Ornament SAL October, The Giveaway That Almost Wasn't!, and progress

Helloooo!

Here's my ornament for October






I have misplaced the printed freebie chart. For the life of me, I can't remember who designed this. Maybe some of you know. I stitched it on 32ct ivory linen with WDW Louisiana Hot Sauce and I love that color. I thought it would look great against the ivory linen. Then I used a Kreinik fiber, the shiny colorful stuff, for the dots on the I's. They don't sparkle in the picture though. Don't forget to click on the pictures for better looks. This stitched up in just a couple days.

The Giveaway That Amost Wasn't, hmm. For starters, some of the items never made it to me until almost a whole month. I mention that in my last post, I think! And then two of the packages sat in my post office for a couple days because I made some mistakes on the packaging and the kind of postage I put on them and the clerks didn't notify me of the problem until 2 days later. On a side note: my local post office is trying to single-handedly save the USPS from going down the pipes and therefore, catch everyone on tiny mistakes that mean the difference between 1 cent and 0.50. Whatever floats their boat! Okay, rant over, onward!

I finally sent off everyone their Giveaway winnings and Diana let me know she got hers. Since she doesn't have a blog, I'll show you what I sent and made for her. She picked Halloween



Btw, she's the nicest person! I sent the Book of Days needlework calendar for 2014, the Halloween Silhouette pattern with a skein of silk and the linen that is below the scissors, the Halloween fabrics, the D needleminder, the scary scissors, scary DMC colors, and the Mystifying Mints in that great Ouija board tin, and






This is the Eliza An Pinkeep from the Merry Hallowe'en book of pin keeps by Stacy Nash, made into a flat ornament. I finished it off with the spider charm, the pretty fabric for the backing, and black trim. Diana liked it all. Thanks Diana, for visiting. I'm just glad it made it to her in time for Halloween!

Moral to the story-Give gift certificates! Lol. I really did enjoy making the flat ornaments though; could do without the drama!

I've been stitching and here's a new start



Love this! It called for 40ct but I'm using 36ct flax and the called for threads. I'll make it into a pillow and trim it with a dark brown chenille that I have. I just finished the cookie.

And here's Home by Pineberry Designs



Looking more like a home! I didn't read directions and am using 2 strands of the Toasted Marshmallow when it called for 1 strand. I'm hoping I don't run out of Toasted Marshmallow!

As for Mary's Sampler from PSS, I only stitched two angels. There's more to stitch this time around I've noticed! So no picture of Mary.

That's my story and I'm stickin' to it! Thanks, everyone, for stopping in and leaving a comment. Hope those of you who do Halloween, have a real spooky one, watch some scary movies. To those who don't, have a Happy Autumn Thursday!



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Blingin' Downton Abbey!

Speaking of Downton Abbey, did you know that the new season comes out sometime in January? Can't wait! I love that show! It's been gone for almost a whole year. Deadliest Catch is like that in that the show comes back on in April and ends in July and then the wait begins.:(

I'm making inroads with finishing all my ornaments and small stuff. Remember Downton Abbey? Well here she is, all blinged out!









Designed by The Sampler Girl, I chose my own fiber colors for this. I checked out Vonna's tutorial for the flat ornament, and since I haven't figured out how to put a link on here that'll connect you right away, here's the address http://tts-learntofinish.blogspot.com/2011/10/flat-ornament.html. Thanks Vonna! Anyway, my confidence doing the flat ornament has gone up exponentially! And now I just want to flat-ornament everything!! So I'm trying to use fabric that I have already, and this fabric I thought could match the silk that I used for the words. Then I prettied it up with the trim, made the small bow and attached it with the gold pin on top. It's pretty!

Diana, Ann, and Myra, you'll be happy to know that the Giveaway packages you've been patiently waiting for will be in the mail Tuesday! Yay! My gosh, that ONS I ordered from took forever. I emailed them and asked about my order, and on this past Friday, it arrived. It took a month. I was disappointed in how they packaged it up though. They took a loose piece of bubble wrap and put everything in it, didn't try to tape it up and when I got it, half of the things were in the mailer and the other half rolled up in the bubble wrap. Their website says they answer their emails in 48 hours, but I never got an answer. I'm liking the Inspired Needle and 123Stitch more and more! They do a great job.

