Winner, winner, exchange goods, and more

Hello hello! Fall is on its way and I couldn't be more happy! Yesterday, it hit 91 degrees, ugh.

First order of business, thank you for your kind words on the passing of my aunt Teresa. She was laid to rest yesterday after a very nice, and sad service. Thanks.

Second piece of business- Diana, you are the winner of the La D Da chart Yellow Bird! I think I have your address somewhere so let me look for it before I email you for it. Congrats! Diana, turns out I do need your address so if you would email me at.......I will get the chart out to you.

Thursday night my exchange package arrived, Woohoo! Here it is..

Hope it's not too blurry. The chocolate kisses were gone within minutes! Love it all. I love ceramic pumpkins so that was nice. I'm really excited to start the new PSS chart and the PSS pillow is wonderful. Trims are always welcome here and the Halloween kitchen towel and socks are jump starting my decorating for my favorite holiday. Take a look at this tiny pincushion Sue sent...

It's in an antique salt cellar. I don't know what they were used for but the whole thing is wonderful. Sue doesn't know I have a blog but Thank You Sue for the great exchange goodies! 

So my SAL that I have going on has gotten derailed for a bit. To tell the truth, I can't even remember when I stitched and didn't! The struggle is real! I have a journal with all my starts and WIPs and I WAS writing down dates of when I stitched on something but quit around last Tuesday, 9/11. My dad also died 11 years ago on that date so I think the anniversary of his passing and the terrorist attack kind of put me in a funk. But today is a new day and all the sad has been taken care of.

Onto the Linda SAL! Thanks Linda for letting me use your name for the SAL. I took one day to finish up a couple small stitchings and will show those down below. Here is a Christmas ornament...

This freebie has been in my freebie file for quite awhile. I'm using the colors called for but using a scrap piece of Ship's Manor fabric 32ct. Sometimes I feel the need to mix things up so I paired this up with the fabric. 

The next piece is...

Yeah, all in Russian! It's by Verbena on etsy. To me, that project looks big. Nope! I stitched it on 32ct PTP fabric and it's just 3" long! 

It's on the left. I don't know what I'll FFO it into. I'm thinking a skinny candy tin to mount it onto or maybe a necklace? Who knows. I used a Belle Soie silk on it called Woolly Bear from my stash and it is pretty with the light and dark brown variegation. On the right is the freebie from Hands on Design, stitched that right up in 3 hours or so. I still need to sew on the metal heart charm on the house. They are the results of my day of finishing.

Okay, this next one I'm asking you all to humor me! Lol. Yup, another Souvenir de France!

But look at how pretty it is going to be! A scrap of the natural gingham which I think is Weeks. It looks perfect next to the rose fabric that Kaye/Kitten Stitching sent with my prize when I won one of her giveaways. The floss is WDW Peony and it really matches the roses in the fabric. It will be a flat ornament.

Alright, that's it. My last post, Rebecca mentioned starting Trick or Treat because I inspired her. She has ordered the floss for it. Yay! Trick or Treat is a WIP I have added into this SAL so once I have worked on my #plumstreetsunday project I'll bring out Trick. 

Thanks for stopping by! I really do appreciate you all!