New Designer!

Linda, the designer of Happy Hour Needleworks is up and open for business!

Not to mention One Star's Light is having a 20% off sale too.


SO go on and shop, shop, shop!

made my day

DH installed this on the door today. I am not drooling over it in the home improvement store any longer.

Little things. It's the littlest things. :)

Knitty kitty

Knitty Kitty is a neighbor of mine- a Stitch'n Bitcher- and a wicked crafter! Her finishes far out number mine! So go on, Knitty Kitty 's blog is now up and ready for a peek!

Just Cross Stitch issue May/June 2008 for sale $4shipping incl

Mags for Sale Okay here's a new thing I am going to try. This magazine, not including the last two patterns- Bee Birth Sampler and Alphabet Blocks-is for sale. I have carefully removed them, the last two pictured, from the magazine as I plan to keep those. The mag is in very good condition, I just got it, I just know I won't stitch everything inside. I have blacked out my name and address with a marker, for my privacy. The patterns, most of which are pictured in the slideshow, are black and white charts.
I am selling this for $4, shipping included, cash or gift certificate to a negotiable retailer. Email me at patternnuts at g mail dot com and we'll talk. :)
Depending on how this goes I may do this in the future, with complete and nearly complete (such as this) mags.....

24 hours with no power.

Yesterday at around 2 in the afternoon or so we lost power. *zip!* Gone. I was midpost for Annie's blog award (thank you Annie!) and had to make a fast shut down as the rumbling-in-the-distance thunder finally got closer. It had been rumbling for quite a while. So it was pretty slow moving, or at least it seemed so!
I was on a blogging high too. I had posted some of exchange items, the giveaway and a birthday present (refresher) and our anniversary pics. Thank you all for the nice comments. You were all too kind! We do look so young there, and to think, we were only 20!

Anywho.... We lost power from then on. Apparently a tree fell on a wire on our little side road. That's why it took so long for them (Central Maine Power) to reach us. Gorham and Standish- neighboring towns- seemed to get the worst of it. I feel lucky as the hail damaged our outside light, nothing a quick trip to Home Depot can't fix!

The "kicker" is when I was picking up the broken glass off the deck I got stung by a yellow jacket. Two benadryls and it was better. Killed the little bast*** too!

So with no power, nor water, flushing and so on.... I kept busy. :) See? What's a stash addict to do? Wind threads of course! I lit about 20 candles in all I think, trying to conserve our flashlight/lanterns, plus it creates a mood. You know? I managed to do quite a few. Plus I discovered a few (lots of fews) threads I had forgotten about.

I had been putting the light effects, variations, the hand dyeds, Anchors and other special flosses willy-nilly into this box. Well, I have started neatening that box! Not too sure how many will go into that segmented box (pictured), but at managed to get a bunch of the variegateds wound and ready. :)

*Lotta- the sticker is made by Jolees By You. Oddly enough the two I found online don't look quite as nice as the one I had bought. They are really nice as they have a nice layered felt-fabric feel to them. That's about what I paid for it too.

Flower!

But despite having to throw away most of what's in my fridge/freezer, I noticed this! I think it's my very first poppy growing in the pansy pot. I had forgotten I had thrown the seeds in with the flowers- not knowing if they would take or not. :) What a nice surprise!

a belated anniversary ogle

Thank you for the well wishes on our 12th wedding anniversary. I haven't even had

the time to take down the counter. But I sort of wanted to keep it up there for a little while after posting a wedding pic of us. I admit though I haven't even scanned one yet. *sheeesh! My brain is just gone! So there's the counter, and still no pics.



*off to scan*

Aha! Two, so it counts as "pics".

And they we are 12 years younger, when I didn't have to wear my glasses so much and oh so much thinner!

And in case anyone is keeping track, a pic of me is a very rare thing.

the mail'n stuff

There was an exchange for some stitchie stuff, a post card and something, non stitching, that goes with it all........ the EMS Secret pal/stash exchange.



I sent to pandabear. Betcha' can't guess the theme!


Now for "the story":

I couldn't find a panda iron-on for the little canvas tote bag (purchased bag by-the-way, I am not that talented). So I used a fancy scrapbooking sticker on the front instead. It came out quite nice!

Also inside the bag were a few skeins of white and black DMCs, a beanie panda- you just see it's face a bit in this shot- whose arm is around a rolled up piece of white aida. The plastic figurine panda is looking on at the whole thing. In admiration naturally.
The whole package took a scenic route but did finally get there. See? It's all wrapped up in nice striped paper!



And this is what I received:


Melissa/babynurse sent me one of the biggest puffy envelopes I have ever seen!

Inside was a desert scene Dimensions kit called "Desert Hues", two tubes of aida, a homemade post card (wicked cute), a hanger, two handmade cards with with plastic canvas inserts and matching envelopes, and three more postcards! My favorite post card was of the gems and the stiched ornament she made too. I haven't taken a pic of that yet..... So pretty!



Other Stitchie News!
I mailed off a few packages.

This is the one received by Outi. Check out her pictures! I forgot to take a picture, *sigh, my mind is going I swear, but hers came out nicely. Plus I think I can only post 5 pics per post here anyways. It's a belated Bday gift, kind of..... A piece of linen, some linen threads, a skein of white (one can always use white!), a Mill Hill cat treasure and a funny kitty stamp. :) I love the expression on the cat's face. The card just screamed Outi, it had to go to her- don't you think? Her cat was a fabulous model for it of course.



Another package arrived at its new home in the Netherlands, at Barbara's house. I did remember to snap a pic of this one: Here is a pic she took.

Barbara was the winner from the completed exchange giveaway on Flossmoms.

I hope you are all having a great day!