WOW!!!!! Five blocks of Swiss chocolate {drool} cross stitch charts of Swiss cows (because that's where Swiss cloclate comes from). A gorgeous scrummy piece of hand dyed light blue linen from Heavenly Creations abd a beautiful winter scene card :) Received 15 Jan 2007
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That's a lovely little scene! Love how it's matted too.
My nanna did this up and gave it to me shortly after I left home around 17 or 18 years ago .... I had it rattling around with me for years and years and then lost it. I found it again while packing for the move to this house, so I washed it and ironed it and took it straight to the framers. My nanna now has advanced dementia - this is reminder of who she was and what she could do .... very sentimental piece for me.
thanks for the compliments on the matting - I'm still very very unsure of selecting frames and matting :)
What a lovely album to be able to start! Too cool.
Ohh - lots of lovely goodies! Enjoy them!
Very nice! just out of interest though - what does RAK stand for?
Random Acts of Kindness. It might be a bit presumptuous of me to start an album like is - as if I'm *expecting* these things to happen - but honestly I had no idea what else to call it - and I have too many albums now already and and and ......
Yikes...were the plain plastic cased dvd's in there???
Too funny!
And the girl in the office across from me wants to know what's so damn funny - I'm not telling! Somehow, I don't think she'd get it...
I wonder if I can carefully remove the stuffing and replace it with catnip ???
I agree with the cat opinion but that's what you get for spending days on end teasing me about the damned pink things LOL
ROFL....I think the cat is not too keen on his new friend!
you know what's too funny? I almost bought Claire a flamingo last week!! I did resist, though, knowing her aversion to the poor pink beasties!
It would have spent it's time winging its way back to you.....
Awww you are so mean - would you *really* have sent back a present ???
A flamingo? YES.
hehehe, so they arrived! Cool...we are both doig so well for gifties this week and all for no reason apart from being miserable...it's just sooo nice to be treated :)
Yep and I've lined up a couple of RAKs for others but some stock is on back order so they'll come through in a complete surprise sometime in the next few weeks .....
Would you send back a really cute flamingo?
Yes
You've got some great goodies here. Enjoy them all!! I love the Flamingo! :)
Excellent! I love those designs - my cat Booger would be proud, as these are so him when he was a bit younger. He just turned 18 this month, so his idea of fun is moving from the chair to the bed to sleep these days. So, when you gonna start one?
Ummm yeah .... when I can fit it in ..... I do love these and seeing as Hilary was so kind as to kit them up for me - well I guess I will have to make time for them sometime this year ......
what adorable charts!! Hope you have great fun with them.
I just figured you were having such a crummy time at work and no news (as yet!) on another job - and they seem as though they could be a good travel project!
Ooooh now there's a thought Hilary - I wonder if I could stitch in the train - hopefully I'll be soon be doing a one hour train commute each day .....
Looooooove all the goodies!
What a lovely memory & keepsake
That one looks like it's nicely preparing to attack :-) you'd expect it to lift its behind just a tiny bit, start wiggling it and then pounce! very colourful and very nice of Debbie!
That's a fun design! I don't think I'd stitch something like it, I prefer real looking, but it should be right up your alley, Mel!
Ah hah....now I get it. After hearing about it in text, this made no sense to me at all LOL. It's such a cutie. I really like it.
Eek! Funky weird one. Should be fun to stitch.
Fun and cute! Lovely giftie!
Love these designs - thanks so much Debbie for the gifties !!!!! The bright bold colours of Party Cat have helped keep me smiling in the past few days. Will post a progress pic when I get power back on !!!
Very cute! Looks like it will be a fun stitch.
Well, instead of sending it to THAT Missouri address, you could have sent it to mine!
I'm glad you liked it. And I'm REALLY glad that we are now in the same boat. Waiting until NEXT year for the next one. At least you still have two books in the Aleria Codex to read. I'm hung waiting on that, too!
I've read the first two - I'm just hanging out for Cursor's Fury at this stage .....
