Happy Blogiversary to me ...

HAPPY BLOGIVERSARY TO ME!! I can't believe I've been blogging for 5 years! WOW :) I love looking back at how my blog has grown and how many followers I now have. I've loved reading all your comments over the years.

And I've met so many wonderful stitchers through my blog. Some I've met in person over the years and some just remain very good friends in cyberland. I value all my relationships with you.

Now you all know I'm a big coffee fan, reindeer fan, and red fan ... so I think I'll do a giveaway incorporating all 3 of my loves ... including something stitched and finished by me. If you want to be included in my giveway just leave me a comments on this post only. I'll make leave this open until November 27th.

Thanks everyone for 5 great years ... love ya all!

I hope you find your Joy in your stitches ...

I'm grateful for stitching friends ...

Guess Who's 4 Today??

That would be my blog is 4 years old today! And what a fun 4 years this has been. I have really really enjoyed blogging, even when I don't feel like I have very much to say. The stitching/blogging community is such a wonderful group of women. I've made some wonderful friends and I've been lucky enough to meet a lot of you in person ... it's been a great 4 years! And in honor of my blogiversary I'd like to do a little giveaway. This is my favorite time of year so I'm thinking my giveaway will have all kinds of fun Christmasy things in it ... I have the perfect Christmas basket picked out and I'll be stuffing it with all kinds of fun stuff ... maybe even some chocolate :) So all you have to do is leave a comment on this post, make sure your email address is available so I can let you know if you win. Thanks for making my first 4 years wonderful!

Edited 11/18 to add ... I forgot to put a date that I will be drawing the winner's name lol ... I'll do the drawing on the 24th ... leave a comment on this post if you want to be entered in the drawing.

Now a few Myrtle Beach pictures ... just to show you that we really do stitch at stitching retreats ... here's a couple of pictures of starts and finishes ... KarenAZ started and finished this cute Halloween design by Cherry Wood Design Studio. It's called Halloween Ribbon and is just adorable!

Diane started and finished Turkey Time by Lizzie*Kate and she's sooo excited to be done with it!

I started this design ... It's Blackbird Designs Waiting for the Harvest. I'm using GAST Dark Chocolate on a very yummy piece of linen ...

look at this messy messy work area!

and how can I leave out these great pictures of my stitching friends ... here's ChrisNC, Myra and Toni

I love this picture! Some of my oldest dearest stitching friends ... Laurie, me, Char, Theresa, Beth, Patti and Karen ... love you ladies!

more smiling faces ...

and some gifts from my dear friends ... Karen gave me this lovely chart of Christmas ornaments, complete with the board, floss and felt, some beads (red of course! lol) and a stitch charm that is hanging on my keyring ...

Chris gave both Karen and I this fun witch chart ... we drooled over it back in July when we all went to the stitching retreat in Tulsa ... and she remembered how much we loved it!
and from Sharon I got this hysterical bag! I will always remember who I got this from! Love ya Sharon *smile*

Thanks for letting me share with you my friends and our stitching retreat ... now I can't wait til next year!

I hope you find your Joy in your stitches ...

I'm grateful for time with my stitching girlfriends ...

Pictures and a Winner ...

Happy Sunday! Hope everyone had a great weekend. Mine was really good ... I spend Saturday with Lisa, Cheryl and Pat playing with beads. Cheryl taught us how to make earrings. Wrapping the wires was the hardest part, but after a few pairs of earrings I think I'm ready to try making some on my own. Today we watched a lot of tv and had a yummy Thanksgiving dinner. Chris and Monica came over for the day and we watched the Seahawks, they lost *sad pouty face* and then we watched the last Nascar race of the season ... Jimmie Johnson won the Championship, another *sad pouty face* ... but we had a great day together ... Chris and Monica are going to her parents house for Thanksgiving this year, so it was nice to fix a holiday meal and spend it with them. And since we are going out to dinner with my father in law this year, it'll be nice to have some turkey leftovers this week!

Last week I received 2 ornaments from 2 dear friends that are in a private exchange with me. The first is from Karen. She knows I love reindeer .. look at this adorable ornament! I love all the beads :) and the other goodies she sent were great ...

The next ornament is from Nicole. I've always loved this design from LHN and I love way it's finished too :) Nicole also sent along some goodies ... They both spoiled me really good!

Next up is the winner of my 3rd Blogiversary ... Kathy A ...

Kathy A. said...

Happy Blogaversary girl! It has been a real pleasure reading your blog these past few years. Keep it up!

Please toss my name in the hat.

A big Thank You to everyone who left comments for me ... it was really nice hearing from all of you :)

I'm really looking forward to short work week this week .. but can't believe it's almost Thanksgiving!

I hope you find your Joy in your stitches ...

I'm grateful for my stitching blogging friends ...

Happy Blogiversary to me ...

3 years of blogging! I never expected to be celebrating my 3rd year of blogging. I never thought I'd really want to keep this up and even though I don't blog everyday, I really enjoy blogging and the comments that you leave for me. I find that my week isn't complete until I've checked in on all your blogs to find out what you are stitching and sometimes little looks into your families and your adventures.

