Fully Finished Gallery - March 2026 🖼 AND a Happy Belated St. David's Day! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Since Rachel @Ten Hour Stitcher is on a hosting/posting break, I created this little guy until she returns.

This was a quick little finish especially for St. David's Day, March 1st.

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant Hapus!

Once I saw this pattern in February by Nia Cross Stitch, I knew I had to get it! I wanted to stitch the Welsh Lady first, then at some point I'll stitch it all.

Here she is with a couple other finishes I have for Wales.

My St. David's Day display for this year.

I bought this sweet pattern while in Wales last summer at Luna and Lola's in Holyhead. Also by Nia!

Too bad the Welsh side of my family was over five hours away, to far to see them.

And for some fun, I merged these two photos at the Philadelphia Flower Show I went to the day after St. David's Day. 😂

Hopefully next time I'll have more?

Fully Finished Gallery - February 2026 🖼

Since Rachel @Ten Hour Stitcher is on a hosting/posting break, I created this little guy until she returns. 

A slow month for finishes, but I do have a couple.

I bought this over the summer while we were on our British Isles cruise. It's a coaster, but I might hang it up instead.

Our first stop was in Dover, so we went to Dover Castle.

It was nice to see that they had some stitchy things!

This has been finished for a while, but now is fully finished in this frame.

Fully Finished Gallery - January 2026 🖼 (And family stuff!)

Wow, it's 2026 already?

I'm not quite sure what happened to 2025, but I definitely dropped the needle on posting!

I've still been stitching every day, just not blogging about what I've been doing.

This will be my 8th year of stitching every day, some days were definitely more productive than others!

I have a few posts I'd like to finish, mainly about our family trip last summer, and our Christmas holidays. Not only do I post for stitching, but also for me to look back on for memories. I can't tell you how many times I've gone to my blog to find something I've stitched, finished, or a photo I've wanted to see again. And that includes things I've done or places I've been. I want to make this year a better year for blogging, and even though I know it's old school, I still enjoy it.😂 

So let's go!

Since Rachel is on a hosting/posting break, I created this little guy until she returns. 

This month was a good finishing month, only because I didn't have these pieces finished before Christmas!

We had an extra special Christmas this year, my cousin and her family came to join us from Germany.

Which meant I wanted to make each of them an ornament, included her step-daughter, who wasn't able to be with them.

The last time C and little H were here, H celebrated her second birthday. This time they added the boys, her husband and baby B! He turned seven months old while they were here and even got his first two teeth!

This is for little man B, I thought it was cute and appropriate with his name.

This is for C's step-daughter, F, who I have yet to meet. I hope she likes hot chocolate!

I thought this was perfect for C and her husband, M. There was no way I could fit their names on it, so I added their initials.

It was wonderful to have them join us and such fun with the little ones!

I had something else in mind for Miss H, but found out she LOVES the Grinch. I had the perfect pattern from Brookes Books, so I had to stitch it. She chose for him to hold a little bell instead of the stitched small ornament.

Maybe next year I'll have to stitch her Max.

BIG smiles! Isn't she adorable?!

And of course, I had to stitch a giraffe for my daughter-in-love, C. 

I guess this was more of a birthday present or even could be considered a house warming gift. They just moved into their new house at the beginning of January.

They're only about 11 miles away from us, and the house was move in ready. It's so lovely, with lots of room to grow! 😉

That's it for this month. I hope I can be as productive next time.

I think my next post will be more of my cousin's visit with us, we were pretty busy!

Fully Finished Gallery - Sepember/October 2025 🖼

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This was made for our cousin's baby, due in December.

This was at the baby shower in September.

BUT, little Naomie decided to come early @33+ weeks! Both Momma and baby are doing fine, but they're not quite sure how long she'll have to stay in the hospital.

We had fun decorated onesies and this is the one I chose!

In October, I finished this fun one.

It's with my other Halloween stitching, but the Mill Hill tree is in the other room.

I found this kit online and thought it was cute.

For only $10, it came with the wood pieces (four of them!) floss, needles, a threader, a pair of scissors, and felt for the back. It was for a beginner, but I love the pumpkin!

I decided to stamp paint the pieces, I was happy with how it turned out.

Mia approved, but she did try to bite it earlier. 😖

Christmas is coming up fast, I hope to be finishing some ornaments next!

Fully Finished Gallery - August 2025 🖼

Welcome to Rachel's 

Fully Finished Gallery SAL for August 2025.

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Let's just say I'm early for next year!

I could still make this into a pillow, but I think I like it in the little frame.

Once again, I'm too late to add to Rachel's link-up, but this is also for my records!

Fully Finished Gallery - July 2025 🖼

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Fully Finished Gallery SAL for July 2025.

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I didn't see Rachel's link up for July, but knew I still wanted to post what I had done.

I stitched this sweet little butterfly for my MIL for her birthday. She loves butterflies so this was perfect.

And I remembered that I had taken this photo outside our fence a several years ago. A pretty good match!

This was taken back in 2013 and I still think it's funny! I even got one similar for our house at Halloween.

So when I saw this SPLAT Witch from Mill Hill, I had to have her. And I gave her bottle because she's drunk too! 🍾🤣

She also reminds me of ole Witchiepoo from H.R. Pufnstuf. Who remembers watching that as a kid? "Watch and learn, dummy!" Not a very nice witch!

We have a trip coming up, so I'll see what I can finish in mid August.

Fully Finished Gallery - June 2025 🖼

Welcome to Rachel's 

Fully Finished Gallery SAL for June 2025.

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I know this is too late to link to Rachel, but this is also for my records. The past two weeks I've been helping out with the church's white elephant, and it was crazy busy! But that's another post.

This is a Hinzeit design that I personalized for Nathan's Band Teacher, showing the list of activities for the last four years of band.

There are shadows on the fabric, it was actually a very pretty colour blue.

Nathan giving his goodbye and view of his band years.

He said some funny things, wish I could remember what they were!

Mr. Blackman opening his gift, I think he liked it!

I know I'll have at least one next time,🤞maybe more?

Fully Finished Gallery - May 2025 🖼

Welcome to Rachel's 

Fully Finished Gallery SAL for May 2025.

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I've had this one for a while, but I can't remember where it came from! Not the exact frame I wanted, but it will have to do.

It's found a home with the other busy bees and cross stitch pieces.

I have something I need to fully finish by tomorrow evening, but I still have a few things to add to it. At least I'll have a definite finish next time!

Please be sure to see what the others have finished. I know I'm way behind in my reading again, AND in posting. There's just too much going on, I really need to catch up on both.