ADVENT CALENDAR BLOG HOP

Today is my stop on 

Serendipitous Stitching's Advent Calendar Blog Hop,

Thank you Jo for hosting this festive gathering of cross stitchers.

This jolly little man of snow is "Mr. Frostickles"

There's a topic of discussion each year as well. This holiday season we're asking

"What's the Best Present You've Ever Received?"

It can be at any time in your life and from anyone.

Mine was a special soft sculpture doll I named Cathy.

 It was a gift my Mom busily stitched while I was at school.

Cathy came to me with a pink flannel nightie covered in tiny rose buds,

a dress, 2 pinafores and 2 pairs of bloomers! She had an embroidered face, long black wool hair done up in braids and bangs. I remember taking her everywhere and that's probably why Cindy,

 our beagle (who was extremely jealous), chewed her to bits one day!

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Join us right up until Christmas and see all the lovely cross stitch this hop has to offer.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Another Giveaway Alert!

>>>Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe <<<

Nancy is giving away 3 of these charts on December 1st.

*there's an added bonus but you must go read all about it over there*

Just jump over to Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe,

become a follower,

leave a comment and mention that I sent you.

GOOD LUCK!

SUPER SIZED GIVEAWAY? COME TAKE A PEEK!

HUGE GIVEAWAY GOING ON  @

Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe

Huge as in YARDS and YARDS of floss in the most luscious colours imaginable!

Please mention that I sent you :D

Best of luck!!

Are You Kidding?

Pardon me for asking, but this IS the last day of Febrrrruary,2014?

That's what I thought, until I saw this! Check out the wind chills (feels like)

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I guess I'll be doing a little of cross stitching this evening

for this free pattern and more click

 The Snow Flower Diaries

and if you'd like to have a chance at winning some embroidery floss/thread

check out my previous post

RIGHT HERE :)

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STAY WARM & SAFE

HAPPY STITCHING :)

Floss GIVEAWAY

Would you like a chance to win some floss?

Then drop into 

Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe !

and ENTER.

Mention you came over from my blog please :D

I'm drawn

to rich gem colours.

Have you considered cross stitching along with us?

Keep in the Loop with...

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This week's peek as to what's going on in my embroidery hoop is a snippet

of an original, freehand piece from my own mind's eye.

 I hope to be finished with all the i's dotted and t's crossed this evening.

Cross stitch has given me another outlet to create beyond borders what I want to see on the aida cloth. I'm having quite a lot of fun with it.

What's in your embroidery hoop?

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HAPPY STITCHING  :)

In the Hoop Thursday!

This week's finish

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New start

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See you next Thursday :)

HAPPY STITCHING!

Quiltie fun

You've read about the

 Sandra Kaye Designs Quiltie Trade/Swap 

here a couple of times, these are my quilties that I embroidered for August's swap.

The theme was "stitches" and these little blocks I had were just the ticket!

My apologies for such a glare on this, (Photoscape can't fix everything).

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Happy stitching!

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Yep, I'm still playing with Photoscape.