed on was when we visited Hamleys - every child and adult's dream of a toy
shop!!! I so indecisive on which of the two Charlie Bears I loved to purchase, I ended up buying both of them. So, Autumn and Bashful have joined the
Wilson household and sit in the front room on my dad's armchair. If
its not fabric and crafts its Charlie Bears!!! However, I bet that I am not the only person who succumbs when they are faced with their shopping addictions?</span></div>
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Happy New
Year!!! It's been ages since my last post, 2014 has been and left
with lots of memories and I have been so busy at home with building
up Created with Stitches, fostering and holidays (was lucky to do
quite a lot of travelling and meet some great people). Stitching
orders have been constant with cushions for weddings, celebratory
anniversary's and Birthdays as shown below with just a few cushions
along with Craft Fayres and Pop up Shops. A sample of the cushions made are shown below but more can be seen on my facebook page <a href="http://www.facebook.com/createdwithstitches" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/createdwithstitches</a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the many birthday cushions made</td></tr>
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Even the
place-mats I started to make have been popular. I am currently
working on 2 sets of four place-mats and matching coasters for an
order for a repeat customer who had 2 sets made up for Christmas and
loved them. In November I finally took the plunge and opened my Etsy
store, which can be found at <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CreatedWithStitches" target="_blank">https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CreatedWithStitches</a> Whilst I haven't had orders from there
yet, I have been getting many orders from repeat customers and
Facebook orders and I have found word of mouth is spreading.</div>
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Out of
all my stitching one of my new range of items towards the end of 2014
were my tea cup pin cushions. I use one myself for my stitching,
especially when cross stitching and backstitching I can have a needle
threaded all the time. I was lucky to find a set of 6 matching tea
cups and saucers all in really good condition from a charity store
and using a copy-write Scandinavian stitch pattern from Craft Seller
magazine I stitched them in gold metallic snowflakes to match the
teacups and saucers. Trouble is I have not had time yet to upload
them onto Etsy for sale but they will be in due course. 2015, I
have started to be busy with a cushion order received a few days ago
for a 21<sup>st</sup> Birthday. It cannot be shown until the 26<sup>th</sup>
January just in case it is seen by the recipient and has been sent to
Wales where the Birthday girl lives. Already I have had more orders
coming in for fothcoming weddings that are being planned for 2015.
Whilst I have been busy with orders, I am also experimenting with
ideas for Valentine's Day, and for Mother's Day on March 15th as here
in England it is early than other countries.
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Last year
also saw travels to various places, both here in England and abroad.
April saw me and my daughter travelling to Sacramento in Northern
California where we stayed with my friend Jackie and incorporated a
road trip up Highway 1 to Mendocino where Murder She Wrote with
Angela Lansbury was filmed. This April me and Victoria will be
returning and the plan is to do a road trip to Tucson, Arizona with
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of my favourite photos of Victoria just relaxing on one of our stops</td></tr>
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However,
California wasn't our only trip away last year. In the summer us
Wilson's and our extended members of the household and my parents travelled up to
Yorkshire to stay in the picturesque village of Holmfirth where we
tackled Cardiac Hill – it was that steep, and we couldn't get our
car out of 1st gear. Following that trip we hit the
sunshine in Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands where we had a
friendly bird who visited our balcony every morning and got the
chance to go underwater in a yellow submarine to see the marine life.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The view of the beach side of Corralejo in Fuerteventura from the Bell Tower</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ben and Victoria - under the sea in the Yellow Submarine</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Feeding time</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our visitor who greeted us every morning on our balcony</td></tr>
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in October both me and my husband took our son, Ben and daughter to
Cyprus for our first family holiday in all the years we have been
fostering. A great time was had and we were able to meet some very
lovely people. We stayed in Paphos on the western side of Cyprus and
saw some great sights such as Tomb of the Kings, the Mosaics at the
Archaeological Park, and the lovely gold leaf mosaics at Kykkos
Monastery in the Troodos Mountains. Also, I met and was shown how to
embroider Lefkara Lacework, Cypriot embroidery from Eleni and see the
fantastic silverwear created by her husband Andreas both traditions
that have been handed down generation to generation on both sides of
their families. Victoria purchased a lovely butterfly necklace and Andreas and Eleni's work can be found on Facebook at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LefkaraLaceSilverJewellery" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/LefkaraLaceSilverJewellery</a> I even
purchased some Lefkara Lace for my mum and for us which sits in pride
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The storm that greeted us on our arrival at Cyprus</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the many fabulous mosaics at the Archaeological Park</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Inside one of the Tombs at Tomb of the Kings</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The entrance to Kykkos Monastery with their gold mosaics </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Victoria's butterfly necklace</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eleni at her shop in Nicosia</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the ladies stitching at their shop doorway in the village of Lefkara</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My treat purchased in Lefkara</td></tr>
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However,
this year will be not so far flung, although I have California booked
and arranged we are staying in a cottage in Wales for 2 weeks in
August – Welsh Lace. Steve and I have also discussed a long
weekend for the two of us in Venice so fingers crossed. As it stands both stitching and visiting places will be taking place in 2015 and it looks like I will have to do a separate page on our travels. However the only travels I will be doing between now and the end of March will be either to my dining room where I use my sewing machine or to the craft store or the fabric store, both of which are bad for me as I always buy more than what I plan to and have been known to go missing for hours (according to my husband), does that affect anybody else?</div>
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Thanks for reading this mammoth blog post and any comments are appreciated xxx</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07326436116255855916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399116380393974555.post-73386765412761311602014-06-02T21:16:00.002+01:002014-06-02T21:16:58.900+01:00Butterfly Placemats, Two orders and Heavy Going Grizzly <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;">Been really busy this week. Firstly, I made some butterfly place mats for our garden table. Our place mats were the first time I had attempted to make some but we were all pretty pleased with them, especially following uploading them onto my Facebook page I received an order for a set of 4. I also had a best teacher order to complete, this time in<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The completed table</td></tr>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">I also found time this week to continue with my current WIP, Heavy Going Grizzly. He is slowly coming along. Hopefully next week there will be more of him to see, however I have now put my name down for 2 craft stalls in June so I need to start stitching other things to continue building my stock up so I can see him taking a back seat again for a while.</span></h3>