You'll love it when you get it! Has it been ordered or do I need to get it for you, too? I think I could see my way to shipping you mine. He's doing another book signing, but I don't have any way to get there right now, and really, no money to buy any more books in hardback for a while. And don't ya know that's killing me cause Laurel K Hamilton's "Harlequin" is out now... ARGH!!!!
cackles at the lab results being in.....
Nice flosses!!! Almost a matching set, I like!
Its OK Teegs, I'll get Cursor's Fury here - the library has apparently ordered it - or I'll buy it myself over the month or so ...... Good Luck with the Laurell K. Gotta admit I stopped reading Anita Blake a while ago :) :)
I think like Party Cat - this one will come up much much more vibrant in real life !!!!
That's why I showed both sides to the card :) :) Loved it - but I did wonder for a minute whether this should have gone to Dr Steph instead :) :)
How sweet! I love the M-design trees!!!
What a lovely RAK! I have several of the M Designs trees that I plan to make into a 'forest' of sorts.
I have a "Claire" tree on the wall here, they really are gorgeous stitched up!
Not seen one packaged before and "M" makes them look so cute in the chartpak!
Glad Karen included the note on there :)
I could actually see myself doing this one over Party Cat. I like the pose better, I think. I can't wait to see you get started so I can see the colours come to life.
Beautiful and very appropriate! I love the Dracolair designs! Cheers, Trish
I have a few of these too now - I plan to do up one for every door in the house and hang them up at Christmas time ....... I think Cherish for the Bedroom Door and Believe for the Kitchen {lol}
Mind you dinner tonight was pretty scrummy which was a wonder considering it was the first time I had attempted the recipe .....
Me either {LOL} Now where did that time spinner thing go? I need to stop time for a few centuries to work on a few projects .....
ooo....I like all three charts! What a great RAK to receive. Can't wait to see the stitching on "The Phoenix"!
Lovely charts. The M designs are really very pretty.
Lovely pressies! Enjoy them all!
Gorgeous Mel, enjoy!!
Fun Fun Fun! Those color variations are great :)
Pretty, pretty! Oh the fun of a new job and the gifties it entails...too cool!!!
How pretty.....have lots of fun stitching with them!!
some very pretty colors, Mel!
perfect frame!!
How very cute Mel!
Great RAK Mel, enjoy. How goes the new job?
He's a pretty dragon! Very cool, Claire!! Hope you feel better today!
That is a great pattern!! Enjoy!!!!!
what a lovely piece!! Good RAK, Mel!!
Great chart. Hope you are enjoying the new job
I love Heather and the orphan!! They are all great colors; just those jumped out at me. :)
Wow, I really like Raisin and the Orphan! I bet that Heather is nice, too! Great colors, all! I wish Silkweaver had more dark colors - so many of theirs are light and/or pastel-y.
Great color choices!! Now to see what you do with them................
Well that bits easy :)
The crystals are for different M Designs Word Trees
The Sterling is for Effervescent Designs Operetta
The Raison is for FireWings Amazon Dragonfly
The hard bit is finding time to actually start any of them :)
Link, plz!
Sorry it is really called: Amazon Velvet
http://www.picturethisplus.com/html/fire_wing_designs_2.html
Oh, yeah - that's going to be cool! Yep, googling Amazon Dragonfly brought me a bazillion Amazon books about dragonflies.... :b
Whoops sorry :) :) :)
Lovely fabrics! I have Amazon Velvet and a piece of Raisin for it, too. I was thinking of doing it for my DBIL for a Christmas/housewarming gift.. but I think it's too dark for his house with the wood he has, so I'm doing Carnelian instead.
Gorgeous choices, Mel! Has anyone told you yet that the 'Ugly Orphan' is actually an 'oops' from when they dyed Raisin? They ended up with that glorious green instead of the brown. I LOVE when they have orphans!!
That is a lovely chart, and how nice to have the specialty threads right away, too!
Hope they're enough Mel!
Lovely gifties!!
Pretty!
