I LOVE January ...

Not only is January my birthday month, what's not to love about your birthday month?! It's also a month of new things ... new 2012 calendar, new snow, new pants (I've been losing weight *smile*), new stash (I've been splurging a bit), new Gingher scissors (had my 50% coupon on me when I found Alicia at Joann's), new challenges at work (oh Joy!), new movies (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is one awesome movie) and and and a couple more new finishes!!! Yes, two more finishes ... I'm soooo pleased!

May I present to you January Word Play. With all the snow we had last week I just had to stitch this fun design. I've now stitched October Word Play and January. I have November and December to start. Have you seen February Word Play? Sooooo cute!

January Word Play by Thy Needle & Thread

stitched on 32 ct. light Examplar linen

with suggested GAST threads

I am absolutely in love with this next finish. I started this at least 3 years ago. I don't know why it took me so long to finish it. I loved the fabric, loved the silks and loved the design. I'm so happy to have it done finally and can't wait to get it framed to enjoy all December. I posted about this wip back in November last year. At that time I had decided to leave the 2010 date that I had stitched on it earlier. After finishing it last night the date just bugged the heck out of me so I frogged the date out and I'm so glad I did ...

Peppermint Twist by Blue Ribbon Design

stitched on 36 ct. Lakeside V. Wood Smoke linen

with Belle Soie silk conversion by Jean at The Attic Needlework

I'm tickled red that I was able to finish 3 wips this month. And hope to keep up and finish at least one wip every couple of months. I treated myself by starting Sergei this evening. What a fun stitch this will be. I just love that red bird *smile*

Thanks everyone for all your wonderful comments. I love reading them!

I hope you find your Joy in your stitches ...

I'm grateful for new jeans ...

Hi there ...

Happy Sunday! I hope everyone has had a great weekend. My weekend was filled with yard work with hubby, some MLS (WTG Sounders!), some NASCAR (if they every get the track dry!), lots of Mad Men watching (season 2, episode 6) and a nap! lol

I thought I would give you a very wrinkled look at a couple of my rotation pieces ... first up is Peppermint Twist by BRD. I haven't worked on this lovely for a long time. PT is my Monday rotation piece. I just love this design and the Belle Soie's are wonderful to stitch with. I'm glad to have it back as an active rotation piece ...

Here's my Tuesday rotation ... Autumn Song that I'm SALing with Natasha. Just a couple more leaves and this pretty will be done ...

And here's what I picked to replace Primitive Wizard of Oz that I finished last week ... Wednesday's piece is Earth Laughs by Mdesigns ... fun fun fun stitch ...

I've been stitching on a couple of exchanges that I can't show you yet, but I can show you a quick sweet finish from a couple of weeks ago ... it's a freebie by primitivebettys called Tulip Time. Now I need to finish finish it before all the tulips are gone!

I've also been playing with beads again ... here are two scissor fobs I made ...

and here are a couple of new bracelets ... it's almost as fun to play with all the colors of beads as it is with all the colors/types of floss and fabrics out there ... is it a wonder that stitchers like playing with beads? lol

Well I'm off to do a few things around this house since the race is still on rain delay.

I hope you find your Joy in your stitches ...

I'm grateful for tulips ...

SAL update and other stitching

Happy Saturday everyone ... we love September around here ... it's football season! woot! and hopefully it means more stitching time for little old me ... I'm going to spend Sunday planning and kitting up a few Christmas presents ... not sure how many I'll actually get done but I'd like to make an attempt. Money wise it's going to be pretty tight this year and I have a few people that actually like stitched gifts ... it's good to have a plan, right?! lol

September 1st Natasha and I started a SAL, BBD's Autumn Song. We're supposed to stitch on Tuesday and share out progress on Wednesday ... well, I missed both Wednesdays ... so here's my progress after two nights of stitching. I love this design, can't wait to get to the leaves and some color ... but this poor bird needs a tail first! lol ... one of my stitching friends on Facebook (Chris) is also stitching AS ... she posted a picture last week on her Facebook page ... I'm not sure if she has a blog or not, guess I'll have to ask!

I finished a freebie from Blue Ribbon Design. I substituted red bird buttons instead of stitching the ones on the design. I think they look really cute. I'm in a couple of Christmas ornament exchanges, wonder who will get this one??

I also finished a quick little Halloween design by The Sunflower Seed ...

Well, the dogs are clean, the enchildas are ready and there's night racing at Richmond! Time for some quality stitching don't ya think? Hope you have a great weekend!

Oh, I wanted to say hi to some new readers to my blog .. thanks for visiting and leaving me comments .. I love seeing new names here *smile*

I hope you find your joy in your stitches ...

I'm grateful for SAL's with online friends ...

Lots of Wow's ...

Only two more days until Thanksgiving! Now that's a WOW for sure! I know everyone says this, but dammm where did the time go? Seems like just yesterday it was the start of summer! and we are making plans for watching too much football and getting too much turkey.

I've been doing some stitching, unfortunately I can't show any of it because it's all for exchanges or Christmas gifts but I do want to show a new chart that I fell in love with the minute I saw it .. It's Peppermint Twist by Blue Ribbon Designs and talk about WOW! I am definately doing this in 2009, anyone want to join me? On Belinda's website she lists all the supplies need for all the different things you can stitch from this design .. how cool is that :)








Tonight I'm meeting Monica (my dil) for dinner and heading to Barnes and Noble for a book we've both been waiting patiently for ... the last book to the Sign of Seven Trilogy. It's been months between the release of book 2 and 3 .. I'm sooo excited to read this one .. this has been a wonderful trilogy! another WOW and throw in a WOO HOO! lol



And my last WOW is for the fun threadholders and counters that Monique makes ... I've already ordered a couple of her Christmas ones .. I'm sooo addicted to them! functional and fun .. what could be better! Ohhhh and she painted a reindeer on one .. of course I bought it! lol

Hope you are having a wonderful short week!


I'm grateful for new books and new charts ...