Buttons In The Attic: Valentine Day Giveaway

Go check out Karen's giveaway on her blog Buttons in the Attic. Here is the link Buttons In The Attic: Valentine Day Giveaway

I hope you had a wonderful weekend and were able to find a little stitching time!!

~ Jennifer ~

The Olde Primitive Peddler

I am so excited. Starting February 15th I will be selling my creations with a extremely talented group of artists. Please visit us at The Olde Primitive Peddler on the 1st and 15th of each month. Also look for great giveaways on the blog and in the near future two more groups will be added with strictly Halloween and Christmas creations!! How exciting!!

I hope to see you there!

~ Jennifer ~

Emma is home!!

I wanted to let you know Emma has arrived and believe it or not she is even more beautiful in person than in pictures. She has found her place on my “Favorite Things” wash stand.

She is so lovey. Look at the card next to her with the heart, Becky used fabric from Emma’s clothes to make the card, amazing attention to detail she has. I just love it.

Thank you Becky from Ginger Crème Hollow for having such a wonderful give away and sending me lovely Emma!!

I am off to boring household chores. I hope you are having a lovely day and maybe finding a little stitching time!!

~ Jennifer ~

Hey All!!

I told you I would show you what I was working on and here he is. He is so handsome. It is the Frog Prince, pattern by Old Homestead Barn.  A co-worker of mine wanted a frog because she and her husband collect them so I found this pattern and went with it. I made two, the one below is currently for sale on my selling blog, here.

I am just stitching away on a hand embroidered design for one of my customers. I feel I have made the words too small, but to fit the frame I had to.

It is taking me much longer than I had hoped. Plus with being sick again I haven’t been able to stitch much. Little stitches are hard to do with allergy eyes!! I am feeling a little better and I believe I am on the mend, hopefully to stay that way for a while. We will see.  Thank you for all the well wishes

I hope you are able to find a little stitching time in your busy schedules. Take it easy!

~ Jennifer ~

I won Emma!!!

I am so happy. I have been having a not so exciting week. But today when I got home from the doctor (yes I am sick again – antibiotics, prednisone again – another double ear infection), anyway when I got home I had an email from Becky over at Ginger Creme Hollow and she said I wont Emma. I am so happy, she made my week. I cannot wait for Emma to join are family!

Thank you Becky for the wonderful giveaway and I hope that you have many more blogging anniversaries to celebrate!

I hope everyone is having a great week. I have a project to show you I am excited about. Maybe I will get it completed later today. Until then, I hope you find some stitching time!

~ Jennifer ~

A Little Reminiscing

Yesterday was one year since we lost out little Thelma Lou Bear. See the post here. I sure do miss that girl.  We didn’t think her sister would make it long without her because they had never been apart since birth. Louise is still with us thankfully, and she gets so much extra loving she will probably never leave us (I know this is not true). I just wanted to say I love you Thelma and one day we will all be a family again.

I was going through old pictures this morning looking for puppy pictures of Thelma and Louise and I found these pictures of the kids from almost 8 years ago when we first moved to North Carolina. Our house wasn’t even decorated at the time, we just had a small bit of furniture.

I couldn’t believe how tan we all were. We stayed outside in those days, kids playing in the yard or helping me garden. I miss my gardens at that house. I miss the time I had to garden at that house too! I think this one below was my birthday, my neighbor had made me a cake.

The  next picture is one of my favorites.  See that little one on the right, she wore her mommy out in those days. They say you always have one like yourself, I sure did!! I think Alice’s shirt said “I may be little but I have a big attitude.” That’s my little Mini-Me!

I am working on some orders today, nothing new so I wont bore you with pictures but I hope to have some new stuff to show you in a couple days.

I hope you are having a great week thus far and finding a little stitching time, I know I am finding time, in between playing on the computer, work and life. Until next time!

~ Jennifer ~

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My 1st Epattern!!

I finally did it. I published my first Epattern and it is now available on Etsy. I was so scared to do it but thanks to my friends Jenn and Patty I took the plunge!! Thank you Jenn and Patty!!!

The pattern is for my Hanging Heart Pocket. It is a simple pattern with step by step pictures.

You can find it here.

I have been sewing up some more pockets and a couple other things. Hoping to finish up tonight or tomorrow. I will be taking s Valentine items for sale to the Rusty Bucket tomorrow!

I hope you are have an awesome week and finding a little stitching time of your own!!

~ Jennifer ~

What a crazy morning!!

Man, am I glad to finally be home. I had the strangest morning. If you are at all sensitive to dead animal pictures do not read this.

