An Award, Lace, Lavender, Tiny Progress

So first up I must give a big thank you to Teresa from Teresa's Heartfelt Stitches for awarding me the most stylish blogger award.  I was pleasantly surprised to be awarded anything!! Now since I have been busy like a bee, and blogging takes time which cuts into my minimal stitching time, therefore I have been remiss with following the rules.  At the end of this post I will award a few blogs that I enjoy reading because so many of the ones I read have already been awarded! Thanks again Teresa!!!

I also have to give a BIG HUG to Denise from Riverside Stitching for sending me an inordinate amount of lace!!! Look at them all!!!

 Now I have to make a lot more smalls and other projects to use all those lovely trims!!

Onto stitching news.  Not much to report. Sigh.  But I have done some stitching! I started stitching my friend's wedding heart, but frogged out the bit I did because I didn't like the Anchor White that I had in my stash since I was a teen.  The floss was really fluffy and didn't lay properly.  So I used Gentle Arts Sampler Thread Oatmeal which is pretty much the same as the white.  Luckily I had this thread because I only have four choices of specialty threads!! I like it much better because it isn't fluffy and it stitches nicely.  

I won't bother with pictures of the 3 or 4 leaves I stitched onto Tanglewood.  Not worth showing.  I managed to fill up the queen's skirt a bit more than before.

Here's a picture of my TUSAL threads.  I decided to follow that SAL along even though it was too late to enter.  I kind of like how the threads look in my pretty white porcelain cup.

Everything else

Tanglewood TUSAL

Some lavender that I collected.  Lavender is one of my favourite flowers and I can't get enough of it!

I would love to pass the Stylish Blog Award to these blogs.
1. Joyce from Random Ramblings
2. Rhona from Tangled Threads
3. Bec from Bec's Cross Stitch Creations
4. Sana from Tussie Mussie
5. Lesleyanne from Lesleyanne's Life of Stitches
6. Lissanne from Lissanne Creations and Stitching
7. Jo from Serendipitous Stitching

The rules are very simple:

1. Thank the person who has awarded you.
2. List seven things about yourself.
3. Pass  the award to 15 other stylish bloggers.

What I really like about the award is learning a bit about everyone.  Here are my seven things about myself:

1. Born in city of Vancouver, raised in the countryside of Prince George (got the best of both worlds)
2. Can play piano, guitar but never took lessons
3. Danced Ukrainian dancing from age 8-16
4. I can speak French somewhat and some Russian
5. I started stitching at age 8 or 9 and was obsessed with stitching Precious Moments designs...gave them all away to family
6. I'm addicted to french fries and would take them over chocolate
7. Have read almost every book by a Russian author, War and Peace is still remaining.

There you have it!! Happy Stitching and until next time, I will be up in Prince George visiting my family!! Pray for sunshine!!

Quick Update

So I have been fairly busy with working at a summer school camp this week. My stitching has not been progressing as much as I'd like, but that's how life goes. Summertime for me is more about being active and being outside, hence why my stitching has taken a little vacation.  I also want to say that I haven't been very good lately at leaving comments, but I have been checking everyone's stitching!!! Here's a couple pictures of what I've done so far in the past two weeks...also starting a freebie wedding heart pattern from the Needleprint Blog for my girlfriend who is getting married in August.  Since it's a small pattern, I should be able to get it done in time!!

The grey has a slight purple tone to it, very pretty

Outling done!! Leaves in progress!

Tiny progress on Queen's dress

Finally framed for my friend!! Gave it to her and she loved it!!

Until next time...happy stitching!!

Weekend Update and I won a Giveaway!!!!

Hello all!

I had a fairly productive weekend for stitching.  Managed to edge three branches plus stitched two leaves because I was bored of the browns.  As for the Queen's Sampler, I managed to fill in the rest of the gold, which took awhile, and finished stitching the saying.  I loved stitching the letters on the sampler and am thinking about using my red silk and leftover 40 count to make a French red alphabet sampler. I've always loved the French obsession with red samplers and have thought for awhile about making one for myself. But now I seem to have a lot of projects that need to get started: Dad's xmas ornament, two friends' wedding samplers, a pin cushion for my sister and now my red alphabet sampler.  Oi!! Loads of stitching and not enough time!!

I'm still waiting for the postal strike to end and receive my stash that I ordered, send off Joyce's giveaway gift and receive Denise's giveaway that I won! Last weekend I won Denise's generous trim giveaway!!! Look at all those amazing trims!! Whoohoo!! Can't wait to receive them and use for all sorts of smalls :D Can't believe I won such a wonderful giveaway! Congrats to Sherry and Blustitcher for winning her giveaway too!! Lucky us!

Take care!

Anne

Giveaway WINNER!!!!

Today is the first day of summer and my first giveaway.

Drum roll..................................The Winner is...................Joysze from Random Ramblings!!!!!!!!!

Congrats Joyce (I hope I'm spelling your name right!)!!!

Here are the pictures of the bowl I placed everyone's name in, along with their blogs.  Then  Lucy, my cat, picked the winner! It was sort of unplanned as I had my husband put her paws in there to mix it around (although I mixed them around before because I didn't think it would work with cat paws).  Then he had her pull out a name, and it was Joyce!!

Pretty bowl from Anthropologie with the names

Lucy thinking about whether this is her food or not

Her wet paws pulled out a winner!

She's showing me the winner

Joyce!!!! Although I spelled your name from your profile...long day!

 So there you have it.  My first winner and it was fun! I thank everyone who participated and will be doing another one for my blogiversary in September. I am so happy to have met so many great new stitching friends!!

IHSW Monday Update

Good day all.  This was my first weekend to participate in IHSW and I have to say I loved it! It was nice to get down and just stitch, even though I didn't really start until Saturday evening.  I had to run around after the dentist and pick up a few more items for my giveaway and have tea with my Nana at Murchies.  I am pretty happy with my progress I made on Sunday.  Between doing laundry and other chores, I managed to get the edging done on the biggest branche in Tanglewood and almost finished another branch!! Whoohoo! I decided to plus away at the Queen's Sampler too when I needed a break from all those browns in Tangelwood.  It was nice to switch back and forth from tiny count to bigger count.  Although on Saturday night, I made an error in miscounting by 1 thread in the Queen's Sampler and had to rip out the letters "ELIZA" the next day. Quite irritating because I wasted a bunch of red silk :(  I am looking forward to seeing everyone's progress and will be checking throughout the day.

LAST DAY TO ENTER GIVEAWAY!!

I added some DMC threads to the prize and a special tea from a Canadian company.  It's one of my favourite non-caffeinated teas so I hope the winner will enjoy it.  I will do the drawing tomorrow night after work so good luck to all!!