Orchid Update

Well it looks like the new year will be a busy time for us. Our little Orchid has an expanding wasteline and feeding stations!! She is expecting a litter of pups to Sh Ch Erinderry Just the Ticket from Bluewaters JW. She is due to whelp on 22/23rd January.

Chatelaine Peacock Garden - Finished!!!

Major celebration tonight with this years mystery piece finished. There must be around 400 hours work in this piece spread over the last 12 months, along with dog shows and a little puppy lately. Now for some relaxing time and puppy training over Christmas, and fingers crossed for Orchid as to whether there will be the tiny patter of little paws in late January - fingers crossed

Chatelaine Peacock Garden - part 11

Here we are, just in time for part 12 coming out. Not much time for stitching at the moment with Clover running around, but a few quite hours and I've got it done. Roll on part 12 and a completed piece by the end of December :)

New member of our family....

Introducing Clover....

A long awaited for addition, Clover is related to Orchid and Willow. Willow's mother is Clover's great grandmother, and her grandad is Orchid Dad, so she is definately one of the family. Her dad took Reserve CC at Crufts this year and is an international Show & field trial Champion abroad. We are waiting for confirmation of her registered name, but hopefully it is Amirene Trefle a la Creme. She has settled in very quickly with her new family and found the bottom of the coffee table a great place to chill out for 5 mins.
Looks like I'll not be doing much stitching for a while.......

Chatelaine Peacock Garden - Part 10

Well its 10 parts done and only 2 left to go before this one is completed. The beads are added too, so its looking really sparkly already.

Driffield Champ Show - 01.10.10

I forgot all about posting the results of this show up. We had a very wet day at Wetherby racecourse and the ground became very muddy!! Anyway the dogs managed to stay clean long enough to be show.
Orchid was placed 4th in the GR Yearling Bitch class and 5th in the Good Citizens Bitch class.
Brook was placed 4th in the Post Graduate dogs and 2nd in the Good Citizens Dog class. So all in all despite the rain and mud we had a successful day.
We have one more champ show left this year at Newark, then Orchid is to be mated and hopefully have a litter of pups. Brook will be working over the winter, beating/picking up for a local shoot, then his next show appearance will be Crufts 2011.

Wiehenburg Sampler Contest 2010 - HD

Finally got the letters stitched onto this tonight to my liking, so I've just uploaded the photos. The colour is quite different where the flash was used against the no flash picture so I've put both up.
 

The design was stitched on 32ct Black Belfast linen using Kaalund yarns silk thread in Silky Oak & Guava colurs, 1 skein of each. I'm really very pleased with the way this has come out. The initials stand for Beaupippin Retrievers, the kennel name of my goldies that I show & breed.