First post

of the new year! Happy New Year to everyone out there in Cyberspace. I hope it is good for you.

I know I've been slacking in the posting department again, and it's been ages since I looked at all my friends' blogs, so please accept my apologies. I've been laid up with a bad back which I pulled out at the end of last year. My own silly fault, but nevertheless a darned inconvenience.

My son had his birthday last week as well, can't believe he's 11 years old already! Where does the time go? I know, most of mine is spent stitching! In fact, I've been doing quite a bit as it's pretty much the only thing I've been able to do whilst laid on my back! Here are the tree ornaments I made before Christmas. I'm quite pleased with the way they came out. Dragon Dreams fans will recognise most of them as the Christmyth series. They were fun to make and they were well received too. I backed them with some lovely cream Christmassy fabric and a couple of them are edged with beads. I was impressed with the way the beading really finished the designs off and I'm thankful that I already have a lot of different colours of beads and found the ideal ones to match the threads I used.

I'm trying to finish a few designs this year, but it's going to be tricky since I have also committed myself to a RR on my group, and so far at least one exchange at EMS. There's also a lot of stitching for babies going on but I can't say too much about that just now. I've just challenged my sister to a SAL as well, since she has never stitched anything for me in the 14 years since I showed her how to cross stitch! It's about time I think! No idea what design we will be stitching yet, I thought I'd leave the choice to her as she isn't like me - I'll stitch anything that takes my fancy, she usually sticks to huge designs! We'll have to wait and see.

Anyway, I hope you all had a good Christmas and that this New Year brings you all you could wish for.

Thank you, also, to everyone who wished Ryan a happy birthday, it really made his day!