The strangest wedding present ever?

Years ago, just after I finished my engineering course at college and before I started my university degree, I took a year out and moved to Italy. I lived in with a lovely family and my only job was to speak to the kids in English all of the time. Gaia was 10 and Andrea was 8. I loved my time there and it was quite sad to leave to take my place at uni.

We kept in touch over the years we managed to meet up a few times, the kids came to our wedding party in the UK and Gaia has been over here twice, the last time I got to meet her husband to be.

So, this weekend it was her wedding, I really wanted to go but lack of the old yen stopped us :o(

but we did make them an hmmm, original! present. Ebi-kun drew the picture first then I transferred it onto linen and embroidered it.

He gave the piece the title 'Monsters Of Love' and since Gaia and Luca love monsters I think it is quite apt.

The strangest wedding present that we received was a stunt kite from my uncle Simon, I still have no idea why! So, your turn to share, what was your oddest or most unusual wedding gift (if you are not married how about birthday gift?)

a little bit of stitching....

Due to the combination of the project I am working on and my business course there hasn't been a great amount of time for stitching recently, but I needed to make a gift for anew arrival so I whipped up this little fella with some of the scraps that were left over - you will have to wait to see his main gift, since it hasn't arrived yet!

I have also had a bit of embroidery on the go, I like to keep busy when I am watching TV at the end of the day but if I am working on one of my own designs I end up 'thinking' too much, I really needed some 'mindless' stitching. This is taken from the book Embroidery Effects by Jenny Hart of sublime stitching fame. There are a set of iron on transfers with the book. I embroidered it onto to linen but now have absolutely no idea what to do with it! Any suggestions?

One woman's trash is another woman's....

Treasure... and it comes in various forms. We had a box delivered yesterday full of crafty bits and bobs, ribbons, buttons, polystyrene eggs to name but a few items. All stuff that Sarah was getting rid of but the best part was 3 ziplock bags full of beautiful embroidery thread, the majority of which is unused!

Part of me wants to get out the hoop and get stitching but the 'little miss sensible' side of me says I can't play until I have finished my work. I know it looks like I haven't been doing much recently but that is because I haven't got anything I can share with you just yet. I am working on a BIG project and I am hoping that this week I can get all the techie-geekie side sorted so that I can pull it all together. It is a steep learning curve because I am using a load of new software and plug-ins and other such things. The project has been in the cards for quite a while but it wasn't until recently I figured out how I can put it all together to share with you. I am super excited about it and hope you will be too.....

stay tuned.....

(does anyone under 30 actually understand what that means?)