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I have a shopping problem, and I don't mean me spending money for once. After doing a couple of pop up shops I have decided to bite the bullet and open an online shop either on Etsy or Folksy but am deliberating on whether I should do one, the other or both. I have been trawling the net looking at various forums looking at what other people recommended. My main quandary is, should I open a shop on both sites or just concentrate on one? Any suggestions or comments will be appreciated.<br />
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At the minute I have been busy cross stitching an order for a teacher cushion and have stitched <i>'Think Big, Dream Bigger'</i> ready to turn into a cushion for sale with loads more planned. I am also continuing on Heavy Going Grizzly in between to fill the space on the wall at the top of the stairs. This week will also see our table and chairs arrive for our garden which is looking a lot better and I have some really lovely material to use to make place-mats, so this week the sewing machine is also going to be busy.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All ready to be transformed into a cushion.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Butterfly material which will become our place-mats.</td></tr>
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During the long weekend, we went to Felbrigg Hall here in the East of England and had a great day out. I loved the tapestries they had on show there. The work put into them and especially the age of them it was surprising how close I was allowed to go.<br />
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Also amazing was the wallpaper in the Chinese room, hand painted and shipped from China in 1771. There were 4 panels which were repeated however I was only able to take photos of 3 panels as the other panels were covered with various pieces of furniture.</div>
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This coming weekend will see us finally getting the table and chairs for the garden and I am looking forward to that as when its sunny stitching outside will be my main objective instead of indoors. I am really pleased with how it turned out, thanks to Steve's hard work and our planters have arrived and are filled with plants and we have butterfly solar lights on the back fence. </div>
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Crafting is taking over in the Wilson household. Victoria is starting out with polymer clay to make things to sell to her friends. Its certainly busy in my kitchen at the minute where she has set up 'base camp' and has been busy making a pen, a rainbow cake, a candy wrapper and small pieces of chocolate that do look edible. Already she has been taking orders off her friends at school.</div>
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I did start last week being able to sit outside in the sunshine and start stitching Teacher Cushions to sell for the end of the school year. I decided on doing crayons and designed 2 templates. I tend to use Jane Greenoff's cross stitch designer and find its easy to use once I have drawn a rough piece on graph paper. It could be seen as long winded but I find using the programme helps me to find the centre for stitching and I can then keep it on my laptop and change things about once I have designed any pictures. </div>
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After a week off and on, hence the late post I finally completed my 'prototype' to advertise for sale along with advertising for cushion orders. I think it's something different from chocolates and flowers etc. </div>
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The main reason this was so long in the making, usually I can get a cushion, even a large one made up within 4 days was that the weather here in Lowestoft has been so lovely and warm I started stitching outside......the same time as my husband started doing a radical garden makeover. When I say radical.....I mean radical. He started, I assisted and together we have seen our new garden start to evolve.</div>
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This was our garden, however minus the shed which our next door neighbour purchased off us.</div>
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Day 3 and 4 found us purchasing rolls of turf for £0.50 per roll and some great animal stepping stones.</div>
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And lay a new step at the gate and make a little area with some miniature trees with a solar powered water feature. Our son was roped into tidying up the fence.</div>
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Today Steve tackled the new bbq area, and where the slabs are some planters are arriving to add a bit of colour into the garden. It is beginning to look a lot better but we still have some more bits to do and items to get....but its a BIG improvement. We've managed to get some bargains and reuse some of the things that were already in the garden. such as the bricks. But I may be able to get some more stitching done. </div>
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After this big blog showing our hard work so far combining it with stitching, thanks for looking and any comments are really appreciated.</div>
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Happy Mother's Day, although officially over here in England our celebrations were back in March. Unfortunately, even with loads of hints my family did not take me up on this special day again. However my daughter wrote me a poem last year and thought I would share it.</div>
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So to all you mothers, step-mothers, grandmothers even foster-mothers, Happy Mother's Day you're all great!!!</div>
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Since my return from America, the new tax year is upon me and I needed to do a stock take on what materials I had, however being so busy toward the end of the last tax year and then flying out of England I was faced with this at the beginning of the week.</div>
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The whole process took me a few days and was so tedious but worth it. I even managed to sort out my cupboard which is full of material. Like my step-daughter I am always buying new material in the hope that I find something to use it on and then think its too nice to cut up. Does anybody else think like that?</div>
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Finally our anniversary Rhododendron bush has now started to flower, I love the bright colours. We got it given to us for our first wedding anniversary and this year, in July we will be celebrating our 14th Wedding Anniversary. For us it finally spring has sprung and whilst I am not a gardener as such, our tubs have been filled with plants, will have to see if my 'gardening' skills are as good as my stitching skills.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Yet again its been ages since I last posted and I have a good excuse I have been busy and away visiting and staying with a good friend in California for the Spring Break, or Easter holidays as we in England call it. I've also been busy with another pop up shop which was held in time for Mother's Day over here which was in March.</span><br />
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The event was a busy day and culminated in orders which I had to complete in time to go away. I made a success of £80 on the day which was really good. One brilliant idea my husband had was to take a portfolio of all the cushions I have done in the past for people to look at which also helped with orders being taken.</div>
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As it was coming up to Mother's day I made some cushions that seemed apt for the occasion.</div>
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Easter break then saw me and my daughter jet over to Sacramento in California for a long overdue visit to stay with a friend who lives there. Last time we went was summer 2010 and whilst we travelled down to London Heathrow and flew via Calgary in Canada, this time we decided to travel from our local airport at Norwich here in East Anglia and from there it was a transfer at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam for an 11 hour flight to Los Angeles, before transferring to Sacramento for our 3rd and final flight. It was a long day as we were up and ready to leave Lowestoft at 4 am and we landed in Sacramento at 3.30 pm which was 11.30 pm back here in England. We certainly don't do anything by halves, but it saved my husband a 6 hour road trip to Heathrow Airport and back home again.</div>
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Unlike last time when we visited and were stopped by the Highway Patrol, this time we introduced ourselves over a Mexican and after a long 4 year wait, Victoria was finally able to get her first Frozen Yoghurt which she had been waiting for.</div>
