SAL's and more

Hello everyone! Long time no see. Time has gotten away from me as usual.

As my title says, today is the first day of two SALs that I'm in, the Tis the Season/BBD on FB and Linda/Stitchin with My Furbabies. Linda is celebrating her upcoming birthday with some ideas and I'm doing 31 starts for the month. I hope I can keep up with it!

I also have a near FFO, progress, and some new stash!

Here is Tis the Season by BBD, picture taken off Pinterest. I work from a master copy. This takes care of the FB and Linda's SAL starts...

And my fabric and floss choices..

I'm not using the called for silks but I am using the called for fabric 32ct Pear by Lakeside. I'll stitch in Tis the Season in place of the French. So I have floss pulled for all the other colors but I'm undecided on the color of the Cardinal. In the picture is Country Redwood which is a nice variegated red and I also like Raspberry Parfait which isn't shown. Pictures on 123stitch for country redwood show up different as my skein above. I don't want my Cardinal to be mauve-y but red. So I may buy the skein of country rosewood and if the new skein is a little off I'll just take a strand each from both skeins since I'm doing 2 over 2. 

I will come back to Tis the Season during the month.

I have progress on two projects, Trick or Treat and The Merry Hart..

First is this one. Would you look at that?! I stitch on this for two hours or more for 6 days. There are JABC buttons scattered all over on the model but I plan on only a few bat buttons, a moon, and a purple cauldron placed on the base of the last street lamp. This is so cute! It's part of my Linda SAL so I'll be getting back to this also. Below is where I was before..

Here is my Sunday stitch..

I'll be starting the house real soon!

This FFO I showed before. I was waiting to buy flat pins...

I am still not happy with the decoration on the top but I have added the back and side fabric and the ribbon. I think I'll check out some transparent ribbon in red and green colors for the top.

I also stashed!

These two I bought off one of the resale groups on FB. I hemmed and hawed about the BBD but after I saw how much this was being sold on eBay, I snatched it up for $8 postage included. There are 4 designs in here, one being a reproduction. Then I couldn't pass up these festive moose. I'm seeing a tree covered with Merry Christmooses!

I believe this is my very first Goode Huswife chart. The name threw me off at first with 'Hooked' but it's all stitched. The Chessie and Me is called Scarlett's Christmas Sampler. I had to have it! A simple sampler with lots of Smyrna stitches! That's a given on a Chessie and Me, right? I guess there is hope for me in that I can actually buy a few charts that aren't Halloween or all Christmas!

So delivery day is approaching with the Haunted Harvest exchange and I have finally bought all the supplies to finish the round paper mâché box. I have 3 days off this weekend so I'll be tackling that. I just need a fire lit under my butt! I have mentioned that I'm a procrastinator and it has reared its ugly head in the last couple of weeks for sure. Any other time I would have had the exchange package on its way already but not this time.

If this post sounds disjointed it's because I am disjointed! It was a rough week this past week with plenty to stress about.

So if you made it this far, good for you! Giveaway time! The woman I bought two of the charts from threw this in as a freebie..

Some freebie, right?! I already have it so who would like it? The usual rules, be a follower on Bloglovin and Blogger, comment below you would like it. I can mail anywhere, even overseas. Comment until September 12 at 11:59 pm Arizona time. Good luck!

So I'm guessing that is it. You will be seeing a lot of me on here this month so you may get tired of me! It will be fun starting new projects for a change. I have lots of freebies and some kitted up projects along with a few WIPs to stitch.

Happy Labor Day to those in the U.S. and happy stitching to those not! 

Take care!