I got off work and then met up with a new Prim friend who lives near by. I had purchased some Sweet Annie from her, which is lovely, thank you Susie!! She is an awesome gal and I am so happy we met.

Here is my Sweet Annie – doesn’t it look so pretty in the bowl?

Now for the freaky part. We were driving down the road and I see about 10-15 chicken hawks or vultures, whatever they are in this really tall dead tree. (See picture below – taken after all but two birds left)  Just imagine it with ten or so more on it. I passed it and said when I came back through I would take a picture of it. Just because.

Well on my way back I pulled off the main road onto a side street to get the picture, I was so disappointed when I saw all of them were gone, because it would have been a cool picture, to me. Then I notice they are flocking around this yard on the little side street.

Some of them flew away when I drove up. Here they are, it is like a bad nightmare, at least it would be for me. These were some big ugly birds. I think these three could have lifted me and my car away.

I  notice there are two puppies there also, cute puppies. But the birds and the puppies are sort of pecking at each other, looked like they may have been fighting over something. And they were, it was a dead dog. Yeah it smelled lovely, not real bad because they had eaten the majority of it. But it was right at this mailbox.

At this point I am freaking out. I love, love, love animals. Starting to dislike birds a bit, after my dog was taken by one you understand. I couldn’t believe if someone lived in any of those houses they would let this dead dog lay there and allow these other animals to open up some sort of carcass buffet.

So being me I got out my cell phone and call 911 because I don’t know the non-emergency number (which reminds me I need to program that into my phone). I tell the guy who answered I am so sorry to bother him but I need the non-emergency number or animal control number and he politely gives me the animal control number. I again apologize for my clogging up the emergency line and then call animal control.

The lady who answered was nice enough and took my information and the information about the dogs. Telling me that’s what animals do is eat dead animals, yeah, yeah, yeah. It is gross, their were little kids toys in the yard across the street. Come on people.

Enough I say, I am going home, curling under the covers and getting some sleep.

So then I am almost home and I see the entire Sheriff’s Department surrounding the Courthouse. They had emptied out the Courthouse and everyone was standing on the lawn, parking lot and opposite side of the road. I am guessing they had a bomb threat or something, I don’t know. The news in this area never reports on anything in our county. If you want to know anything you have to find out yourself.  I was going to be a nosey ninny and ask one of the deputies directing traffic like everyone else but I decided not to. (You can’t really see what is going on but the picture turned out sort of nice looking so I put it in.)

Which leads me to this. I worked for 911/Police Dispatch for 7 years before I had kids in a busy city and then 2 1/2 years at another smaller department.  When something big was going on, meaning requiring the whole department to be there you were pretty darn busy. So I am sure this guy who answered 911 when I called about the dog was probably calling me all kinds of names. I will be the talk of the dispatch room, “Can you believe that stupid woman called about puppies eating a dog and we had this and that going on.” Oh memories. I make them for everyone.

So now my mind is racing. Will the puppies be okay? Did some fugitive steal a deputies gun and is he running through the woods armed and dangerous? Is the helicopter I hear for the happenings at the courthouse? Will the birds eat the puppies? Are they laughing at me in the dispatch room? Are the people who live on that street doing to come hunt me down because I tried to take away their Carcass Buffet? So many questions. I will not be able to go to sleep for sure! But I will try.

Until next time, I hope you find some stitching time and have a great day!!

~ Jennifer ~

Santa is Here–Again!

What is better than when you are sick and feeling the worse you get a great package in the mail to help you make it through the day. Nothing is better than that! I had ordered a doll from Jenn at Beautiful Disaster Originals and it came today. She had put a couple Christmas dolls on sale and I snatched one up. It is unbelievable! It looked great on the pictures but holding him is even better. Check him out.

Natalie has been really sick the last week and has been out of school, she went back today but last night I got it. I just got over an ear infection and now I have this nasty cold. I tell you what this is the worse cold I have had in some time. Her doctor said it is going around and he had it also, said it almost feels like the flu, that it does. Hoping the other two don’t get it also.

I hope everyone had a great New Years celebration. We sure did. The kids love celebrating the New Year.

I have been working on Valentine’s Day creations and have sold a few over on Facebook already. I had intended on taking them to The Rusty Bucket today but this cold has me down and out. They are also listed over on my selling blog. Take a look if you would like.

I also have these listed on my selling blog.

I hope you have a great weekend and are able to find a little stitching time. I am hoping to pump myself full of vitamins and hopefully kick this cold.

Happy Stitching!

~ Jennifer ~