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And New.....I am Lisa Wilson on the left, and on the right is also Lisa Wilson</div>
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Last time, when we went to California we did a road trip with my friend Jackie. During that time we visited Yosemite National Park and South Lake Tahoe. This time we decided to travel north up Highway 1 and head for Mendocino County, staying in Mendocino itself. For those who can remember Angela Lansbury in 'Murder She Wrote' Mendocino was the setting for the fictional 'Cabot Cove' in the long running series.<br />
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Whilst we were in Mendocino County we also visited Fort Bragg and Glass Beach. Used previously as a dumping site, it is now a visitor attraction with all the glass that was dumped smoothed out by the sea and mingling with the stones.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">All in all, we had a great time over in Sacramento and are planning to revisit next year for the Spring break. A 4 year delay was too long to wait. It was soon time fly home to England via Portland, Oregan en route to Amsterdam again. Our return journey was 20 hours long but it was worth it.</span></div>
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I have now missed two weekends of blogging, the first was due to a family bereavement and the second was being really busy with redecorating our front room. In fact in the past couple of months we have been busy doing the hall, 2 flights of stairs and 2 landings with the use of scaffolding. Unfortunately, with one flight of stairs with this being a Victorian house the stairs were too narrow compared to the top flight built on as a loft conversion, health and safety went out of the window and we ended up propping one leg with a pile of books.</div>
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Even though decorating has taken up much of our time, I have also been working on Heavy Going Grizzly. I love seeing the stitching taking over on the blank aida and am getting used to the different shades of browns used. I am also spurring myself on to get it completed and do a bit more of the BIG project. For years I couldn't start a cross stitch before completing the current one but I have to admit having a change around is making me WANT to get back to it.<br />
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I also bit the bullet this week and signed up for a Futures course at college and have started Introduction to Dress Making. There is so much more I want to learn on my sewing machine and feel apprehensive on doing. The first week was talking about different material and bout some of the signs used on the patterns and we ended up doing a basic skirt. When it came to inserting a zip on the garment, this was my worst nightmare. I have to admit when it comes to zips I usually pass the buck and get somebody else to do it, but I did it, albeit with a little bulge at the bottom which I am going to see if I can rectify. Next session will be starting our garments, and a fun time was spent shopping for the materials needed. I was lucky as most of the important materials needed such as dressmaking scissors, pins, tape measure, dressmakers chalk and seam ripper is already owned. All I needed was a pattern, fabric(s) thread etc. I finally decided on 2 patterns, one to start at college and one to do at home at the end of the course.<br />
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Over the past week the news has been dominated by the bad weather both here in the UK and in America. We have had flooding and quite a lot of America has been gripped by snow and sub zero temperatures, which hasn't provided a lot of people with the best start in 2014. I hope people who read my blog have not been affected too much by the extreme weather.</div>
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This past week I have not had chance to do much at all, last Sunday I came down with flu big time and spent 3 days in bed with no energy whatsoever. I am fortunate though, being a foster carer with my husband also allows me time (flu permitting) to work from home making cushions in between the daily school run which we share and meetings. </div>
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Nevertheless, whilst ill, I did get the chance to surf the net for something to do and I found a really interesting site called Planet Handmade which can be found at <a href="http://www.planethandmade.net/" target="_blank">http://www.planethandmade.net/</a>. Reading some of their blogs, one piece that caught my eye on their 'A Return To Cottage Industry' blog on 29th August 2013 was that National Statistics published 16th April 2013, 2.5 million people in the UK now run business from home, representing 52% of UK small businesses using. However, Planet Handmade do point out that this may not include craft businesses operating under the VAT Threshold I can remember learning about the Cottage Industries leading into the Industrial Revolution and enjoyed studying that period when I did an Access Course at college prior to going to University a few years ago.<br />
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What I love about that era was the different skills used creating items prior to the Spinning Jenny and industrial Britain with mass producing factories. Whilst industrialisation had its good points, helping to shape the way we live today, some skills were in danger of being lost forever. Fast forward 3 centuries and the modern day handmade crafting is very much prevalent ensuring that these skills live on. <br />
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Whilst its easy to go into town or go on-line and shop at big named stores, to me it has turned into a bore and lacks gift satisfaction. My daughter told me and my husband once that she loves looking carefully for presents for family and friends, preferring to purchase something that the recipient would love rather than just getting something off a store's shelf.<br />
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Like me, she loves to wander round craft stalls and has dabbled a bit in card making. Yes, there can be a huge argument that factory made is cheaper, especially with today's shaky economy with budgets constantly being cut, against hand crafted items when you put into context the amount of time, materials and the satisfaction of creating something personal for somebody and keeping skills alive such as jewellery making, knitting, ceramics, etc for me personally, that wins my vote. <br />
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My mantra is you give gifts with love and when you buy handmade your gift is made with love, also for personalised items they are unique to the person receiving them. With my cushions I do always worry that there is something that my customers will not like with regards to the finished article but then the immense satisfaction I get when they are pleased with the finished piece totally outweighs the time I spend creating it. For me cross stitch is an enjoyable past-time and my chill out time and whilst I enjoy what I am doing I feel fortunate that I can branch out with my own little cottage industry.</div>
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A week later I am finally getting back to good health and have spent a couple of evenings cross stitching Heavy Going Grizzly. So far you can see the shape of one of his ears and I started on both his eyes so he could start to see. I think this evening will see some more of him take shape especially as there are no dreaded confetti stitches in this chart.<br />
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So 2013 has come to a close and a New Year is upon us. Welcome to 2014 and I wonder what it will bring for me with my stitching, business and home life. Looking back to the post I did last year it looks as though I have only managed to stick to one of my resolutions which is sad but I suppose ACTUALLY sticking to one is better than none.<br />
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Instead of making resolutions this year, looking on the internet I found a quote by Lao Tzu . I do love motivational quotes,<i> </i>especially as starting up Created With Stitches has been a journey with many steps, hurdles and learning curves; and continues to do so. Whilst the fostering is undertaken by both me and my husband, looking back at all the photos of the cushions I have made, I am really pleased that this is something I can say <i>"I did that myself"</i>, whilst continuing with a relaxing hobby through cross stitch. However, stitching aside, in our own life's course, we all have a long journey. I hope for everybody that their own individual journey becomes easier throughout the coming year.<br />
