Some more progress and a lot of kindness.....

Greetings dear friends and blogging buddies!~ Ah 'tis Friday again! I always look forward to the weekend. Hubby will be home, which means he usually takes over the cooking, Yay! I get lots of stitching in , and we just have fun being together! Today my world is great! I have received lots of wonderful mailings this week . So far I've had something in the mail box nearly every day! I hear tell in an email that there will be more on the way!! Wow! Lots of fun , makes me wonder if I will ever get back to my flylady deep cleaning! Maybe I should put the boy on that this summer! Speaking of him, I am so proud! He did a wonderful job at bowling league this week! He is a one man team and he played against a team that usually wins trophies and MY SON won all 4 games ! He was so excited!

You know, some time back I was thinking about possibly giving up my blog. I asked myself , do I have time for this, does it make a difference to people, would they miss me if I was gone? You know , things like that. One thing I decided to do was have a week once in a while where I'm not posting every single day. That's helped on the time thing. As far as if I make a difference in any way , I don't know. I do know that you all make a difference to me and I need that! I won't go into detail , but here lately I have been having some pretty low times. I have shared that with a few that I swap email with. This past week has really been a pick me up. This morning as I was looking out my kitchen window and thinking about how much I have been blessed by such kind words and gestures this week, a beautiful dove flew down and landed in the backyard. It was such a soothing sight to see!

Well, on to the stitching! Below is my progess so far on Psalm 145.

Thanks to wonderful Rebecca , I was able to get this in my possesion and heading in on the home stretch! I was getting a little worried as to whether or not I was going to be able to stitch it in all the colors the pattern called for. I thought I had enough Kudzu for the grass and trees and then I discovered I didn't. I went to the quilt store, they were out. I went to the yarn store, THEY were out! So , I hopped on the computer and ordered them in from Cecilia's Samplers and had them right away! I had just enough Kudzu to hold me until my little order arrived! Whew!

Well dear friends and blogging buddies, I hope you all have a wonderful weekend filled with family , friends, rest and relaxation ,and lots of stitching! Thank you all for coming by again and for all of your wonderful comments! They really make a day so much nicer!

'till next time,

don't be a stranger,

Sharlotte

A quick post...

Greetings dear friends and blogging buddies!~ I hope you all are doing well! It has been rather chilly here the last few days but at least the rain is gone for now! :) As you can tell by the picture below, I have started another project! I have put the bellpull aside for a few days while I work on LHN's Psalm 145. I am loving this so far!

I'm going to have a busy morning and need to have some "me" time before the guys get up so I'm gonna scoot. Thank you all for all of your wonderful comments on the ornament, I appreciate them ! Oh and Deb, bring 'em on! LOL! If all you don't see me the rest of the week, don't be surprised.I will be wrapped up in this stitch , it's loads of fun!

"till next time,

don't be a stranger,

Sharlotte

Happy Monday!

Howdy everyone!~ Did you all have a busy weekend? Our's was pretty relaxed. We did have an incident with our puppy Cassie eating Alex's bicycle seat! Boy I tell you , he was several different kinds of mad! We don't have anywhere to put it right now , other than the back porch. We are still waiting for the men who fixed the water heater to come back and fix the garage door, so we can't raise the door to put his bike in their. Hubby was finally able to get her to leave it alone. It will still need to be replaced though.

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Do you remember a few weeks ago when I stitched a JBW Christmas design? Well, I finally got that into finished form and here it is all finished. I rather like it myself! :)

Ok, this is the last time on this one! I decided that the border looked a little "naked" so I went ahead and added the yellow flowers facing inward. Looks a lot better I think .

Got some more work done on the bellpull. I wasn't sure where I would put this once I was done with it. I got to thinking that Mother's Day is coming up and I still was not sure what I was going to do for my mom, soooo.... I think she just may get this as a gift! I will still have the pattern should I decide to stitch another one for me, which I undoubtedly will someday.

I just love this little bird!

