tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10412607551306416122024-02-07T18:33:39.680-08:00A Stitcher's HeirloomsMy unfolding story of faith, family, and creating "a stitcher's heirlooms".Kathy Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098056934345001536noreply@blogger.comBlogger160125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041260755130641612.post-16094777195688193492014-08-11T13:49:00.000-07:002014-08-11T13:49:15.710-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Hello again, dear friends! Oh where, oh where do the days go in such a flurry? I wonder...... don't you?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>My needle and thread can't seem to decide, these days, on which project they want to stitch, so I have a few going all at once. Finally, the first band of <b>"Huckleberry Sampler", by</b> <b>Rosewood Manor</b> is now complete, and on to the letter "E"!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Isn't this a lovely letter "D"?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i> A close-up of the pretty little details, and oh, so many colour changes, but well worth it for the effect.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>"Giovanni's Alphabet" (Tempting Tangles)</b> is my long-term work in progress, being done as a SAL with my dear friend, Donna, (no blog). This one has been a challenging piece, for sure, as there have been very minimal directions, and one has to figure out some of the more intricate stitches without good stitch diagrams to follow.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>About two weeks ago, my daughter and granddaughter surprised me with a birthday tea party at a local teashop with some of my very dear friends. Miss Ella was in her glory with the lovely teaplate brought to her, filled with lovely little cakes and cookies and two delicious red strawberrries. They even gave her a little teapot, cup and saucer, and some milk and honey.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>My wonderful husband gave me this lovely birthday bouquet!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Miss Meggie has been up to some naughty doggie tricks lately.......</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Mama had to scold her gently once or twice, and she turned around because she knew that she had been naughty.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Oh so sweet, she turned around to look at me, as if to say, "I'm so sorry Mama". How could I ever stay mad at such a sweet little girl.......</i></span></div>
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Kathy Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098056934345001536noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041260755130641612.post-7981998222401715302014-07-07T10:56:00.000-07:002014-07-07T10:56:53.907-07:00Oh For the Love of Friendship and Stitches<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">They say that friendships can never be truly be broken, but that sometimes we just lose touch with one another, and must find our way back to them again, to mend the threads of friendships and make them new once again. And so it is, dear friends, that I have found myself missing you, and now I have come to find you once again.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Would you care to spend some special time with me, and we can share a cup of tea? Maybe we'll share our needlework and some sweet words with one another, of times gone past and new times here and those yet to come another day.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">At long last, after a year and a half, Quaker Christmas II is finished and framed! This was a true labor of stitching love, as I stitched each one </span></i><i><span style="font-size: large;">of these beautiful Quaker motifs. Janet and I have been working on it as a SAL.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Another work in progress is <b>'Giovanni's Alphabet'</b>, by Tempting Tangles Designs, another SAL with Donna (no blog) from Tennessee.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A few weeks ago, my husband and I went on a roadtrip to Pennsylvania, one of our favorite places in all the world to go. We call it "God's Country" there, and enjoy visiting the Amish farms, shops and restaurants, where we love the homestyle meals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>I alsolutely fell in love with these cute little fluffy chicks!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>The goat family was so sweet, and this little fellow was quite a character! He had everyone laughing at his antics!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>This fabulous old fashioned candy and soda fountain was in a wonderful old historic shop in Stausburg, Pennsylvania. It reminded me of a shop in the little town where I lived when I was a little girl. We even had the delight of watching the staff make fudge right before our very eyes. Yummy! Delicious!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>On the last day of our trip, we went to Winterthur, tucked in the beautiful Brandywine Valley of Delaware. Here are a few of the gorgeous pieces of needlework that we saw in the incredible Dupont Family House of Winterthur.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>I would love to be able to interpret the German words stitched inside of the beautiful heart.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Each of the large letters are all stitched in Queen Stitches. Imagine all Queen Stitches!!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>This antique lace is all handmade, and each stitch is every so beautifully placed. Imagine the patience required to make it!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Oh dear, this post is ever so long, and I so much want to share with you one of the big highlights of visiting Winterthur.......The Downton Abbey Costumes Collection is on display at Winterthur, and wait until you see the costumes I photographed. We were able to get right up close to them and see every detail of each one. It was thrilling!!