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As for the coming year, now its time to start planning for Valentine's Day and Mother's Day, especially as over here in England it will be on 15th March. Straight after Christmas Day we did notice the supermarkets were already filling the shelves and advertising Easter Eggs (and I still have loads of Christmas Chocolate left). So far I have started designing some small valentines cushions and will then move onto some medium sized ones too ready to advertise for sale.<br />
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Over the Christmas period, I was busy stitching..........sandbags on my sewing machine. My daughter had a school project to make a World War 1 trench and I was cutting up a supermarket jute bag and stitching squares stuffed with wadding to help her out. I also ended up making barbed wire for her from some picture wire and then cutting smaller pieces of wire to wrap around the long piece. However, I did turn into a victim of my own making when it came to wrapping the barbed wire into circles. <br />
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On my other stitching, I have now started Heavy Going Grizzly. Its been sitting in my cupboard for a number of years and since we have been redecorating our hall and landing we have slowly sold off all the horse prints we had on the landing. Downstairs now hold copies of my step-daughter's artwork on canvas and up the stairs (well 2 flights of stairs) due to the size of our house hold my cross stitches completed over the years. We also had a mirror on our landing but that has also gone now and a space keeps reminding me to get on with another cross stitch to fill the gap. I will start posting pictures of it as I make progress on it. Perhaps that can be a New's Year's Resolution.......to get it completed before the end of 2014!!<br />
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Yet again its been a while since I last posted on here. Since then things have been busy in the Wilson Household and for Created with Stitches.</div>
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Early December for my business saw me stitching away like made creating cushions for a pop up shop. This was an idea from my local Bank where I have a business account for all small business customers to advertise and promote their business. </div>
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Whilst there is a big push for handmade items to be sold on sites such as Etsy, Folksy, Not on the High Street, the advantages pop up shops can bring can help to promote the items for sale without long term financial commitment on rents and bills etc. This provided me with the opportunity of market research, talking to people about their views, and spreading the word with business cards of my name and brand with potential sales, which did happen. More about pop up shop opportunities can be found (especially here in the UK and within the London area) on <a href="http://www.startupbritain.com/" target="_blank">www.startupbritain.com</a>. All in all it was a productive day with plenty of business cards given out, more Facebook likes and I even managed to sell quite a few cushions. Now I have to start building up stock again.</div>
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At the moment, I am relying on building up word of mouth I am also rolling out online sales on my website <a href="http://www.createdwithstitches.co.uk/" target="_blank">www.createdwithstitches.co.uk</a> and will be venturing out again with another pop up shop and craft fairs in 2014. Since my last post (a couple of months ago) here is a sample of all the stitching I have been completing. </div>
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All in all, my biggest fear was that people would find the prices too high for the various sizes advertised, however the majority of people accepted the amount of work put in and uniqueness along with everything being hand made were happy with the costings.<br />
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Along with all my stitching its also been busy here in the Wilson Household with the run up and during Christmas. Buying and wrapping Christmas presents, visiting my step-son and his wife, with my husband and our own two teenagers up in Sheffield for the weekend and collecting one of our young people from Leicester University en route back home to Lowestoft on the way home to stay with us for Christmas. As usual it was also busy at the start of the month with us decorating to produce this years Wilson Wonderland with 9 stockings on the fireplace (as our dog Evie has to be included). Wrapping took ages for 6 children and young people along with my parents presents (and my dad's presents for my mum). 9 dozen mince pies were cooked along with 7 dozen sausage rolls<br />
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I am in desperate need of a lesson on how to use Twitter. Don't get me wrong, I am not bothered about using technology, in fact I must be one of the first people in our family to purchase new technology that's out. When it comes to Facebook, I can use that easily, Pinterest I am getting used to - uploading new photos of cushions created, even creating a website for my online business........but Twitter........I feel such a twit over it!!!! Am I the only one?</div>
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Like Facebook, I have both a personal account and an account for Created with Stitches, but I struggled with not only my personal Twitter account but also the account I set up for Created with Stitches, that I deleted the Created with Stitches account. One person I do know who is well used to (Twittering?) is Anabel, one of our ex-looked after <strike>children</strike> young person who Twitters away constantly. Now she is away at university, it looks like I am going to have to wait until the Christmas break when she returns home for Christmas to have a lesson off her.....and hope I can master it and get my Business Twitter account back up and running again. <br />
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<u>Cushions completed</u><br />
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This week, I have been busy making more cushions to upload onto my website <a href="http://www.createdwithstitches.co.uk/" target="_blank">www.createdwithstitches.co.uk</a> and my Facebook page. Along with this, I have also used this week to revamp my website to give a more professional feel to it and have added some photos of them. My aim was to be able to take them into the garden yesterday afternoon (when I started to write my blog) to photograph them in natural light, but unfortunately over here in England we were expecting Jude to blow over the southern and eastern parts of the country so I had to wait until today.<br />
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This week has also seen me manage to get some time on my big project. I have to admit I am finding the last part on the left hand side a bit tedious so have moved onto the middle working my way down. Last night I managed to get 500 stitches done and if I can manage my time effectively I will soon have the remainder of both Ben and Natalie stitched. I'm looking forward to seeing how much more I can complete by next week, whilst I aim to post a new blog post on Sundays it is now looking like being a Monday supplement.</div>
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This week has been tough, everything has seemed to go wrong with kids coming down ill, misbehaving, totally taking no notice of anything Steve and I have said. Whoever said about working children and animals was totally right and this week I have felt that I should have taken notice. However, by Friday evening, just in time for the weekend the household descended into peace and tranquility. I suppose looking back, now it is peaceful, I would not change a thing - well sometimes I might.<br />
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On top of my Christmas orders for cushions, I also had an order for a birthday cushion via Facebook on a local crafts page. Combining a busy family life with my hard working husband, illness and meetings regarding some of our looked after children, the end result for Heidi's birthday cushion came out on time and provided me with another happy customer, a happy recipient and more likes on my Facebook page.<br />
