Our Blondie The Cat Had to Go To Cat Heaven Today

This was the most amazing cat I have ever had, she talked to me everyday, 

she slept on my tummy and by my head, she was so cuddly and loving, she was a rescue 13 years ago, she was so ill the doctor said she may not make it, thankfully she did.

                                        I will miss you sweet baby, I will see you again someday

                                                                     Hugs from Mommy
 

When I Was Young I thought 2025 Was Way Into The Future

 Thank-you to all the wonderful comments from my faithful followers, my heart smiles when I read your comments.

I find it amazing that there are so many people who do not know me personally but care to leave comments and very sweet comments. This past year has been very hard on me and my husband, his illness and his sisters illness is very trying to me. I was scared by a doctor in the ER last November and told I may have bladder cancer, I am so thankful for the Prayers from the family and people that I had told this about, I do not have bladder cancer, I put everything in Gods hands, my Prayers were answered, I only shared this information with one person knowing she is a strong person when it comes to Prayers, thank-you so much, you know who you are, here in Blogland.

So on to stitching, I am almost finished with Blue Coat Santa, he is a full coverage design, I love Teresa Kogut Designs, and many other designers also. I hope to have him finished by tomorrow evening.

I have a couple of designs I want to stitch from Asbury's Echos, Rhonda has an Etsy Shop and a YouTube site, she has her son Drew on the videos with her, he sometimes shares what he is either making or of some of his animals, both the Etsy site and the YouTube site are Asbury's Echos by name, check her out.

We will star taking down the Christmas decorations the day after the Epiphany on Monday, it will make me sad, I love Christmas decorations.

I have a question for you, have you ever wanted to stitch a design look for it on Ebay, Etsy or Facebook and could not find it, I have been looking for a design for several years maybe if I give up it will show up sometime. I am not sure which one I will start next.

God Shed His Grace

Bumblebee 3

                                                                         Give Thanks

I hope you all are well enjoying needle and thread and some family time; it is very cold here in Minnesota, single digits and in the Teens only, brrrr.

Until, next time 

Catherine❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️

What Are Your Plans For The New Year? Day 24 & 25 Of Advent Box

 First I want to thank-you all for your very kind and sweet comments, so many bloggers do not get comments, I feel very lucky.

Thank-you from my heart❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I have been stitching and did have a fully constructed project, it is different from the finish Teresa Kogut had for the Jingle Ball, I hope you like what I did

This is haw far I am on Blue Coat Santa, not much stitching over the Christmas Holiday

This is Day 24 of The Most Wonderful Advent Box 

This design is by Scarlett House, I love this sweet design

Oh Deer

The last Day is from Shakespeare's Peddler

Love this design 

If Teresa plans on doing the Advent Box again next year I will sign up, I will be saving throughout the year just in case

I hope that you have an amazing New Year Blessed with lots of love, family and stitching, my plans are to get all the things I have stitched fully constructed, this may take a while, so hang in there.

I was able to add the missing Blogs from my Blog list. if I have missed anyone I will be sure to check and add you.

❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️Catherine❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️

Oh My What a crappy mistake I made

 I was trying to remove the sites that have not posted in the last year, somehow it deleted all the Blogs I follow, please be assured I will add all of you back again when I get the time, it is still busy here with Christmas Parties and coffee get-togethers' hope you all are well and thank-you from my heart for all your comments to my blog postings.

Catherine❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️

Merry Christmas Happy Hanukkah

 A very Blessed Christmas to all who celebrate and Happy Hanukkah to all who celebrate🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

                                                                 Photo found on Pinterest

                                                                Photo found on Pinterest

                                           I hope this season finds you healthy and happy

Catherine🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🕎🕎🕎🕎🕎

Merry Christmas Happy Hanukkah To All Who Celebrate

 After all the preparations of making fried rice, cake balls and gift wrapping we are ready for tomorrow.

How about you? I hope you are ready and enjoy this beautiful time of year, the Blessed Birth of Our Savior, it is still hard to comprehend what Jesus did for our sins.

I Have worked a bit on Blue Coat Santa, I had to frogged his whole left arm, I was off by one stitch, it looked like he was handicapped, not that there is anything wrong with that but it looked odd.

I received a Happy mail last week, it is from Marilyn (no Blog) she is such a sweet lady I am very lucky to have her as a follower, her work is lovely and her finishing is perfect, she also sent along two of the cutest needle threaders, I love anything flowers and these are adorable, love thew colors so pretty, thank-you from my hear Marilyn.

I have missed the last few days of posting for the Most Wonderful Advent Box, days 20, 21, 22and 23

20 is from the Blue Flower, Winter Whale, I may have to stitch this on a different color fabric.

21 is from Running with Scissors, Ho Ho Ho, this is another design I will stitch but with a different color fabric and a mush different finish.

23 is from Kathy Barrick, a sweet Santa, Hanging The Moon, this will be stitched on a different colored fabric also, love this design.

Day 23 is from L-D-Da Let It snow I love this design also, I put out snowmen after I take down the Christmas decorations after the Epiphany in January

This is our little Mikey named after my late brother Michael, my nephew Michael, a friend of ours who we worked with at the food shelf Michael Early and my husband Michael, we love this little guy but you cannot say car ride, go, Starbucks (he gets a pup cup) bank (he gets treats from the girls at the window) and shopping, he has those words locked into going someplace, he will sit at the steering wheel until one of us either goes someplace or we take him back into the house.

