I'm a winner and another giveaway!

Annette of California Stitcher blog had a giveaway for her 2nd blogoversary and I was the lucky winner!  She wrapped it up so nicely with a pretty handmade card!

Annette is so very talented!  She sewed this zippered project pouch and matching needle book.  It is also the perfect size for a tablet or Kindle and it's nicely padded and fully lined with contrasting fabric.  She also included the Topiary in Bloom chart with linen, Cosmo floss, backing fabric and trim!  What a wonderful prize!  Thank you so very much, Annette!

I was also a very lucky winner of this new chart, "Popsicles" from Nancy of Pickle Barrel Designs!

Nancy from Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe is having another giveaway!  This time it is for a Custom Family Name Sampler chart.  Instead of giving you an alphabet, your family name and date will be printed onto the chart for you.  Enter HERE for a chance to win and tell Nancy that I sent you!  Drawing on April 30.

I'm a winner and more stash!

Thank you so much to Lindsay from Caring Stitcher blog!  She picked my name to win her 10 year blogoversary surprise and I just received an amazing package of goodies in the mail today!  She wrapped everything in tiger striped tissue paper.

 Here is everything unwrapped:

 A nice Christmas tin to store stitchy goodies in, or fill it up with homemade candy and fudge!

A cute ornament chart with beads and buttons.

Lacy trim and 30 ct cream linen and an amazing beaded needle holder!

Lindsay sewed this purple Q-snap cover herself and also did all the beading on the needle holder!  Such amazing talent!

She also made this wonderful ornament with specialty stitches and cute pins and white velvet ribbon.  The fabric on the back had a design of different colored sewing pins.  Perfect!  Thank you so very much, Lindsay!  Happy 10th Blogoversary to you!

I also received this Jungle Baby chart from Bianca from the Random Acts of Stitching Kindness blog!  Thank you so much, Bianca!  I plan to stitch these cute animals separately and donate to World of Charity Stitching to be sewn onto a quilt or tote bag or pillow.  They accept any designs and not just for a quilt theme.

I also bought the Neighborhood Friends chart by Little House Needleworks.  100% of the sales from this dog chart and the Cats in the Garden chart by Shakespeare's Peddler will go to animal care organizations.  You can order them both HERE and nominate an animal shelter or rescue to receive some of the profits!  They surprised me with a skein of limited edition over-dyed floss!

Pumpkins for Cathey

Happy Blogoversary to Cathey M. of Pumpkin Patch & Co.!!

Be sure to visit Daffycat's blog to see all the other bloggers who are wishing Cathey a Happy Blogoversary, too!

Happy Blogoversary to me!

Today is my second blogoversary!  I started this cross stitch blog in 2010 when I began stitching Wedding Ride for my best friend's wedding gift.  I hadn't been stitching for over 10 years and was excited to find so many blogs to follow and meet other stitchers all around the world!

This is the piece that got me back into cross stitching:  Wedding Ride.  

You can find just about everything at 123-Stitch, so I will have a blogoversary giveaway of a $10 gift certificate to this website.  Just leave a comment below and I'll draw a winner on Sunday, September 30.

Nancy at Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe is also having a giveaway of an Autumn gift bag of goodies, drawing on October 15.  Enter HERE and tell Nancy that I sent you!

I was a previous lucky winner of one of Nancy's giveaways of hand-dyed floss.  I plan to use the dark green floss she gave me for the leaves of the sunflowers on my June square from the Prairie Schooler Summer & Winter booklet.

Summer & Winter (June) update #2

Winner of my First Blogoversary Giveaway!

For my first Blogoversary Giveaway, I typed everyone's name who commented on my Blogoversary post, then cut them up and shuffled the slips of paper around and around and around, and the name I picked is....
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Sharine!

She is a new follower on my blog and helped me get up to 100 followers!  Wow!  I am a new follower on her blog, too.  I'm sure the $10 gift certificate to 1-2-3 Stitch will come in handy, and I won't have to mail anything to Australia!

My First Blogoversary TODAY!

I've been watching the countdown for months now!  I'm so happy that I started this cross stitch blog last year and started following other blogs and joining Yahoo groups too. I have learned so much in the last year about cross stitching.  Ten years had gone by with no stitching, and I'm so happy to be back!  Since I'm still building up my stash with floss, fabric, and patterns, I don't have much to give away, so I will offer a $10 gift certificate from 1-2-3 Stitch instead!  Then anyone in the world can win, and I don't have to worry about postage!

To enter My First Blogoversary Giveaway, just leave a comment below for one entry. If you mention this giveaway on Facebook, leave another comment here with your FB name for another entry.  I will draw a winning name on Wednesday, September 28, at noon PST.

Happy Stitching and Good Luck!

Addendum:  I have noticed that lots of comments come to my email inbox with <noreply-comment@blogger.com> instead of showing your email address. I won't be able to contact you if you win. To change this setting, go to Design, Dashboard, then click Show my email address. Good luck!

Just for fun, here are pics of my 3 cats doing what cats do best!  These pictures weren't staged either! They always like to hang out together!

Bubbles is the calico cat, Billy is the brown tabby cat, and Blueberrie is the black & white tuxedo cat.

Blogoversary Giveaway

TangerineDream at Cross Stitch & Cupcakes is having a giveaway to celebrate her 3rd Blogoversary!
http://crossstitchandcupcakes.blogspot.com/2011/04/blogoversary-giveaways.html


I entered the drawing by leaving a comment on her blog, and got a second entry by posting the link here too. Good luck!