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This week, I finally got out my large cross stitch and have restarted it. Although it had been put away in a safe place, it was beginning to look a bit grubby, so with fingers well and truly crossed, I put it into a pillow case and into the washing machine on a hand wash on a 30 degree temperature. I have to admit, I was really worried on how it would turn out, but the end result was brilliant. Victoria's christening dress and the shirts Stephen and (half of) Ben's shirt came out white again. </div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">It’s been ages since I last wrote on my blog, and such a lot has happened. The first half of this year was a rollercoaster of emotions where life will never be the same again following last December. Even cross stitch took a back seat and now I have begun to pick up my needle with my business, I am getting into the frame of mind to continue with my photo cross stitch.</span></div>
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During the summer holiday, whilst the kids were off school, we undertook a big road trip in the motorhome. Travelling from Suffolk to Cumbria, then we headed onto Somerset for a long weekend and catch up with two of my brother-in-laws. From Somerset we travelled up to Derbyshire before heading to the North Norfolk Coast to round off the summer. </div>
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There are a lot of photos showing where and what we have been up too since my last update and the stitching I have been getting back into. Hopefully soon I will be able to show more updates of the big cross stitch I am <strike>still </strike> sorry going to continue on shown in previous blogs.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A day at the Beatrix Potter Attraction, Peter Rabbit</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mrs Tiggywinkle, I sometimes think I am like her with all the washing that needs doing in our busy household<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bakewell, Derbyshire, home of the famouse Bakewell Tarts......</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">.......and puddings</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the seals were so tame, however.......</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...all I could think about was the penguins in Madagascar......'Smile and wave boys, smile and wave'</td></tr>
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I cannot say that the trip went without hitch, instead of me doing some stitching whilst I was away, I was the one who ended up being stitched on after cutting my leg open whilst on a walk and having to be taken by ambulance to Lancaster Royal Infirmary to be operated on. 10 stitches later and a joke from the surgeon that he had stitched my leg in the shape of Lake Windermere as a memento I was able to return to the motor-home the next day after being admitted only to return to a flooded out campsite and awning. </div>
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Following our road trip, it was back to school for the kids for 2 weeks before we had another holiday away, this time we flew out to Rhodes to see my step-son and his fiancée get married. The wedding was held in Kalithea Springs and was a beautiful ceremony. Even the bride was creative making a brooch bouquet. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View of Rhodes from our resort</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kalithea Spa, a beautiful setting that the photos do not do it justice</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the entrances to Rhodes Old Town</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me and Victoria nicknamed him Spike</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Steve and me after a total week of relaxation</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ben at the wedding</td></tr>
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Stitching wise, I have been busy, stitching a cushion for one of our young people who have lived with us for 6 years and is now off to university, a 2nd wedding anniversary cushion, a wedding cushion and starting to get stock done for a craft fair for Christmas on top of Christmas orders for presents. I am currently working on another cushion which will be revealed after the recipient has received it. All this is happening on top of trying to de-clutter the house ready for a major redecoration. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I thought this was so apt, , even though I am married myself all I know of anniversaries is another year. I actually learnt that a 2nd wedding anniversary is actually cotton.</td></tr>
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What also did not help me this week, on getting more stitching completed was firstly spending a day or two with my DH, Steve pulling up the hall carpet. Our house was built in the late 1800's and still has the original cast iron fireplaces in most of the rooms. We decided that the hall carpet needed to go and were thinking about tiling the hallway. However, when we pulled the carpet and the underlay we did notice that the floorboards were in really good condition so we have started to sand them down to varnish instead. A dusty and long job but after the first lot of sanding they are coming up pretty well. Another problem was contracting conjunctivitis in both eyes and having to rely on eyedrops and bathing them each day.</div>
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With regards to my cushions, I have received another 3 orders, a birth, a wedding and a verse one so I am also going to be busy completing them. Last month I also had a letter published in one of the UK magazines. Since it started I have been purchasing Craftseller which promotes handmade crafts here in the UK for those who already do so and for those who want to learn new crafts.</div>
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Many of my friends both here in the UK and in America have been experiencing extreme snow conditions. Until last night, here in Lowestoft on the east coast we only had an 'icing sugar' sprinkling of snow. Whilst we have had heavy frost (which always intensifies when I am on the school run), we usually seem to be the forgotten area. This morning I woke up to find 2 inches of snow outside, with 6 kids in 4 different schools and college (in 3 different towns) slowly news trickled in on the local radio. Checking both Norfolk and Suffolk county websites for school closures it turned out that all of them ended up having a 'snow'day which saved me driving. Whilst I have driven in the French Alps many times in the winter, I hate driving around Lowestoft in snow. We also look like having a very white weekend here as more snow is expected especially on Sunday.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07326436116255855916noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399116380393974555.post-85821817237095128002013-01-09T22:29:00.000+00:002013-01-09T22:29:35.291+00:00Goodbye 2012 ~ Hello 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;">Its now week 2 of 2013 and I haven't written on my blog for a good couple of months now. Whilst I could say that I have been so busy, that would be a total lie. For the past year and a half, my beautiful step-daughter has been battling cancer with great courage, however towards the end of 2012 her health started to deteriorate. Unfortunately, during December Natalie passed away just 6 days short of her 27th birthday. Although we, as a family had accepted that this was going to happen, it's still been a shock, however we feel blessed everyday that she was in our lives and that her memory will live on in her artwork that is hung around the house. Natalie did have one quote from Mark Twain that summed her up perfectly:</span></div>
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<br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130;">“Sing like no one's listening,<br />love like you've never been hurt, <br />dance like nobody's watching, <br />and live like its heaven on earth.”</span></div>
