Christmas 🎄🎁

Greetings from a balmy day in AZ. Hope those of you in winter conditions are staying warm and cozy.

Turkey Day was wonderful! We had a lot of food including a turkey and a spiral ham. I ate leftovers for 4 days😂

So Jingle Ball has came and went. I didn't get to watch the Stacy Nash video for the Gingerbread Man piece but I can still access it in January. Like last year, my daughter gave me Christmas cash early and I spent it in Stacy Nash's shop, lol. 

I also bought from Heartstring Samplery and a PDF from the Annie Beez shop. Stay tuned for my Christmas day start, it could be from my new stash of Stacy Nash. I've really become a huge fan😍

So once again, I've been tardy with another post, just about a month lost. I've been under the weather for 2 weeks but last Friday I felt terrible. A couple days before I noticed my throat feeling irritated. I thought it was from sour candy I'd been eating. Needless to say I've been coughing my lungs up, one nostril runs and then it plugs up and then the other begins running. But it's the coughing that's been hard to handle. Nyquil is allowing me to sleep at night finally because that Friday night I don't think I slept at all. It was horrible. Added to that is a constant headache. Tomorrow I'm calling the local urgent care and see what they're charging for a COVID test. I work at a school and the last thing I want to do is set off a firestorm with that! 

I called out of work tonight and now I'm trying to put a blog post together🤷🏻‍♀️wish me luck!

The Christmas stitching marathon continues! Let's look at what I've been working on..

I finished O'Tannenbaum by Pineberry Designs..

Isn't it pretty?! I'm pretty certain the fabric is Weeks Cocoa 36ct. I was watching the Periwinkle Stitcher Sian's flosstube before this and she held up her sampler by Mani di Donna that is on Cocoa and I thought Yep, that's it! The tag said Confederate Grey but that's a mistake. I've got it sewed up but needs to be stuffed and embellished. 

I also sewed up Christmas Alphabet by the Scarlett House...

She looks wonky because I have partially stuffed her with sawdust and need to finish that. It's sooo messy though. 

How about a start or two? Sometime after December 1, I picked up this HOD piece, started and finished it, all in 3 days...

My picture is not so great🫤but this is my favorite of the 3 that I have stitched up, North Pole Trading Co. I need 6 more patterns in this series, White Christmas. I have the finishing pack for all of them and the templates to cut the mat board. This picture is not giving this sweet little design due justice. 

Another start after Dec 1, is Sweet Pleasure by October House Fiber Arts. I can't tell if I bought it or it's a freebie but here it is...

On 36ct Sheep's Straw by R&R. Christmas pies, right? I have since stitched in the mixing bowl that is to the lower left of the flour sack that is all white. I had to do some substituting with DMC or other hand dyed floss but it's coming along. It took me no time to stitch in the words. Looks like I'm 2 thirds of the way done👍🏼 

How 'bout 1 more start😁here's that bonus chart that Stacy Nash added to the chart for the Gingerbread Man. Using WDW Parchment, I just started this earlier this evening. Using the same fabric as for the G Man, 36ct Cocoa by Blackberry Primitives, here's what I've done...

I'm stitching the wall of a taller gingerbread house on the left. There'll be another tall and wider house on the right. I had to center start this because I didn't trust my placement of my starting stitches. I'm hoping to finish this before December is over. It'll be a pillow, albeit a big pillow! I want it to look like the model. I don't have a picture but if you go to Stacy Nash's IG and scroll down to her post of her Jingle Ball class subjects, you'll see it. I think I want to add small off white pom-poms to trim it. Eventually, I'd like to have a Gingerbread vignette for next Christmas going. I have a Gingerbread pattern from Stitching With the Housewives that I won earlier this year. I'll probably be in my new place by the 2nd week of January and you can bet I'm going to go all out with decorating with all my cross stitch goodies😍can't wait!

And the last start was my Black Friday start...

Here's the Christmas Carol Sampler by the Primitive Hare, on 36ct Thornfield by Needle & Flax. I'm enjoying this, watched the movie with Jim Carrey while stitching. That top border is at the halfway point across. It's still going to be a good size, even on 36ct. 

That's it for all my stitching!

I recently broke one of my readers so I bought another...

A 3.25, I'm styling! The frame is NyQuil green, lol, which is fitting since I've been living on that vile tasting stuff for nearly 3 nights!

Since I'm moving soon, I thought I better start packing stuff. My bedroom/craft room is going to be the first room to get packed...

I have another box of that same size filled with pin pillows, hanging pillows, and flat ornaments. I had everything hanging on 2 walls in my room and now they're bare. The walls look sad as do these boxes. I still have to box up my cube finishes, my tall plastic storage tower filled with trims, ribbons, buttons, rusty bells, etc etc. I have 2 and 3 drawer plastic storage things all lining 1 wall, some are empty. Three bookcases, 1 is tall. That's all just in my bedroom! I can't forget my bed!😂

That will be my life from the last week of December into January🙂

Alright! I believe this is it! Hooray for my phone sticking it out with me. 

Thanks to all for commenting on the last post! Jackie, so glad you stopped by and left a comment! Honeybee, I'm still trying to get through your past years Christmas Open Houses! Last but not least, all of you who read my blog! Thanks for dropping in🙂

Just 10 days before Christmas, I should be back before Christmas to show some Christmas FFOs.

Take care and see you soon!