Here is an update to Winter Queen that I posted last week.  This is a collage I made of the Before and the After.  Not too bad for a few days stitching considering the time was interrupted by other doings.  I'm going to work on it some more today as it appears we may be getting rain today and I won't be able to do outside things.

I haven't posted much of anything over the last year, but I'm trying to get back to it.  Here are the most recent pics of my current WIP in rotation.  I'm focusing on 'Quaker Sampler' by The Workbasket and 'Winter Queen' by Mirabilia.  Some of you may remember that I had a good bit of the queens head, shoulders and some torso done and then realized that I'd started too far to the left and had to rip it all out and start over.  This is a picture of my progress to date and as you can see, I'm nearly done with my quaker.  However, after 4 weeks of steadily working on it, I was getting tired of the same colors, so have now switched back to queen.

Solo and Ensemble - video of my oldest son

My oldest son Devan, who is almost 15 and a Freshman in HS this year, performed "This is the Moment" from the musical Jekyl and Hyde.  While he did have a momentary memory lapse, he did beautifully.  His voice has just matured so much since the competition last year and he continues to grow as a vocalist with our new choral director this year.  I can't wait to see how he improves over the next few years.

Enjoy!

GIVEAWAY at Victoria Motto Sampler Shoppe

Nancy over at Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe is having a giveaway here.  She's giving away new spring colors of her hand dyed floss, but the colors are a secret until the giveaway.  I can't wait to see what she has.

Be sure to tell her I sent you!

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!