Happy March! Part 1

March is certainly roaring in like a lion! Very windy outside, think I'll stay in.

Hope you are all doing fine. I haven't paid much attention to the news lately so I don't know how the weather is where you're at. I am dealing with a headcold which started yesterday, stuffed and running nose, sneezing and head feeling thick. I never get sick so I'm a bit surprised. Maybe this is just allergies, who knows. Well, the last part of February was crazy! My stove quit working the 3rd week of February and I was able to buy a used one in very good condition last week. So I had a few weeks of microwaveable meals, soups, and anything else I could eat cold and heat up in the microwave. So this weekend I'm making soup on the stove! Two Thursday's ago we got hit one of those snowstorms of the century. Take a look..

That is my car, surrounded by 2 feet of snow. It was windy so there was drifted snow behind my car at a half of foot more. The last time we had snow like this was 32 years ago. Then, it was 2 1/2 feet of snow. Lucky me, my shovels, plain old dirt turning shovels, were buried under the snow in the back. 

The snow started Thursday night, all Friday and finally stopped Saturday night. I was never so glad to see it stop! I had to hire a guy to come and dig out my driveway so I could get out of the house. No work for two days. Crazy stuff! If it never snowed again the rest of this winter, no problem here! In 1 week, all the snow is gone except for shady spots, and up in the mountains. That's Arizona for you, the temps made it to 60 for a couple days ago.

Time for stitching news! This post may be in 2 parts, maybe.

I spoke about happy news in the last post. Happy for me because it closed a 4 year wait. The designer who had a Kickstarter event has had her antique sampler stitched up and should be marketing that soon. Here are my campaign goodies..

Now I hemmed and hawed on whether I should reveal the designer and since she had made it known on her FB page, which is now gone, that after the funding came through, she fell into a deep depression. Having some experience with depression, I can certainly understand how she was unable to get that humongous sampler started and all the other things going promised on her campaign. To 

those who don't know what's going on, Shakespeares Peddler or KittenStitcher on Flosstube, Theresa had started a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to purchase an antique sampler and had all these extras offered depending on the size of your donation. I love the sampler she chose for me.

Anyway, she has finished the repro sampler. It's a beauty and big with about 500 stitches on the long side. I decided to reveal her because it's a good thing to put a face on depression. The more we hide from it, the more it becomes an illness to be scared of and not understand. 

I have a finish!

This is Floral Sewing Box by BBD in the Vintage Inspirations booklet. It's the exchange piece for my partner. Above it is the box I'm staining for it and the polka dot paper that will go inside the top and inside the box. The exchange is due on the 20th, heading to Virginia. I'm still gathering more things to add to the exchange.

Okay, I'll end this here. Please check out Part 2 above this post.