Something to share

Happy New Year Everyone!!
I hope everyone had a fun and happy holiday season. This will be a short post today as I don't have much to share. Just my 2nd LHN ornament. Isn't he adoreable! I am not going to finish them all the same. I may not even make them all ornaments. I do want to somehow display them all together at Christmas time. I know I am slow because most people have them all done. One of my goals this year is to stitch more of them and have at least one going at all times. Then by the end of the year we'll see how many are done. I will have to add 12 more to stitch seeing as I will be getting the new ones. I just love each and every one of them. A few other things I am going to be working on this year is the 6 Fat Men by Lizzie Kate which I am going to start today.(Erika, Have you started yours yet?) I will be working on Cast A Spell by Blackbird Designs. I just love this. What can  I say, I love everything! That is why I have a mountain of stitching that keeps getting higher and higher! I will be doing some small things here and there as well which will be posted on here whenever I finish anything. Some things are stitched in the moment and not planned. I think that's why some things that are planned don't always get done. Does anyone else have that problem? Is there a solution out there? Well I am off to start my 6 Fat Men. I will post my progress.

Happy Stitching My Friends!

~Maureen~

A gift

I just wanted to share this wonderful Christmas gift I received from my good friend, Erika. Lots of fabric which will really come in handy for my finishing. Lots of great colors to choose from. The ornament which I am going to stitch and add to my ornament collection for next year. I also wanted you to see her beautiful card. Erika, you do such a great job. I also loved Madison's. So cute. She loved her clothespin doll. I will post it here after we finish it this week. I am still working on my 2012 plan which I hope to post later this week. I am off from work until Friday so I am hoping to get that done and some stitching of course. I hope everyone had a great Christmas. I know I did!

~Maureen~

A few finishes and some fun

 A few more ornaments to share. I loved BeckySC's ornament challenge. I hope she does it again next year. I made ornaments this year that I wouldn't have done otherwise. I made 10 in all and have several new ornaments to add to my collection. This ornament I made up to remember this very sweet movie I saw for the first time this year. It actually came out in 2003. Where have I been? Well I loved it now and  I have ordered a copy of it so I am excited to be able to watch it whenever I want.  I just can't seem to get enough of it. Anyone else have movies like that. If not, I must need a life!
The Believe ornament is a freebie from the Sampler
Girl. I love red fabric at Christmastime!

The next few ornaments I did for the challenge. The Happy Holidays is from Woolen Thread, The little tree is from Bent Creek, and the last one is from an old magazine and I don't even remember who is the designer. I just liked it.

That's all my stitching for now. I am winding down my 2011 stitching and getting ready for 2012. I hope to post my plan next week. I am still working on it.


I am ending my post today with a little bit of fun.

Here is a picture of  my Madison and her Aunt (my sister) with their Birthday Crowns on. Their birthdays are 3 days apart so we celebrated them together.

The last picture is Madison with her good friend Abby, who came to sleep over for Madison's Birthday. They had a ball and it was funny because they didn't know they had the same PJ's until that night when they went to put them on. So of course I had to take a picture. Aren't they sweet!

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and be safe if you are travelling!

~Maureen~

Some Christmas Finishes

 This cute snowman is my 8th ornament in the ornament challenge. It is Sam Sarah's Twinkle and was such a fun stitch. He will be added to my snowman ornament collection.

 Well, the Bills, what can I say about the Bills? They need major help! Well anyway I made this cute pillow for my hubby who, sadly yes, is a bills fan. He has been since he was a kid so he can't desert them now in their time of need.

 I loved how this turned out. I was reading Faye's blog http://www.carolinastitcher.blogspot.com/ and she had made 5 of these finished different ways. Just fabulous! It was a freebie bt The Primitive Hare which you can find here:http://www.theprimitivehare.blogspot.com/.

 So to end this post here is a picture of Perry in one of his favorite spots. On top of the blanket I made Madison last year for her birthday. So Santa is going to bring him one of his own. Madison is going to rub her scent all over it so he'll love it even more.

That's all I have today.  More shopping to do and cookies to bake so hopefully I'll something to show soon.
I don't want to scare anyone but there are 17 days left until Christmas. OMG!!!

