The cover gift with Cross Stitcher magazine was a lovely Emily Peacock design and I thought it would be perfect for the class' Teaching Assistant. I don't usually make a gift for the TA as they tend to help the lower ability children so the Large Boy is doing well to know their name by the end of the year! But this year I've got on well with her thanks to the Small Boy who likes to run round the classroom at the end of the day. She's also a book fan and her daughter wants to work where I do so I'm keeping my eyes open for vacancies.
Here's the bookmark:
It's stitched on 16 count aida, in usual Cross Stitcher incompetence they included 14count which meant the stitching would be too long for the bookmark provided! Luckily I looked on Facebook and saw the comments about it so I was able to use some 16 from my stash instead. There are lots of peeved stitchers who didn't realise! The magazine are currently running a satisfaction survey, I'd LOVE to be one of the analysts reading the replies!
The books behind the bookmark are some of my "Reading List" from work. The red ones with crescent moons are from World Book Night and the others are proof copies I get sent to read, review and recommend to customers. They are mostly Young Adult or age 9-12 which is great for me and the Large Boy. I'm currently reading Witchstruck which describes itself as "Twilight meets The Other Boleyn Girl", a fairly accurate description! I'm enjoying it.
And here is something else I'm enjoying - Noah's Ark by JBW:
This is a superfast stitch! I love all the cute animals. I charted the baby's name and DOB this evening so it'll be finished by the weekend. Another of my "12 in '12" finished, YAY!
Finally the latest postcard in the Summer Postcard Blog Hop was sent to Julie of Julie's Stitchyknitter Journal. Keep an eye open for when she posts it.
If you want to join in and send/receive a postcard then just click on the Wish You Were Here link on my righthand sidebar. You have until the end of August.
