Days of Jo's Life - Big Birthday Blog Hop

It's here!!  I have timed this post to appear at the same time I was born, so please think of my poor Mum when you see it.  I do have a Happy Dance to share with you all later, I'm sure you can guess what it is.

aged 9 weeks with my Nana and Grandad

The blog hop starts with me.  It is August in the year 1966, England have won the World Cup and a young couple are expecting their first child.  The husband is in the army and away from his wife who is staying with her parents.  Each weekend he comes home expecting to see his newborn baby.  Each weekend he goes back to the barracks, childless.  Finally, we reach September the 16th and the baby is on its way!  Hurry home Dad!  Dad hitch-hikes over 200 miles home, bursts through the door "Where is the baby?"   "Oh, baby will be a while yet, we believe there is a good book in there too".  Eventually I appear at 2,15am on the morning of Saturday 17th September.  "Saturday's Child works hard for a living" - they got that right LOL.

aged 9 months - look at me with my duckies all in a row

To read more of my thrilling life story follow each link in turn.  Remember some links will appear later than others as people live in different time zones.  There are a couple of blank years where nothing much happened!  If you did anything exciting in one of those years, please feel free to blog about it and join in belatedly.  Leave a comment and a link.

1967 - Vickie

1968 - Ariadne

1969 - Lesley

1970 - Beth

1971 - Gillie

1972 - Carolyn

1973 - Cheryl

1974 - Christine

1975 - Deborah

1976 - Katie

1977 - Astrid

1978 - Cathy

1979 - Melinda

1980 - Geeky Heather

1981 - Gracie

1982 - Heather

1983 - Jocondine

1984 - Justine

1985 - Kerry

1986 - no link

1987 - Leonore

1988 - Elfie

1989 - no link

1990

1991 - Tiffany

1992 - Kaye

1993 - Mini

1994 - Mouse

1995 - Stephanie

1996 - Diya

1997 - no link

1998 - Preeti

1999 - no link

2000 - Barb

2001 - no link

2002 - Riona

2003 - Sarah

2004 - no link

2005 - Sharon

2006 - Pat

2007 - Kim

2008 - Noni

2009 - Susan

2010 - Rachel

2011 - Barbara

2012 - Jackie

2013 - no post

2014

2015

2016 - Bea

Welcome Back to the Present!  Here in the present we have the promised Happy Dance for Ghostly Mandala by Ink Circles.  Earlier this year Rachel sent me some gorgeous dark fabric she just couldn't get on with and thought I would like.  I decided it would be good for the Ink Circles series of Mandalas.  I have three of them from Just Cross Stitch and only need to buy the fourth.  Because the Ghosts were charted for coloured thread on white fabric I had to switch them and used B5200 for the outline.  There is a stitcher on FB who has done the reverse, she has stitched the actual ghosts in white rather than the charted outlines.  They do look good that way if anyone is considering it.

stitched on 32 count Autumnal Woodland by Crafty Kitten using B5200

Finally, I will keep this brief because there's a lot of reading in those links!  I hope you all enjoy the Blog Hop, BYOC (Bring your own cake) and loved the stitching shown.  I have several stitchy parcels already which have been arriving throughout the week so I'll be back later with some more Gifted Gorgeousness photos to show you all.