Thursday, November 10, 2011

Cards and stitching, oh my!

I had a very productive and relaxing weekend last weekend!! I joined a couple of my friends from work and some friends of theirs for a scrapbooking weekend at a B&B about an hour out of town. There were six of us and we had a fantastic time! The others worked on scrapbook pages but I took the opportunity to make some cards, something I haven't done in a really long time. I so enjoyed it that it's all I did for the entire weekend, even though I had packed a couple of stitching projects into my bag!

Here is my work for the weekend: 34 cards!

2011 November Retreat

I also have a small stitching finish to share with you. I modified and stitched the Gingerbread Man fob from Cross Stitch Happy as an ornament for my needlecraft guild's donation of ornaments to our local Ronald MacDonald House. I'm really pleased with how it turned out!

Gingerbread Man ornament
Gingerbread Man ornament - Cross Stitch Happy
Stitched on 28ct Raw Cashel linen with DMC, WDW and Mill Hill beads.
Started October 22, 2011 and completed October 28, 2011

The colour is slightly off in the photo since it was already dark outside when I took the photo.

I have a 3-day weekend this weekend since it's Remembrance Day tomorrow. I have a few chores/errands I plan to take care of but hopefully I can get some stitching done, too!

4 comments:

Karen said...

Beautiful cards, Christine. Love the Gingerbread ornament, too! I'm glad you were able to get away for a nice relaxing weekend!

Veronica said...

Lovely cards and such a cute Gingerbread Man ornament. He's delightful.

Hugs,
Veronica.

Kath said...

Wow you have been busy Christine! Love the cars and your gingerbread ornie is very cute too.

Dani - tkdchick said...

What a gorgeous set of cards!

Congrats your gingerbread man is very cute!