My very late late december ISHW post and other things

Hello to all my followers, welcome to my new followers I hope all is well with you all and you are satying warm, I am trying so hard to keep a positive mind about this stinky weather.
I do have a late ISHW post, I have no excuse for it other then the holidays did keep me busy.
I finished a Drawn Thread stitch.

This is the Spot of Autumn pattern, this is done on I think 28 count linen, unsure of the type of linen, the finish stitching area is 31/2 by 31/2, I plan on putting this on a small box to hold my orts, this is from the four seasons series.

This is my sewing/craft room I love this room, I have not been good to this place, I have neglected it so much this past two months, I had so much i needed to gey done and never cleaned it after the mass destruction of crafting for  the holidays, I hope to have this mess straightened up soon very soon.

 Now do you think I could have at least put the iron away, nope just lazy old me trying to get to much done in a short period of time, I made my deadlines but left an aftermath that is not pretty, wish me luck.



This is a pattern I started way back in january 2009, it is from the Just Cross Stitch magazine, I was off by one stitch and just wanted to cry, I put it in my Up For A Challenge 2014  I found the stitch and it was an easy fix. I chose a 36 count Edin. White Opal I love the sparkle it has this is a very easy fabric to work with, I used my own choice of threads a mix of DMC, I think the colors are a little light.
I hope to have this done before this week-end.

This is a project I am giving to a very special Lady I call the Quilt Lady, I will finish framing this tomorrow and drop in the mail on saturday, I think she knows who she is, she is also into minatures.
I do hope she likes it.

 

I am going to show you my Up For A Challenge 15, I hope to have at least 13 of them finished this year. Some are things that are kitted up and others I have started, I am also including pictures of some of the things I need to do the finishing on, loads of work here.

I wish you all good health and loads of stitching.

Catherine

The King Has arrived Merry Chrisymas

The King has arrived

A Blessed Merry Christmas to you all.

Catherine
Michael
Blondie

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all my followers, I have been very busy with gift buying and wrapping and making loads of goodies for Christmas Eve and christmas day.

I am working on my Blackbird Designs exchange and have one piece finished, i was not happoy wth what I did so I am making my partner another piece to go with the first one, you know sometimes when you stitch something and you look at it and say what was I thinking, I did just that,
I will send them off on friday this week.

I finished putting together two owl scissor fobs and will show you pictures later this week, I am just to lazy oops too busy to take pictures right now.

I took my Mother shopping to pick up last minute gifts, we are not big gift givers mostly we like to just get together and celebrate the season, and eat loads of stuff we donot normally eat during the rest of the year.

It is a balmy -7 degrees right now wow are welucky or what, this weather really makes me appreciate the warm weather yes even the 90 degree weather I love it and hope it gets here soon, ummm Santa, could we have warmer weather please.

I have to show you this picture only because I think it is a hoot, it is a billboard on I94 in Minneapolis, I think it is so funny, the cows are the size of a real cow.

I love Chic-Fil-A, yummy food and great people who work for the company.
I am getting ready to purchase my threads for Easter projects, I will buy  Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe, I love Nancy's threads.
I am working on a Blackbird Designs Easter Parade Bunny love it so much.

I am also working on the stash of finished stitching projects that have been in hiding for so long its time to get things framed and finished into something I will keep you posted.

Merry Christmas to you all Blondie says  Merry Christmas to all her friends in Blogland.

Merry Christmas from my Home to Yours

Catherine


 

Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe givaway

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all:

Nancy over at Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe is having a great giveaway,  you will have to go back a few post to find the 50.00 giveaway post but make sure you do, what a generous Lady.
http://victorianmottosamplershoppe.blogspot.com  please stop over she always seems to have a giveaway going and the fact that she dyes her own threads and trims should get you to stop over and take a look, I have used her threads and trims and love them, you get almost three times the amount of hand dyed threads from Nancy as you do from some other companies.
I won a trim package a couple of years ago and love the trims, I need to order more, so you can guess where I will be this week-end yes ordering more trims and threads for my Easter projects.
So just pop on over and see for yourself how lovely Nancy"s blog is.