I'm about 3/4's of the way through to finishing it up. It's been a fairly quick stitch actually. It got faster once I got the corrected pages. Thanks again Maria! Still thinking about what fabric I will back it with. I'll probably take it to the fabric store like usual to match it up since I don't have anything that will do right now I don't think.

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Well that wraps it up for me today . Thank you all for your continued visits and for all of your wonderful comments. They truly make my day!

'till next time,

don't be a stranger,

Sharlotte

We have a winner!!!!

Hello everybody! I hope you all are haviing a wonderful weekend! Our's has been terribly rainy and stormy! I guess if the flowers are going to grow they need water , right?

I am pleased to announce that the winner of the rooster towel is Loraine!! Congratulations Loraine! I will get this out to you this week ok?

For those of you who didn't win, have no fear. I will be having another giveaway sometime probably in the next couple of weeks so stay tuned~

'till next time,

Don't be a stranger,

Sharlotte

Stitchers are the best.....

Greetings dear friends and blogging buddies!~ Stitchers are some of the BEST people on the planet!! This past week I have had some lovely emails from some of them and they really touch my heart. Unfortunately I had a situation where another stitching blogger had hurt my feelings. Most of the time I am pretty thick skinned , but this particular thing really bothered me. I discussed it with someone else, which I did without naming names, and they told me that they would have felt the same way. At least I can feel a little validated that I wasn't taking it the wrong way. So , anyway I am sending out a hug to that friend that was there for me!! She knows who she is!! On the flip side, I had mentioned those that have been great this week. I had mentioned a few posts back , that there were a lot of mistakes on the bellpull that I am working on. Well , I had a reader come to my rescue! There was a correction printed in the next issue of that magazine and Maria was kind enough to not only remember that I had mentioned it , but send me the correction. Thanks again Maria! What a sweet thing to do! For the other blogging friends that emailed me with sweet thoughts and gestures, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, thank you from the bottom of my heart!! Your thoughtfulness means a lot!!

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Well, without futher ado, here is Joy in the Journey , which I think is pretty much in it's finished state. I say "think" because there was supposed to be a second border , but it's pretty much straight and kinda boring and I thought perhaps I would just leave that part off. Also on the inside border, there is supposed to be yellow flowers facing toward the design and since I don't care for yellow enough to have that much yellow in the design, I think I may leave that off as well. So I have the centers of the flowers to stitch and I will probably call it done!

We took off to the lake for a couple of hours of fishing yesterday . The guys fished and I watched and of course I stitched... what else? LOL! Here they are getting all baited up. They didn't catch anything by the way. It was pretty windy there yesterday and the wind kept blowing their line into the brush there.They did , however, find a couple of nice lures that other fisherman had left behind. All the good spots were already taken so they had no where else to go. They are planning on going again this weekend bright and early before all of the good spots are taken. Will I go or will I stay...hmmmm.

Well I'm off to finish the flowers before the kiddo gets up. I hope you all have a most wonderful day !! Thank you all for all of your wonderful comments and words of encouragement, they mean a lot ! Don't forget that I will be posting the winner of the drawing on Sunday morning!

'till next time,

don't be a stranger,

Sharlotte

Getting there....

Greetings all!~ I hope you all are doing well! The pollen sure is falling around here. How is it in your neck of the woods? No new updates on the neighbor situation. Kind of one of those things where you're afraid to know and afraid NOT to know . Our cooling fan on our refrigerator went out during the night, night before last. I didn't find out until I went to the frige to pull out the milk and eggs to make pancakes and found that they were warmer than they should have been. I started checking out other things and and then I felt the walls of the frige and everything had a slight chill be nowhere near what they should be . I called Jack into the kitchen, he happened to be off yesterday ,and he got his tool box , took the plate off that covers the fan, yep , just as he suspected, the motor on the cooling fan went out. Well we discovered yesterday that a little bitty fan motor that can fit in the palm of a man's hand will cost about $69! Good thing Jack knows the guy that runs the parts store, as he gave it to him for $39. More than we knew we would have to spend on a part that day, BUT better than the original price! Of course it could have been worse, we could have to buy a whole new frige , so I'll take the $39 dent in the checkbook with gratitude that it wasn't worse. We were able to keep most of the food too! :)

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I got some more stitching done on Joy in the Journey. I like how it is coming along. I still need to 'plant' a tree behind the fence and add the two borders and then I will be done! Still not sure about the frame or where I will put it , but I'll find a place!! Sorry about the flash sort of washing it out!