I thought I'd show my glue-smooshing technique to stick the back and front of an ornament together



What do you think? Lol! Top to bottom: a five pound weight, broken 3 lb. weight, a book of the best poems, a Harry Potter book, and An Echo in The Bone by Diana Gabaldon! Below all that is the ornament! Haha. All amongst the chaos that is known as my crafting table. It does the job!

Here's my stitching on Mary's Sampler by PSS




So since it looks like Diana doesn't have a blog, I've taken a picture of the ornament I made for her and the goodies. I'll wait for her to receive her package and then I'll post pictures. I forgot to take pictures of Myra's and Ann's prizes but they may post pictures on their blogs.

I think that's it. Today is the last day of my 3-day weekend, back to work tomorrow, and I've got laundry to do. Not to mention my new favorite show is on tonight, Sleepy Hollow. It's almost Halloween too. Bwahahhah!

Thanks for stopping in!



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Just Amazing! , Giveaway Winners!, and babble

It was amazing to see all the bloggers come together in support of Cathey, better known as Pumpkin. Here's her blog http://pumpkinpatchandco.blogspot.com/ . I went to her blog and looked at her blog list and its all 'Pumpkins for Cathey'! Lol!

I, unfortunately, have experience with the evil 'C'. No, I've never had it, thank God, but I did lose both of my parents to C. My Mom died almost 24 years ago at the age of 49. I am 49! You can be sure I thought of that before I turned 49. She was so young. My dad, he died 6 years ago to lung cancer at the age of 71. I believe that attitude has a lot to do with the outcome of a battle with cancer. My mother, she just gave up and it took her in the 6 months the doc gave her. My dad, he was given the option of chemo and/or surgery but after hearing of the sizes of the tumors in both lungs, he said no and just wanted to leave the hospital and go home. He was gone in a month.

Whew. I don't know Cathey but I understand her struggle. The saying 'Mind Over Matter' comes to mind. If I can be of some help, if just to read and hear her rants of the unfairness of it all, I can do that.




I've picked the winners! Yee Haw! But first let me say that this app doesn't allow me to .....never mind!! I found where I can dress up, and make fonts large, etc. So here we go...

MYRA! You are the winner of the 4th of July package!!!! Myra loves the 4th of July, Autumn, and Halloween and has yet to meet a color she doesn't like!

Diana! She wins the main Autumn/Halloween pack and she chose Halloween!

And last but not least-Ann! Has won the package of leftovers (sounds bad but not really!) She likes Autumn and lo and behold her name was picked for the Autumn things that were left when Diana won for Halloween!

Well ladies, leave me an email with your mailing address at campbo41@q.com and after I receive some ONS goodies and finish the two items for Autumn and Halloween, I'll send it all on its way to you. By the way Myra, there isn't a stitched item to go with the 4th of July package but I think you'll like what you receive!

Thank you everyone for playing along. Wished I had consolation goodies to send to everyone! I'm thankful to you all for coming around to my blog, reading it, and leaving comments and to those who don't. When I first started blogging, many months went by without comments! But I just kept plugging on and now I have some regulars who come by. So I thank you all!

One more thing..are any of you going to stitch Paulette's (of Plum Street Samplers fame) Mystery Christmas Sampler? I am and I'm so excited! I love her designs. I've gone through all my threads and fabrics and found a 36ct vintage Lentil fabric from Lakeside. The funny thing is that the fabric I chose was kitted up with another of her designs! I have most of the threads, and I'll substitute with WDW the ones I don't have, if its possible. Here's the link
http://plumstreetsamplers.typepad.com/plum_street_samplers/2013/09/please-join-me.html to check out the details. It's going to be fun! My Ornament SAL plans are to start stitching Christmas ornaments ago this PSS mystery sampler will fit in nicely. Tomorrow Paulette will have the first part of the design over on her blog.

So, I'm going to have to ratchet up my stitching to keep up with this stitching. I've been vegetating in front of the tv some evenings. There's are some weeks where I'm not picking up the needle for 3, 4 days and that'll have to stop. Paulette is going to put up a new portion, 9 of them, every Sunday, so I'd like to keep up!

Congrats to the winners!

Take care, all!




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