A SNEAK PEEK!!

I have been very, very busy here. But I can't show you anything yet. I have been stitching for friends for Christmas. After Christmas I will have a BIG show and tell for you. I also did the cupcake swap that I had to keep under wraps until yesterday. Now I am finishing up my bag for the bag swap. Here is a little peek. Don't tell........ I hope she likes the colors I chose.

The fabric is In The Pink 2 designed by Buggy Barn for Henry Glass& Co. I am off now to sew, sew and sew some more. Fun, fun, fun!!

I will be back soon to chat.

Pat

Cupcake Love

I love cupcakes. When I heard that Sharon was having a cupcake swap, I joined up. I had fun looking and shopping for cupcake "things". I found out that my partner was Erna. She is a young mother of two little boys from The Netherlands. We exchanged e-mails and introduced ourselves. She is a lovely person. Now that we have both sent and received our swap packages I can show you our goodies. We tried to send them on the same day so that we would receive them at the same time but that didn't work out. Oh well, it was a nice idea! This is what I sent to Erna.

I made a small wall hanging with a cupcake in the center, a cupcake tote bag and a cupcake pincushion. I also gathered some other cupcake items.

This is what I received from Erna.

Erna made some cute little cupcake tags, a cupcake needle holder and a cute little bag that I will use to hold my threads and scissors. She also sent two fat quarters with cupcakes on them and a few other little cup cakey items. Again, thanks so much Erna. I love everything and it was so nice meeting you. I would also like to thank Sharon for hosting the swap. It was fun.

Blogger is not playing nice again! It downloaded the same picture twice and will not allow me to remove one of them. So Please enjoy looking at the pictures.

I will chat soon,

Pat

I Have Been A VBG!!!

At the end of May I received a Thank You gift from Stina in Sweden. I sent her a thank you right away but I never posted about it. Soooooooo I am going to fix that right now! She sent a beautifully wrapped gift along with the best chocolate that I have ever tasted. I Have tasted a LOT of chocolate in my day. Along with that there was a beautiful card and a note written by Stina.

When I opened the package there was a beautiful Couch Cushion with my name on it. Stitched in pinks and greens. I love it! The pattern is by Leanne Beasley. The stitchery pattern was taken from another book. I am sorry but I have forgotten who it is by. Remember I was a VBG!!

Here it is all packed and ready to go. Stina I am so sorry that I have not posted your beautiful handwork before now. It gets a lot of use and I love it. Again thanks so much.

On July 7 th I mailed Stina a thank you package. To date it has not arrived in Sweden. I spoke with the USPS again this morning and they seem to think that the package MAY be in Israel. Now how do you suppose that happened??? You also have to wait seventeen working days from the time that the package was reported missing to get any information on it. Other than it left the US on the 9th of July. That will be sometime in the middle of August. Next time I may try UPS. (I will keep checking on it Stina).

Today I went to see Momma Mia. If you haven't seen it, you have to go. I loved it. I have been singing and dancing since I left the theater. On the way to the car my sister and Debbie would not even walk with me. It probably wasn't very pretty! I will chat soon.

Hugs,

Pat

Continuation Of My Last Post

This is a continuation of my last post. Blogger and I are friends again. Well maybe not!!! Here is the runner on my table.

Here is the quilting that Chris did. I love all the fruits.

The runner goes well with the fruity things I have in my kitchen.

This cross stitch picture was stitched by my friend Debbie. She gave it to me for Christmas two years ago. Well I am off now. I have a busy day tomorrow. I hope to finish up a couple of things for my cupcake swap with Erna. We are keeping in touch so we can mail our packages on the same day. I will chat soon.

Pat

Gifts in the mail.

Hi everyone. I hope you are all having a great summer. It sure is zipping right along here. Back at the end of June I won a give away by Chris from NH. We are almost neighbors!! She was very generous in her giveaway. She had shown a table runner that she had made and quilted and hinted about something else saying to think jello! When I found that I had won, I was very excited. I loved the runner. I kept thinking about the jello. I was hoping that it would not be a gelatin salad in the summer!!! Well this is what Chris sent.

