Some Christmas Stitching!

Good afternoon from a very grey, dismal and damp Lancashire UK! After the frosty sunshine of yesterday, we're back to what I suppose is a typical November day for us, with dark grey skies, drizzling rain and the sort of chilly dampness that seems to invade the house.  Roll on spring!  The only 'nice' thing about this sort of weather is that I get a great sense of 'Home' and comfort when the fire gets lit, candles are lit (I've got a rather worrying fetish for candles...) and it all feels warm and cosy.

Anyway, I thought that I'd share a bit of cross stitch with you for a change today.

This little decoration was made with some gold-flecked aida fabric and odds and ends of green embroidery threads, and then some different coloured beads threaded and stitched across for the garlands.  The pattern came from an old American cross stitch magazine.  There are some fabulous American stitching patterns and magazines, but some are hard to find in the UK. However, I managed to pick up a couple from a second-hand book shop a while ago, and one of them had some fantastic Christmas decorations and patterns in - which is where this came from!  I've made several decorations from them which will probably be appearing on here over the coming weeks! I must confess that I love to decorate our home up at Christmas and probably go a bit OTT with white lights (I don't like coloured ones lol!), candles and cross stitched bits and pieces!

So hope you like it! 

But just before I go I'd just like to wish my eldest step-daughter Charlotte a very happy birthday today! 

This is our three gorgeous girls - and Charlotte is at the front! 

Back soon, Kim x 

I'd like to enter this cross stitch into the following challenges:-

Anything but a card - stitching

Gingerloft Challenge - a touch of gold

One Stop Craft Challenge - anything goes

Make it Monday - anything goes

Pin and Tack Blogspot - spark your creativity anything goes