Hello and Welcome

Hello Everyone and welcome to my Blog called 'Candy Cane Crafts'. Lets Introduce myself - My name is Gemma and I love crafting. Mostly Scrapbooking and Cross-sticthing but also Card-Making and going through new techniques. I will update my blog with the pictures of my progress of all the different crafts but also a few bits about me along the way.

On the 9th of January my other half Shaun took me to Hobbycarft to pick out a new cross sticth. I was delighted when I picked Cut Thru' Princess Palace - It truly is a fantastic design. The finished size is 26cm by 35cm and is the biggest cross stitch that I have started before. I have been stitching this design now on and off for two weeks and along the way have been taking lots of photos.

This is the start of the first session of putting in the background wallpaper in one of the rooms.

Putting in the chair in the Princess Room - I am dreading all this backstitching but decided that I shall be putting that in last-ish :)

Adding in the cake and the flowers - Looks a tad plain without any back stitching but I can see all my work coming together now

A Close-up. I stayed up late into the night to get the floorboards done

And then the Snow came and I was stuck indoors for one week as I could not risk falling and so the cross stitching marathon started....

And so this is where I am now... and still stitching... with a big mug of tea :)