I'd like to offer up a little giveaway to celebrate my 3rd Blogiversary. There's some charts from Little House Needleworks, Lizzie*Kate, Trail Farm Creek and Blackbird Design and a scissor fob made by me and a couple of surprises too. All you have to do is leave me a comment on this post, along with your email address. I'll do the drawing in a week, on November 22rd. This drawing is open to everyone, you don't have to have a blog to enter.

I hope you find your Joy in your stitches ...

I'm grateful for my stitching blogging friends ...

Happy November

The weather around here is really getting me in the holiday spirit. I love this time of year. We've had some incredible thunderstorms and lots of rain and wind ... perfect for lighting a few candle and curling up with a good book or some stitching and a good movie.

Keeping with the lovely fall feeling in the air, look at these sweet squares I received from Melissa P. (no blog) for the latest Fair and Square round. She stitched for me Harvest by Lizzie Kate. I just love them!

I've been doing a a lot of stitching but only a couple of things I can show you ... the rest are for exchanges and a few Christmas presents. The first is Thankful freebie by primitivebetty ... fun stitch ...

I liked the turkey so much I stitched him up all by himself ... I think he'll make an adorable pinkeep :)

Nina at Between Crosses is having a lovely giveway on her blog ... you have until November 30th to sign up ...

Now I need to go make some decisions ... see my 3rd Blogiversary is coming up on the 15th ... wonder what I'll come up with to celebrate my blogiversary ... stay tuned :)

I hope you find your Joy in your stitches ...

I'm grateful for thunderstorms ...

Michele

We have winner and a turkey ...

Thank you all for visiting my blog and making my 2nd year of blogging a great one! The list randomizer selected Natasha as the winner ... I hope you enjoy what I stitched for this blogiversary giveaway :)

There were 24 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

Natasha
Yuko
Cindy F.
Beth
Kathy A.
Becky K
Mel in Dubai
karen
Nic
mainely stitching
Carol R
Jennifer
Amy
Shelleen
Teresa S
CraftyT
Irishenchantment
monique
Pike
Jean
Teena in Toronto
Karol
stitcherw
Sharon
Timestamp: 2008-11-16 17:49:06 UTC

Here's the squares that I received from Jayne for the Thanksgiving round on the Fair and Square blog .. isn't he the cutest turkey :) Thanks Jayne for stitching him for me .. I love both the squares :)


Hope everyone had a great weekend! Mine was spent stitching some Christmas ornaments most of the weekend. Friday night we watched the original "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" and "American Graffiti" with Chris and Monica, what a hoot to see those old movies again :) Saturday I had lunch with Lisa and Yvonne and then home to do house stuff. Sunday was laundry day and watching the last Nascar race of the season .. won't be back until February :( and of course watched a bit of the football game .. my poor Seahawks are having a very sucky season :( All in all it was a good weekend .. got lots accomplished :)

I'm grateful for weekends ...

Red reindeer and my blogiversary

Look what came to my house today ... the cutest red reindeer you've ever seen! Janice was my partner for the Christmas round on the Fair and Square exchange blog. I can't wait to finish him .. I think he'll become a pinkeep ornament .. he'll fit right in with all the other reindeer :) I wonder how Janice knew I liked reindeer and red?! lol




I've stitched a few reindeer for myself over the years and I've received lovely stitched reindeer from my friends over the years, but honestly I don't have any duplicates .. never knew there were sooo many reindeer patterns out there :)


My 2nd Blogiverary is this Saturday (15th). In keeping with blogiversary traditions, I have a little something stitched and finished by me (yes you read that right, finished by me! lol), that I would like to give away. Leave a message on this post between now and Sunday, November 16th and I'll drawing a lucky winners name.

Hope everyone has had a great week!

I'm grateful this week is almost over ...

Just checking in ...

Just wanted to pop in and say hi ... I was sitting here at work during my lunch hour, surfing the net and look what I found straight from Drema's (Needlcraft Corner) website ...

11/11/2008
LIZZIE*KATE
The first double-flip series for 2009 will be Halloween themed!!
Linda says: "This Halloween series is one of the MOST FUN things I have ever graphed and stitched!!! From bats to cats, frogs to Frankenstein, monsters to haunted mansions, this series is a lot of creepy fun."

Oh what fun this series will be!

My Blogiversary is in 3 days!!! oh my! There have been a lot of blogiversaries lately and I'm so glad to join in on all the fun! I will be hosting a drawing .. I'm putting the finishing touches on my stitched piece .. so keep watching my blog, I'll be posting soon about the drawing :)

No stitching to show .. but I've been stitching like a mad woman! lol .. all my best plans about starting early for the holidays has done awry, but of course none of you know what I'm taking about .. right? lol

Happy Hump Day and I hope you are all doing well. It's raining like crazy here, the rivers are rising and it's just plain icky out there!

I'm grateful it's Wednesday ...