Win This Lizzie Kate Design & Fabric!

Go to Kim's Stitch Pink Blog and check out what a great place it is! Kim started this blog to raise awareness and possibly funds for Breast cancer research. Some of the wonderful bloggers donate items so they can be given away in drawings. You can go there now and leave a message to enter the drawing for this LK chart and beautiful 13x18 piece of aida Chablis fabric from Picture This Plus and donated by Laurel's Stitchery. While you are there be sure to look around. If you would like to be added to the blog there is information on how to contact Kim.

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Good Mail Day!!!

Wow! Today was a really good mail day! I had a $50.00 gift certificate from Petra for 123stitch.com I got the GC for winning 2nd place in her New Years stitching contest. This was my entry It's a design that I designed myself. I had a good time 'shopping' for what I wanted. I very rarely order anything online even though I see lots that I want. :o) Thanks a bunch Petra and anyone that voted for my entry. :o)

Here is what I got:
1. Tacky Bob -I have been wanting one of these since I first saw them. Everytime I use beads on anything, I manage to spill them. :op
2. A Day Without Stitching by Imaginating
3. Lizzie Kate A-B-C-razy -I can't wait to stitch kids names, seasons, noel and USA from the cover, etc, etc...
4. Live, Life, Love from Hinzeit w/charms -This can be stitched to say 'Live the Life you Love' or 'Love the Life you Live'
5. Mini Block Fishing w/charms from Hinseit
6. Home of a Needleworker 2 from Little House Needleworks
7. 7 Crescent Colours flosses to stitch #6 above
I went a little over my $50 but it was ok because I had the fishing one last knowing Jerry would want me to get that one. I said "I really want to get this fishing one too but it will put me over". He said to go ahead and order it. :o) I knew he would because he's Mr. Nice Guy and spoils me. What? That wasn't wrong, was it? Lol!
More stuff!
I also got an order from Amazon.com today. Now remember that I said that I rarely order online. So it was strange for me to have 2 things coming at once not to mention on the same day!
I wanted a game for the Nintendo DS called New Zealand Story Revolution I couldn't find it anywhere at the stores. Not even at Best Buy. Well when I saw that on Amazon.com that I only needed to order $5.01 more to get free shipping I figured I might as well go for it. :o) So I looked around and found A Woman's World in Cross Stitch so I ordered that too. :o
And MORE!!
I got a RAK (random act of kindness) from Debra on my ILCS Yahoo group.
She sent me 2charts and a cute little Halloween tuck. :o) I definately won't have trouble finding something to stitch and put in the tuck. :o) Thanks so much Debra!
See, told you it was a good mail day! I'm pretty sure this won't happen again. :o)
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More Winter Fun!

Ok, maybe it wasn't fun for the mail carrier. We heard him spinning his tires a few houses down. I sent Jerry out with a bag of cat litter to see if it would help...it didn't. :op The lady next door was already out there with a shovel and Dave the mailman was trying to dig his tires out of the snow.
Jerry couldn't stay long because he had to get to his corner for crossing guard. The neighbor that owned the house he was stuck at came out too and they all worked to get the truck moving. Finally a guy came with a truck and pulled him out.
You wouldn't think it was that bad anymore. Actually our road is almost clear now. It's just that some people don't clear enough out in front of their mailbox.
The other day a big machine came down the road several times and dug up all the ice that was still there (about 4-6 inches thick). Yeah! No more covered wagon rides! Then a front end loader came and scooped everything up from the bottom of our driveway and dumped it into the snowbank. Probably so no one would drive over the chunks. This is what it looked like at the bottom of our driveway. The guy across the street had bigger chunks. :op
Other than our fun winter weather, not too much is happening. I have been doing quite a bit of stitching but never seem to get it onto my blog. Maybe this weekend I will have time.
On Tuesday we decided to paint the dining room so we went to Home Depot and got all the stuff. Then most of Wednesday we spent cleaning and painting. Thursday I spent a few hours cleaning up the shelves and corners of the living room. Now I want to paint that room too. Hopefully soon. :o)
Well, time for bed. Hopefully I'll update again soon. :o)
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