Cards

One of my uncles turned 70 this month and I made him a card. The design is from Cross Stitcher (UK) magazine's "101 cross stitch cards" CD.

Another uncle's wife turned 60 in March. The design is from the World of Cross Stitching magazine's "101 Best Birthday charts (ever!)" booklet:

Exchange

My scissor fob exchange has made it's way to Anne, so I can now share the photos:



The design is from Tantes Zolder blog, stitched on cream 32ct Belfast with Needle Necessities floss. Inside there's an old Belgian coin (5 francs from 1993) to give more weight to the fob. The scissors (Kelmscott Seaton Scissors) in the photos are purely for prop and not included in the exchange ;-) Anne likes autumnal colours, so deciding on the floss colour was quite easy. I'm happy to hear that she really likes the fob. So do I!

I've made progress on some of my cross stitch WIPs. First photo is of the 5th part of Damier, the next one the 5th part of Christmas Mystery V and last one the 1st part of Mystery XI:

Greetings...

...from the land of the pharaohs! What an amazing place!

We cruised from Luxor to Aswan and back and saw many temples and such a beautiful scenery! The above photo is from Abu Simbel, the ones below from the Valley of the Kings (where I saw, among other things, the mummy of Tutankhamon!) and Karnak temple:


Here's couple of lovely sceneries from the Nile, the latter one is from Aswan: