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I want to thank you all so much for your kind, encouraging, and empathizing comments on yesterday's post; my spirit was so bolstered by all of you! I "sewed" most of the grass in yesterday, and my plot is now almost solidly green. I didn't think much of the Kudzu until it was all done and I stepped back, but now I can see the variegation and I think it's just quite subtly perfect. Next will be more of the personalization, along with a band that I'm considering working in purple--which would push this design more towards Hallowe'en--good or bad? Should I make the band with one of the colors already in the design or into one (which?) of these purples (they are WDW Concord and Eggplant, respectively. I know you can't see what the band is like, but that's the way it is! :P (It is very simple, though.) Enjoy your Saturday, everyone! It's beautiful, clear and cool with breezes--I feel like we've really lucked out! Yours Happily, Berit

Get your copy of The Daily Mel ! From Stitchy Giveaways Mel, of The Daily Mel is having a giveaway to celebrate her 8th blogging anniversary/1000th post! Whew! Now, it's a bit of a stretch to imagine that someone might read my blog who doesn't already read hers, but just in case DO check it out! The deadline for entry is Wednesday, 26 August 2009 at 11pm (Gee; I'm not sure what time zone she is...) , and the prize package is astoundingly wonderful in its bounty! Follow the link at the top of this post for full details and entry directions. :D ::: Now, then, for stitching on the home front, I've started a few things, and even FINISHED a few things since I last made a post here on "PoPn'N" (Yes, I just randomly made up a silly acronym for my blog title...Reminds me of one of those games at Chuck E. Cheese's-type places that says, "LeeeeeEEEEtssss POP 'EM!!" Then, "HOLLLLD DA Balls!" Only it sounds like ...

On Monday morning, while sleepily checking my email/reader, I saw that Tanya of The Sampler Girl had released a new freebie: "eat your carrots". Because it was such a glorious, spring-y,sunny morning, and because I've been doing fall stitching most of the winter (which I love, but don't want to do winter all spring...), and because Marc's nickname for me is some form of the word "Bunny", and because I LOVE pastel colours (I'm happy as a pig in, umn, mud when the spring comes because I can just roll in pastels, eyelet lace, and seersucker regardless of whether or not anyone I know's got a baby.), I decided this would be an easy, fast spring make which I could then finish and enjoy as spring comes on. I think we all need a little cheering up from the winter blues. So, at some length, I finished, and "finish-finished" it. "eat your carrots" The Sampler Girl Start: 01 March 2010 End: 03 March 2010 Fabric: 1/2 on Myste...

Gosh, but I have a beast of a blog in the works. Updates on all that cooking. Answers, answers, answers. Awesome stitching, and even more awesome SURPRISES in the MAIL. But I've only a moment, and so here's how I'm ringing in tonight's Snowfall. Red Bird Sampler Bent Creek Designs Recommended Fibers (CC & WDW) 36 count Meadowlark (1/2) Start Date: 10 February 2010 Other Snooze News: • Have you seen the Steweb scissors from Kelmscott? I wants them! :) • Patience 1898 from Hands to Work

Here is a bit of a writeup I made about my likes, wishes, and tastes intended as a help for the members of the Tiny Treasures Exchange--hopefully it will be of some help those of you in the group who have drawn my name! ... I like designs to be more iconic--representative and made of symbols rather than realistic. (This is why I like smalls best; because they have cute, neat icons to represent flowers or whatever the subject, rather than some photo-realistic life-size rose. Also, the geometric embellishments are charming.) For colours, I like blue greens-rather than yellow greens, but am not so opposed to yellow-green that it could not be used as a highlight on a leaf, for example. I also like pale yellows/creams together. I like that beautiful floss which changes colors. Lately I can't seem to stop stitching things in that red-plum-maroon one DMC makes, lol! ("blackwork" done in it is so charming!), and also like patterns such as houndstooth. For themes, I...

Hello, All! I am just desperate to show you these buttons I bought from Etsy recently for my little version of Mary's Pin Pillow by Indigo Rose. They have yet to arrive, and this is the photo from the seller's site! They are size 7/8", so I think think they will be really striking! Etsy has some AMAZING buttons for sale, so I'm hoping I don't get too addicted! I had to restrain myself and only buy buttons that "I need now" for a specific thing instead of getting ever little thing that caught my eye! I could easily have spent $50 just on buttons! And nothing to sew them to...good thing I like Biscornu so much... But, I only bought this one kind. :) It doesn't really show so in my previous post, but there is a good bit of plum in the floss I used, so I am hoping that these buttons will really bring it out. I took those photos as a test of the camera on a friend's new phone--it has 3.2 MP!! Not sure it's colours are so good, however. But, i...

Here, because it has been springlike-weather all weekend (to my great irritation: Why is it shorts-and-sandals weather in second-half of November!? I was shaking my fist at the sky all weekend. Do Not want to get sick due to yo-yo weather. But, if ya can't beat 'em, join 'em!)and even moreso today, follow a collection of summery items: This is a long-long overdue show-off of the wonderfully citrus-y exchange I received from dear Ann (who is offering a charming swap today; head on over!) as her recipient in the Tiny Treasures Exchange (Floss Tag). The floss tag has appeared in the corners of some photos in my blog before, and says "Bobbins" on the primary side. The other two items are the extras she made for me--a complete "Sewing Set"! The reverse side of the tag and the inside of the necessities pouch; so many nice pockets and a felt for needles and pins. How nicely it is made! A details pic--see the hand-crocheted button loop? And the star...