Something New!

I figured I would do a quick blog this morning,

I need to show you what I got on Saturday in the mail.

I found this on ebay and could not resist it!

my other scissor frog was small and couldn't hold any more scissors.

This one matches the dishes that I collect.

Love, Love Love it!!!!

 

The other thing that I got is - I ordered the pattern

Home of a Needleworker from LHN.

I have seen a number of other bloggers that have done this

one and thought it would look lovely in my living room. 

 

This morning I am going to be running errands and picking up last minute things for our stitching retreat.

Tomorrow will be spent packing and organizing my stuff to take with me and Wednesday morning making treats to take with me.

 

Saturday I never picked up my stitching we were busy and on the go most of the day.

First I went to my grandson's last football game. They won Ya C-E Hawks.

Then went shopping with DH and DD1. After I got home I did some laundry and took a short nap. Then in the evening we went to my nephew's 30th birthday party and visit with some great friends and relatives.

 

Sunday was spent at home. Playing on the computer, managed to get a few loads of laundry done  and then did some stitching, then some frogging and restitching. but I managed to get some done on my harvest towel that I am working on. I was hoping to have it completed before I left for retreat but not sure that will happen. We will see. No picture at this time sorry.

 

Have a great week everyone

Happy Stitching

Denise



I Just Love Fall !!!!!!

Good Morning Fellow Bloggers!

And Welcome to my  New Followers!

 

Oh this is my favorite time of year! Cool in the mornings and 60's in the afternoon. Love it!

 

Not a lot going on around here this week, just still working on getting my car in good running condition. Its a 10 year old car (buick park ave) and I hate to get rid of it but, its starting to cost us money! I love the smooth ride and the roomyness (is that a real word?) I guess I will keep it a little longer and see what happens.

 

5 days until I live for our weekend stitching retreat in Lake Shetek in MN. It is always so much fun visiting with the ladies. This year will be different for me because I have always taken either my daughters or my niece or both with me to retreat. This year it will be just me driving up there to visit with the 39 other attendees. Can't wait! I have been trying to decide what I want to take with me to work on. I may end up taking a couple of my CJC 2012 projects with me and working on them.

Since my last update on Sunday I have gotten quite a bit of stitching done.
I worked on Abigails baby Sampler and here is my progress.

Sorry about the picture being so light I tried all different way to it it show up better but they all turn out this way kinda washed out look. The pink and purple are quite bright in person. And some of the light blue that I have done doesn't even show up.
I have put about 1120 stitches into it since Chrissy gave it to me to work on for her.

Like most of you I can't seem to work on one thing at a time. The other day I was looking at my Crazy January Challenge 2012 list and realized that I have not got that many completed yet. Out of 15 new starts in January I have only completed 4, and 1 that is 3/4 done. So I decided that I need towork on some of them for a while so I pick out one for the season. Its called Harvest Hand Towel.

This is what it will look like when finished!

106 Stitches completed on 1/15/2012

This was as of yesterday afternoon and I have added
more stitches to it last evening.
Total of 1002 stitches in the last 3 days.

Well that is about it for me today.
I hope everyone has a great weekend!
Happy Stitching
Denise


Jolly Jack, and a new project

Good Morning everyone, OK so I have not gone to bed yet and it is 1:00am in the morning.

 I have been babysitting little ones this evening and one of them cried himself to sleep. I felt so bad for him. I don't think his parent leave him very often. So the house is quiet once more and I have caught up on my blog reading and I have a few pictures to show.

In my last post I announced that SoCal Debbie was the next lucky person to get Jolly Jack, I have not heard if she recieved it yet but I hope so. I also stated that my daughter had my camera so I was unable to take pictures of my finish well the camera is back and here is the finish

 

My niece was home last weekend for the baby shower that I talked about in my last post. We got to get together a couple of time and did some stitching together. And she was the one that got the baby photo frame that I finished up last week. Before Chrissy left to go home to Pella she asked me to finish her baby sampler that she had started because with her newborn and going back to work she didn't think she would get it done so of course I said I would work on it.

