afters

(and pumpkin cheesecake)

The first photo is a small sampler adapted from In the Kitchen with Jane Austen by The Sampler Girl. I’m having a giveaway drawing over at the Handcrafts Online facebook page for the chart for the little Turkey Farm design shown with Amber’s scrumptious pumpkin cheesecake.

One more after to mention ::

The day after the day after sale at the webshop!
November 28 – 30.

Shipping in the USA only .99, $1.85 international for any size order. Place an order of $30 or more and get a free chart of YOUR choice up to $9.00 in value (or I’ll take $9 off the price of a more expensive chart). Just email me the name of the chart you’d like added to your order – happy stashing!!

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new and news

A couple nearly finished projects, one from Shepherd’s Bush and one from Stacy Nash Primitives. lately it seems I don’t settle in to stitch until about 10pm and because I’m taking some strong medicine that makes me sleepy I don’t stitch for long. Last night rather than getting drowsy I was wide awake and jittery til almost 6am. That being the case I took advantage and made good progress on my Stacy Nash Project (the first stitch went in about midnight last night when I finally got done messing around at facebook). I’m feeling the lack of sleep this afternoon however.

While I was ‘messing around’ I created a facebook page for Handcrafts Online. I hope it will be a place you share finishes and join stitching chatter and where I’ll be able to keep you better updated about new things coming in and shipping out, various webshop events, and limited availabilty items. Feel free to become a fan, the more the merrier as they say!!

Handcrafts Online

One bit of news you’ll see if you join  -  these wonderful new designs coming soon, feel free to email me or leave a request at facebook to reserve yours!

weekending

I feel like I’m on the home stretch of wrapping up a very busy week. I really wanted to make it an early night last night (I mean really early) but stayed up late instead and made great progress reducing my ‘to do’ list. I feel much more relaxed today than I have felt all week, all the better to enjoy this beautiful day.

Here is the little pillow I made from my start on The Sampler Girl’s On Travel with Jane Austen. I’ve restarted this on 40ct linen to make it a much better size for my wall and think this makes a sweet little pillow, looks just right with these others, doesn’t leave much room on the chair however. I still think a cat could nap there and that’s what really matters right?

I have lots of webshop updates to make today, I’ll be adding these Rose Pin Poufs to the Pink Page as well. Thanks for all the nominations, keep them coming please! The larger the selection the better for adding to the donation :0)

Here is my secretary filling up the ‘in box’. She doesn’t star on my blog as much as her much more photogenic younger sister (my cats have the same parents but Ophelia is from a later litter than Yzma). She is basking in the sunshine while I sit here typing, only opening one eye when she suspects a bird may be on the feeder that’s attached to the window.

Hope the rest of your weekend is lovely!

Coming in 4 days!! Shop With Me!!

October 7-12

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the pink page now open

I still have lots of designs to add this evening as soon as the mom taxi is back in the garage for the night but I’ve added the new pinkeep and activated the Pink Page. You are able to nominate a design for the page any time during October.

Ophelia says thank you!

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think pink

It’s that time again, where did September go?

I’m ready for your Pink Page 2009 nominations. The Pink Page is a special fundraising page at Handcrafts Online for Breast Cancer Awareness Month (October here in the US). There will be a 2009 Full of Hope Pinkeep kit as well as lots of pink things to choose from. The pinkeep kits raise $5.00 each and 10% of the purchase price of other things on the page also go toward a donation for breast cancer research and education at the end of October.

Designs don’t need to be ‘pink’ in theme, that is they don’t need to be cause designs. Just nominate a favorite design that uses pink threads or feels pink to you…..your name will be listed with your nomination if it ends up on the page. Just email me at petermkp@gmail.com and watch for the page on October 1st.

There are many ways to support Breast Cancer Awareness – hope you’ll get involved in the effort. My grocery store was giving away free bouquets today if you bought special pink packages of m&ms, was that a great deal or what??

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frosty couple

New goodies coming and going all the time!! I’ve been updating the webshop, lots more to do. This is current release for the Country Cottage Winter Wonderland series, starting in November there is a great series coming called Spring Social and not to forget the Once Upon a Time series coming from Little House. Both can be seen at the Fabulous Fall page at the webshop.

Amber made a batch of chocolate meringues today and served them with some of our raspberry freezer jam – yum. So good with a cup of cocoa. We are in need of cocoa here as you can see by this other little frosty couple all bundled up in a quilt. Tonight’s weather calls for 2 inches of snow and in some nearby areas (a little too nearby) there is a winter storm warning.

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another

From Sweet August. I love the colors on this one, it was fun to stitch. You can see I’ve also re-stitched a design from the May Flowers stockings – Tulip Border, the first one I did was for an exchange. Not sure I’ll have time to finish it til next weekend, 4 children, a business, homeschooling, and life in general keeps a body hopping and my calender doesn’t seem to have a blank spot in sight.  I love to be busy so it will all be a joy, but I like to have time to stitch as well ;0)

While making beds this morning I thought I’d try my hand at one of those artsy unmade bed pictures. You know like these…. not sure I captured the look, I’m in a funk about how my pictures look again, I need to practice more perhaps…. at least the beds are made.

There are many, many, MANY good things coming for stitchers, I ooohhhhh and aaahhhh every day as I see more and more. Have a peek here!

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