Weekend

Hey, Friends!

Thanks to those who have made suggestions for finding Midsummer Night Designs, Memorial Sampler. I have contacted the designer, who asked me to contact Attic Needlework, who didn’t have it. I'm still looking...

In the meantime, I've been stitching Gobble. Hopefully this hermiting weekend will let it get a lot closer to completion. Remember that Give is already stitched, and Marsha's finish last week prompted me to get on with the set. Last year Mindi's set made me find the series to stitch my own. Paulette, Plum Street Samplers, really has some awesome designs.

This is a busy  multi-event weekend – it's TuSAL time ►over on the side bar. It's also Hermit Weekend... I plan to stay inside stitching and hope you have the chance to as well. There's lots of preseason football if you enjoy that, too.

Does your sweet fur baby have different barks for things? There’s ‘something is invading our space:’ a bird on the porch, someone walking down the road, or a squirrel on the deck. There’s ‘DS is coming in:’ he’s the only one with a key. ‘Someone’s at the door.’ And this is the one that makes me mention it: something on the stove needs attention! This happens if a pot starts to sizzle, but most often when I’m making tea. I like to let the tea come to a boil, then turn off the burner to let the liquid cool. She always smells it before I do! She also has a little sort of growl’ish’ bark that sounds like ma-ma. Do you think I’m hearing things? But after all, she is the little girl who rings the bell when she wants to go outside!  Speaking of fur babies, I don’t have any cats right now, but  if you do and would like to know more about Cat Speak click the link.

Thanks for stopping by, today and always. I appreciate your thoughts and comments!

I'm grateful for the Hermit Weekend!

Peace☮LoveJoy
and Happy Stitching 
Charlene♥SC and Pixie

Winning...

Hey, Friends!

I’m such a lucky lady lately!  I won a giveaway from Stitch Bitch!  After watching all her crafts for each day of March, I was loving some of the things she had done, and then she had a giveaway of all things Red-White-Blue.  Look what the winnings included!  When I opened the box, I was surprised that it was in a quart jar – nice packaging!  Of all the things, it is hard to pick a favorite, but if you twist my arm I’d have to choose the scissor fob that includes my initial C.  And I just ‘happen’ to have the perfect pair of scissors to go along with it!  Notice that Pixie had to check to see if Stella was inside there someplace…  Thank you so much, “Anna van Schurman” for picking me!  I love the gifts!

I was leaving a comment on Samplers and Santas’ blog the other day, and realized it should be a little rant on my own post!  It started like this…  **Rant  -  “I love to see posts with shops that provide fast service and accurate orders. I don't typically 'announce' those who are slow or have things listed on their site, but don't have them in reality.  Maybe I'm just pi$$y, but come on... how hard can it be to say "out of stock"? Hum... maybe this should be a post instead of a rant on your comment!”  I’m no shop owner, and if I were I might have a different opinion, but if you say, “if an item is Out of Stock we will order it for you unless it says No Longer Available.”  I can make the decision if I want to wait, or not order it.  Shop Owners, the enticements of having OOP (out of print) items, and yes, I will usually see if there’s anything else I’d like from your store, don’t leave a good opinion in my mind.  Okay, that’s it!  -  End Rant**

To end on a positive note… remember those eggs I dyed in an onion-skin dye?  Well, since the liquid was still there, I decided to throw in some Belgium Oyster linen to see what happened.  I really like the results – what do you think?

Hope your weekend is beautiful, and that you have a while for stitching.
Wait – this is IHSW (International Hermit Stitch Weekend) April 20-22.  Check it out to see what it’s all about!

Oh - it's also the New Moon, so it's TuSAL time à

Thanks for stopping by, today and always.  Each of your kind words are appreciated!

I'm grateful for shops who really want my continued business!

PeaceëLoveëJoy
and Happy Stitching
Charlene♥SC