my monthly goals for June were: stitch the 6th part of Story Time Sampler by The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery (Peter Pan) —> ☑️ YES!! 😀 despite not being able to print the chart because at the beginning of June my laptop visited the 🍎🏥 😀 (Apple Hospital) for a week, and my phone disconnected from the WiFi network (needed to print via AirPrint because of a scheduled power outage I remembered about, yet I…… Continue reading monthly goals, happy mail and a break
thank you all for taking part in this year’s games, I really hope you had half the fun I had working on them. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ if you don’t have it on brain-play already, here is what sparkled the final clue of this year’s STITCH ENIGMA: a hell of a track that starts with Steven Tyler mocking Judy Garland’s lines in…… Continue reading purple glory
🎶 [play me] 🎶 I solved the games, Week after week. I’ve solved the riddles, But committed no crime. And bad mistakes, I’ve made a few. I’ve had my share of frogs kicked in my face but I’ve come through. (And I need just go on and on, and on, and on) We are the champions, my friends.…… Continue reading the champions of the enigma
hear! hear! fresh an exciting news await the readers of this post! – – – with only a few days left before celebrating the end of this year’s stitch enigma, yours truly and her faithful geeky pal, Jo, had a most excellent and productive brainstorming session and founded.. THE ALPHABET CLUB! what is THE ALPHABET CLUB? I hear…… Continue reading introducing THE ALPHABET CLUB
another Friday, another game! 🎉 😀 I love reading all your comments and emails, it’s so much fun! I’m already a bit sad because next week everything ends, but hey, let’s not crack open the Kleenex box just yet! 😛 thanks to all of you who decided to participate, you are making this so much fun and worth the…… Continue reading a game of riddles (stitch enigma – game 4)
you cannot imagine the series of events that started last Friday after I made myself pizza using the neatest kit Italians could put together. it was so delicious I couldn’t restrain myself from eating it all by myself.. shame on me, I know, but it was seriously good. like gift-from-the-gods good. how can you pass…… Continue reading magic pizza (GiGi, TUSAL, IHSW, Maynia reports and a finish!)
and here we are! game three! 🎉 😀 I’ve been reading all your comments and emails, it’s really great fun! I’ll post another WIP pic of the mystery piece at the end of this post and will go on with a few more snaps next week – as early as Monday actually, with my IHSW & GiGi report.…… Continue reading stitch enigma – game three
I noticed that my WIP snap from yesterday has raised many questions from readers here and on Instagram so, so I reckon it’s time for a lon overdue explanation of how it came to be. originally I planned to use these linen & threads I had in my stash for Blackbird Design’s SAL called Her…… Continue reading Couleurs et Nature au point de croix
now that we’re far away from February 14th I can finally write a post about French films without falling into the “hopelessly romantic” trap. I’m really not a fan of romantic comedies, in fact they either bore me to death or make me wish an ill fate to the protagonists, so you can tell Nicholas…… Continue reading exceptions
my first goal for this month was to catch up with Story Time Sampler and stitch all the stories that had come out. well, I did much more than that because I also stitched ALL the 12 frames in this sampler, removed the Band-Aid and fixed that part as well! 🎉💃🏻🎉💃🏻🎉💃🏻🎉💃🏻 the area underneath looked alright but…… Continue reading post-op and a new clue
The Grey Tail 