I thought I would show a close up of the little bees. Aren't they cute?

Thanks to two wonderful girls , I have some more stitching planned for the near future, plus I really need to get that bell pull finished and work on some exchanges and gifts.

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I realized that I hadn't posted about my Flylady routine in a while. That's been kind of hit and miss . We have been busy and I am just trying to keep the bulk picked up. When we are done with school, I will really get in there with the routine. I am usually A LOT better during the summer with it. I just thought I was hearing a noise outside that sounded like a huge gust of wind. I looked out and it is pouring down! There goes getting the lawn mowed today!

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Thank you all for all of your wonderful comments, friendships and visits! I love hearing from you all! There is still plenty of time to sign up for the giveaway if you haven't already and would like to. You can do that HERE.

'till next time,

don't be a stranger ,

Sharlotte

Help me, I'm at it again!!!!

Greetings dear friends and blogging buddies!~ I hope you all are doing well and having a lovely start to your day! Yesterday I mentioned about my neighbor getting shot. I do hope that he is doing well but there is more to this story . There has been shady activity going on there for years and after things that we have seen and heard throughout the time we've lived here, we're really not surprised that it happened. When there is all kinds of different cars coming by day and night that only stay 5 minutes or less ,it doesn't take a body long to figure out what is going on. About 3 weeks ago , we had to call the police ourselves because my husband found drug parafanailia in our trash can outside. They were pretty sure where it had come from. Now before you all ask me why we haven't moved, we have thought of that many many times. When we start to get some money set aside something always comes up. The refridgerator goes out , can't be fixed and has to be replaced, the car brakes down , and so forth and there goes the savings. I'm sure lots of you can relate. Hopefully one day though. Stranger things have happened right?

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Moving on....I've done it again! I started another project before finishing another! I like the bell pull, it wasn't boring me or anything like that. It's just that I was going through my stash this past weekend looking for another pattern and ran across another one that I've had for awhile and just couldn't shake wanting to start it. It is Joy in the Journey from Diane Williams before Little House Needleworks was birthed. This was back when she was doing some designing for Leisure Arts. This design is so cute and I just can't wait until it is done so I can get it up and framed. I don't have a spot picked out yet , but I'll find one!

Speaking of Diane Williams and Little House Needleworks, does anyone have LHN's Psalm 145 that they would be willing to loan me or swap for LHN's Winter Whites ? I would take extra good care of it and would stitch you something in return. The last one I borrowed ,I didn't keep for very long at all. My budget is pretty tight and I just can't spend extra on more stash right now and would really like to stitch it.

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Well my sister is in town from Wisconsin and will be leaving bright and early in the morning so I'm not sure if I will get any stitching done today or not. We only see her a couple of times a year and sometimes just once, so I think I can put the stitching down for a bit! I should have taken a picture of her yesterday while she was here to put on the blog, but she hadn't showered yet and put on make up and all of that. You know how we women are! :)

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Don't forget, if you haven't entered the drawing yet , you can do so HERE .

That's it for me. I need to get off of here and put some laundry in. Kinda getting things backwords today,I'm supposed to put my laundry in first thing in the a.m. Shhh...don't tell Flylady!!

'till next time,

Don't be a stranger,

Sharlotte

A little giveaway!!!

