En(JOY) my seventh ornament.

Christmas Eve and I have lots to do.
Some last minute supermarket shopping.
Preparing food and sweets for tomorrow when we spend the day at my brother's.
Get prepared for Monday's day trip with the Drama Club.
And at the same time hubby is down with a very bad backache so I have to look after him, too, and get preparing all by myself.
So there is not much time for anything else or to linger on the computer.
Here I will show you some things I had made a blog about and didn't publish.
It is for the Christmas ornament challenge and it is the seventh and I suppose it will be the last one as I have no time to stitch any more.
Anyway I made it from Sam Hawkins' 50 cross stitch Christmas booklet using whatever leftover fabric and threads I had and some beads and some beautiful pink lace trimming from Melissa of Tiny Happy.
It ended up quite beautiful although I should have used lighter green and I decided to keep this one as I love keeping one handmade ornament each year for my tree.

And here are pics of my blooming bulbs. They smell wonderful!

More for the cross stitch challenge.

I managed to finish a couple of small cross stitch pictures as ornaments and framed pictures. I am taking part in Becky's cross stitch challenge. Here they are. All will be given as gifts.
The robin is from a cross stitch magazine I had in my pattern collection.

 These are designs 1,3,4 and 5 from 50 Cross stitch Christmas by Sam Hawkins framed in little frames I had for years and never managed to use. Which one is your favourite?

Prairie Schooler Santa

Do you remember that I had won Kathy's Sit and Stitch giveaway a little time ago?

Well among other things it included this little Prairie Schooler Santa.

As I am taking part in Becky's Christmas Ornament Challenge I decided to stitch it and finish it as an ornament and not a card. That was my first ever ornament finish and it was rather difficult.
Anyway here it is.

 And that's how it looked before the finishing! I don't know if that was the right way to do it!

I used some light green jobelan I think it is from my stash and the recommended DMC threads and a bit of Madeira metallic for the snowflakes and Santa's buttons.