Feathers in the Nest Faith, Hope & Love Giveaway

Jennifer over at Feathers in the Nest is one of my favorite designers.  With the exception of maybe one or two, I believe I have downloaded all of her freebies that she beautifully designs and so generously shares with the stitching world.

She is having a giveaway that ends tonight, December 24, 2012 at midnight, so if you are interested you need to hop over there quickly.  She is giving away a pair of "Jennifer" Gingher scissors (I've loved since fist seeing them) a chart pack for one of her freebies of Downton Abbey WITH linen and floss, 4 fat quarters of homespun fabric for finishing AND a surprise added to the giveaway package.

You need to go here in order to enter her giveaway.  Good luck to all and MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Victorian Motto Giveaway!

Nancy over at Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe is having the most amazing and generous Christmas giveaway.  She's doing a 25 days of Christmas giveaway here.

So click on through to get your chance to win some of her awesome trims, fabric, charts or floss.

It's been a long time - WIP update

It's been a while since I've posted, but I'm finally getting back into my stitching after DH's heart attack last November.  I've been working on Papillon "Castles in the Air", Mirabilia "Winter Queen" and The Workbasket "Quaker Sampler".  I've mostly worked on Quaker Sampler and am 3/4 of the way done with it I believe.

Here are some pictures of where they are now.

Castles in the Air

Winter Queen

Quaker Sampler

Oh, and almost forgot this one that I'm working on.  LHN "Trustworthy & True" - I bought this one to make and give to my daughter & son in law for their 2 year anniversary this year and I also bought the "Strong & Beautiful" and "Soft & Sweet" from the Little Women Virtue series to give to my daughter and grand-daughter respectively.

Trustworthy & True

Speaking of my grand-daughter, Emma has grown like a weed and changed so much over the last few months.  She is now 2 1/2 and definitely becoming her own little person.  My son in law with his parents have a farm where they raise alpacas, Dexter cattle/beef, and Jacob sheep, in addition to his Dad running a recycling business.  Emma loves to help feed the animals (including their own egg chickens), and work in their "shop" with mommy and daddy helping them sort the metal.  Here's a few peeks at our precious girl.

Mommy & Emma 2nd birthday

Emma Easter 2012

"winking" while goofing with Uncle Devan

On our way to church

Thanks for visiting!

Menus on a Dime e-book giveaway

I get a newsletter from the Living on a Dime website and lots of great tips for frugal living.  They're having a giveaway for their Menus on a Dime 3 e-book set.  Take a look here for a chance to enter.

IHSW

I haven't blogged since Dave had his heart attack and I haven't stitched much either.  But I'm trying this weekend to get back in the groove of things by participating in the International Hermit & Stitch weekend (IHSW).

So I've signed up for it and I plan to stitch in-between washing & hanging the laundry today and will probably stitch at least some tomorrow after church.  We've had a lot going on the last couple of months, and it's been just so busy.  I'm looking forward to relaxing a bit.

If you're interested, here's the link.