Greetings dear friends and blogging buddies! ~ I have a little giveaway to post about today. It wasn't my first choice for my giveaway , but the other one was getting hard to see to work on and getting tedious so I have put it down for a bit. Have no fear, I will be back someday with it as another giveaway so stayed tuned for that. So as not to disappoint, since I keep talking about a giveaway, I decided to giveaway a new freshly embroidered tea towel with a weather vane on it. This would be great for a country, prim, or even shaker style kitchen. Doesn't it look like something that your grandmother would have had? I love it and will eventually make another for myself. Scroll down for the details.

All you have to do is leave a comment on THIS POST between now and midnight on Saturday. I will announce a winner on Sunday. Good luck to you all!

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Well , we had a really crazy weekend. Our neighbor had someone come in on him while he was sleeping and they shot him!! Yes, I said they SHOT him! He's alive, but they doctors have no idea when he will be released. Very scary situation , and it get crazier every day. I can't really say as I'm surprised that it happened with the characters that hang around there but it still shocking! The police questioned us as to what we may have seen , but we didn't see anything or hear anything and didn't know about it until the ambulance and police arrived. Crazy world we live in!!

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THANK YOU ALL for your wonderful comments and support! I appreciate it and I appreciate you ! Come back real soon because you never know what you'll find in a post! Oh, and don't forget to enter the giveaway!!

'till next time,

Don't be a stranger,

Sharlotte

A little stitching and another visit to the lake...

Greetings all!~ I am sitting here with a pounding headache today. I hadn't had the headaches yet this time that iritis usually produces , but I think that's what I am suffering from this morning. That will probably mean sunglasses indoors today and no stitching! :(

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Yesterday was a lovely day. It was 80 outside and the sun was shining and we decided to head out to the lake. We grabbed a blanket, some paper goods, and took a picnic KFC style and headed out. I didn't get any stitching done until last night so this is as far as I got on the bell pull, just from the little flowers down.

I want to mention to Faye , Rebecca, and others that are thinking of doing this piece, it is a lot of fun , BUT there are a lot of misprinted symbols of colors and placement. I ahve to keep referring to the picture of the piece to make sure I know where the mistakes are. Just so you know ahead of time. :) Any seasoned stitcher could figure them out easily though. Anyone working on it that has any questions , please feel free to email me. Just let me know in the subject line what it's about.

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Here is just one of the few pictures I took of the lake itself. I was so entranced just sitting there and taking in the view and doing nothing that I didn't pick up the camera much.

I did have to take a snap of my two favorite guys though. Hubby Jack of course, wearing his silly hat a friend gave him at Halloween.....

...and the boy child , Alex , who is in desperate need of a hair cut but boks at me touching it! Is it the teen attitude coming through? LOL

Jack went walking the shoreline and found three bobbers , a couple of guys who flooded out the boat motor, and this little guy. He didn't stay on the blanket but about 20 seconds, long enough to take the picture. He was ready to head for the water again. Can't say as I blame him. If some big huge creature was carrying me around, I'd want to go home too!




Out around the lake area is this very old cemetery , that also has a section with several slaves buried in it. Being a genealogy and historian hobbyist, a stone caught my eye that we had to get a picture of. The base is one big solid piece and then splits where the angel is. I think when I go, I'd like to have one like it. Very peaceful looking don't you think?

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Yesterday Berit asked about the threads on Where My Heart Blooms. Sorry I wasn't clear the day before. There are two colors that walls of the house calls for . The symbols mark where they are to be stitched in different places , so there is the interesting color change through the stitching on the house.

Maggee also asked what issue the bell pull was in....It's in the Summer 1992 issue of Cross Stitch Sampler.

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I am a little curious about what makes my readers read, and keep coming back. Just wondering what it is that interests you about my blog. Please feel free to let me know via the comments section or email if you'd like.

Well friends and blogging buddies, it's time once again , to wrap this up for the week.I will post the giveaway on Monday or Tuesday , so make sure you come back to see what it is!! Thank you all for your wonderful comments and words of encouragement. They mean a lot!

