New boxed floss sets give-away enter now!

New boxed floss sets give-away enter now!

I had a great day yesterday on my birthday....thanks to many of you who made it so nice. Great presents, dinner out with my family (no cooking or dishes allowed on my birthday as my son spoils me) and a wonderful day with my family.

Today it was back to work and I started putting together some boxed sets of floss with new autumn colors. 12 skeins, 20 yards each, I have previously sold similar boxes and given some away. I always donate them to retreats. In fact I was just contacted today from a guild in Texas asking for a door prize donation and I will send one of these boxes. Retail is $24.95. A nice box with a clear lid and gold stretch loop. I just ordered fold over cards and I will add one. A nice addition if you are giving this set as a gift.

I love her floss! So go to Victorian Motto.blogspot.com and enter her drawing. Good Luck
Today's date is July 8th,2015

What would a great give-away be without a gift certificate?? Lets give a couple away!!! $25 for you to select anything in my shop. You will browse my ebay store and then email your selections to me. Lets have 2 winners!
Charts, floss, trim bags, grab bags, etc.

Victorian Motto $100 gift certificate giveaway

Go to Victorian Motto.blogspot.com to enter in her $100 gift certificate giveaway on Christmas Day.
There is still time to post  your name for her 25 days of Christmas giveaways.

Scarlet Letter group on Facebook

Scarlet Letter group on Facebook is having a Millenium frame giveaway. 
For a chance to win this wonderful frame, you must become a member of the group. Plus, spread the news of the giveaway.

Also, go to Victorian Motto, she is having a drawing everyday for either floss, patterns or fabric. I did Lizzie Kate Let Them be Small all using her floss and I love her floss.

Victorian Motto is having a thread giveaway

Victorian Motto is having a floss giveaway!!!! Woohoo!

Each winner will receive the whole set. 1600 yards, 80 skeins, 20 yards each! I ship world wide.

So go to Victorian motto at : http://victorianmottosamplershoppe.blogspot.com/

Right Now!

Updating my blog

It has been a long time since I have done anything to my blog and I have decided it has been long enough. I have finished quite a lot of projects since my last entry. 

I still like Mirabilia, but a few have joined Mirabilia since then. 

One of them is With thy Needle and Thread. I have recently went to Silver Needle in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  If you haven't been there, you MUST go sometime! When you walk in, you are hit with:

WHERE DO I START? Literally! I walked out after paying of course, 4 patterns of With thy Needle and Thread, 1 pattern of Stacy Nash and 1 pattern from Primitive Traditions. 

I like With thy Needle and Thread so much, I started a Facebook Group! If you would like to be a member, just look on Facebook and hit join. 

Stacy Nash has lately increased my liking of her patterns. I like how she has seasoned themes to her patterns. Like I just bought Sampler of the Season - Winter, I have summer and spring also. 

Wiehenburg patterns I have always loved. I have quite a few of them. Currently, I am working on Wiehenburg Coat of Arms, it is drop dead beautiful pattern. Personally, I do not like doing monochromatic patterns so as all my friends who know me........

I change colors!  It is not that I don't like the designers choice of colors for their designs, I like to make the pattern my own!

So far Coat of Arms has 3 colors I may keep to those 3 colors or I may  add more. 

I, Janine Smith and Tickled Pink has created a Facebook group called Stitchers of Wiehenburg Cross Stitch and Needlepoint. Martina is branching into Needlepoint and they are beautiful. 

If  you would like to be a member , just look it up on facebook and apply. 

Another designer that I like is, Gigi patterns! I have her Sampler of Saxony that I have started and I love it. I have also bought her Rose Wreath Sampler. 

Victorian Motto is having a Valentine Day giveaway!

             Go to Victorian Motto. com and sign up for her Valentine's Day
giveaway!  Her floss is phenomenal and it is very reasonable in cost. Not
only that, there is plenty of different colors, there is more yardage then the
usual overdyed floss that is out. Plus, she has trims, buttons, and patterns!


I just noticed that it has been almost a year since I have updated my blog.
I think it is due for an update so look in the near future of the updated
blog.

Victorian Motto is giving away floss

May 22,2013- I was just on  Victorian Motto blog, http://victorianmottosamplershoppe.blogspot.com/ and she is giving a summer floss give away! I have bought some of her floss in the recent past and I love her floss. The yardage and  price is VERY reasonable. So go to her website and check it out.

Also I have started Rosewood Manor Winter Quaker and I have finished pages one and two. Below is a pic of my progress. I love to stitch as everyone knows but I love stitching on this pattern. I am doing it on Picture This Plus Doubloon.

Victorian Motto

Is at it again! She is having another drawing, I just love her floss that she dyes and it is so reasonable and you get alot! What are you waiting for? Go to

http://victorianmottosamplershoppe.blogspot.com

Paula

A Fund Drive for Cancer

I was  on Victorian Motto site and I think I hit Karma. My friend Jody, was told today that her sister who has cancer was not expected to live very much longer. She left work, packed a bag to make the long trip to California. She did not make it in time, I got the news early this evening that her sister had passed.
Read this and if you can help at all, please do

The fundraiser......I have been chatting with Gaynor (Stitcheranon) and she explained her bout with breast cancer last year. She has a personal web site for The Irish Cancer Society fundraiser....and in her words I will let her explain to you.




