What are you doing New Year's Eve?

I am all nestled in for a quiet evening.

I will be watching a movie, most appropriate, 'New Year's Eve'.  

Then it will be time to watch the ball in NYC Times Square drop along with the thousands that will be there.  I hope they are wearing long johns, it will be a frosty one!!  I prefer to be all cuddled up, watching it on TV.

While I still had some projects that were not yet complete, I went thru my posts from the past year and was happy to see that I did get a few things accomplished!  :D

2012 finishes

 2012 was my first year of blogging and I want to thank all of you who read my ramblings and take the time to leave comments.  It has been wonderful to get to know all of you and for us all to share our passion for stitching. 

So out with the old year and in with the new year!

2013 is already shaping up to be a fun, stitch-y year.  

I have a few projects lined up and will share those with you in...

I wish you the HAPPIEST of NEW YEARS, 

full of good HEALTH and HAPPINESS, PEACE and JOY!!

Cheers and Happy Stitching!!  xxxxx

A Fall Finish and BBD Giveaway!

I want to thank you all for your wonderful comments on my Mary Wigham finish.  

It was fun to share it with you, I feel like you were all on the ride with me along the way!

Since my last post, I have been WAY under the weather with a head cold that just seems to not go away.  But I did get to do some stitching on the days that the sniffles were not so bad!  

It is part of a sampler from PS Autumn Samplers, I had seen this one done this way on Edgar's blog and I thought it was just perfect for these autumn months.....

PS Autumn Sampler
32ct mocha linen w/dmc

I changed up the color for the pumpkins to make them a little more orange-y.

Then I worked on a repair job!  

You see, I gave this bookmark as a gift to my friend Lori last Christmas.....

I adapted this design from a Ewe&Eye&Friends pattern. 

Well.... her cute little doggie, Betsy.....

....seemed to think it was QUITE tasty!  lol!

So I did some mending with a new piece of perforated paper and voila!

Good as new, well almost!  :D 

And now for the Giveaway info I promised!!  

For reaching 100 followers, I decided to giveaway the new Blackbird Designs pattern, 

Feast of Friendship, with ALL of the 22 overdyed threads called for the pattern!  

And an extra treat or two :D

I really thought this was a perfect pattern to giveaway, 

because it has an autumn feel to it and feast of friendship says it best, 

I have really enjoyed meeting all of my blogging friends and being a part of the blogging community.  

I feel like part of a stitching club and find all of your work so inspiring.  

It is wonderful to get to know others with the same stitching passion that I have too.  

I will draw a winner on October 20th!

No special rules, except to be one of my followers and leave a comment on this post.

Thank you again for taking the time to visit!

Enjoy your weekend and happy stitching!!

xxxxx