'till next time,

don't be a stranger,

Sharlotte

A bell-pull start

Greetings all!~ I hope you all had a wonderful day yesterday! It was a balmy 78 here with the sunshining and just the right amount of breeze every now and then. It's due to be another fabulous day today as well.

If you've followed my blog for very long , you know that my dad comes up with some goodies for me from time to time. A couple of years ago he came across some cross stitch magazines that he knew I would like. In one of them was a pattern for a bell pull. I'm not overly coo-coo for them , but this one particular one was one I knew I must stitch someday. As I mentioned yesterday, I got a few stitches put into it and this is what I have gotten done so far.

What the finish will somewhat look like.

The pictures aren't very clear I know, but I hope the photo of the finished product will turn out better.

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Yesterday Berit asked if I did anything specific with the pattern to get the floss to "fall" the way it did. On the pattern, there are sections that are marked with different symbols so that the colors on the house will be different in those particular spots. Everyone's house that does this pattern is going to look somewhat different because, as you all know, each overdyed skein is different from one skein to the next. I like the look the different shades give to this house. Makes it look like an authentic saltbox house don't you think?

Yesterday , Judy also had a question , but I answered that within the comments so if you haven't read back over them , that's what that answer is.

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Thank you all for your continued visits, and for the warm and wonderful comments yesterday. I appreciate them!

'till next time,

don't be a stranger,

Sharlotte

A Blooming finish

Greetings dear blogging buddies!~ Wow, I know it's been a full week since I last posted. Been having some personal issues that I am trying to work through and life gets crazy sometimes when you're trying to do that. I wanted to at least hop on here this morning to show my "Where My Heart Blooms" finish. It will be a while before I can get it framed but I am so so happy that I was able to stitch it. Thanks again , Catherine, for your generous loan!!!

I would have preferred to have stitched this on linen, but I didn't want to wait until my next trip to the needlework shop , which is about 40 miles away. I decided to stitch it on evenweave so I could start on it as soon as the pattern arrived. I dyed the thread for the house, with the exception of the bright white, for the same reason. All in all, I am pleased as punch with it!

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Other than the stitcing on this piece, I have worked on and finished a gift, and have been planning my next exchange pieces, I signed up for 4 more!! Plus I also started a bell-pull. I'm not real crazy for bell -pulls but have wanted to do the one I'm working on ever since I first layed eyes on it. Photos of that to come later this week. * crossing fingers* I also need to get some more stitces in on that giveaway piece before you all think I've abandoned that idea. : )

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That will do for this short little post edition . Thank you all for your continued visits. Come back real soon.

'till next time,

don't be a stranger,

Sharlotte

Some progress , a catastrophe, and a visit to the lake

Greetings all!~ Glad you all could stop by today. I still have not finished my biscornu. I didn't realize that I didn't have the fiber fill for it and have not made it to the store yet for it. So that will come another time. I haven't gotten the piece finished for the giveaway yet , but I hope too real soon. Here is my progress for Where My Heart Blooms.

A little closer look, I'm still not good at doing closeups.

Well yesterday I mentioned a little bit about a small catastrophe. Let me get right to the explaining. I got up yesterday and took a shower and noticed the water was cold . I didn't think much about it as I sometimes am still pretty sleepy and thought that maybe I just hadn't got the hot and cold adjusted right. I started the rest of my morning and had started to work on my post . Jack had awakened and I mentioned to him about the shower being cold. He grabbed a flashlight and some other dohickie and headed for the garage. When he came back in he was pretty ticked! That was when I decided I'd better buzz off of my post. He explained to me that it looked like perhaps the water heater had started to catch fire and that a VERY LARGE leak had put it out. Something in the tank had burst and water was all over the place in the garage. Maybe that might not sound too bad to some of you who are thinking , well , water on a concrete floor, just squeegie it out. Well , what you don't know is , we use our garage for storage. So there were boxes and tubs, and bags soaked in water! Aye-ya-yi !! Well the repair men quickly came and evaluated the situation and went and got what they needed and came back. The older gentleman was quite tall and he back up and hit his head on the bottom of the garage door that was raised and it knocked him to the ground! Scared me half to death! I made Jack stay out there with them , because you hear all the time about how people hit their head and think they are okay only to end up in the ER with something much worse. Anway , he seemed to shake it off and do okay. We now have a new 50 gal. tank instead of a 30 gal. and the water heats much much faster. It did take us about all day to sort through the mess and clean up. Our neighbors offered to let us use their industrial size dumbster at their place of business to get rid of what we needed to. Something to sort of look forward to is that next Christmas I will have almost all brand new Christmas decore! For any of you reading this that sent me cross stitched ornaments, don't worry. I was smart enough to store those inside the house!

