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.

Chatelaine Peacock Garden-part 9

Another catch up job here. I completed the part before we went away on holiday but didn't have time to upload it to the computer, so here it is, done & beaded for this month.

Glendale Show - 30.08.09

I'm a bit behind updating my blog, but here goes.
At Glendale show, I won Best Exhibit in the Baking section, and both my Chatelaine & Cross stitch won there classes. Brook also won Reserve Best in Show in the Companion Dog Show. Pics are in the slide show on the right.

Whittingham Show - 21.08.10

Well the sun shone today for a change, and my baking was again successful. My Quiche not only won its class but took the Trophy for Best Exhibit in the Industrial Section, and I also won the Most points in this section.
In the Companion dog show, Brook was 2nd in the Open Class and Willow was 2nd in the Veterans. She also enjoyed a run around the Agility Display Course that was set up and the applause she got for it. Not bad for 2 weeks short of being 8 years old.
Pics of the exhibits in the side display.