Fabric Eye Candy

Uhm....well, you see, I was only going to quilt/sew from my stash this year, but uhm, er...well I kinda sorta went off the wagon and the first month has not even passed yet. Well, I can justify it. I can justify anything. I haven't bought any new stash in over six months. So, I thought maybe I should reward myself for being such a good girl. I just totally forgot about my stash diet. Sorta like I forgot about my food diet when I was eating that Dove chocolate. Oh well. What's a girl to do? Stash and chocolate can cure just about anything! Would you like to see what I've aquired in the last week or so? Hmmmmmm???? Well, without further ado, here we go:

I love this one and will probably start it first since it's sorta Valentiney.



This will look so pretty on the back of our couch.



Oh wait...this one is sorta Valentiney, too. Maybe I should do this one first. I just love the colors.



Cute, cute, cute purse! It's made out of a panel. I've never seen one like this before, but the model in the shop sold me right away.



Another purse with such pretty spring colors that I love:



I'm not sure what quilt will be made out of this, but I had to have it.



This last picture is taken from my stash. I'm planning to make the quilt that is on the cover of the magazine shown.



So see? I can justify these new purchases because I'm going to make a quilt out of my stash. Does that count? LOL Did I do good?

Now I need to get busy. My sewing studio is a complete and utter mess, so hopefully I will get that cleaned up a bit this weekend so I can start "playing".

I hope you enjoyed my eye candy. I can just waller in new stash (I just love that word "waller"). I'm so glad you stopped by and hope you will come again. I love hearing from each of you, so feel free to leave a comment and tell me what you think of my purdies. Bad, bad Carolyn!

Have a great weekend doing what you love with who you love. :)

I wish you enough,

Love and hugs from Texas,

Ahhhh caffeine...

Have I ever told you how much I love coffee? Ohh I do love me some coffee. Just plain coffee with a little bit of creamer. I don't like flavored coffee or creamers and (shoot me now) can't STAND Starbucks. I know. That's a sin. I just don't care for their coffee and all that stuff that they put on it.

Have I ever told you how much I love tea? Hot tea...yum. Cold tea....yum.

Have I ever told you how much I love Coke? Plain Coke. Not Diet Coke. Plain
Coke with crushed ice and tons of calories. I can't help myself. I'm hooked. Just sayin',,,

We bought one of those Keurig coffee/tea makers around the holidays, and I'm in love. The K-cups that you get to go in it are expensive, but you can use your own coffee, which is what we do now that the cups are gone. Those lasted about a week. Well, today I figured out how to make tea in it. WOOHOOO! They have the tea K-cups, but I'm too cheap. I have a gazillion green tea bags and others so I just tore open two of them, filled up the filter thingeedoowah, and voila! A MOST yummy cup of tea! I'm so excited. I know it doesn't take much to make me happy! It's the simple things in life, I suppose.

Anyway, this is not earth shattering. I just thought I'd share.

Have a great week and I wish you enough,

Is it just me?

Okay, I will admit that I LOVE to start something new and I have soooo many projects right now that I'm dying to start. BUT, I just can not STAND to kit them up. Is it just me? When I'm ready to stitch something, I'm ready to stitch it. NOW. It reminds me of back when I used to sew my own clothes all the time. I literally hated cutting the pattern out, but loved the sewing part. Do any of you feel this way or am I just whacky? Now with my quilting, that's a different story. I could fling fabric all day. I could literally waller (is that a word? it is here in Texas!) in it deciding on what looks good with what. I.Am.Weird.

I started an ornament last night and stitched until 3:30 a.m. Okay, the reason I stitched so late was because I was watching some good movies on AMC. Have you seen either of the "Cape Fear" movies? The older version came on first and after that the newer version came on. I love them both, so of course had to sit up and watch them. Skeeeery, but good. So I did get quite a bit done on my January ornament. It's a good thing since I'm so late starting on it. I'm hoping to get another one done before the month is over with, but we'll see about that. I love stitching ornaments...just hate kitting them up. LOL I'll wait to share a picture of the one I'm stitching now until it's finished.

We got the last of the furniture out of the storage building today, so our house is...ahem...a bit cluttered at the moment. I have all these boxes to unpack, pictures to re-hang on the wall, etc. I'm finding all kinds of things I forgot I had! LOL We want to paint while everything is already off the walls, so I need to decide on what colors. Ahhh so much to do, so little time on the weekends. I mean, I can't work the poor hubby to death on the only days he has off can I? or ....can I? LOL Actually he loves every minute of it, and I'm truly blessed that he does.

I need to have my head examined. We are going to go to Wally World today. On a Saturday? When everybody and their DOGS is there? I haven't been to Walmart in probably six months. I'm not sure why I feel the urge to go there but I do. I don't normally buy my groceries there, but I suppose I will today. I wonder if there will be more than one cash register open? That would be a miracle at our Walmart.

Time to change clothes, put on my armor and head out. Have a great weekend, dear friends, and thank you for stopping by. I just love all of your comments, emails, etc. They literally make my day!

I wish you enough,

Giveaway Winner and Birthday thank you..

