Days out in Brighton

At last, a few days of sunshine... (in between the howling gales and cloudy skies..) I've been out and about shopping, in between going for soya latte's and cupcakes, ha ha! ;-)

Vanilla vegan cupcake

Cool poster of New York in NY Coffee Shop, Brighton

I managed to buy this bargain of a sewing box... its a bit battered and worn around the edges but I like it, and as you can see I've wasted no time in filling it up with all my sewing stuff!

Sewing box

A couple of weekends ago a friend came to visit and we spent the day in town.. more coffee shops and general snacking ;-) ... and then we headed down to the seafront. I've been getting a bit handy with my camera and Instagram and took these photos of the carousel.

'Pleasure'

Carousel horses

We did have a little ride on the carousel, but I didn't manage to take any photos as we were whirling around!

Carousel

Carousel

It was such a lovely sunny day and was very relaxing :-)

My New Sampler Book - A 'Sneaky Peek'!

Here's a 'sneaky peek' of some sketches of my designs that are included in my new 'Cross Stitch Samplers' book:

Close ups of four of the designs

It's going to include the charts for 15 cross-stitch sampler designs. You can stitch the whole design, or just pick out individual motifs to make a smaller design.

There are lots of different themes in the book. Below is the sketch for my seaside sampler:

Seaside motifs

Another theme includes 'retro' inspired china coffee cups, teacups and patterns:

Retro china motifs

And a sealife set of motifs.... with dolphins, a whale, lots of tropical fishes, corals and seahorses..

There's many other themes included in the book too. Here's the front cover of the book:

 

You can see it featured on this Turkish website:  http://www.tuvayayincilik.com/kanavice-motif-kitabi--u