Thursday

I was expecting rain all day there were storms and flooding in England and we had a dry day we went to Inverness shopping then we went to Ffords a camera shop in Beauly which my Hubby likes to visit, he bought a view finder for his panasonic GF1 as he hates looking at the screen on the back.

Wednesday

Today was wet so we had a lazy day, we went to the Potting shed at Inshriach Nursery which is fantastic tearoom who make the most wonderful home baked cakes, the tearoom has a viewing gallery overlooking a feeding station which has red squirrels visiting and a multitude of birds visiting. After lunch we went to Loch Inch to have a look at the Osprey nest then we went to the RSPB Loch Garten to see the osprey there.

Tuesday

Today we were lucky and had a clear warm day which was fortunate as we went up the findhorn valley to watch the wildlife, we saw a golden eagle been mobbed by a perigrine,last night we had been to a talk on the gems of the Gairngorms he showed us a picture of some stag horn moss which I managed to see as there was a group of people were looking at the flora.

Monday

Today started off overcast but dry the sun was out by the end of the day. We visited the RSPB reserve at Boat of Garten to watch the Ospreys she had 2 chicks just missed the male bring in a fish. We had lunch siting at the side of lock morlich and my hubby was lunch for the midges he was covered in bites, we then had a walk in the Gairngorm Mountains.

Sunday

As I mentioned in the last post we are on holiday in Scotland we are staying in Carrbridge just outside Avimore. Since we have Internet access I have decided to try and write about my holiday everyday and I will add the pictures once we get home.We got up to rain this morning but we went out as we approached Inverness the rain stopped which was fortunate as we were going on to the Moray Firth to watch the Dolphins lucky for us they put a show on so we watched them for about 1.5 hrs As we were leaving we saw some now houses which were been built so we decided to look around the show home, it was absolutely fantastic,it had much to my amusement 4 bathrooms I know 2 of them were on suites but they were as big as my bathroom at home and the loo downstairs was was really a bathroom, then we went to tesco's shopping then went out for a meal,we intend to go swimming shortly and decide what to do tomorrow. Jayne

HOE Bird Ornament

I have not had much time for stitching recently as I have been doing a course for work which has taken a lot of my time up but I have now started again, I received this Christmas Ornament from Nancy Kuelbs this week it is a red cardinal from Prairie Schooler, I posted my exchange at the weekend but forgot to put in a card with the information about what I had stitched, I stitched a design from the Just Cross Stitch Christmas Ornaments 2011 by Janie Hubble Designs called Partridge 2011.I will post a picture when I come back from my holiday we are off to Scotland tomorrow for nearly , I dare not look at the weather forecast as we have had a lot of rain recently we are also going to Orkney for 5 days so that should be interesting.

Jayne

Not much happening

I have been busy making these thread bins I have made 5 so far, I am going away for the weekend to Glasgow to visit some sampler collections in a couple of stately homes on a stitching weekend with Jane Greenoff so I have made these for myself , my mum, Kath and Val who are also on the trip.In September I attended a bead workshop with Laura MacCabe at Robinhoods Bay this is part of a necklace watch this space for the finished necklace.
I received this HOE Xmas ornament this week from Gwen it is beautifully finished off.
Jayne

NEC Festival of Quilts

Last week it was the Festival of Quilts at the NEC in Birmingham it was on for 4 days we went on the Friday and unfortunately ended up in a traffic jam when we were only 15mins away from the NEC we sat in slow moving traffic for 90minutes so we did not arrive till 11.30 when we set off at 7am and should have been there by 10 am.

This particular quilt which looks like log cabin is actually knitted with a fabric backing which as quilted together a clever idea.

I have actually seen the Bayeux Tapestry in France the detail on this was amazing.

I thought this was brilliant!!

This one reminded me of my holiday in France this year we have been a Battle field tour and I had climbed a couple of tall towers this just reminded me of all the steps.

The detail on this was brilliant as you can see see quilted the body using words about how you become over weight.

There were plenty of stall selling loads of fabric so of course I bought some to swell my stash, we are away at the caravan for the next week so I have taken my cutting board and fabric with me so that I can start on some cutting out!!

Jayne

Beading in Robinhoods Bay

I have been going to my usual bead work classes over the Summer in Robinhoods Bay,

These 2 necklaces are from a wire work class by Julie Ashby from Spellbound Bead Co we also had a class with her last year our Tutor Jenny invites guest Teachers.

This Necklace is one of Jenny's designs which had a Elizabethan influence when she designed it we actually managed to do this in a day usually we don't finish what we have started and may take weeks to finish items I have alot of UFO's.

Jayne

Hoe Lizzie Kate

I have not done much stitching recently so do not have much to show, I have done another exchange with HOE this was the Lizzie Kate Christmas HOE, in the post this morning I received this wonderful Pinkeep from Ina in the Netherlands I have been a bit late in sending my Exchange off but it will be on its way in the morning.

Jayne