My lovelies for the day

Here is Mary Roe all finished.  I just adore her!

Mary Roe by the Scarlett House

40ct Meadow Rue linen

Belle Soie called for

She was such a fun stitch!

And I couldn't resist a little piece from market from Blackbird Designs, their limited edition kit, Wild Garden.

Blackbird Designs Wild Garden

fabric and fibers in kit

Isn't it pretty?  I think I might make it into a pillow or something.  We'll see.  I squeezed all three of my initials on the top instead of just two, so I moved the little button to a different place.  And yes, there's one little mistake that I refuse to undo.  My Amish error.  lol!  Can you see it?  Oh well.

Carmen of Cardan Antiques and Needlework had a giveaway of prizes she gathered from Nashville market.  And I won one of the prizes!!

It's a lovely little A&E pincube!  Isn't it great?  I just love it!  Thanks so much, Carmen!

Here are my two snugglebugs snuggling.  I don't think Mia liked it particularly.  lol!

And here's Mia enjoying a snuggle sandwiched between a couple of pillows.  Silly girl!

I know it's Sunday instead of my usual Monday.  Pretty weird, huh?  lol!  I just finished Wild Garden so I figured I'd do a post right now for a change.  Hope everyone in the US remembered to spring forward.  Ugh -- I'm so not looking forward to waking up in the dark again.  Hey government people, how about putting the time change back to where it used to be??  Please?????

Thanks as always for stopping by and saying hi.  I hope everyone has a lovely week!

Mary Mary

So here is Mary Roe so far.  I have just the words to go.  Yay!

Isn't she gorgeous?  She's by the Scarlett House.  Tanya outdid herself this time!

BeckySC has generously let me count this as a BAP for her BAP Challenge.  It's about time I got around to that!

If you hop on over to Tanya's blog at The Scarlett House, you'll find a very small correction to the chart there involving the rice stitch hills.

Robin at Threads of Memory had a very lovely giveaway a while back, and I won one of the prizes!  It was a package of sampler charts and they're all so great!  Here is a pic of the stash.

Sorry about the reflection.  Thank you so much, Robin!  I love my prize!

Finally, of course, there's Mia.  She's always a helpful creature.  Here she is helping the father type out when he was working from home one day.

And of course, Mia loves boxes.  Well, she even loves very small boxes!  lol!

Thanks as always for stopping by and saying hi.  I hope everyone has a wonderful week.  My thoughts are with those who were devastated by the tornadoes last week.

A repro -- yay! Plus other stitching, prizes, and a meerkat

What repro, you say?  Yes, a beautiful repro!  All I've worked on so far is the border, so I won't bother showing a picture of my progress yet.  But I did get permission from the designer to show off what I'm stitching now.  I love her!  Mary Roe by The Scarlett House, a new reproduction.

Isn't she gorgeous?  I can't wait to get to the insides of the piece!  The colors are so beautiful!

I did finish the next Toy Chest Etui page for the SAL I'm doing with Loraine.  It's a scissor fob/crayon box.

So cute!

And I got page one done and started page 2 on And They Sinned.  Yay!

The tree is really pretty with all its foliage and fruit.

And I couldn't resist starting the next section.

I was lucky enough to win a couple of prizes recently.  First, from Patty C. of Hanging on by a Thread, I won a needlebook she made -- it's so pretty!  She also included some Bohin needles which I've been wanting to try out, plus some Mill Hill glass beads.  Thank you so much, Patty!!!

Isn't that rose amazing?

And from Annie of Annie Bebop's Coloring Book, I won a chart, which I've been wanting forever.  Go to the link, and you'll see Annie's finished piece of this design.  It's gorgeous!

Thank you for the chart, Annie!

The boy child has been needing a haircut for quite a while now.  Unfortunately, I didn't get a pic of him at his shaggy worst.  Such long hair!!  We determined that the last time he cut his hair was probably around May of last year.  lol!  But it was an extremely short haircut that time.  Well, I guess the boy child likes the idea of annual haircuts.  He got it cut very short once again.  Sorry for the blurry pic, but you get the idea.

Whenever he cuts his hair this short, I'm sad -- I miss his pretty hair.  lol!  Well, as he says, it'll grow back.  And then I'll be bothering him to get a haircut again.  :D

Mia has a favorite toy, which lives on the top of a high chest of drawers in the bedroom.  She periodically looks up lovingly at the spot where she knows it's hiding.  The other day, Mia went through a long period of looking longingly up at her toy.  This involved getting up into what we call her meerkat position, then getting back down into sitting, then up into her meerkat pose, over and over again.  I caught her at it to show you her meerkat pose.

Isn't she cute?

Thanks as always for stopping by and saying hi.  I hope everyone has a wonderful week!!

Can I have my toy, please?

Quick ETA:  The toy that lives on top of the chest of drawers is this "bird" thing made of feathers in a very clever way.  It dangles off a long, thin stick.  When the owner (DS, father type etc) rushes the toy through the air, it makes a fascinating whirring sound and spins in the air.  Mia is endlessly fascinated and tries to catch it etc.  BUT she can't play with it on her own -- if she does, she'll break the feathers on the "bird."  (The replacement birds are expensive!)  Thus, the toy lives up on the chest of drawers for those  times we play with her.  She loves it so much!  Poor thing -- I promise, I don't torture her on purpose.  lol!