Sunday, July 19, 2009

My first pinkeeps and a lucky win!


From The Sampler Girls Companion Booklet 4
Pinkwork Pinkeeps
Raspberry Linen--The Sampler Girl's Website
DMC floss
How lucky can a girl get???? Yesterday, I received in the mail The Prairie Schooler designs above from Michelle at The Striped Rose! I feel so lucky to win her drawing she had recently and excited to stitch these designs. I love them all. There are 5 patterns in the booklet. Awesome!
Thanks Michelle! She also shared with me some freebie patterns. So many to choose from now!
Here are my humble first pinkeeps. I just love the pink color! If I had to do over again, I would get wider ribbon for embellishment and pearly pink matching pins.

Entered in a Giveaway

Paulette at Plum Street Samplers is having a give-a-way with drawing tomorrow! This is her first blogversary. Check it out!
She also has a beautiful freebie on her last post which is cool!

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http://plumstreetsamplers.typepad.com/plum_street_samplers/

Insomnia thoughts........

I finished the pinkeeps tonight.....or this morning......LOL
And about to take a picture and my camera battery is dead. So, I will definitely charge it up so I can take pics later. On these, I definitely learned a little about the how to's and next time will finish better. They are quite cheerful though!

On to finishing the 1888 Ohio Quilt Posey next. I will frame this one. Then I have several I would like to start....oh my! decisions, decisions. I think I'm the only one that has not started the Mary Wigham sampler as I scroll through blogs today. Its' a beautiful sampler and have it on my "to do " list ;however, I have a few more that I would like to do before this one. I enjoy reading throught the Needleprint blog, the history, the richness of stitching that has been preserved for years.

I think my brain is about dead too right now as it's 2 am, so I will be getting some shut-eye soon. I'm already thinking about breakfast.

This morning I made some cinnamon rolls, the can kind and to give you an example of how good my hubbie is about eating anything I cook, he actually didn't know he was chewing on the metal top to the icing. This was a first for me leaving the top of the icing topper in the bottom of one of the rolls. I was commenting on how good and yummy they were with coffee and he kept chewing.......chewing very hard like the crust was quite crunchy and then he says to me "Wow, this is a chewy crust and then realized he was biting the metal topper" We both laughed so hard. He never complained and even left teeth marks on the metal piece! What a laugh.....
ok, now, I'm really going to bed...........insomnia has left me.