Let the people choose-June-Mermaids

Hello everyone!
On the first Saturday of each month I take part in Let the people choose, one more of Jo's of Serendipitous Stitching brainchildren!

This month the theme is mermaids, such a great theme as I love summer, the sea, mermaids, sea world and sea glass!
What can I show you to stitch about mermaids?
There are some free patterns that I'd love to stitch one day.
First this mermaid by Alita Designs. You can find it here.

(photo taken from Alita Designs site)

Second this little mermaid by the Snowflower Diaries.

(photo taken from the Snowflower Diaries site)
Third a HAED free pattern.It is called The shell maiden. It would be a dream to stitch this one. Only 24 pages of pattern but I love it!

(photo taken from Heaven and Earth Designs, page)
Now apart from these there are lots more mermaid patterns that I'd love to stitch one day.
I have even bought two second hand ones from a fb destashing page. One is of the Mirabilia mermaids.The enchanted mermaid.

Mirabilia even has a free mermaid pattern on their site.

(photo taken from the Mirabilia page)

 And I also bought a Satsuma Street mermaid. Which if I ever stitch it it will be on white or light blue fabric and not dark blue or black as the original.

 But what I must definitely show you is this pattern which was gifted to me by dear Laura of
 The Little Stitcher.
She creates beautiful patterns so you have to visit her etsy 

I stitched  the pattern and added it on this fabric bag which was a gift from a friend and it had a shop advert on it. Doesn't it look lovely? Thank you Laura!

You can even find a free mermaid pattern on her site. It is called The guardians of the sea. I have stitched this many a time and have given it as a gift to sea glass friends.

(photo taken from The Little Stitcher blog)

Here are mine.

Finally I'd like to show you some mermaids paintings from a recent exhibition I went to. The exhibition was organised by the Northern Greece Painters Association.(SKETBE).

The first mermaid with lots of glitter on it is by Penelope Kapetanoudi.

 The second which maybe is not a mermaid but still very beautiful is by  Mary Keremidou.

 Look at all that detail!

  Finally this one by Pelagia Lehou. I love how the sunlight enters the water on her.

 Hope you enjoyed my Let the people choose post! See you next time!

Some things I made and some gifts I received and sent.

First my sister went to a short trip to Dubrovnik with her company and here's what she brought me.

Some viewcards of course, local delies including chocolate with cranberries(delicious), fig liquer and some lovely crunchy nuts and lemon and ornage peels. I especially liked the fridge magnet that was added on my magnetic board.

 I also received recently homemade sour cherries sweet and handmade crochet coasters! I adored them!Thank you sweet friends.

 After a very long time I managed to custom frame a watercolour picture of a sea glass piece that my friend Ian sent me from England!

 And I also stitched these lovely mermaids, The Guardians of the Sea by The Little Stitcher for Ingrid of mii stitch who had recently sent me a beautiful gift.You can read all about my gift to her here.And her gift to me here.Guardians of the sea is a freebie but you can find great patterns here.

 I also made her one of my felted stones in colours she likes. Again many thanks Ingrid!

Gifts from Canada

My dear Canadian sea glass friend Angela and her " daugher " Zoe, my niece, her sweetest puppy, sent me this lovely parcel with treasures from Canada and Prince Edwrad Island.

I loved the little fatty mermaid!

And the beautiful card Angela made with sea glass!

She also made wine tags.

I loved all those shells from her island.

Sha painted a stone for me!

And made me jewelry!

And of course added some chocolate!

Thank you my dear!

Midsummer mermaids........