GIVEAWAY TIME!

I am giving away two charts! Please note, they are marked up a bit as I had previously started them before deciding to not do them....

You can only enter for one chart - so make your decision!  Then leave a post saying which one you would like to be "entered for" - and an email address that I can reach you at if you win!

The one chart is "Peace" by Birds of a Feather. The other chart is "Emma Rose Freedom" by Tree of Life Samplings.  You can see both of these charts by looking on http://www.123stitch.com/ - my favorite online ordering shop!

I will be taking entries until Saturday - August 4th. I will do the drawing on Sunday, August 5th!

Colors Shining Through....

When I was growing up, my Mother used to call me a "little brown person"... Why? Because all I wanted to wear was brown clothes. I think I just didn't want anyone to notice me - didn't want to stand out.  As I grew up and older, I ventured into more colorful clothing. At one point, about the only colors in my closet were purple!  When I started stitching, I gravitated to the darker colors still.  I was really into primitive samplers. Then I found reproduction samplers and they became my new love.  I still stitch primitive ones, but mainly feel the pull towards the repro. I branch out now and then into samplers that are more modern.  But I still feel more at peace with the reproduction ones.  However, these days, I'm into ones that are much brighter! Ones that really pop out at you - ones that make you smile when you think about the little girl sitting there stitching them... picking out colors that are the brightest ones in the crayon box!  Several of the samplers I'm stitching now have bright pinks and peaches and reds and greens and blues in them - even pops of purple. What fun I'm having!! How about you? What colors do you feel yourself pulled towards?

Happy Fourth!!

A hot day....
An annual neighborhood 4th of July parade that came right by our house this year....
A trip to my favorite town of Occoquan (did I say it was hot)...
A new candle...
Some little bottles of bubbles that I was given at the tourist center...

Staying in for the rest of the evening - having dinner, reading my book, doing some stitching, watching some tv....

Hope you are having a good one!