Secret Stitching Sweethearts Blog Hop

Hello everyone! Happy Valentine's Day! Hope you do something really sweet and beautiful today and have a great time with the one you love!
Jo of Serendipitous Stitching organised a Secret Stitching Sweethearts Blog Hop this year again and I am taking part! I always need an initiative to stitch something out of my ordinary like Valentines LOL!
I received this beautiful Valentine's stitching photo in my e-mail inbox for the day! I really wonder who it is that made it! Come on reveal yourself!

I am not a cat person in fact I have a lovely dog but still cats are lovely to stitch and this is such a beautiful stitch!Thank you!
I will edit this post with my own Valentine's Day card when my recipient finds out who sent it to her!
So go visit Jo's blog and enjoy the blog hop every one and the day!
I couldn't leave you without a little Barca photo. That's my dog checking out on the flowers I received recently from my school colleagues at the theatre.

EDIT: As my secret stitching sweetheart revealed herself and I have revealed myself to my stitching sweetheart I can now edit this blog post.
The cats in love above were stitched by Leonore of Needle, pen & Sword. Thank you so very much, they are lovely!
I sent my photo to Jo and was received by Astrid of Dragon, stitches and stuff by Astrid. These are the things I stitched for Valentine's Day in order to take part in the blog hop!The card was a freebie from an old cross stitch magazine, the heart brooch was a freebie of Mollie Makes sent to me by my friend Juliana, and the floral sachet was again a freebie from a magazine.

Hubby remembered it is Saint Valentine's today so although we don't really celebrate it he brought me flowers and a lovely cake! That was quite a surprise!

Thank you love!
Hope everyone has a lovely day with the ones you love!

Blooming flowers and beautiful views.

Last week (20th-26th April) was lovely. At last spring has sprung!
Sunshine, blue skies and flowers everywhere!
I had to buy a violet from the open market on Monday. It smells wonderful!

I also bought a blooming flower scarf.

Of course we walked the seafront as usual.

Last week I also had coffee with my crafty girl group at this new cafe in the city centre.

 It's called Marmalade!

I loved the industrial look in the cafe.

 And the beautiful lights too.

At school a colleague brought a great strawberry cake!

There was a lot more last week that I did but I now have to go so will tell you about it in another blogpost!

Happy Easter!

The Greek Orthodox celebrate Easter today! I am sending all those who do my best wishes; and to all those who celebrated last week I hope you had a great time!
Also I welcome some new followers and hope those who still read me are enjoying it!
As you have noticed I don't write as often as I used to. I realised it was stressful for me to blog every day so I decided to do it only when I feel like it or when I have something to say!
Lisa and others made a comment earlier that last year I put so many spring flowery photos and found beauty around me. The truth is that I was in a better mood at this time last year and due to the situation in Greece I am rather down. The weather hasn't helped much either and we still haven't got too many flowers around. Still there are things to be grateful for and I assure you I am.

 Easter eggs from Romania.(Yes I was there a couple of days ago, posts will follow!)

 Handmade (by hubby) Easter candle with Karaghiozis shadow puppet for my Godson.

 Chocolate Easter bunnies and Steaua Bucarest chocolate for my Godson brought from Romania.

 My Godson Elias and me when we visited them for Easter.

 Lovely lilacs, Easter tsoureki(sweet) and bunny filled with Easter eggs from my best friend Gia, mum of my Godson.

 Easter eggs.

 Lilacs smell wonderful.

 Easter tsoureki.

 Our Easter candles bought from charity.

The cake I made for my brother's family for Easter. Caramelized hazelnut chocolate cake.
This post will be edited later when we have eaten it!!!!!!

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The Easter dinner at my brother's was excellent.
Here are a couple of more snaps.

 Lilacs and beautiful handmade sequined eggs made by my sister-in-law's cousins!

 My sister painted beautiful red eggs. I didn't paint any eggs this year.

 Beautiful flowers in their balcony. My brother has better green fingers than me!