Trumpet fanfare....ANN MEDD IS FINISHED!!!! No idea HOW I am going to get her framed in the near future, as I have not seen any framers around in this part of Normandy. I will post on FB as well, as I know there are some ex-pat stitchers not that far from me and they may have the solution. I usually, trawl the charity shops until I find something right, but along with Pak Choi and English Cheddar, charity shops are something pretty non-existent over here.
I have made a couple of changes in the Adam and Eve band. I skipped the entire one over animals, as I hate one over. Because something was needed to fill the space, I found a peacock pattern on the internet, which had been found on a 1742 sampler. As the date at the bottom, is 1742, I thought that a good tie-in. At the top I put in a flower, which was adapted from the ones higher up on the border. I had unpicked some one-overs, and had made a small hole, which I was able to fill but it needed something over it to hide the fact it was a mend. The tiny animals, under the trees, are a cockerel and a hen, a rabbit and a cat representing all my girls and boys past and present. 
I have thoroughly enjoyed Ann Medd, honestly, every stitch, even having to unpick all the turquoise so that I could make it dark blue. Just sorry she wasn’t finished in time for the end of Nicola’s year.