Anyway, while we were busy with all of that. Look what little Miss Cassie busied herself with!

Flour out of the trashcan! That was all she did though. She's a pretty good girl even though in this picture she looks like she was thinking evil thoughts!LOL!




Well I mentioned we went for a drive on Easter to the surrounding lakes. We have gotten a lot of rain and they had risen quite a bit. Look how near the road it is! It was a little scarey to me.

You may or may not be able to tell in the pictures that the warm water has started to rise and the cold water has started to fall. The water looks kind of muddy and unsettled because of that process. Pretty soon , it will look at nice again. We were actually to be married at this lake but it rained that day so we had to move it to the reception hall. :( It was still nice.

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Btw... I know there are a lot of you that like The Sampler Girl patterns so I thought that I would let you all know that they are 20% off this week at 123stitch.com .Well I'm going to run for now. Thank you all for stopping by and I hope you come this way again!

'till next time,

don't be a stanger,

Sharlotte

Happy Monday!!

Greetings dear blogging friends!! ~ I hope you all had a glorious weekend and Easter! We finally had a rainfree Easter ! First one that I can remember for quite some time. It was even 80 degrees and a little breezy! Just lovely! We did our usual for Easter except instead of watching "The Passion of the Christ" this year , we watched "The Sound of Music". Usually we watch both , but it was such a nice day, we decided to go for a drive out to the lakes. I'll have some pics of that tomorrow.

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I had some wonderful mail arrive! Just look at this beautiful piece of work from Lisa S.!

It was for the HOE/HOE II Winter House 2010 exchange. I was the lucky recipient of a wonderful Altoid Tin Topper that is a Prairie Schooler design. Just one of my favorites, yes indeedy!! Look at the inside, isn't it great and with those cute little pins! I appreciate it so much Lisa!

Well I know this is short today , but we have had a bit of a catastrophe here this morning that I need to help hubby take care of, and I'm getting that look. Yikes! You all have a wonderful day and all that stuff and I will see you back here tomorrow!

Thanks for visiting and the wonderful comments!
'till next time,
don't be a stranger,
Sharlotte

Happy Easter

Have a blessed Easter everyone!

TGIF!!!

Greetings dear friends and blogging buddies!! ~ Sorry for the generic title on for the post. I just couldn't think of anything that would fit today! Anyway, I could hardly believe it when I checked the blog this morning and found 105 followers! Woo-hoo! I hope all of my new blogging buddies will find a reason to stick around. I'll try to keep it interesting for you! :) Ok, I am not the most computer savvy person in the world. I have done something that caused me to loose some of the people that I was following . I don't know what I did. Anyway, if I used to follow your blog and I no longer am , can you let me know? I don't intend to drop blogs but my list isn't as long as it used to be so I know I had to have done something!:) BTW... did you all catch the April Fool's joke from Google yesterday? They said that they were changing their name to Topeka in honor of Topeka , Kansas. I picked up on that right away. Afterall ,nothing else that carried their name was changed.

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I don't know how much stitching I will get done this weekend. I have a mound of laundry I need to take care of today and then get the house cleaned. I do intend to finish this off later today into a biscornu for my wall curio.

