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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Come back, come back!

is what I say to my one absconded follower. I went from 68 to 67 followers and now back to 68. Thanks Shannon for being 68!

I'm amazed that nearly 1 month has gone by since my last post. Everytime I checked on my blog, I saw the date of the last one and kept thinking that I needed to post something! I've had some attention-stealing things happen in the last week of which I will mention one somewhere on this post. So keep reading!

Two posts ago I mentioned I was starting Wooly Wednesday. Well, Wooly Wednesday turned into Wooly Monday and Tuesday! I've finally finished up these hopping bunnies

It feels good to finally have a woolfelt finish! The black tongues were supposed to be blanket stitched in a perle cotton the same color as the moon and stars but I though it would look garish so I left that off. Besides, I was so tired of blanket stitching! I finished it up with that homespun cotton backing that matched the green of the grass and the smaller tongues. I began cutting out the black wool and felting it earlier this year sometime so I'm glad it's done!

Now I have the woolfelt mini tree skirt to finish and as soon as I find my large beads, it'll get underway. I'll probably keep it because we put up two mini Christmas trees on a table because of our cats who would knock down a larger tree. I can just see it waking up one morning to find the whole thing toppled over with broken ornaments. I like glass ornaments because plastic ones just doesn't seem right. I do have a mix of plastic and glass though! Some years are better than others financially!

I finished my exchange stitching about 2 or 3 weeks ago! I need some trim from Joanne's or Hobby Lobby so I'll finish-finish the stitching this weekend and of course, I can't show you any of it until she receives it! I was waiting for some extra things one of which begins my rant today! I put in an order for something from an ONS. I had emailed her and asked if this particular item was in stock as I needed just one. She emailed back and said we have more than one. So I ordered it, on September 20th. Everytime I got on her website for an order status, it said order is being prepared for shipping. So the days begin slipping away as they do this time of year. Couple days ago I emailed her to find out what happened to my order. Never heard back. So last night, I did the order status thing and find it has been shipped yesterday. This is why I quit ordering things from them but on the upside are their sales. I ordered this item because it had a better price than the other ONS's. Their item pages show everything and I assume that it's all available. Plus I'm on a time crunch here to get this exchange mailed real soon so she can receive her goodies before Halloween. I'm so looking forward to receiving my goodies from my partner, it'll be like Christmas! I noticed Elaine has started taking people for her new exchange for Christmas. Go check it out and sign up because they go fast! I'm not taking part in that one because I want to stitch more Halloween without interruptions.

I lost my mojo for about 3 days. Never picked anything up, just vegetated on the couch watching t.v. However I finally picked up this cute little stitch and am about finished


All Hallows Mini
Waxing Moon designs
30ct Gold linen (R&R or Weeks!)
using 310 DMC

What an awful pic! Anyway, it's charted for GAST Onyx but I'm using DMC. It's a very Halloweeny design and the scarier-looking the better! As you can see, I just have the wording to go yet which will be done today. I have a pic of the chart below that of my next start


Something Wicked
La-D-Da
35ct Havana-Weeks
called for silks

 
So far I'm just allover the place with this one. I start in the middle and then try to stitch over to reach a border and then to the top. I don't trust myself to start in one of the corners and end up with enough fabric elsewhere. I love this one and I think it'll go fast! Here's the two charts and what they should look like!

Previously I said I was thinking about selling at a craft fair. Well, here's the one happening that's killed that idea. My daughter rear-ended a car on the highway last Saturday. Her car, a Toyota 4runner, is out of commission with a possible cracked radiator, missing alternator belt, and a few other minor things like replacing headlights and cracked side lights. She's ok, was sore for 3 or 4 days from the seat belt (thank God for the seat belt!). The Ford Mustang convertible she hit has a lot of damage to the back end and the two people in it went to the hospital to be checked. I know they'll be hurting because I was rear-ended sometime back and had whiplash. So my main concern right now is to get the 4runner back on the road because using 1 car between us with different schedules has been a b---h! And I'm waiting for the hit to my insurance rate. Great! But I"m glad everyone is okay.

Well, Pioneer Woman is on so I gotta go! Welcome my new follower Shannon! And thank you to the regulars for all your comments last post! I'll promise to post more. Take Care!