Pumpkins 4 Sale and a few new projects....

Little House Needleworks Pumpkins 4 Sale


Country Cottage Needleworks~ Peppermint Lane

Country Cottage Needleworks Merry Christmas Ornament




Hi! I hope y'all are having a lovely day! It is a beautiful day here in Southern AZ. It is supposed to be 84 degrees and sunny! ;o)

I finished LHN's Pumpkins 4 Sale a couple of weeks ago and it is at the framers. I hope to get a call that it is finished sometime this week or early next week. I have started CCN's Peppermint Lane and CCN's christmas ornament from this year's Just Cross~Stitch ornament issue.

I joined the 2011 Christmas Ornament Challenge. I am going to start LHN's Joy and Peace tomorrow for it. I just need to cut my fabric sometime today. I will be sure to post pictures.

I am really going to try and be a better blogger. ;o) I have been stamping a little so I hope to have a post about that up in a few days.

~Heather

A friend's give~away

http://astitchersheirlooms.blogspot.com/2011/10/today-is-very-cold-and-rainy-october.html

Hi all! Sorry for the absence again, just going through some major health trials. I just wanted to pop on here and let you know that one of my new blog friends Kathy at the lovely A Stitcher's Heirlooms is having her first give~away and it is a lovely one! Head on over there and check out her beautiful blog and lovely stitching!

I hope to be back later today with a post on what I have been stitching.

~Heather

Back from the framers.....

Pumpkin Cottage by Country Cottage Needleworks


Hi y'all! Sorry I just dropped off for a while! I am having some health issues. Anyway, I got my pictures back from the framers this week. I am happy with them. I need to get better about stretching them. You can see that Acorn Hill is a little squiggly as my 7 year old would say! ;o)
Autumn Harvest by Little House Needleworks
Acorn Hill by Little House Needlworks
You can see where I have put Pumpkin Cottage for now in this picture. This view is from my couch in my sitting room. I am going to paint the easel that it is on as soon as it cools down a bit here. (It is 94 degrees out!)

Since I last posted I finished The Rose in the Morning by LHN and I am currently working on Pumpkins for Sale by LHN and the ornament that CCN designed for this years Just Cross Stitch ornament magazine. I will hopefully post pictures soon! ;o)

Happy stitching!
~Heather

Acorn Hill

I put the last stitches in Acorn Hill this afternoon!!! I love how this one turned out! The stitching went a lot faster than I thought it would! I stretched it this evening and it is headed to the framers tomorrow! I am taking a small break from Autumn stitching. ;o) I have a couple of things that are close to being stitched, so I am going to finish those and then I have a gift I want to stitch. But after that I will pick my Autumn stitching back up. ;o)

Acorn Hill was stitched on 28ct. Vintage Lentil from Lakeside Linens. LOVE this fabric. I love the mottled green! ;o) I did use the Crescent Colours Conversion. And if you are thinking of stitching this yourself. I needed two skeins of Brown Sugar and I came close on Bramble Bush and Weeping Willow. ;o)

~Heather

A finish and a new start...

I have a new finish! I started Autumn Harvest by Little House Needleworks on Sunday August 7th and finished it on Sunday August 14th. I stitched it on 28ct Tea dyed Irish Linen with the recommended DMC threads. It was a very fun and fast stitch. I am getting it ready to be taken to the framers this weekend. I will show it when I get it back.

I have already started a new Autumn stitch. It is Acorn Hill by Little House Needleworks. I am stitching it on 28 ct Vintage Lentil by Lakeside Linens with the Crescent Colours substitution. I took this picture yesterday and I have already made a lot more progress. This one is going to take me a lot longer, so I will be sure and show updates.

Sorry the pictures are so dark, it is Monsoon season here in Arizona so we have been having storms every day! YEAH!

Welcome to all of my new followers! ;o)

~Heather

Previous Stitching Part 1 - LHN & CCN

Hi! I thought I would share some of my previous stitching. These are my Little House Needleworks and my Country Cottage Needleworks pieces. These are two of my favourite designers.
Cottage Flowers by Country Cottage Needleworks
Summer Garden by Country Cottage Needleworks
Gingerbread Cottage by Country Cottage Needleworks
A terrible photo, but it helps you to see most of my pieces. Also you can see two of my pieces that I do not have individual photos for, I will have to fix that soon and edit this post. They are:
Home Sweet Home by Country Cottage Needleworks and Rose Garden by Little House Needleworks.


Ladybugs and Bumblebees by Country Cottage Needleworks.

~Heather

Pink & Brown Happy Birthday

I made this birthday card for me sweet friend Jenn. She and I share a love of pink! ;o) I love these sets from Papertrey! I stamped BB Sheet Music on some pink patterned paper I had in my stash. I love Make a wish and Make a wish Additions. Of course I had to add a little bit of Stickles to the top of each layer. ;o)

~Heather