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<br /><br />For Natalie it inspired her to take each day one step at a time, not to worry about the past or future, to remind her that each day was precious, limited and unique. When talking in conversation on the telephone to a social worker we work with through our fostering she said she found when people passed away she looked at their qualities in life and has tried to incorporate one into her life. At the minute, I am still thinking what special quality I will incorporate into my life.</div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">At the minute I am still plodding on with my big cross stitch, obviously this is going to be more poignant, especially as I still have Natalie's face and body to do. I have worked out I still have roughly 42,000 stitches to completion and I am going to crack on to complete it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">In the meantime though, I did complete 2 more cushions, one for an ex looked after child for her new foster carers as a Christmas present and one for my DH as I wanted something special for him and from the heart. I did have an order from a local brewery, and whilst the majority of it is stitched I have to work out how to make material hops inplace of the usual flowers for them. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Towards the end of the year, following Natalie's passing, I did post on my online groups some New Year's resolutions. However, yet again I haven't been able to keep any of them, at the moment, but I am now as I feel more comfortable with them.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">1 Make time to correspond more to my online groups.<br />~~~~~~~~~~<br /> 2 Get my big cross stitch on the way to completion of all the kids and<br />especially get the remainder of Ben and Natalie on material.<br />~~~~~~~~~~<br /> 3 Continue with making my cushions and start an online shop and, as my<br /> family keep telling me, to believe in myself and my achievements. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">So for now, I have loads to get started on, but will leave with something different from the usual. Take some time out to listen to the lyrics and have a healthy and happy 2013 xxx</span></div>
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<u><br /></u><span style="color: #4c1130;">Recently, I read an interesting article in one of our newspapers over here in on how needlework is helping prisoners serving long sentences. A social enterprise and charity called Fine Cell Work sees volunteers going into prisons and teaching prisoner’s to make intricate needlepoint, quilts, cushions and wall hangings. There were mixed views on the comments made with regards to the article, especially as the work advertised was on the pricy side, however when putting it into context, the amount of time we put into each completed cross stitch or other needlecrafts, along with the materials would we not be making a justified costing. The full article can be found on </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/sep/12/women-teaching-cross-stitch-murderers"><span style="color: #4c1130;">http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/sep/12/women-teaching-cross-stitch-murderers</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130;">. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Being a firm believer that cross stitching helps us to become more relaxed and calmer, this must have a positive influence in helping to rehabilitate some prisoners, many of whom have come from backgrounds of abuse and violence in the home, family criminality, substance abuse problems and even living arrangements and experiences of care. To see some of the work advertised, check out </span><a href="http://www.finecellwork.co.uk/"><span style="color: #4c1130;">http://www.finecellwork.co.uk/</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130;">. Furthermore check out some quotes made by cross stitchers on the therapeutic aspects of cross stitch on </span><a href="http://www.stitchlinks.com/pdfsNewSite/quotes/QUOTES%20IV%20-%20About%20cross%20stitching.pdf"><span style="color: #4c1130;">http://www.stitchlinks.com/pdfsNewSite/quotes/QUOTES%20IV%20-%20About%20cross%20stitching.pdf</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Over here in England, I have been a regular reader of Craftseller magazine, especially since starting my cushions. This magazine provides various craft ideas to make and sell which are copyright free for crafters, and with the copyright debate that has been occurring over the past couple of months on various cross stitching groups this month’s edition provided a guide to copyright clarity. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Steve Wright, who wrote the article explained lifespan terms, trademarks, ways of infringing and using big name fabrics. For example, its finite lifespan varies from country to country. Copyright over here in England is protected up to 70 years following the death of the creator, Steve’s example uses quotes and images of Oscar Wilde which can be freely quoted by a crafter. On the other hand, using his Marilyn Monroe example, anything to do with her cannot be used.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">In addition to this, during the summer there was a lot of debate with regards to the use of the Olympic rings and the Union Jack for the 60th Diamond Jubilee for the Queen and the Olympics held over here in the UK. Whilst the Olympic rings are classed as a trademark, the Union Jack is classified as being in the public domain and can be freely used. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Last Saturday I finally did it and collected my degree at my graduation ceremony. The only downside was that I could only take 2 guests with me, so Ben and Victoria attended with me. Steve stayed at home with all the rest of the kids in the house. The ceremony was lovely but it was freezing cold with hail outside from time to time.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07326436116255855916noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399116380393974555.post-20805285818819530472012-10-24T22:30:00.003+01:002012-10-24T22:30:53.627+01:00The family has grown, Meari's surprise & WIP todate<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The morning after the night before, Anabel was in full swing cooking breakfast for everyone</td></tr>
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We have also recently expanded from 6 people in the house to 8 following two more young people placed with us and I have to admit it feels like the Walton’s at times all sitting around the dinner table at night, working out logistics on who is using the bathroom both upstairs and down, working out showers etc and the school runs to 3 different schools in 3 different towns. This has also been harder as Steve has been ill and unable to drive until now. This Saturday is also going to be busy as I will be attending my graduation at Norwich Cathedral. Whilst I am looking forward to it I am also slightly nervous and Ben and Victoria will be accompanying me as I can only take 2 guests with me.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Like a painting on canvas, material comes alive in stitches</td></tr>
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Another baby arrived recently and I was asked to make another baby cushion for Imogen who arrived into this world on September 26th. I am now waiting for a baby boy to arrive as I want to see what it comes out like in blue (hint hint)!!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Welcome to the world Imogen</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The space is slowly being filled in</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Current situation on my progress</td></tr>
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On this note, all I can say is thank you for looking and your comments left not only keep me motivated but are extremely appreciated xxAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07326436116255855916noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399116380393974555.post-48410259660745786172012-09-30T20:34:00.000+01:002012-09-30T20:34:26.707+01:00Time has flown by and the blog giveaway winner is....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Time has a habit of going faster than planned. Everything I had intended to do since my last blog has gone out of the window, due to yet again, the same young person going missing once again. This Tuesday will see us moving her on to another placement where the main disruption within her life will not be around and she has the potential to turn her life around. Life would be so much simpler if we could just move the whole house to another location as she is not a bad person, but we cannot help her to move her life forward where we live which is a shame as we will all miss her.<br />
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<br />I have been busy though, continuing with my cross stitch, when time has allowed, and whilst not much has been done on it every little bit of time stitching it helps and I do notice a difference, especially when looking back at earlier blogs.</div>
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<br />Cushion wise, at the moment I am currently completing a Christmas present, with the wording A horse is an angel without wings, all I have to do is the horse shoes at the bottom and the shadowing and then its complete, along with one for Steve for his birthday on Tuesday....why do I set myself such short deadlines. An order came through for a baby girl cushion via a message on facebook, although I am debating on using the Monday’s child rhyme on the bottom as the baby was born on a Wednesday and I do not think Wednesday’s child is full of woe on the bottom will be appropriate. </div>
