Stitched Birthday love

January is such a skint month, straight after Christmas my bank account has been rinsed. Yet, there seems to be more birthdays in this month than any other! It doesn't bode well for the detox either.

Enter the handmade card. I do love a hand stitched item and taking the time to make cards for loved ones shows you love them the most! Not that you're too poor to buy cards at all...

Here's one I stitched earlier. 

hand stitched appliqué card.

Winds of change

How long can I get away with saying Happy New Year? This is my first post for 2014, 12 days in,  surely still acceptable.

New Year, new me! Isn't that the saying? Each year I start out with the best intentions..thinking about exercising, cutting back to just the one bottle.. but this year I have a wedding dress to fit into, so might actually have to do some work!

Although..even if I do chunk up, I'm making my dress, so just add in a couple of fat panels on the side! Problem solved.

Creatively speaking, I'm starting fresh. A new sketchbook is a great way to do this. Its full of blank pages just aching to be filled with goodness! I've been reflecting on themes I'd been working on and they are just SO last year. I'm ready to move on from them and push my work in new exciting areas. Who knows where this will be? Not this girl. I kinda like that though, its nice to be here now, in this moment.

There is that lovely feeling of hope and promise in the air.