March Gifted Gorgeousness

Hello there again! It is Gifted Gorgeousness time again.
Jo of Serendipitous Stitching organizes this so you can go to her blog and visit all blogs that take part in it. It is things we have stitched and gifted or things that were gifted to us.
First of all this is a photo I have shown in a previous blog post. It is a photo filled with freebies from magazines I have collected for years and freebies from magazines that were gifted to me or small kits gifted to me. I decided to stitch them this year all or most of them and usually then I gift the patterns and left over threads.

This month I only stitched this beaded violet vase kit from a very old cross stitch magazine.

 And the leftover threads, pattern and card went to an Adopt a WIP member.

This month I managed to make some sea glass felted stones for some friends to whom I should have sent one some months (or maybe years) ago. I had received a gift from them and would like to thank them for their gifts. Some of them have received their stone, some haven't so I won't mention any names. I made four blue ones.

 And two pink ones. I have decided to use up my beads so I will not buy more new beads. I have so many so I will be making my stones from now on only in the colours I have beads for.

 I also made a very special stone I am keeping.

 It is special because it is made with....

 ...with Barca's shedding hair! Ok maybe some people find this strange but I must say dogs' hair can be used to make lots of things even knitted clothes. You can read some info here.

 Of course in March I made a March bracelet (the one with the glass beads).

The mail brought some more things. This birthday card came earlier but I think I didn't show it in my previous blog post.It is from my Israeli pen friend Ruth.

 I got a super gift from my dear friend Cathy in England.

 And another super gift from Gaby in Scotland. She made the heart  earrings herself!

 It has been a month of snow and cold but Spring has sprung so we try to walk at the sea front a bit. Here I am with a vintage Indian block printed silk scarf gifted to me by my dear cousin and was brought from France. As Green is the colour of hope it makes me smile in the sunshine and hope for the best in future. Thank you dear!

 I will finish this blogpost with some Spring photos from my city!

 

 

January 2018

It is unbelievable how time flies and I admit blogging is not a priority for me anymore. Therefore although I tried to blog at least once a month in 2017 I stopped in July and didn't manage to go on. I don't think it is very important to blog about the rest of 2017 anymore so I will begin the 2018 months and see how far I go.
So here is January 2018.
It started with a bad cold that took 15 days to get off me. Hubby was also sick so I had to walk Barca one morning out in the cold. The view of the full moon was magic!

Talking about Barca, oh she is such a sweet girl. Look at her how she is watching a dolphin on TV.

And how she follows grandma everywhere begging for a snack from her food.

And she loves flowers.

 January included some pie cutting.I was lucky to win the lucky coin in our pie and

in our ladies' company of friends. That included a watch too and I loved it.

What the mail brought in January. A heavy month due to the Christmas holidays and of course because it is my birthday month. So lots of Christmas cards from Anastasia of
Creations with Fantasy, Tua, Ian, Lynne, Melissa and Gaby. Melissa painted on her card and Ian painted the card himself.And Gaby sent me a Scottish thistle coaster and a lovely beaded snowflake she made herself.Isn't it gorgeous?

I also received lovely gifts from Angeliki pocoloco

and from Theodora and Nikoletta.

From Kim

From Marabeth

From Margrit

From Craftpod, that's a seasonly or yearly subscription and you receive a kit to make during the season or the year.

From Sophie and Aykut, who also painted his own card.

My win from inmycloset giveaway from VelonakaiKlosti

From Marabeth for my birthday

I love what it said inside.

She even sent me the Times about the women's march of last year and it arrived the same day as this year's march.

From Melissa came the book Flat Stanley which I will read to my pupils and Ian painted me a Paddington birthday card

which was followed with Paddington's suitcase full of goodies.

Thank you to all my friends who sent me gifts for the Christmas holidays and my birthday.

In January I took out some fabric bags to use with my shopping as bags are to be paid now every time you go shopping. I always loved using fabric bags so I have a lot in my collection.

 In January I started stitching on my WIPs and started a rotation programme that includes one Xmas ornament, one freebie kit, finishing of old wips, a monthly bookmark and more.So in January I stitched this Greek Santa ornament.

I finished this runner.

I stitched my dolls face features.

I made the Little Mermaid from The Little Stitcher and made it into a bag.

A Valentine's card (an old freebie),a heart brooch and a floral sachet,

Then I decided to stitch in the fabric book that Katerina had gifted me with some time ago.So I stamped on it with some old transfer floral alphabet.And decided to use up all my leftover threads.

In January I made A

B

C

D

E

F

G

and H

I also started on a Halloween piece.

And made the craftpod embroidery hoop which looks lovely and was even included in the craftpod instagram post.

In January I went to Koumpi coffee and crafts cafe to meet with my crafty group and we also cut our pie.

 and I again although I didn't find the coin in my piece I was so lucky to receive some beautiful gifts  from Lena, Kikitsa, Anna, Elsa and Evangelia of Happy Deck

 I also got some books from a friend's destashing that look very interesting!

 At another meeting with other friends Maria gifted us all with this amazing tomato jam from
Family Jar.

My friend Gia also gave me some gifts for me and Barca and the whole family.

I also recieved this amazing painting by Nikos Kryonidis the artist himself.

My sweet son gifted me with this lovely bouquet and guess what I was again sick on my birthday.

I had a birthday cake though at the Drama club as we had some rehearsals too. Me and Ioanna, another member of the team have our birthdays close together so we had a common birthday cake.

And here are the gifts I got from my friends at the Drama club.

The books I read this month Without Family by Hector Malot.

With Family by Hector Malot.

I had read the former as a kid and had really liked it so when I found them at the school library I had to borrow and read them. I also read half of this.

I even arranged my bookcase to see what I have unread and they are many.The top shelf are the books in Greek, and the bottom in English.

In January I made these ornaments with the slices of wood I was sent in the srcret crafter exchange and that won me the in my closet giveaway win.

In January I bought some bulbs too that bloomed really quickly.

And on the last day of the month I acted in the children's play "Game Over" with my Drama club Dithyramvos ex amaxis. The play is written by the teachers Ioanna Katsarou and Afroditi Ioannou and it is directed by Ioanna Katsarou. I play the Assassin from Assassin's Creed in the play and the play talks about the addiction to games and how bad it is for children.

So that was all about my January.Hope you enjoyed reading this and looking at all the photos.