so how was your bank holiday weekend? I did the usual-weathers-not-great-so-lets-have-a-bit-of-a-clear-out-day and drank lots of tea. Dilly-dog helped of course and insisted on regular cuddle breaks ;)
I found some cross stitch that I designed years ago ... just a tiny elephant picture (I love elephants) ...
... I haven't done anything with it ... it was just in with a pile of cross stitch and embroidery that I had done ... anyway, I wondered if you may like to have a go so I made the pattern up last night ...
just right click - save image as - then you can print out from your computerI am not sure of the exact thread colours that I used back in 2002, but I am pretty sure they were Anchor.
Basically you need a light green, teal, lavender, pale pink, 4 shades of brown/grey (darkest for the border of the elephant), Ivory for the toes and tusk and a dark grey for the eye.
It is a very easy pattern with no half stitches and would be lovely for a child's circus bedroom!
I hope you like it, have fun and let me know if you make it!
I love butterflies ... so pretty, so delicate, so fragile
Beautiful and graceful, varied and
enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny
side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine.
~ Jeffrey Glassberg
The butterfly is a flying flower.
Love is like a butterfly - It goes where it pleases and it pleases wherever it goes.
Adding wings to caterpillars does not create butterflies -
it creates awkward and dysfunctional caterpillars.
Butterflies are created through transformation.
~ Stephanie Marshall
Happiness is a butterfly, which when
pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit
down quietly, may alight upon you.
~ Nathanial Hawthorne
Feel free to use this graphic anyway you want (just right click on it and save image as)
This weeks them is 'HOME' and what it means to us.
Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to.
~ John Ed Pearce
The light is what guides you home, the warmth is what keeps you there.
~ Ellie Rodriguez
It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home.
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
~ Jane Austen
Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway.
Feel free to use this graphic anyway you want (just right click on it and save image as)
There is nothing like a HUG ... I hope you agree:)
A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
~ Bil Keane
You can't wrap love in a box, but you can wrap a person in a hug
A hug delights and warms and charms,
that must be why God gave us arms.
A hug is a great gift - one size fits all, and it's easy to exchange.
A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance.
Feel free to use this graphic anyway you want (just right click on it and save image as)
I am off to my cousins wedding this weekend, so this weeks wording is all about marriage.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage
We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.
Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same.~ Emily Bronte
Feel free to use this graphic anyway you want (just right click on it and save image as)
I thought as we are having such a lovely Summer that that would be a great theme.
The perfect Summers day is with friends and flip-flops.
Friends make Summer sunnier and funnier.
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
~ James Dent
The tans will fade, but the memories will last forever.
I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.
~ L. M. Montgomery
Feel free to use this graphic anyway you want :)
... I haven't done anything with it ... it was just in with a pile of cross stitch and embroidery that I had done ... anyway, I wondered if you may like to have a go so I made the pattern up last night ... 
just right click - save image as - then you can print out from your computer
