Grow Your Blog - I won a Giveaway!

Through the Grow Your Blog event (Jan 25), I am now following several new blogs and entered some giveaways.  On February 15, I got an email from Lorraine at Paper Vernissage .  It seems that I had won her giveaway for 4 hand made seasonal cards.  After sending her my snail mail I received this lovely package which consisted of a lovely card from Lorraine, the 4 seasonal handmade cards, 3 rolls of paper tape, 3 square and 2 rectangle Zentangle tiles and some chocolates.  See photo below of my package from Lorraine.

Thank you so much Lorraine for the beautiful cards and extra items.

SFS February 2015

Month -  February

Spent - didn't buy anything this month

Earned - $0

Carry Over - $37.47 total ($2.42 from my gift certificate + $10.05 from January + $25.00 from February)

2015 Friendship Exchange

It is time for our 2nd annual Friendship Exchange at my LNS (Stitcher's Place).  There were several of us participating.  I searched the web for Friendship quotes and found about 10 that I liked.  Then I asked my husband for his opinion to help narrow it down.  We decided on this one found at  http://thedailyquotes.com/post/7534 .

Here is my version of the quote.

I have always used Pattern Maker Professional for Cross Stitch by HobbyWare to create/modify my cross stitch charts.  

I typed the words, then searched through several books and magazines to find the perfect picture to represent each line of the poem.  I also like to personalize it so I stitched words in the tea cups.

This is my first attempt at making a flat-fold for my partner Tammy.  The Twisted Stitcher makes it look a lot easier.

I received a beautiful pillow from my stitching friend Rita.

Snowflakes

After I posted my snowman wisdom update I continued to stitch some of the snowflakes.  As you can see, I completed quite a few snowflakes.

Tonight is the deadline for my Friendship Exchange at Stitcher's Place.  I will post photos later.

 

Snowman update #6

I worked on another line of the Snowman Wisdom ... Be a jolly happy soul and the snowman's head and pink hat.

Here is what the whole project looks like.

Snowman Wisdom #5

Last night was Stitcher's Club at my LNS (Stitcher's Place) I stitched a bit on Snowman Wisdom.

Snowman Wisdom update #4

I didn't do alot of stitching on the weekend, just an hour or so on Sunday night.  I started and finished the carrots, then finished the words beside them.

Here is the whole project so far.

Snowman Wisdom update #3

I worked on Snowman Wisdom tonight.  I completed the sun, and started the leaves on the bunch of carrots.

Here is a photo of the whole project so far.

February Goals

February Goals

Continue working on Snowman Wisdom

Start a Just Nan small project

Finish assembling the Friendship Exchange project - Deadline February 17th.

January Review

Stitch the first page of Snowman Wisdom - NO, did some but didn't complete a whole page.

Work on Friendship Exchange project - YES, finished all the cross stitching