IHSW Update

Hi gang and a great big welcome to all my new followers. Hope you all had a great IHSW. Looking forward to visiting all of your blogs to check out the progress on your wip's. Unfortunately, due to a rheumatoid flare-up in my stitching hand, I didn't get my Fall project finished but I did manage to get a bit more of him done. Hopefully will have him finished and displayed in a couple of days. So feel free to check back then.

I've also been busy with these. Anyone know what they are? If you guessed turnip and mustard greens, you are correct. I couldn't help but have a giggle while I was looking and washing these, adding the country ham to a big pot for supper, thinking how truly southern I am. We can turn anything pretty much into a meal. Fixing a pot of pinto beans and some baked chicken too. Hungry? It does sound like a Cracker Barrel menu, eh? :)

Breast Fund Bookmarks

These bookmarks are going to the Pumpkin Patch & Co Breast Fund and will be in the mail tomorrow to the kind folks at the Attic Needlework. Here's hoping they'll have another very successful year. I think there's still time to send in donated items so if you want to be a part of this, go check out these links. Until next time, keep on stitching :)

Drop In For A Bite

Here's a Halloween quick finish. Very fun stitch :) Been working on another fall project and even started a winter project. Thanks to all the plp that wished me well for the surgery I had last month. Everything turned out fine and I feel so much better. Praise God. Until next time, keep on stitching :)

Mr. Bones

Mr. Bones

Mill Hill Design

Love how this little guy turned out. But I have realized I'm not the biggest fan of beading or putting him together. Does look rather cute on the fridge by my pumpkin though. 

My apologies to those of you whose blogs I've neglected  recently. I've been having some gallbladder problems and it's resulting in surgery tomorrow. Here's hoping surgery will fix me and I can get back to everyone's wonderful blogs. Until next time, keep on stitching :-)

Jack-o'-lantern

I do not own this image, just converted into cross stitch using my handy dandy Pattern Maker by HobbyWare. Hubby bought it for me at my local cross stitch shop for a whopping $4.77   I don't always love a project when I finish it but this one turned out better than I expected. This bad boy will go on the fridge with the other Halloween magnets. Can't believe it's almost here again. Hope you're all doing well and thanks for posting and reading my little corner of the web. Until next time, keep on stitching :)

Bookmarks

I saw some bookmarks at a little amish store I frequent. Thought they would be easy to make & could be given as little gifts in birthday cards etc. Gave it a shot & here's the outcome. They're very inexpensive to make too.

On the stitching front, been working on a jack-o-latern that I'll be posting a pic of soon. Hope you're all having a stitchy good time. Until next time, keep on stitching.

Stitching Mojo

Got a little of my stitching mojo back & stitched up this little fridge magnet. Only August and I'm thinking of Halloween but we'll blink and it'll be here. Hope you're all staying cool & enjoying what's left of your summer. Until next time, keep on stitching.

Good Deal

Whew, it's been a while since I've posted a pic of any cross stitch projects but I haven't completely given up stitching. I've been doing a little - "little" is the key word. I did manage to buy this Joan Elliott magazine though. Got a great deal too. Unfortunately, my good deal came at a high price. It was 40% off because Borders is closing and have to liquidate their merchandise. For those of you who may not know what Borders is, it's a bookstore and one of my most favorite hangout spots. While looking thru this marvelous book with 44 charts I ran across one that is not in the book that I LOVE. This one below.

Have you seen it? I don't know what attracts me to it but it's simply gorgeous. Too bad it didn't come in the book. Last but not least, I leave you with another pic of Zoe. She loves using her toys as pillows. This is her stuff donkey which she drug to the loveseat in our bedroom and perched her little head on.

She's my little sweetie pie. Hope you're all staying cool and having a great summer. Thanks for stopping by my little corner of the net. Until next time, keep on stitching :-)

Monkeying Around

I had wrapped this monkey around Zoe and when she laid down to take her nap she ended up in this position. She gets sweeter as the days go by. Has such a loving demeanor.

Spending My Time Reading

Instead of stitching, I've been reading. This book was heart wrenching. Here's the Amazon Description:
"Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps."

I'm always amazed at the human spirit when it comes to survival. If you haven't read it yet, it's a must.