Happy Birthday Karen & Sea Stars!

Today is Karen's birthday so HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAREN! Hope you have a fantastic day! I can't show what I made her for her birthday as I don't know if she has got it yet because I was late posting it and I don't want to spoil the surprise:) So that'll be a post for another day! ETA: Karen has let me know she's received my parcel so here is what I stitched for her:) It is Brittercup Designs I Love Penguins from the Antartic Penguins leaflet and I finished it as a stand-up.

I hope everyone had a wonderful New Year's Eve. We spent the evening playing Mario Party 8 which was great fun. We had to take it in turns though as we only have one Wii remote ( to get more they're £30 each so I think we'll stick with taking it in turns for now!) but it's a brilliant game. Then we watched Take That from the O2 stadium and they were just fantastic and I think they're even sexier than they were in their younger days! Lol! I enjoyed it so much I watched the repeat of it yesterday and which I'd recorded it:) Yesterday we had quiet day with both DH's Dad and my Dad here.

Yesterday was the start of the Ink Circles Sea Stars SAL with Karen. I have been looking forward to starting this ever since Karen suggested we do it as a SAL and, of course, it's always nice to have a new start for the New Year:) Mine is stitched on 25 count cream fabric and I'll be using a variety of DMC Variations on mine. This first motif is 4240 I think! The variation doesn't show up too well on this scan though. Karen how did you do? I enjoyed stitching this and am amazed at how much I actually managed but I did stitch all afternoon and evening!

I think I'm going to make a start on With My Needle Ackworth Friendship Book tonight for the Quaker RR that Lisa, Jane, Tracy, Chris and I are doing. Our first post out date is the end of the month so I'd like to get my bit on mine done in good time:)

I'm not going to do a full list of the projects I've finished this year but I managed to finish 36 things in 2007 so I'm very happy:) I have decided to make a goals list for this year but I don't think I'm being very realistic with them somehow! LOL! I'll add it to my side bar as when I get this post done and my blog tidied up a bit.

I have sort of decided to take a break from posting as much on the two message boards I go on regularly and just concentrate on blogging and reading and commeting on blogs. I spend way too much time online and I really need to sort myself out and get myself out of the house more this year. I can't give up reading blogs as I get so much inspiration and encouragement from you all so if you don't see me on the MBs please don't think I'm no longer around:)

I'm going to play with my blog for a while then I need to have a tidy up in the living room! As we no longer have a video recorder I'm bagging all the videos up and either taking them to the charity shop or storing them upstairs as Jess has a video in her bedroom. Have a fantastic week and stay warm:) We're having a very cold snap here in the UK and the wind is so cold but I love it!