Catherine

Thank-you

Thank-you for all your kind words about my problem with the hacking, as I sit in the Dunn Bros. coffee shop in Alexandria Minnesota after a long 2 1/2 hour trip in minus15 degree weather with a wind chill of about minus 35 degrees I am content, even after spilling my latte, what a mess I made,  I am worried that this world has come to a drastic kind of world  one person turned my world upside down.
I am one who is so skeptical of things like let us protect your world, I mean the company Lifelock, I am not doing an advertisement for them I just want to say thank-you to my wonderful Husband for purchasing this program without them I do not know where I would be today with the hacking, they are fabulous, Mike purchased this program even tho I said no, I am so glad he did it saved us lots of headaches and heartache.
I am again not trying to get you or anyone to purchase this I am just so glad we had it with the hacking of my computer that has all our personal stuff and banking on it.
Now on to some great news, my wonderful and sweet Mother is having a good winter by this I mean the turkey comb injections she is getting are working she has bone on bone in one of her knees, the first injection was a steroid the next three which were one each Monday for three weeks,  they are  working, she has to go back in may for a series of three more, she can almost walk without the walker now I am elated.
I love my beautiful Mother so much, however we did not get along for many years I guess that when you have two headstrong people that do not share the same ideas it can be a bit hard, I am extremely conservative she is a not,   she use to be so  liberal  not anymore, you  see she was at one time a union organizer a women who was very strong in her beliefs.
Now I look forward to seeing her every week-end, she has turned into a hoot, I am so sorry if I hurt any ones  feelings I am just not a union person. I was getting bigger raises before they came in.

Now I have to tell you I have not done very much on the decorating side of the season, last Thursday and Friday I was busy at church with the Christ Child luncheon, I am in charge of the bake shop, wow we make some pretty good money for charity, St. Ignatius Church has been doing this luncheon for 35 years, we get people from far away coming to the luncheon, the dining room is decorated in a Christmas scene this year we did blue in Honor of The Vergin Mary this is her season until Baby Jesus is born, some people were asking why we did not have Baby Jesus in the manger, he comes on Christmas Eve.

I have been working on some exchanges and cannot show you anything today and besides I forgot my camara today.
I plan on working somemore on the needlepoint I won from Edgar over at Blacksheep  Bit of the web, he is a hoot, I hope you follow him.

I hope you all are staying warm and cozy in this awful weather.

Happy Holidays

Catherine

Being Hacked ISHW and a Beautiful Exchange

Hello everyone and welcome to my space in blogland.

I was hacked and had someone purchase itunes worth 50.00 from my Paypal account, I had to change all my passwords, in total that would be 22, they are all different so the process took much longer then I wanted, if you ever get hacked please change your passwords as soon as possible, I was on the computer when this happened so was aware of the theft right away when Paypal sent me an emailthanking me for my purchase,  can you imagine my surprise, what a mess, I even had to go to my bank and let them know what happened, they are keeping an eye out for any unusual activity.

I did loads of stitching on my ISHW weekend, some things I cannot show you because they are gifts and another exchange. 

 

I stitched this free Drawn Thread pattern for Shannon, on my ISHW week-end I only used part of a pattern,   I found this on the Drawn Thread web site, I used Victorian Motto Sampler Threads and DMC threads, I am not much at  finishing so  had to do this one myself.
I can show you now because she has recieved it.
I need to get another green gift box this one I fell on and smashed before I could get to the post office so sorry Shannon.

                                                            This is the pattern

I was in an ornament exchange with Shannon over at  A Bit Of This and That,  I only sent Shannon an ornament,  I feel bad so will have to send her a special gift, she has a beautiful Heart she  sent me this beautiful ornament and a few goodies, I love buttons and trims and beads all things dear to my heart.

 

 Thank-you Shannon I love all the things you sent the ornament is so beautiful.

 

 This is the new star that was made by one of our Parishioners it covers up the Crucifix but lets Jesus figure show through it is really beautiful, this was an idea from Father Victor, thank-you Father for a beautiful display for the Holy Season.

 

 This is the Nativity we used to have in front of our home, we decided to donate it to Church it really is large there are three hay bales under the building holding it up. I will miss it so much but will be able to see it at Church, some children are wondering why they cannot see Baby Jesus, they are very curious about this, we tell them Baby Jesus comes on Dec. 25 they are okay with this bit of information.

