I'd like to thank you all here and on Facebook for all your good wishes and let you all know that I'm on the mend, I'm not completely mobile yet, but it won't be long now hopefully.



This is the digital Christmas card I made this year to wish you all a very happy holiday wherever you are.

As usual my wish is for peace in this huge Global Village of ours. I have friends that I have never met all over the world and I have no idea what their religious beliefs are and I don't really care. People are People wherever they are and amongst us are a small number who upset and spoil things for everyone else. I wish these people would see the folly of their ways so that there will less suffering and unhappiness all around us.

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I'm very sorry I couldn't let you know that I've had to stop blogging for a very short time, but I hope to add a few posts when I'm up to it.

This is not a moan. You can see what a lovely view I have from my bed to cheer me up. I just have a recurring back problem after an accident 40 years ago which surfaces now and then and unfortunately it's happened now. Not very good timing perhaps, but I'm going to catch up on some reading and knitting which I can still do lying on my back here. Sitting is rather painful for me just now.

I do hope to be able to drop in for a short time here and there.

Thank you all for being such faithful and kind followers all this time. I have just noticed that I have nearly reached my 200,000th pageloads and I nearly missed it. As soon as I able to go up my loft ladder and into my workroom I will be making a load of postcard to send to some of you.

Books

Tonight I have been surrounded by books as I start on the major job on indexing all my library books. I have only done one small shelf and find I have 61 books done. I think the results will be surprising.

I'm using LibraryThing which was recommended by Gill Thomas of An Elegant Sufficiency

I have also sent away to NEHOC Direct in Australia for extra lamps and screens for my Gocco Printer which I bought some time ago from Liz Plummer of Dreaming Spirals and still have not used. Now I'm looking forward to trying it out. My designs have been ready to use for a long time.

Christmas Lunch

The postman brought me a lovely surprise first thing in the morning. A postcard from Carol T. I had completely forgotten she owed me one from a swap on Alphabet postcards and this arrives. The letter O. It's just beautiful and a lot of time has been spent hand stitching this card, so it feels very personal. Diolch Carol (thanks) We both have Welsh as our first language!


This is me on the left with my friend Carol. Can you tell I am very satisfied after a meal of Melon with Strawberry Sorbet, Nut Roast and finished off with Sticky Toffee Pudding.
To read more about the Christmas lunch and the Speaker Norma Walmsley, who was a Governess to Royalty, visit Croesew.


I thought you would be interested in seeing who won the Wild and Wacky competition. This is Anita on the left above with her friend Emma. As you see, we have many young participating members at the North Wales Embroiderers' Guild, which augurs well for the future.


This of course is the winning bag made from bread tags and can pullers.

Don't forget our exhibition at the Voirrey Embroidery Centre until January 8th 2010.

Exbibition at The Voirrey

The North Wales Embroiderers' Guild are exhibiting at The Voirrey Embroidery Centre until January 8th 2010. To see some of the work on display please visit C.



Here is a little taster. A beautiful work of art by Christine Jones.

Wild and Wacky

The North Wales Embroiderers' Guild's exhibition at The Voirrey opened yesterday and I had my first opportunity to see the work that had been entered for the Wild and Wacky competition. It was so difficult to get good photos with all the guests present and meeting friends and talking too much. Forgive me for the poor quality of some of these.


This is the article that won first prize and I think it's absolutely wonderful. It uses recycled bread tags and ring pulls. Congratulations Anita (Kumar). A well deserved win.


Here are most of the entries all together above and it really shows the high quality of the work.





These are some of the best photos I managed to take. But I particularly liked this one above myself.


And here is one last glance at my friend. She's enjoying her visit to The Voirrey very much, but I do hope she won't buy too much stuff otherwise she'll have to hire a Taxi to come home.

I will be putting more photos on the Croesew blog in the next few days I hope.