 

This is what it will look like when completed

and this is as of 9/28/2012
she had a good start on it and I have put in about 825 stitches
since I have been working on it.



 Hopefully I can get some better pictures later maybe when the sun comes up.

 

I have 10 more days until I leave  to attend our stitchers retreat at Lake Shetek in MN. There are about 40 ladies signed up to attend. Should be a great weekend getaway as I have not gotten to go for a couple of years.

 

Before I end this post I have one more picture to show and that is of my son.

He was so pumped
It was his first buck with a bow

He has been following this bucks movements for some time now. He has the special cameras that take picture of any animals that walk past it, and  what time of day it is. I don't think we will be able to get the grin off his face for a few days to come.

 

 

OK it time for me to get off to bed and get a few hours of sleep.

 

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 

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 

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

 

 

Stash, TUSAL, Progress

OOOOOH how I love new stash!!!!

Today I got a package from 123 Stitch

(love ordering from them)

(just ordered it a couple of days ago)

Any way here is what I got

4 pieces of fabric and pretty floss
and these are to fill 5 kits

The first kit is Pointetta House by LHN

Violet's by Country Cottage

2 Threadwork Primitives

And last is City Stitcher & Country Stitcher by LHN

And so now when ever I get notion to start something new I have some already kitted up and ready to go. Oh my goodness I have so many started now that need tending too.

 TUSAL for August

Lots of light colors because I am working
baby stuff

And lastly a picture of my husband holding my great niece, Amaya. They are watching TV while I was making supper last night. Amaya's Mom was working and her grandma ususally watches her but Grandma Darla had to make a trip to Iowa to welcome her new granddaughter into the world.

My niece Chrissy & her husband had a beautiful baby girl yesterday morning. Her name is

Abigail Darlene.

I got a picture of her in a text message but not sure how to get here on my blog. Oh well just know she is a cutie and I can't wait to meet her in person.

Hopefully I will have stitching picture the next time I post.

Happy Stitching

Denise



Cleaning the Sewing room

Yesterday I was cleaning the sewing room up, you know putting the piles of stuff away that I had laying around and all the thread organized and in its proper place. I came across a tote I had not seen for a while and started going through it and this is what I found.

Filled with Love by
The Creative Circle

This was the very first counted cross stitch piece that I ever did.

I know I was stitching it in Oct of 1984 because that is when my son was born. I use to sell Creative Circle and did many of there pieces. I still have the orginal pattern for this piece and decided to restitch it using WDW colors.

not sure when I started stitching it the second time,
2 or 3 years ago I think.

The next stitching I found was from around 1999 - 2000.

Do you remember the Millennium?

Well these are the Millennium Cats, I finished January thru October.

January

October

Aren't they cute little kittys, not sure why I didn't finish them

Next up is

This is called Cow/Calf
don't know the designer

This one may go in the trash because it looks like it was a kit and the thread is no longer with it. Unless I feel like being creative and  picking my own colors for it.????

I am sure I was doing this towel with Holsteins on it because my DH & I have raised baby holsteins for over 25 years.

The rest of what I am going to show you I do not know when I started them. I never kept track back then.

• Flowers and Lace by Dimensions

Got a long ways to go on this one!

1693 Family Sampler
also by The Creative Circle

Praying Hands
Looks like its almost done, I need to find
directions for it

This one I was doing for my daughter (Jill)
I wonder if she will still want it?

I Love Country Bow Ties

The stitching is all done but misplaced
the center piece that makes it into
a Bow Tie

Do you suppose it will come back into style again.

The sad part is I know that I have more projects that are started and at various stages of completion that are tucked away in that sewing room.

I hope you enjoyed my trip down memory lane.



Have a great week end with some

Happy Stitching

Denise