Already back !!!!! Can you believe it?

Madame la fée did it again: she released a new chart that I like (beside the pink fabric : too much pink for me ... ) Of course, we don't expect her to lower her prices, do we? ( 19 €uros, $22 ... no comment ... )

Here is my latest progress on my squirrel (still working hard on the bottom of the design !!! understand: still avoiding the 1/2 ):

Thanks for your nice comment on my small garden. You are all very sweet

I'm here !!!!

I still don't have a lot of time to blog and spend a lot of time on the internet so I'm still very late in my blog comments. I check your beautiful work in my google reader but can't really comment. We are still at my parents's while they are on vacations with Pierre and Emma. They are doing well and they are lucky to have a better weather than us. (not fair .... ) Once again, my mom is disapointed by my brother's behavior so I'm not sure they will go back next year (even though she already said that last year ... )

I took time to take some pictures of my little garden this morning. I want to show my yellow rose that has some pink around the each petal. Click to enlarge to see better. This is our first pink rose. I wasn't sure it will bloom this year as we planted it in may.

And this is a view of my three rose bushes. I planted some red impatiens to make a border.

And this is my glaieuls; they were all supposed only this color:

Closer view:

But surprise:

We got some orange as well ! That's why I may not buy my flowers in a supermarket next year ....

And this is a view of the house with our flower on the windows. The neighnor's house seems so empty close to ours because he has no flower at all !!!

We planted some cosmos flowers along our wall with our neighbor but not all of them grew that much. Maybe we waited too long to sow the cosmos seeds.

We have also some Centaurea. Emma had sown some seeds and here they are. But it took us to time to plant them so not all are as tall as the ones you see. They can be blue, purple, dark purple or pink but we got mostly purple ones.

My squirrel? still here of course. I got so tired of the 1/2 on the top that I gave up that part to stitch the bottom where they are still plenty of 2/2. I know I'm going to pay that big time after I'm done with the 2/2 so get ready for a lot of whinning in the coming weeks !!! Well that is if I have time to blog ! lol ( click to enlarge ) And if you feel you missed all the stages of the squirrel, you can see the daily picture here in my webshot gallery !

Thanks again for stopping by and I hope I'll have more time soon to stop by your blogs to see your progress.

Vacations

Pierre and Emma are now in vacations with their grand parents close to my brother's home where my parents are renting a summer house for the next ten days. I can't help it but I do miss them a lot even though they only left yesterday ...

Steb, my little sunshine, is with us and he decided he had to be on the picture this morning! Wait! Steb wants to be ON the picture? Too good to be true so he is ON the picture !!! (and actually smiling !) Who can resist such a smile? I want to cuddle him just by looking at him !!!

But let's not get distracted. I wanted to show you my latest progress because while the family is on vacations, we spend a lot of time at my parents' house which means I have a lot of time to stitch while Steb takes his nap ! Of course, like for the fuchsias, I stitched most of the 2/2 and am left with the boring 1/2 .... I try to stay focus but it's not easy when we don't have fun, right?

Emma actual birthday !!!

Last time, I forgot to tell you that Emma's birthday was actually on july 8 th. We did her party on saturday because school finished on thursday and I was afraid if we would have waited too long that all the kids would have left on vacations.

Thanks for your birthday wishes for her. She's such a sweet girl. I can't believe she's 9 already ... We did celebrate her "real" birthday yesterday at my mom's. The cake was a strawberry cake very very delicious (to die for to be exact !!! )

She didn't expect her grand ma's gift: a radio set with Hello Kitty on it !!!!!!!!!!!!! I now expect no more fighting between Pierre and her for the radio !

It was definitely a Hello Kitty day yesterday !!! She's also got her first watch.

She really had a good day !!!

Now, you will have to enlarge to be able to see my wonderful 1 over 2 progress. Yes, because I suffered people stitching that 1/2 ! I tried to stitch two days on 1/2 and yes, I did suffer because I don't find any pleasure stitching with one thread only ... Unfortunately, I have more Lanarte kits that use 1/2.... Not all Lanarte designs have 1/2 though. I understand it gives something more to the finished piece but it's a real pain for me ... In the future, I'll try to avoid a piece that require green stitched on 1/2 !!! So last night, I gave up on the 1/2 (oops ... ) to have a lot of fun stitching on 2/2. Why do I progress faster on 2/2 ? Can you explain me why?

I'm still late at commenting on your blogs. Sorry about that but it's hard to find time with the three kids at home all day long ....

Emma's birthday !!!

No, I didn't disappear suddendly from the blogging world. We were very busy preparing Emma's birthday (understand making pinatas). Chuy was supposed to start the pinata making on june 1 st but obviously he was " a little" late because he only started them last monday .... So all week long, he was gluing while I was cutting yards and yards of crepe papers ...

Anyway, here are some pictures of the party:

First, the kids played a game so they could all be together.

Then, the fun begun: breaking pinatas !!! We had three this year again: a ice cream cone, a soccer ball and a Hello Kitty. I even thought of taking a short film to show the fun.

The kids really enjoyed the Hello Kitty pinata:

Someone was wearing his colors on the fourth of july:

But this year, the pinatas were too thick and some grown up help was needed to manage to break them (see the movie below):

Then, it was time to blow some candles and I snapped this sweet picture of my two youngest:

Emma was very happy with all her gifts (Hello Kitty and the little Pet Shop characters are always a big hit with her!!!) :

And for those who only love cross stitch, here is a picture of my latest progress (tuesday niht I guess ...). I'm stitching the leaves and I have all the boring background to stitch (you know how it goes: 1/2 ) ...

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a sweet comment. I always treasure them !!!