Lots of things to share

Good Morning Everyone!
Lets see where do I start?
I have been stitching, not as much as I would like too but some. I have been working mostly on We Three Kings since my last posting. Here is my progress.

I have not worked on this piece since last Dec. so it felt good to get it out and work on it. There are a lot of color changes on the this one so I needed a little change of pace and started on Home of a Needleworker by Little House Needleworks. And here is my progress of this piece as of last night.

I started this piece on the 17th and have 882 stitches in the blue house so far. This one will be an easy stitch as there are not very many color changes.

In my last post I told you about my new book shelves in my craft room. Well right next to the book shelves is a closet that I have not used forever, because it stored all of my son's stuff that he did not take with him when he moved out.

So every thing was taken out, sorted, trashed,& given away. I was left with this.

Nothing in the closet, I wash the walls and the floor. Then I decided to take the door off so that it would not become the catch all place and be hidden away forever.

And here I can neatly store my totes.

I was a winner of a giveaway, Cathy over at I Love to Stitch sent these wonderful things to me.
Thank you so much!

Pin Cushion's a Plenty II
Double Embrace By  Sam Sarah
St Nicholas II by Prairie Schooler ( can't wait to start these)
Dinky Darlings Rose Buds (very Cute)
Welcome Samplar by The Mad Samplar Design Company
  a piece of 25 ct linen
and a extending flashlight and magnet ( I had to hide this from my DH as he thought this was an awesome little tool that he could use)

As I close this post I will leave you with a few pictures from the farm I hope you enjoy them

Apple Blooms

Our apple trees in bloom

This is our very first set of twin calves They were born on May 19, 2013. Both are bull calves.

And the ladies of the coop

They produce me many beautiful eggs

I hope everyone has a great week !
Happy Stitching
Denise

Travelling Pattern - Jolly Jack, Baby Shower, & A Wedding

Well I am ready to sent Jolly Jack on to his new home. I put the 6 names in a hat and my DH pick one out for me. So that part is done but I got NO pictures to show of this happening because my DD#1 has my camera until this week end. So no pictures of my finish of Jolly Jack either until this weekend.

 

Oh I suppose you want to know who the winners;

 

SoCal Debbie

 

Email me your snail mail and I will get this in the mail right away.

 

On Friday after I did my last post I went out and check out mail and guess what was waiting for me?

My package from Cathy at Crafty Cat. She had a giveaway beacuse she had reached 100 followers. Here are a few shot I took of them when I open the package up.

Every thing came neatly tucked into this
Zippered project bag. (Can't have too many of these)

Charts and the little sheep is a tape measurer

and look at this seclection on goodies
scissors, tweezers, threads, a light, needles and more.

Thank you so much Cathy, this was such a great giveaway

 

 

I had a very busy weekend and I'm still tring to get things caught back up.

 

Saturday was a long day! At 10:00 I attended a Baby Shower for my Great Niece

 

Abigail Darlene

 

In my last post I showed the baby photo frame that I made her. But I want to show you some pictures from the shower because, well you will see, the pictures speak for them selves

 

These 6 babies are 2nd cousins and all born with in the last
7 months 

 My niece Chrissy & Abigail are second on the left

My niece Courtney & Amaya are second on the right

My nephew's wife Nikki & Cruz are on the end right

 

There is a 7th second cousin that was born 2 days before this picture was taken.

 

 

 

Oldest to youngest

So after the shower was over I went home for a couple of hours and did some stitching. Then I get ready for a wedding that my son was a groomsmen in and I took the wedding pictures for the happy couple. I am not a professional by any means but I do enjoy playing with the camera at happy events.

Here are a couple of shot I will share with you.

Heath & Vanessa

The Wedding party fun shot
 

My son TJ and his girlfriend Heidi ( who was also in the
wedding - she is the grooms sister)

Ok I think that is enough for one post!

I will be back with my pictures of Jolly Jack as soon as my camera gets back home.

In the mean time enjoy you week and

Happy Stitching

Denise 

Back from a Camping Trip

I need too get caught up on everything that has been going on since I last posted on the 17th.