Always handy!!
That Wildflower looks very pretty! Good stuff!
Pretty - and some of the much-coveted Black Lagoon. I still think Carrie ought to make that a regular....
You can never have too many - my zip lock bag collection is almost on the point of getting out of hand. But I need them!!! {whine}
Those are really nice beads - I assume they are Delicas, as they are way too regular to be plain old seeds. That's my main concern with the way ECC kits up the Chatelaines; if they give you just a few extra (if any at all), the way I drop stuff, well, I just know I'd be short. If the design takes 1000, you ought to have 100 extra - 10% is always a good margin for these. And I don't trust weight counts - too many years pulling kits with tiny parts that we weigh scaled thousands at a time. Though I definitely don't want to have to hand-count 1000 of these :) I had a point here, but I now have no idea what it was....
Star Sapphire is one of my favorite fabric colors, and that is also one of my favorite Caron colors. Lovely choices!
They *are* Delicas and they *are* packed by weight. I've never had an issue with ECC under-supplying before, but then I haven't actually finished a single Chatelaine project yet :(
I might make Mystery Nine and Midi Mystery One my holiday projects and see if I can get them finished over the Xmas New Years break.
Depends on Dad. Dad's visiting this year, instead of mum - and dad is much much more demanding of my time in terms of "spend time with him doing his things and entertaining him" and cleaning up after him.
So *not* looking forward to Xmas this year.
Ooooh wait until you see the whole thing kitted up - there are two more beautiful Caron threads and a coupe of Needle Necessities not to mention the rest of the Kreiniks.
Thanks Claire for starting the kitting up of this one ....
I emailed the designer about the charms and treasures and surprise surprise, no answer. Not even an acknowledgement of my email. I've sent it twice now in case the first one disappeared into the ether.
Ah yes the Carrie's threads are Panic, Purple 1, Purple 8 and Black Lagoon.
I really need to find a project for the Black Lagoon :) :)
Exactly! I store all my non-DMC threads in Floss Away bags - this will be a huge help to my organisational skills :)
Lovely gifties. My favourite threads are Caron. So good to work with. Lucky you but well deserved.
And the thread goes soo well with the fabric. I'm just itching to start this project even though I've still got to finish off some obligation stitching and this one isn't kitted up properly yet ....
They are wonderful. Now that is very thoughtful.
That is wonderful
Very pretty
What a wonderful thought/
Honey, you are entirely welcome. You did so much for me while I was away and it kept me very much entertained. Enjoy :)
They look decidedly yummy, Mel!
That was a well deserved gift, Mel! And you chose very lovely stuff, too!
I only sent them about 9 months after I promised them... (blush)
I had them put away to send them off to Mel and they got underneath of something else and so I totally forgot them. Some 9 months or so later I cleared the respective area and - Ooops, weren't these flossaway bags to go to Mel??? Well, they went - and subito!
The card is from a painting by Carl Spitzweg. THE German painter of what's called the "Biedermeier Era" - corresponds to the 1820 to 1860, so parallel to the early Victorian period. Wonderfully detailed, lovely paintings.
Lovely colors. Of course, I really like the one on the far left.
LOL, this looks like the 'little handful' I picked up myself! It was just too good a deal to pass up. Of course I'm still missing colors when I try to start a project!!
Wonderful colors! I am such a flossaholic!!
Pretty, pretty choices. Enjoy!!
One can never have too many Floss Away bags!!
I soooo agree !!
I agree, too, but I don't like these - they open to the sides and I prefer the small ziplocks that open to the top and are about a third bigger than the floss away bags :-)
Hence why *I* got them! This size and shape suits me :) :)
My First EVAH Halloween Present !!!!!!
Thanks Tracy !!!!!!
Ooh, look at the adorable Beanie Bat! What's his name?
I'd hang him on a springy string or piece of elastic so he looked like he was flying [grins]
Cute! Love the bat :)
I was thinking of calling the Bat Nosferatu ..... and hanging him above my desk at work ....
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