Yesterday, after work, I decided to come home and put together my Merry Cox piece. It was really simple and quick to put together....I just love the little scrimshaw ruler

I have been madly stitching away on my Merry Cox piece for the online class that I am doing....It's called Americana Sewing Case and it's been such a fun stitch. The class for putting it together is on the 1st of April and I've only the little name plate to finish, which is almost done. I have 2 neighbourhood RR's sitting in my craft room waiting to be stitched on. I've started one of them, but had to put it down for this class. Anyway, I decided to change the wording on mine to say "Union gives strength" by Aesop, which means that when two people join in marriage they are stronger. I happened to stitch this on our 16th wedding anniversary (the 20th March) and wanted mine to have some meaning. The words down the spine are taken from Shakespeares' Venus and Adonis "Love comforteth like sunshine after rain"...I also put our two initials underneath my name and 16 in roman numerals between them.

I hope to have an update with the work situation in my next update.....Things are no different at this stage.

Ta Da!!!!!!

I am so proud of this...It has only taken 4 years, but I have finally finished my Merry Cox piece I got at the 2004 Shepherds Bush Retreat. It's called "Her Necessaire". It was nearly finished for most of those years, but only decided to pull it out last week. It took about 9 hours to put the whole thing together....!

Merry Cox Flowers In The Fall and Shepherds Bush

I was so excited to go to the Post Office today and get my package! It was MERRY COX'S ACCESSORIES TO FLOWERS IN THE FALL!

Here it is at the Shepherds Bush Retreat!

Now I just have to finish my stitching! ;)

I had to just edit this post to include the last charm that came in the mail for my Cherish Bracelet from Shepherds Bush....The Bracelet is now complete (But the stitchin' aint!)

This is what the stitching will look like completed.....I've done about half