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This leads onto the news I also have a cushion in progress for the lucky winner of my giveaway. The lucky winner pulled out of the bag by our Anabel is Meari, so congratulations Meari, I do not want to show it on here as I would like it to be a surprise for you. If you could email your address to <a href="mailto:lisa.wilson35@btinternet.com">lisa.wilson35@btinternet.com</a> the cushion will be winging its way across the pond to you in the next week and I hope you will like the finished piece.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07326436116255855916noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399116380393974555.post-32289335367315765242012-09-18T16:09:00.000+01:002012-09-18T16:09:06.674+01:00Back from the wilderness<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After a six week break I have finally returned to blogging again. Since the summer holidays we have had Steve’s daughter in hospital for a major operation, a great-niece born into the family and lots of work with a teenager who likes to go missing and a house in uproar. However, things are changing. This weekend saw 2 of our looked after children having contact with their families so Steve and I were able to take advantage of the situation and have a night away in a hotel, whilst my mother kept an eye on the other 3 at home. Just that one night away completely recharged our batteries whilst having some quality time to together, which we are going to have to do more often. The last time we were able to do this was February last year and then 5 years prior to that. To top it all, the 3rd series of Downton Abbey has started and I love that program, makes Sunday television something to look forward to!!!</span></div>
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<br />On August 27th we welcomed the safe arrival of Angelina Danielle into the family weighing 6 lb 10.5 ozs, the next generation on my side of the family. This also meant getting into stitching mode again, with another cushion to celebrate her birth ordered. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Angelina Danielle Bessey</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Due to the success of cushion orders, this also spurred me on to create a page on Facebook to advertise the cushions already made. The Facebook page is called Nabucco – Personalised Stitches and is building future orders and likes from friends, so take a look and let me know what you think. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now life is slowly returning to ‘normality’ (whatever that is) I have another baby cushion to make and 5 cushions for a local brewery with other baby orders on the go and am already planning other creations. However, I would not have started any of this without the support and encouragement from everyone who did my initial survey back in March and all the great comments I have received on my blog on my cushions. So, I am going to do my first giveaway of a cushion to a lucky reader. The draw will take place on Sunday September 30th at 12 noon GMT and a cushion will be made and sent to the lucky winner. To enter please leave a comment on my blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With all that has been happening here in the Wilson household, I have still had time to continue with my WIP. After spending time dealing with missing kids, and everything else that has been occurring I forgot how relaxing I find cross stitch and I now feel more motivated and ready to challenge anything. I have to admit, this is a big project, and I have bitten off more than I can chew, but slowly and steadily the wallpaper background is coming on with the dreaded confetti stitches. My aim each night is to do at least 100 stitches and watch it grow. Considering the baby will be 12 on Saturday, I think I need to knuckle down and get it completed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On that note, it's great to be back stitching and blogging again !!!</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07326436116255855916noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399116380393974555.post-24744172363849557902012-08-05T21:37:00.001+01:002012-08-05T21:37:40.656+01:00One holiday down and continuing with the stitching<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Well it has been a couple of weeks since I updated my blog, and I have to admit I have been feeling guilty over it.<br />We spent the last couple of weeks away on holiday in the motorhome, the first of 3 trips away this summer and I have to admit we all enjoyed it. The weather was also an advantage giving us the opportunity to have water fights, which at first I was not involved in, however after Steve told the kids to get me, with him hiding behind the car it was a case of walking into the camp shop dripping wet and buying the biggest water gun they had and then getting my revenge. They say revenge is best served cold, and boy the water was!!!!!<br />
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This Wednesday sees us travelling again to another site for 10 nights and we are hoping that things go well again, both weather wise and enjoyment wise.</div>
<br />I did manage to continue with my cross stitch whilst away, the satellite system in the motorhome was playing up, so we spent a few nights getting Olympic fever in the club house with my stitching in progress. I have to admit though I did take the big cross stitch and whilst I managed to complete page 4, albeit leaving a corner free so I can put my initials and date of completion at the end in this did cause a bit of a stir from some people over the complexity over it. Now I am completing page 1 and I dislike this page as the wallpaper we inherited from the previous owners was stripy and this is causing a lot of confetti stitches. However, each night I was able to complete 100 stitches in 10 x 10 block squares.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally one corner completed</td></tr>
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<br />Victoria asked me to make her friend a cushion for her birthday yesterday after we traipsed around town unsuccessfully to find something for her. So on our return home from town I spent last night designing and stitching and managed to complete the cushion this afternoon. I just hope that Cerys likes it when Victoria goes round there tomorrow for her birthday sleepover. When our kids were younger it was so much easier to buy a birthday present for their friends, but now, especially for 11 and 12 year old girls... I am at a total loss.<br />
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<br />I have also been given another 3 baby orders a wedding order and 2 present orders which will mean that I will be busy on the long weekend’s home. Friends have started putting up flyers for me and orders are escalating. This is getting as exciting for me and it feels as though orders are speeding up as quickly as the British athletes are collecting gold medals in the Olympics, especially with the limited time at home this month, whilst I can take my cross stitch away with me.......I draw the line at taking my sewing machine away with me.<br />
<br />Hopefully, though my main progess to show when I return from this next holiday away will be my current work in progress. </div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07326436116255855916noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399116380393974555.post-58268327162773728482012-07-15T23:17:00.002+01:002012-07-15T23:17:31.149+01:00Another project completed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I finally completed my latest project, this time its for our local vicar who is moving from this parish in early August to another parish with his family after 15 years. One change I made was to use varigated threads which surprisingly were cheaper than DMC or Anchor threads. Compared to their £ 0.90 I only paid £ 0.30 per skein. I also changed the design of the corner flowers after playing around with material however, stitching them onto the cushion at the end was more frustrating than on previous ones. Only trouble is the family leaves when we are away, so the cushion is hidden away at my parent's home, so I am taking a risk putting it on here at the moment. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The top part after playing around with the varigated threads</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The dreaded shields and boat that is on the church sign outside</td></tr>