I am so excited about the Holy Season, I love this time of year even the cold is bearable now but only until the first of the year then I want warm weather.

To some of you who have emailed me about my lovely Mother she is doing much better now that I am making sure she is seeing the doctor like she should, she has only been in the hospital four times that is when myself and three brothers were born.

So I want to keep her as well as possible so I may have more time with her she is 83.
Thank-you all y comments in my previous post.
Please stay warm and pray for better weather for us all.

Merry Christmas

Catherine

My ISHW

I plan on doing nothing but stitching this ISHW weekend, I hope ypu are doing the sam, I will brake for Mass, my wonderful Husband cooks every weekend so I am free to fully devote my time to stitching this weekend, I will post pictures on monday.

Happy Stitching

Catherine

Veterans Day Thank-you

I wish to thank all the Veterans past and present for the dedication you offer to the United States of America, I am so proud of you all, I am very lucky to live in a Country that has such dedicated and loving people like you.
My heart hurts to know some Veterans gave their lives to keep us free, my heart also hurts for the Veterans that have come home with injuries that we all can see and the injuries we cannot see.
Thank-you from the bottom of my heart.
Thank-you for serving.

Catherine

Oh no snow

We had our first snowfall this week all over the state had different accumulations in Minneapolis they only had a dusting, in Annandale we had 2 inches, ouch I hate snow the older I get the more I long for warm weather, even the humidity does not bother me, I sit out on my front porch and stitch if its 100 out, it really is hard to stitch outside if the temps  drop below 60 degrees.
I only have a few things to show, I made a new owl needlebook but cannot find it to take a picture maybe it is at Starbucks where I was stitching on it.
I made scissor fobs for the october retreat group 32 of them I did them in pink in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month, I sure like the Ladies from our group they are a hoot, everyone has a personality that is very unique, I love them all.

I have a new project I am going to start after I finish my Chessie and Me Hallow Wee House, I do like the Homespun Elegance patterns all Sandras patterns offer something different, to satisfy my tastes.

I was gifted another bag of threads most are DMC about 10 are Sullivans threads, which I do like but like to use the DMCs and over dyed threads more often. However I have used many of Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppes threads you get more then double the amount at the weeks and other overdyed threads. Thank-you Judy Z. Who is in arizona in warm weather lucky girl.

In august at  Minnesota Needlework Guild Retreat I finished one of my penny rugs I am finally getting the other one done  this evening,  yahoo I just need to sew the black mat onto the green mat.

This is my Chessie and me which I started at october retreat, I was working on a bracelet and the owl needlebook that weekend also.

I want to thank-you all for your wonderful comments and to welcome all my new followers, some of you donot have a follow button so I cannot follow you.
We are getting the house ready for the Holiday Season, this year we will not be putting up the big Nativity Scene up, my wonderful Husband donated the building to St. Ignatius for their Nativity  so it will not be out in the snow.
I think he is wonderful and generous man thank-you my Handsom Prince.This building is about 4 feet long by four feet at the peek it has a glass front we did not want to use plexiglass because it gets so cloudy and scrached up over time.
We are going to keep the Nativity  Figures and use them in front of the fireplace.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all.

 

 

 

 

Catherine

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Happy Halloween to all and a Happy  All Saints Day.
I found a few  pictures on Pinterest I just love, I hope you enjoy them also.

 


                                                 I think this is me in ten years

One of my favorite pictures

                                                                                  Oh My be careful barber

                                                             

 

                                                        I Love this little bag
 He is a riot to look at.

                                           
                                                              What a hoot he is.

Two great things: Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe and Theresa Shakespere Peddler

I am so happy Theresa is coming back to design and sell wares again, Theresa has an  Etsy Shop called Letters Great and small, she is resigning her post at the shelter, welcome back Theresa.
http://victorianmottosamplershoppe.blogspot.com is having a beautiful givaway please stop over, you can also find Nancy on Ebay.
I will post about my great retreat in my next post I had a ball.
Blessings
Catherine

Another wonderful givaway

Please remember to stop over at http://victorianmottosamplershoppe.blogspot.com  Nancy is having a great giveaway again, so please stop over.
Happy Halloween
Catherine