Crescent Dreams finished!

My first finish of 2007........

Thanks to my bruv for taking the photo for me! :o) Unfortunately it's a little dark, but it shows the peach colours on the blanket well. I swapped the aqua stars for opal ones and made bead ropes out of 4 different colours of bead. I'm really pleased with the finished result. I've also had several cuddles with the recipient over the last couple of weeks whilst they've been down on the south coast. Baby Catriona is gorgeous - she slept face down on my chest with her hands under her head and her bottom in the air for hours and hours! Awwwww..... :o) I'm hoping to get Crescent Dreams framed within the next few weeks, so I'll share another photo once it's done. Since then I've been stitching my Snow Princess. I'm probably a couple of weeks away from finishing page 5. I have a couple of weeks off work at the end of June/beginning of July as it's Wimbledon once more, although as money is tight I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to visit this year. But it means I should get a fair bit of stitching time in - my goal is to finish the top row of pages on Snow Princess by the end of Wimbledon!

I went up to London last night with my SIL and nephew to the Royal Albert Hall. We went to a concert by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, titled "FilmHarmonic" which may give you an idea what it was all about! They were playing well known film scores with a section devoted to John Williams who celebrates his 75th birthday this year. So we had themes from Mission Impossible, Pirates of the Caribbean (yay!), Gladiator, ET, Star Wars, Chariots of Fire, Superman, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Great Escape, Jurassic Park and a few we weren't familiar with. It was fabulous - the orchestra was about 100 strong with such a variety of instruments! We agreed that it would be great to be on the percussion instruments at the back - they looked as if they were having a great time!!! I especially love the music from Pirates & Gladiator which sounded fantastic. I think I'll have to dig out my soundtrack CDs tomorrow whilst I'm stitching. ;o)

Is it snowing?

Nope, just kidding! Although the weather has been rather wintery of late. Just thought I'd share my progress on Snow Princess & the Polar Bear with you. I've finished the first whole page at last & have now started on the 2nd. I'm still really intent on stitching this one right now, so I'm going to go with the flow for as long as it lasts & then, who knows!

I'm feeling rather poorly yet again. This time I've got a cold :o( It's been threatening to start for the last 10 days or so & Andy's had one for about a month, so I knew it would catch up with me sooner or later. Hey - what a good prospect for sitting in front of the fire with a dvd on & stitching ;o)

We had a great weekend (just gone). We wandered into town on the Saturday & pottered about a bit, finally deciding at the last minute that we would go & catch the Da Vinci Code at the cinema. I read the book last year & it was ok, pretty overhyped though if you ask me. The film wasn't bad, though I don't think Tom Hanks was right in the male lead. I would have preferred someone a little younger, but not sure who! I thought Paul Bettany was quite good as Silas though. Then on Sunday Andy took me to see the local youth orchestra who were excellent. They had a fabulous guest principal violinist whose name was Nicola Bernadetti (if I remember rightly) - a very talented young lady indeed. I'd not been to a classical concert before, so wasn't quite sure what to expect & ended up thoroughly enjoying it! I'd definitely go again. We also booked tickets for my pals the Bootleg Beatles, who aren't playing until December, but they're really popular here so you have to buy them pretty early!