Merry Christmas!

 Christmas Eve jammies........

Santa has come........

My new nativity depicting the reason we celebrate Christmas.

Merry Christmas to all in blog land, from my family to yours.

It's been a long time

Yup, once again it's been far to long.  My daughter and granddaughter moved in with us for several months and little to no stitching was done.  Now they're moving to a new place and while I'm not particularly happy with the situation and I will miss seeing my little Emmie, it will be nice to have a little quiet time to stitch before bed in the evenings without someone crawling into my lap every night..  My boys are now at an age where they do their own thing and even the youngest at 11 knows that when I'm stitching not to bother me.

I thought I'd just post a quick update of pictures.  These are my 3 boys on the first day of school this year - my oldest is a sophomore, middle one is in 8th and the youngest is in 5th.  As you can see it took a bit to get them all looking.

I also have updated pictures of my granddaughter, who just turned 4 on December 1.  These are her preschool pictures taken in October and they turned out so well.  She's wearing a dress and leggins my Mom made her last year and the dress still fits her but as a tunic now.

Well, that's it for now.  Hopefully I can get myself back into blogging and start sharing some stitching again.  I've been working on a few ornaments for gifts and then will get back to my big WIP's.

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!