First thing is I won a giveaway from Barbara over at To Stitch or Not To Stitch. Her give away  was to celebrate 500 followers. It came in the mail the day I left on my camping trip so I finally got a picture to show you all the great stash I got.

Barbara - to stitch or not to stitch
500 follower giveaway

Thank you Barbara for all the great stash!

 

I not only won Barbara's giveaway I also won a second giveaway  from

LaDonna at Branch Needlework.

She notified me on Tuesday the 21st that I had won. And I sent her an email back with my snail mail address, so as soon as that comes in I will get a picture and show you what I got.

 

As for what else I have been up too is our annual family camping trip to Historic Prairie Village.

They have a lot of old time stuff there, like old buildings, machinery, old steam engines, lots of old tractors, a huge flee market. Speaking of flee markets I was walking around looking at all the stuff and guess what I came across. Yep someone was selling cross stitch material and kits. I picked out a bunch of fabric and 3 patterns. As I was checking out I was talking to the lady and she said her mother use to stitch alot but was in a bad car accident and was unable to do it anymore. I spent just about 50 dollars on the stuff I bought and after I got it home saw the store tags were on most of it and added it up and it was actually worth about $150.00. that was quite a saving for me.

Here's what I got:

7 pieces of 28ct jobelan in different colors

1 white 25 ct Lugana

1 Ivory 2ct Salem coth

1 Ivory 22ct Damask Hardanger

1 Lavender & lace Pattern (Angel of the Sea)

1 Stormy Night (pattern)

1 towel kit with Pansy pattern

2 heart shaped dolies

Lots of Stash for a little bit of money - I like that!

 

I stitched one afternoon while we were camping so I don't have any stitching to show just yet.

This morning I had a doctor appointment and this afternoon I spent cleaning out the camper and doing more laundry. Hopefully I can sit and stitch for a while tomorrow. I really need to get a baby gift done before I can work on anything else. 

 

Well until next time

Happy Stitching

Denise

 

 

Mail Time

Yesterday after I got home from running errands

I check the mail box and it was full

and every thing in it was for me!!!

The first big package was from Teresa (Quiet & Relaxation Blog)

I won her give away.

I got: Lizzie Kate - Home is Where Our Story Begins

Some size 26 needles and needle keeper

a 9"x19" piece of fabric

and a cute pillow with bees on it.

Thank you so much Teresa!

Then I had ordered some stash from 123 Stitch

And then there were the magizines that came

So I fun last night looking through my new magazines

I have already decided which ornaments I am going to do first.

I better get some house work done so I can sit and stitch this afternoon

Happy Stitching

Denise



This That and Other Things

I just had the best supper ever

It was not a 5 course meal,

but you can't beat comfort food like mom's meatloaf and home grown sweet corn.

Yummy!

This afternoon when I got home from watching my 3 grandkids I checked our mail and seen that I had recieved a package from Jill, It was a giveaway that I had won. Look at all the neat things that I got.

These 5 beautiful Crescent Colours

Small Token pincushion from Blackbird Designs

(I already kitted this up to do)

and this cute needle keep with popicles on it

I also got a self stick note pad and not sure what happened to the picture I took.

Last week I stitched on two projects

the first one I have been working on for a while,

but I had to keep frogging so I have not gotten very far on it.

This is the Birds of a Feather Mystery Sampler

and I started on part 2 as you can tell.

I am hopeing the rest goes smoothly and not much frogging.

The next piece I finished stitching is

Merry Christmas (freebie) by Log Cabin Needleworks

I stitched it on 28 count Linen with DMC floss

I found this pattern on Andrea's blog (The Craft Room)

She also has posted the instructions on how to finish it, which

I plan to do. There is also a Noel christmas ornament

that I have ready to do.

I am not sure how much stitching I am going to accomplish this week because I am watching 3 of my grandkids this week as there babysitter is on vacation. Oh well there is always next week, right.

HAPPY STITCHING EVERYONE

Denise