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I have also been surfing the net to find cheaper and different material. One difficulty I have found is whilst materials are cheaper, you never know what you are going to receive and what the quality is like, the other option is buying locally and paying more money. One place I did find for material, who actually provides free samples is <a href="http://www.myfabrics.co.uk/">www.myfabrics.co.uk</a> so I have some samples on order and am waiting to see whether I can save some money and have a decent purchase. Whilst our local shops, all 2 of them have a good selection, to get a more wider choice the nearest place is in Norwich 26 miles away and I never seem to get the time to go there. My DH, Steve says that I have an expensive hobby, my argument is that whilst I am stitching I keeping busy and not raiding the cupboards and picking on food, especially chocolate.</div>
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<u>High School and the Summer Holidays</u><br />
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This past week has also seen our daugher leave Primary school and she will be starting High school tomorrow and my son will be beginning his final year there. Whilst she is looking forward to going, she does have mixed feelings and it seems to be the end of an era. However, we just have this one more week and then the kids finish school for the summer holidays. I just hope the relentless rain we are getting eases off for at least the next 6 weeks with just a light shower at night especially as we will be away for the majority of the time. One thing is certain though, whilst we are away I won't be stitching cushions as much so I am at the minute so I will not be spending money on my pastime, not unless I see any kits or charts!!!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">But we did not return home without some drama affecting us. Our youngest looked after child came down with spots on the Friday night, which at first we thought was due to heat rash. However, on the Saturday after getting an emergency appointment with the local doctor it was confirmed he had come down with Chicken Pox. Whilst our own two had already suffered Chicken Pox our two other young people had not and were very wary and cautious. Luckily, no more outbreaks in the household have developed. The other issue was our washing machine, which after the 6th load it started to spew out washing powder mid load, luckily it is still working.</span></div>
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So today, I have spent my wedding anniversary starting my next cushion project, on behalf of my mum for our local vicar. He and his family are leaving to go to another parish after 15 years. The hardest part was the shields and boat symbol on the church to design but hopefully, this will turn out ok when I stitch it.</div>
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A close up of the dreaded shields and boat<br />
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By tonight, when I go to bed, it will be stitched or almost stitched up ready for me to get the material and whizz up a cushion on the sewing machine. For the stitching I purchased some different threads to use other than the DMC that I usually purchase, so it will be interesting to see how the final result turns out. My mother chose the brown threads to go with his furniture. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Will be strange to think my youngest will be starting high school in September, and our son will be in his final year there. Victoria is going to spend the last week of the current school term at high school with Ben to get used to the change. So, I now know my place for the next week......stitching and less time on the internet. </span></div>
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This past week and a half, I have been off the internet, and guiltily hiding away at home away from my dad each time he has come up to the house to walk our dog, Evie. I do extend a big apology to those who sent me comments on my blog which I only now got around to publishing. The reason???? Father’s Day last Sunday!!!<br />
<br />A couple of years ago my dad was diagnosed with diabetes, so each Christmas and Birthday have given us a dilemma...what to get him. At Christmas Steve and I arranged with the kids to buy an empty basket and fill it up with diabetes foods, shower gels, dvd and a small bottle of whiskey slipped in. So, why do I get the ideas late into the day, leaving me with little time of the perfect present for him, that is sugar free, not tasteless and not the usual presents we seem to purchase because we cannot think of anything else.<br />
<br />My brainwave was to complete one of my work in progress, which had been tucked away for 4 years, 3 labrador puppies chewing an old boot.....on the Thursday before Father’s Day. <br />
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On Friday, I sat hidden away in my bedroom from 9.30 am until 10 pm with a few breaks in between. I heard my dad come into the house to take Evie out for a walk and when he telephoned me on my mobile phone I had to switch the television off and guiltily pretend that I was out.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Saturday, Steve and I usually take the kids out for dinner, its our one day a week we don't cook and I sat in the pub with my cross stitch, stitching like crazy. I did get on well, but as we had one young person sleeping out with friends, one at his family home for contact, I had a vodka or two. Trouble was, I then had a telephone call from my brother to say he was celebrating his divorce at our local pub that night, so the stitching went out of the window and I joined him with a few of us getting through 4 bottles of champagne to celebrate his new found freedom.<br />
Sunday, I did eventually get on with the cross stitch, albeit towards the end of the day when I felt I would be able to concentrate. I felt guilty when I just gave my dad a card, saying that his present would be with him later and regretted going out the previous night.<br />
After stitching from Monday, today, I finally managed to complete all the stitching and backstitch at 4 pm, and whilst Steve cooked dinner, I cut my template out and started stitching on the machine. 9 pm tonight I was able to take the finished article down to him as my parents are going away tomorrow for the weekend and he loves it.<br />
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<br />So, now I have 5 months to plan for his birthday and 6 months for Christmas.....although, what’s the betting that I yet again leave it until the last minute!!!!!!<br />
<br />As for my other work in progress, that has taken a back seat, although we are going away again in the motorhome on Saturday, for a week’s holiday (free holiday I won) it will be coming with me and whilst the kids are at school during the day I will be relaxing and stitching.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07326436116255855916noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399116380393974555.post-20459332585933182072012-06-10T22:52:00.001+01:002012-06-10T22:52:07.156+01:00Back from a week away....but still managed to do some stitching!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Lucida Calligraphy;">Whilst we were there, we met up with another couple we know, and also had Steve's step-daughter come to visit for the day. She had the best of both worlds as she had us to see and also George and Molly, with their dog Fly. She did find the over head cab at the front a bit rock when she went to have a nap, although her and Victoria enjoyed sitting up there to get a bit of peace and quiet from the boys.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Yesterday and today it was good to see the wind and rain subside and the sun come out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On our arrival home, our rhododendron bush <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>my mother purchased for our first wedding anniversary has flowered. The standing joke as been what was going to last longer, the bush or our marriage. Bearing in mind I am not green fingered and neither is Steve and whilst we have had our ups and downs, both bush and marriage are still going strong. <span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Next month we will be celebrating our 12th wedding anniversary.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Steve also surprised me yesterday when we went into town, after we had arrived home with a huge bunch of flowers. It certainly made up for the five loads of washing I had which had culminated from our stay away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">And finally, at home, its exam fever for the kids. One has AS levels exams, one has GCSE exams and another has mock GCSE exams. Trouble is for the boys it’s also coincided with the Euros 2012 and to them (and Steve) everything stops for football, even exam revision. </span><br />
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