A Finish & Mail !

This is my finish from the chart - Acorns by The Prairie Schooler. I need to get the wool to make the Acorn Top. The picture does not show the true color of the fabric, which is a Prairie Grain Linen. I used the DMC threads called for. Those big acorns came from my big TREE... Aren't they great!
I also received 2 great packets in the mail !!! One had the ornament I bought from Donna at By The Bay Needleart Designs. She was also sending a free Christmas chart with any order. Picture below:

I don't know if she has any left on her Esty.. Check here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/ByTheBayNeedleart She has the cutest things and charts for sale. She will release Sam The Snowman soon. He will be great to stitch!I also received my Order from Anita's Little Stitches Shop ! I can always count on her to get my order to me quick ! I will be ordering from her more often. I have been having trouble with ordering floss lately and having to wait about a month till I receive it. With the silks about 2 months... duh.... Here is my threads from Anita:

Those colors are great !!! I am ready to start all my Christmas ornaments!! Can't wait! What are ya'll stitching on? Thanksgiving/Fall or Christmas?

Don't forget to sign up for my giveaway on the last post. Giveaway will take place Monday with Rebel Dog pointing out the winner! She will be sporting her new haircut and her winter sweater. She wants to be a model, I told her she is a little old for modeling with her cripple back and crooked teeth. She has needed doggie braces on her teeth since she was a puppy. So ya'll will see Rebel dressing in contest finery to pick a winner !!!

A GIVEAWAY !!!!

I had mentioned I had been working on a model design for Brenda Gervais. I love stitching for Brenda, her designs are great ! I usually do not stitch something twice. When I stitched for Just Cross Stitch Magazine, if I stitched something in the magazine, I didn't want to stitch it again.. Don't know why I am like that..... But Brenda's designs are great ! I have decided to put this new design " SNOW DAY " up for the giveaway !!!

All you have to do is leave a comment that you would like to win this chart. Anyone can enter. I will do a drawing on Monday the 15th. Please make sure I have an email address to contact you, if you should win!!

Good Luck Everyone !!!!

ps... I have added another Need'l Love Book and a Dames Of The Needle Chart to my selling blog. I have 3 Need'l Love Books listed. Bittersweet Threads, Liberty Threads, and Haunted Threads. aprilmechellessellingblog@blogspot.com or in the column on left side.

Just Checking In !!!

Thankful for this Beautiful Day !!!!Just checking in. I have not vanished !! LOL I have been enjoying our nice high 70 degree temps here in Bama. Beautiful day today !!! Made me want to dance around outside and maybe do some Fall Yard Cleanup.. That didn't last long... I went to Wally World with the kids. Oh Well... maybe tomorrow, I can sit out on the deck and look at the yard and Stitch.. Ya.. That sounds like a great plan! Till Tomorrow. I do have a giveaway I want to do... So tune in tomorrow.... Tomorrow Tomorrow !!! (at the top of my voice!!!!!) Till Tomorrow.

Back Pain & Yard Sale

Hubby has been in the bed since Friday morning. His back has went out. Started hurting at the first of the week and by Friday morning he was in Chiropractor's office. It is bad. Chiropractor helps him a lot. We used to go to the emergency room. The doctors always wanted to just give him pain pills and send him home to rest.. Maybe that is why our country has a big Prescription Pain Pill Problem. He uses a chiropractor now. Plus the doctors 20 years ago wanted to operate on his back and telling him he would have to change occupations. He was a mechanic for about 25 years. He has had only about 6 flare ups in about 30 years. He is in construction now and has only had this flare up in 5 years. He has a herniated disk. It is going to take it a while to get better. He has taken over the bedroom. Has the night stand full of his stuff and I had to bring a TV tray into the room to put MORE stuff on. LOL Men and sickness or hurting..

We did end up having a good yard sale turnout on Saturday! I sold about everything.. My battery is going dead on laptop.. Ohhhh Light is orange now... Till Later...

Yard Sale Weekend

I sure wish this lady would have stopped by our Yard Sale today. We had all of 5 shoppers. 5 !! Well, it was only 48 degrees today and the wind was blowing and it started to sleet. How much worst could it get !! We are not in our right mind. why? Because we are going to try again tomorrow.... LOL It is to be 29 degrees in the morning and warm up to 55 with sun.. That is what weather guy said we were going to have today. NOT... He missed it all together.
I am trying to get my reading of friend blogs done tonight. I have to get up before daylight and drive to my mom's house. Josh spent the night last night and I woke him up this morning. He looked out the window and said," It is still dark outside!" Very smart boy for 3. We got to watch the sun come up on our drive to my moms. He kept saying," It is getting lighter Gigi". It was great being with him this morning. Yesterday coming home.. was different. We were in Hubby's truck and I had his car seat beside me. I was singing away with the radio, when I heard him say" Gigi... Please be quite!" I guess he knows NO talent when he hears it. I can not carry a tune... LOL We rode the rest of the way with him telling me what he wants for Christmas and other Very Important Stuff. LOL Zoe went back to the ortho doctor today. She was born Breech and had to wear leg braces for a little while after she was born. Can't tell it now. She is trying to run. It is fun to watch her. She is little Miss Independent. Wants to walk everywhere and doesn't want you to carry her. When she gets tried, she just lays in the floor and rest.. Takes after me there.... LOL
I need to get back blog reading. Till Later....

Special Shout Out !!!

I want say a special Thank You to Terri Hall at Dixie Samplar Designs Blog! She sent me ACORNS by The Prairie Schooler. I have been working on this, as you can see:

The linen is kind of a greenish-tan. This picture is terrible. I am doing the squirrel! I just love the colors for the leaves. This is what I have been working on at night. I also started the new freebie from Primitive Betty's blog.

Thank you Terri !!! I am stitching on something I have been wanting to stitch for a long time !! Stitching Buddies are the greatest!!

Till Later... VOTE TODAY ! I AM !!!!

A Birthday Finish !

This is the Scissor Keep I made for my Aunt Judy for her Birthday. The linen and threads I finished. All the other things like, buttons, lace and backing fabric was in my grandmother's sewing basket that I received when she passed on.

The scissors I purchased to put them in the pocket. I stitched my grandma's initials and the date she was born. Aunt Gloria... Yours is in the making and it is different. I am making each Aunt one.. Aunt Debbie's Birthday is in March.. I will have a break before I have to have hers finished. Mom will get one for Christmas.. I couldn't find the right pattern for her. I just did this week. So all the Aunts that read this know now.... SURPRISE !!! LOL I figured Aunt Judy couldn't keep it a secret.. I did forget to show one of my Halloween Ornaments:

Wicked Freebie. It was an easy finish. That is my Cricket Collection Tree it is hanging on. My 1 Ornament... that is sad.... He is already in the tub with the other Halloween decorations.. Till Next Year for them.... SAD Thank everyone for the nice comments on my stitching! I appreciate them all! I get inspiration looking at your blogs!!! Keep it up!

Till Later..... Happy Day To Everyone!