Travelling Pattern Jolly Jack Has Arrived

Good morning everyone and a big welcome to my new followers. Thanks for stopping by and having a look at my blog.

 

Back at the beginning of August, Devon over at Devon's Quiet Corner decided to do a travelling pattern with Jolly Jack (HERE). She wanted to see how many Jolly friends we could stitch before October 31. She sent it off to Amanda over at Sampler, Silks & Linens. You can see her finished Jolly Jack (HERE). She picked my name to send it to next and I recieved it on Wednesday. Last night after I got home from my grandson's 3rd & 4th grade football game I got started on it.

Here is my start

Jolly Jacks
by Bonnie Sullivan of All through the Night
32 ct jobelan lambswool
called for WDW
Started - 9/20/2012

So I am hopeing to complete this pattern this week end and would like to get it sent to the next luck jolly friend at the begining of next week. If you are interested in this pattern please leave me a comment on this post  and on Monday the 24th or Tuesday the 25th I will ramdomly pick its next new home. But the deal is you have to stitch it up quickly and sent it on its way.

 

I did not start Jolly Jack on Wednesday when I got because I had to finish my baby photo frame for my great niece, they are having a baby shower for her this weekend. So I need to make sure it was finished first. And here it is.

I have an 8 by 10 frame that this will fit into and that is a real picture of my great niece before they left the hospital after she was born.

 

I am going to leave you with a couple of random pictures of my grandkids and my furry friends.

 

3 year old Sharlee cheering for her
brothers while they play
football.

# 70 Gavin  he is a 3rd grader

# 35 Treyton is a 4th grader

Sonny (is 4 years old)

Honey Bear ( she is only 5 months old)



Well I think this is long enough so until next time

Happy Stitching

Denise

 



TUSAL

Good Morning fellow Bloggers!

And Welcome new followers, I love that you stop by to see what I have been up too.

Its a nice cool morning here in SD. And I am enjoying having my windows open and letting some fresh farm air in and hearing the sounds of the chickens.

 

Yesterday was TUSAL and I was busy with my husband (its harvest time here) so here is my picture of my orts for this month and a vase with all my orts from previous months.

 

I have made some progress on the baby photo frame that I have been working on. I really need to buckle down and get it done because I need to give it to my great niece this coming weekend.

So here is an update picture as of this morning

I have all the cross stitching done now & I am working on the backstitching. Then there is just a couple of little rattles to complete and this will be a finish for me.

 

The last thing that I have to tell you is that Cathy over at Crafty Cat  (she has a picture if you would like to see) had a 100 follower giveaway and my name was drawn as the winner! There is a lot of great stash in the prize. Thank you so much Cathy! One of the charts that I won is Happy Everything and I have been wanting to get this chart for some time. This is my 3rd giveaway win for me in the last couple of months so I won't be entering any giveaways for a while so that I can give others a chance to win some cool stash. But do check out Cathys site! It really great!

 

Well my morning is just about shot so I better get off the computer and get something accomplished.

Have a great week everyone

Happy Stitching

Denise

Good morning fellow bloggers,

 and I see I have a few new followers

Thank you for stopping by and seeing whats going on in my world.

 

Every week day morning I get up and I have a normal routine of

brushing my teeth

make the coffee

pack a lunch for DH

(he leaves the house @ 6:20am)

then I sit down with my cup of coffee and turn the computer on

check emails

check facebook

check pinterest

check obits

then its time to read my blogs

And then its time to go out side and get the farm chores done.

So do most of you have a routine or do you mix up your routine?

 

 

For the past week I have been planning on posting an update

but I kept putting it off. (it has been almost 2 weeks since I last posted)

And I don't even have an excuse, because I have not gone any where or done anything exciting.

I have some stitching done but not as much as I would have liked

So here is what I have done since my last update.

on my last update I had the top portion
done and now have the panda complete
and now working on the wagon.

as of Sept 8, 2012

Season Winter - freebie off of Pinterest
started - 9-8-12
finished 9-10-12
28ct platinum cashel linen by Zweigart
DMC Floss

I went back on pinterest to find more details of who designed this but was unable to locate it. I actually think it is a Biscornu pattern. You can barely see the white snowflake in the center, I couldn't get it to show up in the pictures that I took. I am not sure how I will be finishing it yet, I have to give that some thought.

 

Well I think that about all for today.

I am leaving you with a picture of two of our grandkids rubbing grandpa sore feet.

They hate this job but grandpa usually
bribes them with a treat.

 

Have a great rest of the week everyone!

Happy Stitching

Denise



Look what was in the Mail for me!!!!

I was the winner of LaDonna's (from Branch Needlework) giveaway last Tuesday and the box with all my goodies came today. Here are a few pictures.

 

The Stitching Goodies that I got were -

-Beeswax

-Bohin needles

-Gingher Epaulette Embroidery Scissors

-4 Georiana Silks

-32 ct Vintage Meadow Rue by Lakeside Linen

-Vanilla Pound Cake Soybean Candle (smells Yummy!!!)

 

Thank you so much LaDonna!!!!!!!

 

And while I am doing this post I will also show you and update on the baby photo frame I am working on.

this picture was taken on 8/5/12



And this is my progress so far. I have one more bear and a
wagon to put on the bottom of this piece.

 

Well I am finally getting things put away and my house back in order after our camping trip. Didn't get much done yesterday as I had my granddaughter to watch so we went shopping together. She loves that! And then Friday I will have my niece Amaya spending the day with me so not much will get done that day either. Hopeing for a quite weekend  so I can sit and stitch the time away. (I know something will come up and I won't get my wish, but I am going to try)

 

Have a great rest of the week

Happy Stitching

Denise 

And life moves on!

Life has a way of ruling our lives and this past week has been a long one for me. My last post was on a Saturday (7/28/12) and on Sunday we started moving our middle daughter home from Iowa. It was a hard thing for her to do but she knows in the long run it's for the best. It breaks a mothers heart to see there child's heart hurting from a break up, but time will heal her.

Friday night some friends of ours came over and we were sitting in our new shop talking and having a few beers when this big bad storm roll through, the clouds were very dark and lightning everywhere. but the best part was we got a good shot of rain that we desperately needed. Now I think I am going to have mow the lawn again because everything is turning green once again.

This past Saturday (8/4/12) my DH had a truck pull in one of the local towns but I decided to stay home and have some me time. I sat and watch the whole first season of True Blood (this is what I get for having my DD back living with us, she has movies that I have not seen). I also stitched while watching the TV. So do you want to see what I stitched on?

Noel
Yuletide Linens from Christmas Quickie Leisure Arts Book
Designer Deborah Lambein
Completed 8/4/12
14 ct cream & lace fingertip towel

I have not worked on 14 count fabric in a long time, it was a great change of pace for me.

The next piece that I will show you is for my niece, Chrissy, her baby is due in the middle of August. So I started this cross stitch picture keepsake for the new little one.

Bear Photo Frame
From Sweet Baby Memories by Leisure Arts
32ct oyster linen & called for DMC floss
Started on 7/18/12

I have more done on it since I took this picture a couple of days ago.

this is what is will look like when
completed.

I also plan to change a few colors to make the pink stand out for her little girl.

Well I was too the dentist today and had a tooth pulled and a bridge put in. And the stuff that he gave me is wearing off so I think its time for a pain pill and a nap.

I hope everyone is having a great week!

Happy Stitching

Denise

Thanks for all the great comments and too all my new followers!!!!