Beautiful mailart!

It feels like I had an early Christmas this year since the mailman has brought me so many nice things. :) Click the pictures to see them bigger.

First one is a wonderful stitched mailart from Lilian! She knows I love sheep so she stitched me a sheep envelope. I love it! :) She has made two sheep with french knots. And that means a LOT of french knots! Wow! She also sent a keychain that I can stitch on and two skeins of Bärengarne thread. I haven't seen that brand before, I don't think they sell it here in Finland so I have some unique threads now. :) Thank you so much Lilian! I'm afraid you have to wait for yours for a while... but it's coming.


This next one I bought. It's a new kind of fabric (at least to me) from Zweigart called Floba. It's 25ct, 70% rayon, 30% linen. The colours is close to oatmeal and the fabric is really pretty. I haven't tried it yet but I have heard it's a dream to stitch on so I'm looking forward on using it soon. Others in the picture are pieces of linen fabric that I got as a gift for buying the Floba. Great deal! :) I put another pic of the Floba to show the colour better.

There's something else I bought... two original paintings by Sara Butcher! They are called "Dream" and "Joy" sepia. I really like Sara's work. Some of her work is charted by HAED. I actually have a few. :) I have to find good frames for these.



Then last but not least, my friend went to China on a holiday and brought me some souveniers. Actually a lot of them! She brought me Anchor threads and a couple of Fairy threads. Another new brand for me. :) That wasn't all, there was also a pouch made of silk, two cross stitch kits, fabric roses, beads and small bells. Thank you Päivi! :) I really love the text on the other kit, it's so true. :D





Oh... I'll tell you about our honeymoon vacation later this weekend. With pictures. :)

Wonderful blog friend-award

It's always nice to hear that people like my blog. :)


I got this lovely award from Kirsi for my Freebie list blog. Thank you Kirsi! I am so happy if people find great charts via my freebie list. I am a bit busy at the moment so I'll come back to this one later to deside to whom I'll give it to. And I will also tell you about My New Best Friend later. I bought a new sewing machine and I thought if I called it my best friend it will like me and won't start being annoying and impossible like my old one. :D I haven't tried it out yet but that will happen soon since I have to shorten a couple of pants before next week.

Next week we are going to our honeymoon! We'll go to Paris and Disneyland! I can't wait. :) So no stitching, knitting or blogging will happen next week, just a whole lot of other type of fun things like the Louvre, Eiffel-tower, all the fun things at the Disneyland park and Mickey Mouse-ears! I will post some pictures when we come back.

My second biscornu

I had a blog giveaway a while ago at my finnish blog and I made a biscornu for the prize. Gloriosa has received it so here are some photos. :)

I ordered the chart from the Creative Poppy. It's from Marie-Anne Réthoret-Mélin and it's called "My petit jardin". I changed it a bit, the original had brown lines, I stitched them with Petite Braid 10. It's like a hint of sparkly snow between the flowers. Too bad it doesn't show so well on the photos. The light pink is also different since I didn't have the thread that was in the chart. It's pretty close though. There's a text "Spring in the garden" stitched around the edge of the back side. The text was also brown on the chart but I decided to use the colours of the flowers. I happened to have the perfect little bead and flower for this. I think there is some biscornu fever going around since this is my second in a short time and third one is on the way. :) I also sent a sign with the biscornu. When I saw it I had to buy it for this prize since the text it so nice: "Cherish Yesterday, Live Today, Dream Tomorrow". I forgot to take a photo of it but you can see it at Gloriosa's blog.

Edgar's blogoversary giveaway

Edgar has his second Blogoversary and has a giveaway at his blog. Go and check it out. The prize is going to be a surprise and I bet it's something gorgeous!

First of the spring

On Saturday morning I found the first flower of this spring. This beautiful crocus is the pioneer of our backyard. :) Spring is finally here. Most of the snow has melted and the weather is warmer.


I started a new HAED... shame on me. But it's not my fault! The theme SAL at the HAED BB this weekend was a new start so I had no choice! :D My new HAED is Healers Touch. The chart is mostly green but of course I hit the brown patch when I started. :) I started it almost at the middle. I'm not going to stitch the black backround, I'm using black fabric instead (28ct evenweave). I only had some time to stitch this today. On Saturday I rearranged and cleaned all the cupboards in our kitchen and rearranged the furniture in the living room. Well I didn't do all that alone, my mum was really sweet and came to help me with this spring cleaning. My husband in the other hand left the premises. :D So on Sunday I gridded the fabric and pulled the threads and started stitching today after work. Here's my progress so far, not a lot :)

And this is how it will look like some day... at least I hope so. :)

Winner is Lisa!

I put all the names from the comments to a randomizer and it drew Lisa's name first so
congratulations Lisa, you are the winner! :)
Maybe her blog's name was the one that helped her to win as it's so similar to mine. :D

Click click click and stash grows...

I saw a beautiful cross stiched wristband at Lennu's blog and she wrote that she bought the clasp from HelmiQ, a Finnish online shop. So I went to see their website and after couple of clicks these started their journey to my home. :) I bought clasps, locks, bands etc. Went a bit crazy but all these are so pretty! :D


I wrote earlier that I couldn't find DMC's bunnies. After that I thought there must be some somewhere and started googling. After a frantic internet search I found an online shop in Portugal that had them and the shipping wasn't too expensice. These cute bunnies arrived on Monday. One pink friend of theirs arrived a day later so she's missing from the group photo.


I wrote to Santa last year and wished this and that. I got that but was missing this:


Don't we all have moments like that? At least I have. lol Well this time I thought that I won't leave it to Santa and bought it myself. :) It came all the way from USA. I'll have my evening tea from this and maybe I have to bake some cookies too! ;)

Giveaways

Kath has a Blog Candy Give-away for having 100 000 visitors at her blog . Click the picture to go to her blog.



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Carol has a Blog Candy Bonanza at her blog to celebrate her birthday. Click the pictures, you know the drill. :)

And don't forget to take part in my giveaway. :)