Flashback - 2012

I am a little late in posting this, but that's ok. Just thought I'd do a quick recap of the finishes and WIPs in 2012.

What a year it has been, with respect to my finishes. I really have never achieved so much ever before. 7 cottage finishes, whole lot of beading, lots of baking... WOW!! Am impressed with myself. Again, my dear friends, it is all thanks to your encouragement.

Now, let me show you my cottages

And this is where sea-shells stands as of date.

I have not worked on it since last August I think!! Gosh, did not realize it's been that long. Should pick it up again.

So, you know my new year target now. To finish all cottages and seashells by end of 2013!!! That's a huge one, by my standards. Wish me luck

With this I take leave today friends. Till next time.. Take care.. Be happy.. Keep stitching.. Au Revoir

Quick update

The weekend I should say just whizzed by and here we are, Tuesday already gone!! V and I went shopping for her birthday last Saturday. M fell sick, so it was basically a girl's day out. We had a great time picking out clothes for her.
As it had been more than a month since we had pizza last, we decided to order pizza for dinner. Yummy stuffed garlic bread and peppy paneer. And to finish it properly, goooeeey choco lava cake.

My dear bro sent some goodies from US through a friend. Sunday we went to pick those up. He sent  these pretty little magnets that he bought at Niagara and a t-shirt for V.

The teddy on the right can wiggle his arms and legs. He's sooo cute!! He also got me this great magnetic nail polish that is the latest in US. It's a set of 4 pretty colors. Will post pictures when I apply them.

As I said I have been working on sea shells the last 2 weeks. Here's where it is currently

It does not look like much, but I got quite a bit of filling up done. Now, am going to keep this back in and take up June cottage.

That's about it from me today friends. Till next time.. Take care.. Be happy.. Keep stitching.. Au Revoir

A new start and a WIP

I just realized that there was no update from me last week. Well, there has not been much happening, crafty wise or other wise.

Guess who celebrated her birthday last weekend.. yay, you guessed right, me of course.

The day was a pretty much low-key one. V and I were at home waiting for the carpenter to turn up half the day. Then the evening we went shopping for some baking ingredients. For the first time I bought Golden syrup

It's awfully expensive, but wanted to try it in a recipe

V and I tried our hand at a new recipe. I wanted to use peanut butter and V wanted some bars/squares. So our search lead us to Choco-peanut butter squares

It really came out yummy. We do not get corn syrup in India, so I used the golden syrup instead. As I do not know why corn syrup is used, am not sure how different the taste would have been had I used it. Any tips on that??

My bro and SIL had bought an unfinished frame for V to complete over summer holidays. She decided to finish that over the weekend.

I did not help her at all with this. She did everything on her own. The choice of colors and the ideas are totally hers.

As V calls it, that's "the face of the frame"

Finally on the stitchy front, I started with April cottage and made a teeny bit of progress on Sea shells project. But the progress is not that great to post a picture yet. Promise to post something next time

So, with that friends I take leave from you now. Till next time.. Take care.. Be happy.. Keep stitching.. Au Revoir