It is another motif ( actually the same one I used before, just changed the colors) from Rosewood Manor's Quakers and Quilts. I know several of you have been / are working on it. I think I first fell in love with it when I seen it on Jackie's blog some time back. Anyway I plan on doing several projects with the chart and hope to actually do one of the samplers in it soon. For those of you that have the pattern, I love the way the sampler on the back turned out with using just one color don't you?

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So what are all of your plans for this weekend? It is supposed to rain here tomorrow and will most likely do so on Sunday as well. It seems to always be cold and rainy on Easter Sunday here for some reason. Maybe we'll get lucky this year. :)

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Thanks also for the comments on Cassie. She is a sweetie ! Jackie asked if her eyes were blue or if they just looked that way. Well, at the time that the picture was taken , which was a couple of weeks ago, they were. They are now starting to turn a green color. She is growing so fast!

Well, I must run off for the day. You ALL have a wonderful and safe Easter weekend and I look forward to seeing all of your wonderful blogs with all of your stories from the weekend on Monday. Thanks ever so much for all of your wonderful comments and emails. They brighten my day!

'till next time,

don't be a stranger,

Sharlotte

I've Hit 100!!!!!!

Greetings dear friends!~ I can't believe that I've turned 100! Well my follower count has anyway.LOL . Thanks to everyone who follows my blog. I appreciate it so much. Still baffles me that I actually have 100 people that like to read my dribble. Getting to know so many of you has meant so much! I just feel bad that we can't visit in person. Maybe someday.For now, your visits and comments in like we are visiting. :)

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Don't you just love bargains! I love bargains! I was with my mother the other day and look what I found for $1.49!!

Ghiradelli is just about my favorite chocolate and for the price , it was just begging to come home with me! Anyone know if this freezes well? I was thinking about going and getting more and sticking it in the freezer. Yeah ,right, like it would stay there!!LOL!

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Linda let me know that her Easter exchange arrived that I sent her. I forgot to take a picture so I swiped her's. You don't mind do you Linda? Anyway , I found the cuttest roll of ribbon that said "hippity hop, hippity hop, Easter's on it's way". I just had to send that. It was just too cute. I also sent along a piece of opalescent evenweave that I thought she might use for something. Do you recognize the little "peep" scissor fob? I decided to send it to her along with some cute little ladybug and daisy stickers. I stitched a little hanging pillow from Lizzie*Kate titled "Hop Squared",on 28 count pink Silkweavers linen using DMC and Weeks.I used Rainbow Gallery whisper for the tails to make them fuzzy. I finished it off on the back with pink and white gingham and the hanger is a cute little Easter Egg rick-rack. I don't stitch many Lizzie*Kate designs but this one I HAD to do.

April also let me know that she recieved the Winter House 2010 exchange that I sent. I stitched a little house from Pine Mountain and then the snowflake came from a Bent Creek design. I stitched it on 28 count natural linen using DMC, Rainbow Gallery linen floss, Needle Necessities overdyed floss ( now Threadworx) . I added on cute little snowflake and star buttons, then added a Mill Hill snowflake charm. I finished it into a scissor pocket and April has told me that it is already holding a pair of her embroidery scissors so I am happy as a clam. : )

This last picture is of our sweet little "new baby" Cassie. Isn't she just adorable?! She's an Aussiedor. We have had her a few weeks but I just kept forgetting to post a picture of her. She and Brittney get along just fine except for feeding time! LOL . We usually bring her in and feed her. She is soooo easy to train. She has learned fetch, sit, and lay on command already. It only took a day to teach each thing. As a matter of fact , it only took a few tries to get her to sit on command. She is very very smart.

Well, I hope you all have a wonderful day!! It is supposed to be 82 here today! I am so excited! Thanks so much for stopping by today and for all of the wonderful comments and emails and words of encouragement! You ALL are so awesome! Btw... with all of this nice weather putting me in such a great mood , I feel another giveaway coming on! Wanna know what it is and when it will be??? Well, stick around. It will be posted soon!

'till next time,

don't be a stranger,

Sharlotte