August Smalls SAL.....

The Smalls SAL is hosted by Heather of Stitching Lotus.  You can click the link above or her blog name link!

I have been stitching on a LOT of things this month, but I did find time to finally cross stitch the JN Happy Birthday whimzi for myself!!!  I've been wanting to do it for years, but you know how that goes......another project comes along and it gets pushed aside.

Here it is.  I did change the color of fabric and whimzi frame for mine.  I did have the yellow fabric and antique brass looking whimzi, but it just was not appealing to me to stitch it on the yellow or put it in that antique brass frame.  I did keep the colors the same and added the 2 small crystals on as called for on the chart.  I just LOVE how it turned out.  Happy Birthday to me....Happy Birthday to me!  LOL

As I was cleaning up my sewing room, I stumbled across this JN Scream Girls whimzi's ALMOST finished!  I couldn't believe it!  So I quickly finished stitching it up and framed it as well.  This is not the whimzi frame JN put this design in originally, but it is what I had on hand.  The original whimzi frame had a ghost on the front of a greenish frame.  I think it still looks nice!

That's all I have to share for my Smalls post today.
Happy Stitching!

Contest Winners!!!

First off, I am sorry for being so late in posting the winners names to my Birthday Contest.  I got home Sunday and was just TOTALLY exhausted from moving DD back to college last week and trying to visit with family the short time we were in TN.  Then the next couple of days was getting back into the regular routine, and then DS started back to High School on Wed.  So yes.....it has been an eventful week thus far.

But you don't want to read about all that so let's get on to the FUN STUFF!  Like PRIZES!!!

Prize #1 for the  Long Dog chart, Ginger is the winner!!!!  

Prize #2 for the Jennette Douglas Designs chart, Jorja is the winner!!! 

Prize #3 for the fabric, Terri is the winner!!!

Ladies, please email me your mailing addresses so I can get these prizes packaged up to mail out to you!!!  

Thank you to all who entered my contest!!!  I hope you like your prizes!!! 

Happy Stitching!

Happy Birthday to me & a CONTEST!!!

WOOHOO!!!!  Today is MY BIRTHDAY!!!!  I just LOVE my birthday and everyone else's birthday.  If you know me personally, I LOVE LOVE LOVE giving gifts for birthday to family and my close friends!

Now YOU can share in celebrating my birthday with me as well by entering my Birthday Contest.  Rules for the contest are only that you are a follower of my blog, and if you post this contest on your blog, you get a 2nd entry.  Leave a comment and tell me which prize you would love to win.

Prize #1 is a Long Dog chart called Bois le Duc.

Prize #2 is Jeannette Douglas Designs Appalachian Spring Sampler chart.  It can also be made into a needleroll if you don't want to frame it.

A close up picture of the sampler as the first picture doesn't show it well.

Prize #3 is a 21" x 28" piece of HDF 5201 White 36ct linen.

I will mail anywhere and I will be drawing the prizes Monday Aug 15.  That way you can share my blog with your friends to enter to try and win.

One last birthday picture that I thought was too cute not to share.

HAPPY STITCHING everyone!!!

TUSAL time again.....

Sharon of It's Daffycat is our host for our TUSAL each month!  You can click the picture above or her blog link to be taken to see what TUSAL is all about.

I seemed to have a LOT of ORTs this time.  You can see how they are spilling over my little ORT tin that Pat made me.  I keep an ORT catcher on my lapboard when I am stitching and then transfer them to the small tin to save til posting time.

I'm off to stitch a little before going to an appointment.
HAPPY STITCHING!!!