Some great NH maple syrup and maple candy. Yum!! A beautiful hand made card, that I did not photo very well. The card was made by Chris's daughter. Two old hankies. An old package of pins (love them). A quilting pattern that I love and a pin cushion in an old jello mold and....

The table runner. I love it. It goes really nice in my kitchen. Chris did a beautiful job of quilting the runner with all different kinds of fruits. I have some nice pictures of the quilting but blogger is not playing nice right now. I will post pictures of the quilting when blogger will allow me to. Thanks again Chris. I love everything. I will chat soon.

Pat

Welcome Debbie!

I have a very good friend that has been a blog reader for quite some time. She does beautiful hand work of all kinds. Cross stitch, quilting, embroidery and applique to name a few. She has finally started her own blog. I hope that you will stop over and say hi and welcome Debbie to blogland. It's about time my dear friend!!!!

Thank you Lilly!

A few days ago Lilly Gave me this lovely award. Thank you Lilly. (Sorry it took me so long to post it). I am to pass this on to seven blogs. I read and enjoy so many blogs that I can not pick seven favorites. So if you are reading this please feel free to take the graphics and post them on your blog and play along. This is what you have to do:

1. You can put the logo your blog.
2. Link to the person you received your award from.
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4. Put links of those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message on the blogs of the people you have nominated.

My Pincushions from Chantal!

The faster I go, the be hinder I get!!!! Almost two weeks ago I received a beautiful package from Chantal in Belgium. I saw this lovely pincushion on several blogs and had admired it each and every time I saw it. I was extremely pleased when I opened my package and found that now, I am the very proud owner of the lovely pincushion too. I would like to share what Chantal sent me.

I love it. I love the fabric that she used. It is larger than I thought it was and that is great! She also sent along a lovely card and three more pincushions. She was afraid that she had not sent enough!!! (Silly girl.)

There was a pincushion to put on my wrist which is very handy. One that is in the shape of a cute little flower that I can keep right in my stitching bag. The last one is something that I am scared to death of, a mouse! But so far we are getting along just fine. I named him Mighty. Thank you again Chantal I love everything.

I will chat soon because I have a lot to show and tell.

Pat

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!

I hope that everyone has a happy and safe 4th of July.

Pat

Goodies From Spain!!

When I first started to blog a very nice lady from Spain helped me to upload and then download pictures on my blog. Her name is Margaret. As a token of my appreciation I sent her a small gift. Two weeks ago I received a lovely package in the mail from Spain. I would like to share it with you...

Margaret made me a lovely tote bag and pincushion. She also included a pair of scissors and a scissor fob that is handmade. A cute little pink pen was also included.

She chose this fabric with the little pink ribbons because she knows that my sister has cancer. Margaret, you will never know how much this means to me. I will think of you each time that I use it. It is all packed and ready for my Tuesday stitching group. I can not thank you enough for the thought that went into the fabric, the special little buttons on the tote, the scissors, scissor fob, and the pen. Thank you my friend. Great big hugs to you. I will chat again as soon as my partner receives her pincushion. I have received mine and I love them. Pictures will follow soon.

Pat

Pincushion Swap

About a month ago I signed up for a pin cushion swap with Linda. I had quite a time trying to decide which pincushion to make. I had these supplies picked for one pattern. I really wasn't sure if this was the one so I kept on looking.

I picked out more fabrics and supplies, and I felt even more unsure of myself. At this point I was very stressed and wished that I had not signed up for the swap. Does this happen to anyone else? This was my first swap. At this point I had promised myself that this would also be my last one. I was really nervous. I had worked myself into a real snit. I finally decided to use these supplies.

I said to myself, put your big girl panties on and deal with this!! So I did. I made this pincushion.

It is now sailing across the sea to its new home in .... I will let you know when we chat soon!

Pat

OMGosh!! Poor Darlene.

A short time ago I printed out all of the names for the give away and added some twice for posting of the give away. My granddaughter drew the names from a bowl. I posted the winners and came back to pick up my mess and throw all the little papers away. OMGosh!! When I got back I found Darlene laying on the floor!! I can't imagine what happened to her. I am so sorry. Darlene if you will send me your address, I will get something off to you. I hope that you are ok after your fall. I almost stepped on you though, then you would have been flat Darlene. I will chat soon.

Pat