Well, what a first day for my Blog. Now I need some advice here. I have received 20 messages from so many lovely people and I am not sure what the Blog ettiquette is. I was going to reply to each of the messages individually but as there are so many I thought I would just thank everyone here. If this is rude, please, please let me know. I was stunned to wake up today to so many warm welcomes and kind words. I was not surprised however to see my very special friend Carol was the first one to leave a message. So thank you all so much. I am still learning about this whole Blog thing so please bear with me as I learn as I go:) I did recognise a couple of people's names. One is Mel who is a fellow Aussie living in Dubai. Hi Mel. I hope all is well:) Another is Carina who visited the shop when she was in Australia last year. Carina, hopefully by the time you come back we will be in a lovely new shop. We hope to move into a lovely little cottage around the corner from where our current shop is. All going according to plan we will move in May. Fingers crossed that the local council approves our move. And finally, Katrina from New Zealand who I realised recently was also a friend of Carol's. What a small world we live in now thanks to the Internet. To everyone else, I look forward to getting to know you all and can't wait to see what everyone else is working on. I see everyone's Blog links are on Carol's site so I will be checking them all out and adding the links to my site (if that's ok?).
Ok, not a lot of stitching today but I want to share my Mother In Law's first finish for the year. Pictured above she stitched "Does My Bum Look Big In This?" I love this cute little hippo:)
Now as I mentioned yesterday one of my goals this year is to keep up with all SAL's and that includes the ones I started last year with Carol, so I got out Petal Fairy to finish. I thought I had done a lot more than I have with this but not to worry. It will go into my stitching rotation and I should get through it fairly quickly (I hope) . This is being stitched Silkweavers 32ct Summer Breeze Lugarna.
 Last year Bren and I were in the States on a business/holiday and were lucky enough to have the day in Boston with Carol and Mike. Because of a tight schedule we were only able to have the one day but we had such a good time. Hopefully next trip we will be able to spend more time with them. Here is a photo Mike took of Carol, Brendon (my hubby) and I at a pub in Boston). Fortunately my hair is now longer and I have lost some weight since this photo but it is a nice memory I thought I would share. Carol, as always looks great:) When I reach my goal weight I will post another photo of Bren and I:)
Well tommorrow is my day off so I plan to stitch all day so hopefully I will have some good progress photos in tommorrow's posting. Again, thanks so much for all the lovely comments:)
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Lovely photo, Karen :)
Petal Fairy is looking great! I love the fabric you are using too! This was a design that didn't really call to me when it was first released but I have seen a couple of WIP pics with it done on different hand-dyeds and I must admit it is becoming more appealing - lol!