Dizzy Xstitcher
- Name: Diz
- Location: The Midlands! OO UK
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This is me
Sewing, Photography, playing with
Technology, Shopping and Having Fun in general. Love spending time watching movies and stitching.. preferably together. 
I Adore Music and have a huge eclectic collection of just about
every genre of music there is. Generally my love is acoustic, which doesn't narrow it down much....
Love spending time on my computer and using it to help me with my crafty projects.... I love Books and have a huge collection of them... and I guess I should
add collecting in general to my list!! Gardening, I love growing things but adore Fuchsia's and Lily's in particular. 
Recent Finishes
In Stitches
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7th August 2007
08/07/08 12:16:21 | 2 Comments
So I couldn't resist I stayed up sewing last night till after 3am.... I have finished the last two samll trees. So all small trees done....
olympic torch has made its way to the great wall of china.. so that 2008 Bejing Olympics are up and off.....and so is the stitching ones!!!
my goals for the chatelaine stitching olympics are:
1. Finish outside boarder of Taj Mahal (blue bit all round)
2. finish right side
flower boarder TM 
3. finish left side flower boarder TM
4. finish all trees on
TM 
1st 
job done
5. Finish left Taj building
6. finish right taj building
7. finish speciality stitches all over
8. finish beading all over4th April 2008
04/04/08 07:32:35 | 0 Comments
I have bee stitching well for the last fortnight. I am on my Easter Break from the Photography and of course rather than getting my work done I have been stitching instead... nuaghty I know but isn't that when you enjoy it the most when it is an illicit pleasure... naughty me! I will work twice as hard next week to make up I promise....
Also reading an excellent book at the minute called 'the end of Mr Y' about a 1/4 of the way through but tloving it a real page turner for me....
Will post a new piccy of the Taj this evening
11th February
02/11/08 05:32:26 | 0 Comments
So have been on a little holiday...which was fabulous. Though now I feel like I need a holiday to get over the holiday! Mad isn't it!? Still not much stitching been done, but it is calling me... I have just got to get Un finished which is May .... so fingers crossed.. I didn't get much photography done over the last few weeks.. which is rather a set back to things but hopefully now the jetlag is starting to wane I might just get back into gear....
So here's alittle reminder.. will take a new piccy soon... as I have done a little more since last photo... and a reminder of the fabric as I had to look it up and was shocked t realise I hadn't posted it here: so it's Shimmeing Jellybean by Sugar Maple Fabrics. THat should help e to remeber for posterity.. well chores a beckoning... yuk!
TTFN
8th November 2007
11/08/07 13:32:52 | 0 Comments
So the Degree course, is now well under way, and my feet haven't touched the ground since! I don't think I have ever been so rushed off my feet before... It's consuming every waking minute! I am so glad I am only doing the part time course as I think I would have quit if I was on the full time work load.... there is so much work and the cost! I thought sewing was an expensive hobby! I used to think I was quite well off! Not any more.... I am starting to get into Debt for the 1st time in 10years!!! Which I am not at all comfortable with. I am hoping things will start to calm down further in the next month or so. Not really been having any great photo shoots yet... My Photography appears to have gotten worse and not better to the viewer! But that is because now I am in total control of the camera and all the auto functionality is now turned off. So no photo's as yet worth uploading to show you all.... will post them as soon as I create them! Promise.... See you all soon.
Weds 19th September
09/19/07 13:39:02 | 0 Comments
sorry guys not done much sewing of late, I am due to go back to Uni, next week and start a degree in photography so perhaps there will be lots of pretty pictures for you to see over time.... though we have been having computer issues over the last few days.... so I hope I haven't lost loads of them! Here's hoping... will keep you all up to date with my progresses though.. Diz
Monday 3rd Septemeber
09/03/07 10:22:14 | 0 Comments
So here's my latest progress picture, I have managed to get round that bottom corner and onto nearly half way. I am enjoying the stitching, but it's not a fast grower. But I do think it's going to be a lifetime best when I have finished it. I really have that pride over the work I am doing on this one...... I do hope I will get to finish it.....
Since I have news of another kind I am going back to University at the end of the month. I am going to do another degree, but this time in a creative discipline. Photography!!! No comments please on the photo's shown below.....
I am both nervous and excited about this adventure, and hope I can juggle all areas of my life successfully since, I am wife, mother and home maker! here's hoping.... will let you all know how I get on.. fingers crossed & wish me luck!
25th July 2007
07/25/07 09:53:55 | 0 Comments
Had a difficult stitching week.... bit of a slump either time restrictions or blues.. but I have now finished the centre segment of the Taj Design, beads and all.... I have played around with the orientation of the beads... to give it a starburst effect.... so they all point to the diagonals. I couldn't face the idea of finishing all the stitching and then having to start all over again with the beading. I am now going to go back to doing the outer border though, I really want to stitch something else for a bit of a break, think I am going to have to buy me some more q snaps though, I need to anyway, but I think I will have to order them sooner rather than later... well off to cook for dinner for us all. He's the progress piccies....
... it's 12.40pm. But instead here I am
uploading pictures of cross stitch 
Cross Stitch so far
I am still working on Taj Mahal Chateliane as you can probably see by the above photo's I am also interested in starting some smaller projects in between and have started a little Humphrey's corner ornament that was a kit, and I have just had three Mill Hill Beads ornaments come in through the post this week. Mid July SMF fabrics have gone out of business very suddenly
she was hacked... and everything obliterated and all monies stolen!!!! 
Must believe in Karma, must believe in Karma...... going try and finish Taj by
the time I go back to Uni, better go get stitching....2007
May Started Taj Mahal, June still workin in Taj Mahal Progress pics are above. At first I thought it was going to be a UFO as it was such a slow grower and so difficult to understand what to do next.... but I pushed through and we make progress slowly so I am happy to keep plodding for the time being..... I am also excited about starting to the Taj's themselves. Which is going to be fun....
Don't like most of these fabrics on arrival for the intended projects.... bit annoyed about that.... but I will use them I think with other projects. The origianl fabric I choose for Cinderella was shimmering fairy's eve, which I have now used on Witchy Washy instead and it's looks fab.... so I will just have to change things around as I go.
Finished Bessie P. Gutmann's Happy
Dreams, so I am also kitting up Mirabilia's Cinderella, and the Garden series just waiting on the fabrics to arrive... Fabric Arrived for Cinderella no
idea what to use for the Garden Series yet...
2006
Finish's Told in the Garden's Baby in a Basket, 
Mirabilia's Mermaids of the Deep Blue (started 3 dec 2006 finished 30th Jan 2007!!!)
Mirabilia Fairy Moon Dec 2006.
Mirabilia Touching the Autmn Sky Nov 2006. You can see some photo's in my images section. 
http://dizzy-xstitcher.u.yuku.com/gallery/ls/aid/5705
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cuteblueeyedblonde
07/08/08
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cuteblueeyedblonde
07/08/08
inekeX
07/07/08
And on my wishlist are the Knotgarden and Indian Summer Reflections already.
Don't know when the Japanese Box comes out again.
I like the online classes; they are a kind of drive too keep up. Although I am far behind with the Celtic Mystery now...
inekeX
07/06/08
This way I can add photo's from different sections of our computer and resize them.
Some off them are too big for images I discovered.
You'll have to wait some time before you can add the Victorian Garden to your stash: the chart will not be releized within the next year or so.
So time left for some finishes...
inekeX
07/06/08
It took some time to figure everithing out, but finally I got some photo's where I wanted them!
Greetings, Ineke
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