Have a great weekend!!

Maureen

A few finishes

 Hello all,
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and spent some time with family. I thought this was going to be a super quick post but I uploaded more pictures than I thought. First I have this little princess pillow which I made for my little princess who will be turning 8 years old on Friday. This pattern was inspired by her.

 The next two are are some ornament finishes. My last post are the ornaments unfinished.  the tree and Jolly are the two finshed ones. I still have a few more to finish which I will probably post next week.(hopefully!) These will both look nice in my Christmas decorated home.

This last photo is not very stitchy but I wanted to show it anyway. I follow this blog called sew many ways. Maybe some of you follow it too. Karen has such great ideas and uses for everything. I made this little wreath for my table. The base of it is the plastic part of the top of a candle jar. I added the bow and the little votive and now I have a cute mini wreath. The glass part of the top I use for a tea light. She is so clever. You can check out her ideas at: http://www.sewmanyways.blogspot.com/.

I will be back next week with some stitchy goodness! Have a stitch filled week!

Maureen

Ornaments

 Hello all,
I am doing Beckysc's ornament challenge and so far I have 5 ornaments stitched but only 1 finished. This is an ornament from the 2011 Just Cross Stitch ornament issue. It is called  the Half Hour ornament by Lizzie Kate. If you need a quick gift for someone this is your ornament. I think it took less than a half hour. There are white beads scattered around the top which are not visible from the picture. It turned out alot cuter than I thought it would.

These 4 ornaments I still need to figure out how I want to finish them. Jolly is also from the 2011 ornie issue and HoHoHo is a Lizzie Kate. The Happy Holidays and the Christmas tree are old patterns I had in my stash. Isn't stash great. I usually can always find what I need but I still am always thirsting for more. The more the better I always say!
When I finish these ornies I will post them. What kind of Christmas stitching is everyone doing this season?
Welcome to all my new followers!  I am glad you're here. Early next year will be one year in Blogland so I hope to get a giveaway together. Any suggestions on what you want!

Have a great week!

~Maureen~

Retreat and Stash

 Hello friends,

I am back from the Dyeing to Stitch Retreat and what a fabulous time it was. Here is the group we stitched with all weekend. They were so fun! Kim and Brenda (the 2 ladies to the left in the front) joined us on the night of the banquet. It was so much fun I hated for it to end.  I can't wait to see how much of the projects everyone gets done before the next one in 2 years. I love stitching at the beach!
They gave us projects galore. The theme this year was Seaside Seasons. We had our opening project which was a bag with a design of the 4 seasons representing each designer. Thursday was a collaboration piece in which each designer did an accessory. There is a pincushion, scissor keep, scissor fob, and needle book. I can't wait to get started on these. I need to do my Christmas stitching first though. Friday night we made a nice liner for a basket with Pam from Olde Colonial Designs. So the basket you see in the photo with a close up below was our farewell gift. Is that not fabulous or what!! I was beyond words! The liner fits right in the bottom. The little acorn on the basket we also received at the retreat and is adorable. It is tiny and was made by the hands of Pat, Patty, and Wendy of Dyeing to Stitch.
This is a picture of all my stash. Do you think it's enough to keep me busy?                                                   This is a combination of gifts 

 from the retreat, the boutique there, and a visit to the Dyeing to Stitch shop. I love my basket! I just had to say that. I met alot of very nice stitchers whom I hope to keep in touch with and talk stitching. I didn't post pictures because I don't usually like to post pictures of people unless I ask permission. I didn't get a chance to do that with everyone so you'll have to take my word for it that they are wonderful people.





To close things up I just wanted to include this picture of  Perry. My Aunt gave me the little scarf for him on our recent visit. So I put it on and I think he got a little mad at me because he wouldn't look at me.He would look out of the corner of his eye and at one point he totally turned his head away from me. He is such a little stinker but I had to laugh. He got used to the scarf.
I am working on ornaments for the next few weeks for Becky's ornament challenge. I will show as soon as I get a few done.


Have a good rest of the week and Happy Stitching!!

Maureen