It has been such a LONG time!!!

I want to start out by telling you ... I GOT A JOB!!!! that is where I have been... Wow be unemployed over a year and try to go back to work... SPOILED is what I have been! so the last 2 weeks I have been so tired that I have been going to bed around 830 or 9 each night... I just have NOT been able to keep my eyes open! BUT... I think I am gonna LOVE this job! I am working as a front desk receptionist for a local company, but am back up in AR and AP. I am LOVING the work! Learning a lot ... more and more each day... but so enjoying it all!

Now for a little of my stitching updates...

The projects that I have in my rotation right now...

• an easter project that I need to finalize and send out to my exchange person... this week.
• Prairie Schooler - A B C's
• Barrick Samplers - Hannah's Ship

• CHS- Penn. German Stocking... (no pic for update yet...)

I have just completed 2 DEMO stitching projects that I sent out to
The Stitch Store (Buford GA)

• Country Cottage Needleworks Liberty Lane
• Lizzie Kate- Pic Below...

I am also Becky's Ornament Exchange
This What I recieved for Round one of 2010- From Lynda

It is a Primative Betty's Freebie!!!! But I am so very proud to add it to my little collection of ornies... What a Talented group of stitchers are there! Thank you so very much Lynda... I love it!

Thank you to all for their kind words and their support while I have been unemployed and trying to get a job. This has been such a challenging year... and I feel now like I am in a better place than I was originally at the company that I was laid off from! That is AWESOME!!!!

Thank you God for EVERYTHING!!!!

Mixture... Ornament Exchange... and Winning

This post is a mish mash of things... that I have not been able to post until now...

This first is the Ornament that I made for this segment of the Ornament Exchange... I know that this person has received this ornament so I can show everyone my finish!

I fell so in love with this little stocking... that I really battled sending it out to her. I have already started one for my tree! ;)

This went to Carole... and I thought of her each time I picked this piece up to stitch it and wished her the best of days! This was stitched on a Mystery Scrap of fabric with Mystery HDF silks. Mostly silks from the Detrius Bags that I have received!

Designer : Hands To Work

Chart : Christmas Stocking Ornaments

This next one was the ORNAMENT that I received ... Marie sent me this lovely little package... I was so excited to get it out of my mail package...Look at the cute little Snowman card on it!!!! AWE... I love it!

OH... But wait... This is even BETTER.... THIS is what was INSIDE that cute little package with that cute little snowman card... Creme de la creme... Look at this ornament!!!!!
Designer: Blackbird Designs

Chart: Quaker Medallion Strawberry

This pattern featured in the 2006 edition of JCS Christmas Ornaments.

LAST but certainly NOT least... is a Winning! On the HDF sight Barbara posted a contest with 3 LOVELY thread counters... I WON one of them... and is was the EXACT one that I wanted!!!!! OH MY GOODNESS!!!! Look at this lovely counter...

I have taken soooooooooo many pictures of this and can NOT get the TRUE quality to shine thru. This picture does NOT do this piece justice... It is just lovely with little leaf beads... and the colors are so delicate... and so pretty... It has 2 needles at the other end one for counting the fibers in the fabric and the other to place in the fabric every 1- stitches... to be sure that I keep my place. I have already had the chance to use it and LOVE IT!!!!

Thank you so much Barbara for this lovely prize!!!!