TTE Needlebook Exchange received!

Guess who is my secret partner for this exchange?? When she mentioned in the exchange blog that her needlebook doesn't have far to go, I have that "six sense" that could it be for me...heee...Bingo...I am right...it’s for me...yeah...

I received a very pretty and sweet needlebook from Jean!

She stitched the Happy Bunny Bunny Day designed by The Trilogy using DMC floss on Hand-dyed Linen. On top of this beautiful needlebook, she sent me some extras too. They are my favourite Needle Necessities overdyed floss and Piecemakers needles!! Wow... I really love them all.

Ok ok...without further ado... here is a picture to show:


Her stitches are very neat and even --->

Inner view of the needlebook. The fabric that she used is very pretty and sweet --->

And now a picture of the whole package, tada --->

Thank you so much, Jean. I am really lucky and happy to receive them. (^_^)

New possession....

Last week my colleague, Karen passed me lots of her knitting stuff. She told me that she couldn't find time to do all her knitting and crocheting nowadays with her two boys being so active. I am more than happy to take them all...heee. Some of her crochet needles and embroidery flosses were taken by my other colleagues.


Now they are my possession. ....Dancing away….


Thanks Karen. (^_^)

TTE Needlebook Sent

Yeah…I managed to finish my Needlebook for TTE exchange over the weekend. It was then packed and mailed off during lunch break today. Took a picture of the little package before it was sealed in the envelope…take a peek…


I am always amazed by the present information technology, internet and etc.
It really brings people all over the world together in a way. Take cross stitching for instant, before there is such thing as the internet, people only stitch in their own area of comfort or share only among their own friends. But now we are doing exchange worldwide!! Isn’t this amazing?? With all the blogs and forum, we get to “know” each another even thou we have not met one another before. We even know some of the popular stitchers when we happen to mention them in our blog or stitching conversations. I feel that we are so far away yet so close when it comes to sharing our same hobby. This is just so great. (^_^)

Sharing another fabulous giveaway....

You can’t give this a miss.

Jackie of Canton Village Quilt Works is giving away some great items. Comment in her giveaway post; blog about her giveaway; subscribe to her newsletter; be one of her followers and you will be entitled to FOUR chances of the draw.

I have done mine, how about you?

Btw, the giveaway will remain open until Midnight EST on November 2. Jackie will do the drawing on November 3, 2009.

Good Luck... (^_^)

Relieve

Finally...my brother's wedding celebration was over. Thou I wasn't the main characters in the whole preparation...I feel "stressed" too, I just don't know why... I feel relieve after the dinner, for the couple and myself.

I have lagged behind a lot…blog posting, sewing, stitching, shop updating…and etc due to busy searching for dinner clothes, shoes, getting ready for his big day and lots more. We went to his bride’s house in Malaysia the week before his actual wedding day. It was a fun weekend as it was the first time my whole family (including my brothers, sister, parents, my children and husband) went for a trip “overseas” and stay over for the night. It was a real short one, but a memorable one ;)

I didn’t finish my challenge in time…hmm...it was about ¾ done. I shall finish it before CNY...LOL...

My needlebook exchange was half way done too…and I shall finish it by this week, by hook or by crook!

Guess what…I am so lucky to be the WINNER of Lillie’s draw!!! OMG…I just couldn’t believe that this is true!! Yeah….Thank you so much Lillie ;) Well…this is my birthday month, so maybe I am luckier that the others…LOL…

Till the next update…happy stitching to all (^_^)

Great Halloween giveaway from Pumpkin Patch Primitives!!!

Quick, put down whatever you are doing for a moment, and RUSH to Pumpkin Patch Primitive Quilt Shoppe to enter yourself to the wonderful 27 fat quarters that Brenda is giving away to a lucky winner before 31 Oct 2009!!! Right now there are already more than 350 participants to the draw and Brenda might just give away 2 sets of those!! I know I am not that lucky but then why should I give up my chance?

If you are going to enter to her draw, remember to do a proper post it in your blog in order to be qualified. If you mention to Brenda about my referral for this fabulous draw, I will be able to get an extra chance :) So...what are you waiting for???

Another great blog with lots of freebies

I got to know Liselotte's blog from Echevette's blog. I was overjoyed to find a beautiful chart in there. I love lily of the valley, especially it's scent, and this pretty flower chart is available for free in Liselotte's blog!

Thanks Liselotte, I have downloaded the chart and ready to stitch it (^_^)

Take a look her blog, I am pretty sure you will love it! :)

I have sign up for another exchange

..in Tiny Treasure Exchange Too, at the very last minute before signing up due date! Nita is so kind to add me in. Thank you Nita.

I received my partner's info this morning. I went to her blog and realised that she is a very talented lady.

I am going to search my piles of charts, hope to find something special to stitch for her. hmmm...what should I choose neh...

A new challenge

I am taking a new challenge. I am going to make a long sleeves shirt and long pants for my boy. I may make two sets if I succeed, as I already bought the required materials for two suits. These are meant to be worn during my brother’s wedding end of October this year.

I have never sewed that before, and now I am challenging myself to do it!!! I hope I will succeed anyway.

The worst scenario: I may have to buy him a set from the ready made store if I fail
>(*_*)<

Wish me good luck…lol

My Treasure

I don't have any diamond and I don't have much gold. Presently, the only treasures that I am collecting and keeping are all my books and periodicals!!

I have been buying crafts books and periodicals since twenty years ago, and the buying mood gets more intensify in recent years. Now my cupboards are full of books!! Can’t imagine how much I have spent on those….gosh.

My collections are mainly cookbooks and craft books. I love buying crafts books, whether they are in English or Chinese, Japanese or French…LOL…even thou I can’t read Japanese or French. I love admiring at their work! All the pictures shown in their books are so inspiring that I could just simply browse over and over again without knowing what they are saying…well…that is the only pity I have.

I bought so many cross stitch magazines too, and after reading the issue, I would normally kept them nicely in the cupboard until when I need to stitch something, I will have to ransack the whole cupboard. I couldn’t bear to cut out and keep the charts, and to discard all the advert and stitching stories. I just love to keep the whole magazine. I feel great to read what others have done. I even plastic wrapped those magazines, crazy right?

I think I should do a list of the indexes for each magazine, and it would be a great help anytime when I need them. Hmmm…that will be my next project. “(*_*)”…I shall use excel spreadsheet to do it.

Just wondering how does each of you keep track of your books and magazines. >(^_^)<