Howdy friends,

As I promised, today is the day to announce the giveaway winner. However, I'm going to make you wait just a minute because I have a special thank you to post. :) My dear friend, Chris (no blog) sent me the nicest birthday gift and I wanted to share with you. Chris and I "met" MANY (almost twenty) years ago back when there was a "penpal wanted" section in one of the cross stitch magazines. This was way before computers when you actually got letters in the mail. Anybody remember those days? Anyway, she would always send the most awesome letters, and decorate the envelopes and letter pages. I always so looked forward to her letters. I still have them after all these years. Chris has been through so much with me, and has been a dear friend. It's amazing that I can be that close to someone that I've never even met in person, but I consider her as part of my family. Afterall, she's in my will (she gets all my cross stitch stuff! for real!). Okay, here is what she sent to me.



Pretty cool, huh? I LOVE LOVE LOVE red and have my kitchen in white with red accents and some rooster decor. The towel is just perfect! Thank you, Miss Chris, for a most wonderful birthday gift!

Now, the moment you've all been waiting for. First of all, I thought I would share a picture of what the winner will be getting.



The basket full of all the entries:



Hubby drawing name out of the basket:



And the winner is Michele!



Congratulations, Michele! I hope you enjoy your winnings. :) I will email you shortly.

On a stitching and quilting note, there has been NONE for nearly two weeks. I was gone for 10 days visiting my precious grandchildren and normally take stitching with me. Well, for the first time EVER, I didn't this time. So I'm having withdrawals and will be picking up needle and thread tonight and working on my sheep weathervane, ALTHOUGH I must admit that there are other things screaming at me. I guess it's a good thing that they aren't kitted up and I'm too lazy to get out of my chair to do that right now. LOL I have fabric that is calling my name to make into a quilt, too, but maybe tomorrow. Afterall, tomorrow IS another day!

Okay friends, that's about all I have to share tonight. This was a fun giveaway, and hope to have another one soon, so come back often. I love having visitors, and when you comment, it leads me to your blog, too. I must admit that I spend WAY too much time visiting my friend's blogs.

Off to stitch...

I wish you enough.

Love and hugs from Texas,
Carolyn

Birthday Giveaway EDITED 1/15/11

Hello friends,

This will be a short post, as I'm not at home and busy taking care of my sweet little buglets (grandbabies).

Today is my birthday and I had PLANNED on having a giveaway today in honor of that but I'm not at home to post the pictures. I will say that one of the prizes is a pair of Gingher scissors and a few other goodies. :)

If you would like to enter, please post on THIS POST ONLY, and make sure I have a way to get in touch with you if you win. You need to be a follower of my blog and if you post about this on YOUR blog, please let me know and you will get another chance. That's it. Easy peasy.

I won't be back home until Sunday or Monday, so how about I have hubby draw a name next Wednesday.That will give y'all plenty of time. Remember, only sign up ON THIS POST ONLY, There's no way I could keep up with them all if they are on another post.

Okay, That is all for now. I hope lots of you sign up. I think you will be happy with what I've picked out for you. :)

EDIT: Just a reminder for those of you that have signed up for my giveaway. Please remember that you need to be a follower and let me know in your comments, okay? Thanks so much!
Have a wonderful day!

I wish you enough,
Carolyn :)

Happy New Year friends!

I can't even figure out where 2010 went. I think that must be a sign of age. Not.good. Oh well. There isn't too much I can do about that, so I'll just make some plans for what I want to accomplish in this new year that we've been blessed with.

I always start something new on New Year's Day. Well, I did, but I didn't start it until after 8:00 p.m. last night. I did stitch for several hours, so that counts. I changed my mind about a dozen times on what I was going to start, and at the last minute, I picked this one:




This is called "Sheep Weathervane" by Prairie Moon. I love sheepies. They are just the cutest. I've had this kitted up for quite a while, and decided it was time to get it started. So far I'm enjoying it.

Do any of you have any stitching plans/goals for the new year? I was GOING to join the 15 chart challenge, but I figured I already have enough WIPS and certainly don't need to add that many more.

Here are a few of my plans:

1. Since I didn't stitch but one ornament this year, I want to stitch a bunch more. I'm still in the Christmas stitching mood, so this will probably be what I do next.

2. Finish Amid Amish Life. This is my oldest WIP of all. I picked it back up several months ago and really enjoyed working on it. It NEEDS to be finished and hanging on my wall. It's sad to be left alone for so long.

3. Finish HoHRH. Good thing when I stitched that first block I didn't put the date like it shows. LOL This is another long time WIP that I would love to finish. Actually this and AAL are my two largest ones. The other few aren't as big.

4. Stitch some of my BBD, LHN and LaDDa charts that I've been collecting.

5. Do the finishing work on the things that need it. There aren't very many, but I'd like to have NONE and then finish as I complete the stitching.

There. It's down on "paper". Right in front of me. Hopefully this will help motivate me to finish a few of these things. BUT, I'm not very rigid with my stitching as this is my hobby, so I may vary.

I also do a lot of sewing (not clothes, fun things), and I have tons of purse patterns and other things that are totally calling my name, along with my quilting. What's a girl to do? Have take-out every night? Hire a house keeper and gardener? Well since none of those will ever happen in this house, I guess I better learn to manage my time better, huh? As. If.

THEN, on top of all of that, I have a few pieces of furniture that I want to paint and distress. Oh my. Well, I'll just roll with the flow and do what calls me at the time.

Sooooo, do you have anything stitching/sewing/quilting/crafting/planned for 2011? I'd love to hear about them.

Well, my little sheepie is screaming at me, so I think I'll go put in a few x's. Have a wonderful Sunday, and I look forward to hearing alllllll about your plans. :)

Hugs and love,

Carolyn