CHRISTMAS OPEN HOUSE AND A WONDERFUL NEW SAMPLER GROUP ON FB

Such a fun week I had....my friend Dawn Rossell and her husband have a wonderful primitive shop in Holly Mi....this past Thursday, I went her way and helped her decorate for her annual  Christmas Open House.  We literally, tore the shop apart and started our magic..... her friend, Ginny was also there to help...and what a blast we had...although, I could barely move the next day!  Here are some pictures I took that evening....

Dawn's shop is located in the quaint little village of Holly, which is about 90 north of Detroit.  In my next life....I will be living in Holly!!

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~SAMPLERMAKERS~

Now on to the new sampler group...started by the always inspiring, enthusiastic, and lovely Lori Brechlin of Notforgotten Farm.  I'm so excited to be member...it is a spin off of her group which was on Bing...but that website was really hard to navigate...so she gave it a reboot on FB.  

I'm unable to get the link to work, but if you go on Facebook and in the search tab...type in Samplermakers....you will be directed to that page....It will be wonderful to be able to post items that we are stitching  and she started a post on posting our own blogs...so I'm sure there are tons of blogs regarding stitching, that maybe some of us were unaware of....anyway....it's going to be a fun group!!!

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Ok....on to my stitching....I haven't blogged in a while, but I have been busy with my stitching and some rug hooking...although I love hooking, cross stitching has always been my first needlework love...it's just endless what you can do with the designs....

This first design, is a design by Plum Street Samplers....I stitched it on 14 count, sparkly Aida...I'm stitching it for my daughter who is vision impaired so I wanted it to be a bit larger than the original.  And she love sparkles!!!  I have a plan on how I am going to finish it...I'll share that later.

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Next....I'm almost finished with this next design. Snowman Trio by Country Cottage Needleworks.  This is a gift for my daughter in law...she loves snowman....I know how I'm going to finish this one as well.....I stitched it on 20 count linen....again....I wanted the finished piece to be larger than the original....it will be a wall hanging...

This is Eleanor Rigby....by Blackbird Designs.  This is a gift for my youngest son and his wife.  She is crazy about the Beatles....and named her cat Eleanor Rigby...so I think she'll like this one.  I'm also stitching this on 20 count, WDW linen in Putty.  Again...I wanted the design to be bigger...

Ok...an now on to this fabulous tool.......it's called. "Seam-fix"...and I gotta tell ya...it's the best tool for frogging I've ever had!!  The ripper part is small and narrow enough to slide under the teeniest of stitches and the white, rubbery end is great for "erasing " or pulling out those pesky threads that you just can't pull out with your fingers.  123 Stitch sells it and I believe it was around $6....I'm big on frogging as of late....so for me it's been a blessing! 

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Well...that's it for now...have a wonderful Sunday...oh....I almost forgot....I decided to get an artificial tree for Christmas...we've always had a real one....but I can't start decorating until the first or second week of December for fear of it drying out...plus, I get sick and tired of watering it....so...on Friday at 12:03  pm...I ordered a tree from Balsam  Hill...and shock and amazement...it arrived that next day at 3 pm...WOW!!  So...it will start looking like Christmas a little bit earlier from here on!!!

Have a wonderful week!!

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