Panda dream.

My name is Chi-Chi. At present, I am on loan to this place they call a "zoo." I am far away from home. I do like it, but I miss my Mama terribly, I wish she was here with me. I am looked after very well by these creatures who are called humans. They look so different from others around me. These humans walk on two legs. Really ! These creatures that look after me are big and strong, and very kind.

Others come and look at me from outside these big things, and I hear little humans laugh and giggle with delight, pointing at me. I must be very special, because there are always a lot of them around with the big humans.

Sometime I feel very lonely because I have no one to play with,or share my meals, or sleep beside me like when I was with my mama. When I am tired, I go inside and sit in my corner, think about mama and wish she were here with me,cuddling me, and I feel worse. Then I curl myself up and try to go to sleep.

This particular night, there is a strange feeling all around this place, and I hear others being restless as well, and I wonder why. I think I better go to my corner as I am cold and shivering and so I curl up and try to go to sleep. Where I come from it is warm. Oh how I wish my mama was beside me be cause I am so afraid. She would keep me warm, protect me, and keep me safe from what is happening. Finally, I fall asleep.

I find myself in a strange place and I hear human voices and lots of noises, the like I have never heard before. Looking around, I see this human, if I remember, called"man". Standing beside him,another one, called "woman". She is so beautiful, and she is kneeling down looking at a small one called"baby". He lays in the same kind of thing that I have for my bed.

All around, there are others looking at the baby with amazemant and adoration. I hear someone call the baby"Jesus" Beside the baby, I see a donkey and a cow breathing over him. He must be cold and they are trying to keep him warm.

I wish I could be there right beside him, the beautiful baby Jesus. He would be much warmer if I was there, that is for sure, because I would cuddle him like my mama used to do to keep me warm, Yes, I wish, oh how much I wish, I could be there.

Hey! What? What is happening? I am moving, somebody is pushing me around. But no one is beside me. What is this? What is going on? Every one is moving aside to mlet me pass, and, oh! my wish has come true. I am beside the baby and the beautiful Lady is holding him to me. Look I am holding Him close to me to keep him warm. I look dowm at Him. He is looking at me with a beautiful smile. I feel a warm glow come over me, and I know, I am the luckiest of them all.

I feel warm, protected, and safe, my mama must be with me. I stir and open my eyes and realize it was all a dream. But, I no longer feel afraid or cold and I think, my mama must be near by, she has to be. How can I have this feeling? I gaze around and and see everything with a vision renewed, and I understand. We are never alone, we are always protected through the ligh of Him.

Painting on a tin.

After the holiday last year I bought some tins that were on sale at extra food.I used a couple for cookies and had 2medium ones and 3 larger ones left. One day ,a couple weeks ago I looked at them and wonder what I could do with them. It came to mind ,that I could do one with a CQ block.So I went with this idea. I cut the material for the border( green on the picture). I realize that I would have to glue it and as I never use a glue gun before I found it difficult to do for now. So I change my mind and decided to do a small painting instead. Kay was here and told her about it and she thought it was a good idea. I went ahead and sand the lid and prime it.The painting was done when I realize there was something wrong but could not put my hand on it. Showed to Heather and said my foliage on the trees looked like evergreen, I redone them and still was not happy and again Heather help. It was a trial anyway if I decide to do more sometime. The size of the tin is the medium one.

Birch trees in winter

This painting was done few years ago. I really like it because I wanted for quite awhile to do birches in winter,and I done this one out of my head. I think I done very well, specially the background as I wanted it to be foggy,so the birches would stand out more.

Birthday Gift

In September I had a birthday, and this is the gift from Heather. A couple weeks before that ,we were in town for coffee with Kay,and afterward she took us to the gift shop to show us the new fairies that had arrived at Leonie store. Of course they were a lot of oohh and aahh,from me and then I saw the cups and saucers,and of course I had to looked at them when I spotted this particular one. The style was different from the other ones,and I said I should get it sometime as I like fairies and of course it was my favorite color. Now I do not have to think about buying it. Very nice gift.

Birthday Present.

Today I thought I show this set of a cup and plate. It was a gift from Heather for my birthday in September. The previous week we had been in town for a coffee with Kay and she took us to Leona to show us her new Fairies items,as she knows that Heather and I like Fairies. Of course there were a lot of ooh and ahh ,but it was when I saw the cups and saucer that enthralled me, and this one more than the other ones as you guessed it was my favorite color and the only one with that

another small cross stitch

Here is another small crosstitch I done a little while ago. It is a Scottish Thistle. I found this pattern on the internet along with other small ones. I done this one after the shoe. Much easier to do. I love the color, of course the flower being purple.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Crossstitch: fancy shoe

I done that crossstich few months ago and did not know what kind of frame to use,as it is hard to find something here. I have these frames so I decided to use one. I use metallic thread for this design as mention in the pattern, and I found it was very hard to use it for the whole design as the thread was hard on the fingers. I was glad when it was done.