"The trek is organised by the Irish Cancer Society. It is a sponsored event and in order to take part we each need to raise 3200 euros. The Trek is quite heavy going, up a lot of mountains and it follows the famous Pilgramage walk, I will be walking the last 116 km to Santiago de Compestalla. This page has all the details. http://www.cancer.ie/get-involved/fundraise/challenge-yourself/trek/group.



I started walking under the advice of my oncologist: keeping active helps to reduce the side effects of chemotherapy. I was hoping to walk in ireland but the roads are very dangerous: too dangerous for a woman walking alone. I will be walking in a group for the trek which makes it much safer.



The money on the fundraising page ALL goes to the Irish Cancer Society. Any donations which come to me personally are again, ALL handed to the Irish Cancer Society: I obtain receipts which are given to the donors."



What I would like to do for Gaynor (I have already sent her lots of trims to finish the items she is selling to raise money)

is to donate to her for the next three months to help her on her trek. I will donate the profits (after material costs) on the best selling kit for each month. Of course I urge you to donate directly on her fundraiser page too. http://www.mycharity.ie/event/sponsorgaynor/

I have 4 new kits and I will be adding more each week. I have some nice red checked kitchen goodies that will be done soon (a whole basket of red goodies!)...as well as blue checks and stripes and black and tan. Lets start with the first one: Treasured Friend. I changed my pattern a little to fit this heart.

Please visit Victorian Motto site at
http://victorianmottosamplershoppe.blogspot.com/

Cancer is not just an American disease, it is a world disease.

thanks
Paula Shelgren

Victorian Motto

There is a great blog  Victorian Motto. She sells charts, floss, ribbon etc. you should check it out. My friend, Judy Starkey told me about her and I have seen some of her floss and it is at a really reasonable cost!   20yds for only $2.00  You should check it out!

the addy for it is http://victorianmottosamplershoppe.blogspot.com/

Sunday, April 29, 2012

I have been so busy with needlework since my last update in February. I am a serial starter and  proud of it!

I have started HAED Sistine Chapel, I am doing it as a SAL with the Yahoo group Over Oners, which I should state the members are so friendly and helpful, and a few of them I must say are enablers. I won't name names. LOL (For I have been known as an enabler myself!). I now have 27 HAED patterns.
Will I get them all done? No, am I worried about that? No. I am doing what I like to do, buy patterns and start patterns that I like, if I get them done fine, if not, fine too.
Here is a pic of all 200 stitches of my Sistine Chapel.

I did finish Butternut Road Earth Dancer of which I think, is my oldest UFO that I had. I am giving it to my daughter Shanya. It is at my LNS Heart's Desire now getting framed. I will  post a pic of it when I get it back. I also have Mirabilia Queen Mermaid there also getting framed. That will make 3 Mirabilia Mermaids that will be on one of my wall's in the frontroom. Eventually I will have a mermaid wall composed of all the Mirabilia mermaids.

I am close to finishing LHN North Wind. I am doing it on PTPlus Ancient. I love that fabric. I love LHN patterns, I have quite a few of them. Here is a pic of the almost finished piece. The snowflakes and snow are going to be done with beads.

I have also been working on BBD Wild Garden, I love the pattern, love the colors but I do not like the fabric that came with it.

I am on page 3 of Wiehenburg Coat of Arms. I love their patterns. I do not know why my computer has it in blues but I am doing it mostly in deep reds.

Here is  Cherished Stitches Halloween Quaker done on  PTPlus Discord. Marilyn asked me, "Are you sure you want to do Halloween Quaker  on Discord?" I told her, " Marilyn, who are you talking to?" " You know I am known for doing projects on fabric colors that are different from the norm".

After finishing Butternut Road Earth Gatherer, I thought to keep working on a old project as to one day, may finish all my old projects that I had started soooo many years ago. Here is Shepherd's Bush The Herb Gatherer, I have more done on it,but again my computer decided to leave the other part out and I am too lazy to rescan again LOL

For the last three years, I have been going to my LNS Heart's Desire retreat camp held every April. This year, the project was With Thy Needle and Thread, O' Be My Valentine. We painted these valentine candy boxes and decorated them with verses from music sheets, dictionaries, Bibles, added buttons, lace and it was really fun. I did  finish my box and stitched the pin cushion, I have as yet stitched the needle book but I will. Here is a pic of the pin cushion but not sewn up yet.

I am learning how to do the peyote stitch in beading. I have finished Grizzly for my son Matthew except for beading a strap so he can hang it on his rear view mirror of his car.

My next beaded project is for Sara and of course, it is going to be a Marilyn Monroe  piece.

