Happy Boxing Day!!

Good Morning!!  I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas Day.  We got the kids up at 7am to open presents, all three seemed very pleased with the bounty left by St Nick.  We spent a cozy day at home watching the rain and snow fall.  Yes, we had a White Christmas in Wichita Falls, rare but it happens.  Now we will have ice for until the weekend.  This may be all the winter we get -- usually only lasts a week or two then we are back to warm weather.  Although, I am secretly wishing that we have lots of cold chilly days like I experienced as a kid growing up in Delaware. 

Managed to get some photos of my latest stitching pieces to share with you.  They have been sitting around for a several days/weeks waiting for me to break out the camera.

Pear I
Samplers and Santas
28 Count Monaco
DMC Floss

 


Snowman
Gazette 94
28ct Monaco
DMC Floss
Started in Jan for CJC 2012

 

Green Frog
Calico Critters
14ct White Aida
DMC Floss
Stitched for Q4OAC

 

Noel
Log Cabin Needleworks
Designed by Sandra Longan Miller
28ct Monaco

DMC Floss

Started in Jan for CJ 2012

Thanks for stopping.  When you get a chance you must visit Samplers and Santas.  It is a beautiful blog, she has several freebie designs available and I just find it a pleasant place to see. 

Enjoy!!

CJ
 

March Madness 3-3-12 Update

Today I was able to stitch on my Snowman from Gazette 94.  So happy to get some of his head and his scarf done.  He will make a great ornament for a family member.

Snowman
Gazette 94

Enjoy!!

CJ

It's A Friday Update

Boy, where has this month gone. Whew, February has just flown by us like a whirlwind. This has been a busy month for me and my family with PTA functions, subbing and then there was illness. Yes, everyone in my family was sick this month including me -- I had the dreaded Pink Eye, yuk!!! But that is all behind us now we are just suffering with allergies in North Texas since the trees have started to flower, hurrah, now pass the tissues.

Stitching

Yes, I did a little stitching this month. I made my first flatfold, actually made six of them. I started my Blue Ribbon SAL, really need to get cracking on that one. Completed a Snowman for a Prairie Schooler exchange and I finished the scissor pocket for my MIL's birthday, she loved it.

Hummingbird Scissor Pocket, pattern from Cross Stitch Happy, stitched on 14ct Pink Aida with DMC Floss, green beads were used for leaves. This was my first scissor pocket and I am pretty pleased with the outcome. My MIL loves birds so I thought this design was perfect for her.

Speaking of stitching let me tell you about my PIF; well, I will update you on my PIF. Some of you will remember way back in July I decided to run a PIF and asked folks that were interested in the PIF to comment and I would pick three to send something I stitched. Well I only had four people sign up so I decided to include all of them. So now I am ready to mail my packages and I can only contact two of the four, Meari and Angela. So Diane and Lynda I need you to contact me at texdelch@sbcglobal.net with your snail mail so I can send this to you. I have worked really hard to make these PIFs special so please contact me.

I ordered some fabric from Enchanted Fabrics for the Gazette 94 SAL. I just did not have anything in my vast inventory that suited this particular project. Speaking of fabric, be on the lookout for a fabric give away in the near future. I really need to thin out my fabric stash.

What Else Have I Gotten Myself Into

Hum, lets see. A week or so ago someone posted about Swap-Bot exchanges. I had never heard of this before and being the curious person I am I just had to check it out. Now I am signed up for two Swap-Bot exchanges, one for tea and the other for note cards. I just couldn't help myself. Decided against joining the stitching exchange since my "stitching plate" is full right now.

A Little About Cooking

If you enjoy cooking with your Crockpot then check out this blog, A Year of CrockPotting. I heard about it on a post around the holidays and I have been following along. Her year long adventure has got her a book deal and appearances on Rachel Ray and Good Morning America. Now you can't beat that for cooking with the Crockpot for an entire year.
I plan to try the Indian and Thai Curry recipes she got from Rachel Ray. Today I am cooking Pork and Kraut in my CrockPot. Yummy!!!


See ya!!

CJ

It's a Friday Update

Hi everyone-

Hope everyone is doing good and keeping warm with all this frigid weather we have had this week. We even had some frozen days here in North Texas. My kids missed two days of school due to some serious ice. Check out the view form my back door, it does not look too bad, but it was cold, high was 22 for two days. The forecast for today is about 65, that is Texas.

Stitching Update
For whatever reason I did not get much stitching done this week. I promise to do better next week. Although, I did celebrate my birthday and I received lots of birthday cards and floss from the Chatty Stitching Exchange Birthday Floss Club (BFC) exchange. It was so exciting to open those cards. Here is a picture of all the floss and cards I received.



I also had anyother surprise int he mail, I received my PS Fans Snowman made by Debi. She finished it as a cube, I just love it. He is going in my ornament display basket that I keep out all year to remind me of Christmas. Thanks Debi for a making a great Snowman for me.



Cards, Cards and more Cards
Managed to put together a few more cards this week for upcoming BFC exchanges. I really like making my own cards and try to do it when I have the time. Next week I will make one for MIL birthday and Mother's Day. Take a look at what I did this week.

One last bit to share with you. One of the BFC birthday cards I received was hand-made by Wendy. How sweet of her to make a card for me. I truly appreciate it and I wanted to share it with all of you in blog land. Thanks Wendy for the beautiful card.




Have a great weekend, enjoy the Superbowl.


See ya!!

CJ