You are my sunshine :)

Do you know that song? You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy when skies are grey. It's a song that I have always sung to my kids...so catchy... and Lydia was tickled to announce yesterday that she could now play it on her guitar! So after having it on my brain all afternoon (and listening to her practice) I sat down to stitch last night and my sun made an appearance :)


This is the top right hand corner of my stitchery piece...the perfect place for a sun to go. Without consulting my " stitch dictionary" I think this is called continuous chain stitch...you make a chain without anchoring the stitch each time....feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, it's been a while since I embroidered :)

I know you saw this block yesterday, but I'm hoping this photo has better colour representation...yep, that's the perfectionist coming out in me (again).

And now for paper...

This is a little felt 8' x 8' album by Making Memories. I had it in my hand several times when I visited Scrapsidaisy in January, but came home without it...and then wished I had bought it! How perfect to keep my Christmas recipes from Tarisota that I printed out each day in December, and add all my Christmas favourites too...thank goodness for online shopping ;)

The front has a little window...

...which looks like this when you open it.

Here's a close-up. The album already has some filler pages...felt, acetate, ledger paper...which I plan to use as my dividers. I've used Making Memories Mistletoe papers and embellishments to create this page, and will probably have enough to decorate all the sections...I'll show you when I'm done!

Have a great Tuesday.

TTFN xxx