LHN Moon and Stars done on PTPLus Fog, not sure if I like it on  Fog but will see when I get it finished. sorry about it being ragged.

Super Bowl Sale at Picture This Plus and other rantings about counted cross stitch

This Saturday, February 4th, my friends , Judy Starkey, Deb Wolfe, Michelle and I are meeting in Abilene,Kansas for a day of shopping and stitching at our favorite hand dyed fabric shop, which happens to  be Picture This Plus. Pssssst ! They are having their  in-store Super Bowl sale - 25% off everything but jewelry  on Sunday, February 5th !  I can't wait! I have Needle Arts Guild of Wichita tomorrow from 10-3, then I go to Heritage Hut for my knitting group, then friday I am going to go to Advantage Beads to help my friend Margaret figure out how much fabric she needs for her projects when she drives up to Abilene so by keeping myself busy, saturday will get here before I know it!!!!!  
I want to get a fat 1/2 of 28 ct lugana Heritage so I can do Rosewood Manor's Past and Present




They are going to introduce their 6 new colors and I can't wait! I already have about 20 different pieces of their fabric, do I need more?    YES I DO !!!!!

I have been working on Mirabilia Bliss Fairy. I am working on her wings, I am doing the wings with a variety of DMC flower thread (which is discontinued) and Needle Necesssities (which is no more, now there is Threadworx which I love too!)

I have started Long Dog Samplers - Scarlet Riband which I plan to do it with various red overdyed floss.

I am working of Wiehenburg Samplers Coat of Arms which I am loving it!

I am also working on LHN Mayflower Landing- I love their patterns! I am almost done with that one.

I am almost finished with Butternut Road Earth Dancer- after picking it up again after a few years only to find the suede that was called for to do the fringe on the outfit just dissolved with the slightest of  touch, I decided to pick a overdyef floss to do the fringe with all over again, I have the fringe done, just have a little bit on the trees in the background to do and then look over it for missed stitches and places where a bead should be. I should be finished with that one in a week. Woohoo!

I am on part two of Birds of a Feather  mystery , I am doing it on Picture this plus Doubloon. I did not like the fabric that it called for, and for those that know me.......CHANGE !  was called for LOL
I have received so many compliments on doing it on Doubloon.

I started Mirabilia Mediterranean Mermaid on Picture This Plus Phantom and I love it!

On a crazy note: Come April 1st -  April Fool's Day I am going to start Heaven and Earth Designs - The Sistine Chapel!!!!  This is not a April Fool's joke! I am going to buy the pattern in a few days. I have already bought the fabric - 28 ct Ivory Lugana  I am going to work on it every sunday. I have designated sunday as HAED stitching day. Last sunday I almost put in 200 stitches on HAED St.Nick in his study.

I have also bought 28 ct. Lambswool Jobelan to do ByGone Stitches Quaker Christmas II on. I haven't even finished Quaker Christmas I yet! I am almost finished with page 5 of I, but I saw it, I had to have it LOL.

On a side note, not related to cross stitching at all I want to tell everyone----------------------------
I FINISHED THE AFGHAN FROM HELL !!!!!!!!!!
I have knitted for almost 37 yrs and this is the first pattern that I could not understand the pattern. Thanks to Mary at Heritage Hut in Wichita, Ks with her help we decoded the pattern so I could finish it for my grandson Mason before he graduated from high school!!!!!

I am also working on Blackbird Designs Beneath the Sunlit Sky, I like it and I am halfway finished with it, but they wanted the house to be antique rose   REALLY? NO WAY !!!!!  I changed it DUH LOL

I am also working on Kustom Krafts Falcon 2, there are a lot of color changes to it so it is going slow but it will be a nice addtion to my Indian wall in my front room.

What I am up to now that it is 2012

I have joined the WIPapocalypse Challenge

I have joined the CrazyJanuary2012 Challenge

and there is a contest giveaway at
http://craftymoo-sarah.blogspot.com/

I will post more of what I am doing later!

Updated pics of my work May 30,2011

LHN Snow White

LHN Singing the Blues


Blackbird Designs Beneath the Sunlit Sky


Mirabilia Shimmering Mermaid

July 17,2010

Mirabilia Mermaids of the Deep Blue Sea



Salem Sisters II



Plum Street Samplers Christmas Tea



Out on a Limb



Mirabilia Bluebeard's Princess



Mirabilia Mermaid of Atlantis





Mirabilia Enchanted Mermaid




Wiehenburg Mermaid Sampler



Little House of Needlework Mayflower Landing



Grand Marquoir



L&L Fairy Grandmother



Blackbird Designs Sailing Home almost done



Blackbird Designs Bluebird



Pelin Tezer Alla Turca




ByGone Stitches Quaker Christmas

Needlework Boutique in Plano, Texas, and Aidaworks in Lewisville Texas

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AIDAWORKS, LEWISVILLE, TEXAS

Sunflower Seed Shop Get Together in Topeka on Oct 3rd