Miscellaneous cross stitch presents

These were Christmas and b-day presents from previous years for my dad, mom and bro.

This one does have my signature in the corner, I just added it after I had already framed it so it's not in the picture.

This was for my mom for her b-day.  The dark green of the grass is actually cotton perle thread, super duper cool looking, but a little hard to work with.  I like it because it adds a nice dimensional effect.

This was for my dad and it is a specially designed mug with the Aida cloth sitting between the two pieces of plastic that make up the mug.  It was a lot of fun to make, the design is my own design, influenced by a cross stitch I saw on Etsy and the TV show Firefly.

The two key chains were for my dad; the first one is supposed to be Broncos colors (Go Broncos! yaa?) and is from a kit I bought on Etsy and the second one is from a kit I bought on Ebay simply because it is called "wee hieland coo" and I couldn't resist!

Birth announcement (2013)

I made this after my niece was born, it was from a kit but I changed a few of the colors to personalize it.  This was also the first cross stitch I made that I added my 'signature' to (it's in the bottom right-hand corner).  I created the signature myself and I intended to keep a record of it so that I could use it on other projects except that I keep forgetting it until it's too late, hahaha!  Oh well, eventually I'll remember it and use it on future projects.