I hope you all have an amazing Christmas.

Gods Blessings on you all in this Christmas Season

🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄Catherine, Michael Blondie the Cat and of course Mikey🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

 

Happy Holidays Day 17, 18 and 19 From Most Wonderful Advent Box

 Greeting Everyone on this amazing day in Minnesota, it has been snowing since about three this morning, we have close to seven inches on the ground now and still coming down, it will be a white Christmas this year

I have been very busy I have three days to share with you Day 17 is a lovely surprise from The Thread Gatherer, they are so silky the colors are lovely, I am not sure why the picture went sideways

Day 18 Is from XJudesigns I have an idea that I want to stitch a snowman or a Sant on this amazing fabric, it is so soft the dye work on this piece is beautiful

Day 19 is from Bent Creek

This is a cute design 

I will try and post day 20 tomorrow, I have an appointment I am not looking forward to, I do not want to dump my health problem on you but please say a Prayer for me that all comes out well for me tomorrow

I have been stitching, I am working on Teresa Kogut Blue Coat Sant, I really like this design, it will be a stuffed stand us Santa fro my Santa collection

I normally save the face of a design until the end but his face is so sweet I just had to stitch it first

I received a lovely package from Stasi over at https://beemusedandbeestitching.blogspot.com

I am so in love with this ornament it is hanging on our tree in the entryway, I feel bad I have not done ornaments or any other items for gifts this year or last year for anyone, thank-you Stasi you are so kind

It came in this sweet package with the cutest card

This is what was on the ground about noon now we have more lots and lots more

We will be spending Christmas day with Mikes family, his sister has been so ill these past two years, 

I am making fried rice, Italian salad and cake balls dipped in chocolate.

We have an amazing layout of food and goodies each year, it the time I gain a few pound and enjoy myself with indulging in lots of goodies, thankfully it only happens once a year or I may weight a ton.

until next time be safe and enjoy the days ahead

Happy Holidays Everyone

Catherine🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

Day 15 and 16 Of Most Wonderful Advent Box From Kitten Stitcher Teresa Venette

 I first want to thank-you all for your lovely comments, it has been so busy here that I have not had time to email thank-you, thank-you from my heart you all are so kind

Day 15 is an adorable assortment of Christmas Buttons from The Bee Company  I just love these, I am not sure how or what I will use them on just yet

Day 16 From The Primitive Hare, I am not sure I like this design, it looks rather dark to me, I do apologize to the designer for my comment, I am sure there are many who will love this design

Very early this morning after taking Mikey for his walk, I finished the last stocking from Lindy Stitches, I will be making a small banner with painted brads in between each stocking, I hope to have it finished tomorrow

My next project is a Teresa Kogut design, I just love here Santas, maybe next year will be my Santa craze for stitching I present Blue Coat Santa, I think he is so sweet

I feel bad that I forgot to share the beautiful card Toki sent me, this is such a beautiful card I am going to frame it and put on my desk in the office, thank-you my sweet friend

Here are a couple more photos of Christmas decorating we have done, I find it hard to hide the long cords that some Lites have

I did the Baked With Love, Last Christmas stitching, it is a design from the December 2023 Just Cross Stitch Magazine

I was gifted a pattern from my sweet husband it is a Snowman made out of fabric, I will start on him on Wednesday, I just love him, I change out Christmas for Snowmen after the Epiphany in January,

He is from Liberty Creek Primitives, a new to me site on Etsy

Please pray for the lives lost in Wisconsin, it is a sad day even the parents of the shooter need our prayers

If you live in an area where it is cold please wear warm clothing, if you live in warm weather, I am jealous, but keep cool and comfy

Catherine🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

Day 14 Of The Most Wonderful Advent Box by Kitten Stitcher Teresa Venette

 Greetings everyone: I hope today finds you well and stitching loads of fun designs.

This design is from Teresa Kogut, it is so adorable, I belong to her Patreon site, she gives away so many lovely designs through-out the year and for only 20.00 dollars a month for the top tier. I want to stitch this one but do his coat in a green color like her Green Coat Santa

I have stitched two of the three Lindy Stitches' stockings from the Jingle Ball, I want to make a banner instead of stockings, I found some wood beads at a thrift store which I want to paint reds and greens.

 

I will finish stitching the birds tonight

I am so thankful for all the beautiful people who follow me on my Blog Site, I do not post very often but have a new year's resolution to do more in 2025

I have neglected to post about the beautiful NOEL patterns I won from the sweet DJ over at Tickled Pink In Stitches, for some reason I cannot give a link today, but she is on my sidebar in my follow list

I think they are so pretty, I would also like to do a small banner for the bedroom mirror with greens on each end with ribbon, we will have to find time to stitch these soon

I had Happy Mail yesterday from the lovely Toki she is from Japan, a country I hope to visit someday soon, she sent me a beautiful towel I shall use for only my face like she does

I love this so sorry about the wrinkles, you can find Toki on my side bar where I have all the bloggers I follow, I am so sorry I am not able to get the link to work for her site but you can click on her site in my blog list, Thank-you Toki for your kind and generous gift

We have been decorating, I will just show a couple of photos today this is the small tree by the front door entry

This is a shelf in the kitchen, Mike brought home the deer picture last year after Christmas, 

I was surprised Mike put a nail into the side of the pantry wall, it is small pantry in the kitchen

The cardinals are just below the shelf with the deer

I shall post again tomorrow after Mass

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate

Catherine🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