Pleurisy and nocturnal crafting

Right now my son has pleurisy, the latest chest infections hitting kids, according to our gp. My son has been attached to his inhalers due to his asthma off too and the yellow goo antibiotics is the daily routine along with hugs and reassurance that everything will feel better soon. Obviously crafting has taken a back burner slightly, along with online stuff.

So tonight, i'm grabbing 5 minutes to update and to show that even when it's the small hours, a little bit of crafting does wonders to help you relax, when you been woken and have an upset child in pain or feeling tight chested. The project from Cross Stitcher i started has now been completed, now to find the right coloured felts, which i have in a box, somewhere....The colours are so cheerful and the fact only 5 colours have been used, makes it less painful on the purse strings. The added fact the design is only 9x9 meant i was able to use a spare bit of aida i had left from another project.

The next design is a mixture of designs found and some added bits by myself.
The cats are from :- http://ancsanaplo.blogspot.co.uk/2008/07.html
and the cats have personality is from
:-  Hour-Country-Cross-stitch-Susie-Steadman and the servants and border i added. I used 3 different colours of Venus threads and am quite pleased how it turned out. And being a cat owner, i often feel like a servant, the amount of times he wants the door opened a day! I swear sometimes it's a better game to him, than batting ping pong balls around.

I've also been playing with some die cut ladies and dresses. I'll show some pictures another time, but i admit part of me is feeling like a little girl again, when we used to get paper dolls to dress, surely you remember those, right? And i'm loving how something paper can look so wonderful with some little touches of gems or glitter, or just left plain and the suggested touch of elegance from the die cut it self.

But right now crafting has to been delayed to the early hours, when i know i'll be called for. Time for me to be nurse and mum again. Happy Crafting!