A PIF and 2 PICs

Here's my first Bloggy PIF moment!! If you would like to receive a PIF from me, do comment on this post!! This is so easy. No sewing involved, and you get 365 days to send out your PIF's :) The "rules" are as follows:
1. Send no less than 5 stitching related items per person within the next 365 days.

2. Items can be DMC, other threads, stitching needles, straight pins, buttons, scissors, ribbons, etc. - a combination of items such as 3 threads, 1 pack of straight pins and 1 pack of stitching needles or just 5 threads.

3. Items must be new and not used. (Send things you'd be happy to receive.)

4. If you win, you must be willing to post this PIF on your blog and do the same for at least 2 people.

If you are interested in Paying It Forward, please comment on this post with your email address so that I can contact you. I will PIF three readers. If there are more than three comments, the names will go into a drawing to determine the lucky ones :) I hope there are more than three comments to this post!! Good luck! I'll announce the PIF recepients on the 14th which is celebrated as Children's Day in India. Each of us is a child inside, dont you agree? Let us see who the 3 lucky children are!!

Here is some history behind 'paying it forward' in this link from wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_it_forward.

Here are my progress pics - I worked a lot many nights on Frederick this month after completing page 5 of lilies that is. I wish i had completed the bird as well, but that was not to be. Had a lot of black on black to do that took a lot of time than expected. Now i will have to check if i get time end of December to work on this project. Most likely no, as there will be guests at our place during Christmas time. Let us see. My rota plan went off kilter, so there is only BOINK that i worked on this month. On the first weekend of October, i did not have the OHD September printouts ready, so took up BOINK; the next weekend i did not stitch as my parents left:( and i was feeling very low; the weekend after was Diwali so no stitching only cleaning:8) and then Sat night i left to my parents'; and *sigh* the next weekend was spent in office on BOTH days; that gave me this weekend only and i spent that on BOINK. As i said earlier, i also stitched BOINK when on vacation for my night-time stitching, LOL. Sorry did you raise your eyebrows reading this?

I am thinking i will stitch on OHD in November and AT in December. So they know there was no discrimination!

Last night, i took up Page 6 of Lilies. Stiched 110 crosses:) Just to prepare you for the pic this mid-month - because of how dirty the fabric was getting, courtesy my Mother the finished row is now covered (running stitch) with a pillow cover, the portion below the 'row being stitched' is covered with another pillow cover. I probably have to wash the fabric after completing the project, but with these covers, i am minimising the dust gathering on the lilies. This explanation was just to keep you prepared!!

The CC problem still exists, i have now placed a question with the ebay Answer Center.