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I am a proud winner of two recent giveaways.  Nancy at Victorian Motto has been having a series of giveaways and I was very happy to have won this:  Just in time for Valentine's Day!  This will be fun to sew up and display for the holiday. Then I entered a drawing at Me & My Sister Designs  and was lucky enough to win a copy of their book and a charm pack of their "Twirl" line of fabric.  Cute, cute, cute fabric. I managed to finish/finish the first two Halloween Rules ornaments for my Halloween tree.  The fabrics in the background are the ones I used to back each ornament.  (I promise they aren't as wonky as these pictures would make them seem!)  I chose to finish these simply as the designs are so colorful and busy on their own. I hope you are having a great week.   Looking forward to the weekend!

For Christmas I stitched for my friend Vera a By The Bay freebie "Let Your Light Shine" but in my haste to get it to her before the big day I failed to take a picture.  Luckily Vera got a new camera for Christmas and was able to send me a picture.  I left off the wording and stitched mine using DMC floss.  So this is my last finish of 2011. I have my first finish/finish for 2012:  "Joy" Helga Mandl Designs 32 ct Antique Blue Linen/DMC floss This satisfies one of my "unspoken" goals for 2012 - to stitch a Christmas ornament each month.  I would really like to have 12 new ones to add to my tree this year. I hope you are all having a lovely week.  Thanks for stopping by!

Here is my first TUSAL pic for 2012.  Lots of Halloween Rules bits in there.  I decided that I would use the Little House Needleworks Monthly Samplers that I stitched in 2010 for my backdrops this year.  I display them each and every month and really enjoy seeing them so I thought you might too.  :o)

It is a cold and blustery day here in NC.  I spent most of yesterday clearing out my file cabinet and trying to organize all the paper a household accumulates over the course of a year.  I did manage to put the final stitches into this: "Basking In The Sun" Brittercup Designs 28 count evenweave/CC floss  I loved this design from the moment I saw it because of the bleeding heart plant.  My mother had several bleeding hearts planted in our yard when I was a child and they just fascinated me.  As chilly as it is today it is nice to look at something so summery.  :o) I also worked on a few more birds.  I made these a little smaller and have an idea for a somewhat different finish for them.  I have to make a trip to Hobby Lobby before I can try it out.  (I didn't make the one in the upper left - that is a glass ornament.  I have several of those teal colored birds that I have put on my little primitive tree for winter.) I think perhaps a squi...

I won a giveaway on Mindi's blog and was just thrilled when the package arrived yesterday.  There is just no better way to wrap up a Monday than with a package of stitchy goodness. Now when I entered the giveaway I was thinking I had a chance to win a chart or two.  Look at all the wonderful surprises Mindi included in the package.  I am really excited about that floss holder that her father made.  Isn't it fabulous?!  And one of the charts she sent has little samplers that would fit perfectly when mounted in the center.  Thank you so much Mindi for sending such a generous giveaway package! Last fall I joined Sweetwater's Label Crew.  Each month they send you a pattern/project with printed labels to enhance the item(s).  Sunday in my sewing room produced these: Aren't they sweet?  I think they will make wonderful Valentine's for my family and friends. I hope you are all having a great start to the week.  Thank you for stopping ...

Sally! A big thanks to all 57 of you who stopped by to leave a comment.  I really appreciate all your kind words and encouragement. I did a little sewing today, working on some things for Valentine's Day.  ;o) I hope you all had a great weekend and will have an even greater week ahead!

 ...eleven more to go!  This first one was fun and I am loving the colors.  I am on a search for the perfect finishing fabric as I plan to finish these as ornaments for my Halloween tree.  For my Christmas RAK's this year I stitched up a flock of birds...  And a collection of threadcatchers.  These were received quite well and I had a lot of fun stitching them up and sending them out to their new homes.  I used Blackbird Designs Blueberry Crumbcake line of fabrics and just love the blues and the vintage feel to them. It seems I have one of each left and I would like to give them away to one of my regular readers to celebrate the New Year.  The threadcatcher can be folded and taken along with you and the bird works quite well as a cupboard hanger.  There might be a surprise or two added to the package as well.  :o) If you would like to be entered in a drawing to win this little bird and threadcatcher all you have to do is leave a com...