This one's gonna take a while!!

I've just realised I haven't posted about my spends for a couple of weeks so I am going to get that out of the way first. Before my September wages came in I posted the prizes (£5.02) and bought some food (£14.44) all which meant I had no money for savings. Since then I have transferred £350 to my ISA, spent £10 on food, bought four copies of LAAC (two of which have been reimbursed, two which still need to be- the £16 I used for a meal out for mum and I.) bought a dress from New Look for me and a top for mum (22.99) bought some icecream and snacks (9.10 - amazingly enough one tub of Ben and Jerry was 5.24, two were a fiver!) paid the rent, the Sky and the phone bill (25.78) bought a Lindy Bop dress from ebay for £11.80 and bought another copy of LAAC (for a reason I will divulge later) and a copy of Flowers for Algernon for 14.73. So a lot of spending!

Anyway, the title is about the latest stitch I have begun - which I will put aside at a later date to do the second wedding stitch. It is called Beauty and the Beast Falling in Love and I got it from WDW last year. So here is where I am so far.

I get a bit stuck at times with how to continue, as there are some confetti style bits. So I decided to stitch the top part so that I could work on the left hand side. I was very careful with my counting with this one! I've been using a highlighter pen to cross off the stitches as I do them, which seems to be working so far. The thing you have to remember with this is that I've stitched to each horizontal side and vertical from top to bottom of one quarter of the whole stitch! So it is four times the size of this! It will look amazing framed but it is going to take a long time to complete.

I'm off this week and have at least one craft piece planned. Hopefully more but I will not guarantee that.

Happy crafting

Ems

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