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>It has been a lovely time with you dear friends. I hope to visit soon with you on another day, and sip some tea and share a thing or two.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>May you be enfolded with the Love of Our Precious Savior this Eastertide.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>With Love & Blessings!</b></i></span>Kathy Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098056934345001536noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041260755130641612.post-45714024418244170252014-04-07T15:39:00.000-07:002014-04-07T15:39:08.337-07:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>It has been said that, "Happiness adds and multiplies as we divide it with others." (Author Unknown)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>What a lovely thought, and so cleverly put, don't you think? For after all, it is in the sharing of our love and our lives, with one another that relationships are made and strengthened over time, built one after another. I have missed you, once again, dear friends, and am finally here once again to share with you the happenings in my life.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Although I have long been one that preferred to stitch on one design at a time, I have several of them going and am rather enjoying them all.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Snow Angel" by Lone Elm Designs</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I can't believe that I am still stitching a wintry design, now that it is already April, but it is almost finished. Thank goodness......</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our daughter, who is an expert baker and cake decorator, made these adorable cupcakes, and purchased vintage Strawberry Shortcake paper plates, napkins and utensils. She even found a beautiful china teaset for Grandmama to give Ella for her birthday!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well dear friends, I will make an effort to try and keep in touch with you on your wonderful blogs too. I think of you so much, and am so thankful for the beautiful threads that bind us to one another.......... one thread, added and multiplied, and divided with one another......</span><br />
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<br />Kathy Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098056934345001536noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041260755130641612.post-33369044599344721702014-02-12T09:04:00.001-08:002014-02-12T09:04:13.602-08:00Two Very Sweet Valentine's Day Giveaways!!<br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;"><em>How absolutely delightful to discover that there are two perfectly delightful giveaways for Valentine's Day!</em></span><br />
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<em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">First, please visit </span><a href="http://californiastitcher.blogspot.com/">California Stitcher</a> <span style="color: #660000;">to see the wonderful handmade gifts that Annette is so generously offering for her giveaway drawing on February 14th!</span></span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">Now, for another very special Valentine Giveaway from </span><a href="http://www.victorianmottosamplershoppe.blogspot.com/">Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe, <span style="color: #660000;">Nancy has lots of her fabulous creations,</span></a><span style="color: #660000;"> all in RED, for her giveaway drawing on February 14th!</span></span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">Love in Stitches and Friendship!</span></em>Kathy Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098056934345001536noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041260755130641612.post-28213053076322807382014-02-11T11:13:00.000-08:002014-02-11T11:13:01.293-08:00The Threads That Connect Us One to Another<em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"></span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">It has been much too long since we have connected with one another, and I have missed all of you so much. </span></em><em><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">So, I am determined to enjoy sharing with you once again and to be a little more faithful to my blogging once again.</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">Today is a beautiful sunny day here in the cold Northeast, and the temperatures are warming up enough to melt some of the icicles hanging from our rooftops. We just missed a snowstorm hitting here on Sunday night, which nicely dusted the ground with only 1-2 inches, very pretty to see in the morning. This Thursday night, we are supposed to get a really big storm, but I love the snow, so I am thrilled with the possibility. Just more time to stay cozy and sip tea and stitch!</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">I have been working on two fairly large stitching projects for the past few months and thought that you would like to see my progress. As you can see, I didn't finish <strong>'Quaker Christmas' </strong>in time for Christmas 2013, but I have only 3 more pages to go!</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-size: large;">For the past few months, my friend, Donna and I have been doing a long distance SAL on Sunday nights, stitching "<strong>Giovanni's Alphabet' by Tempting Tangles Designs.</strong> </span></em> </div>
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<em><span style="font-size: large;">As you can see, each letter has all of these intricate little bits of stitching, which are pretty tedious and require a lot of attention so as not to make a lot of boo-boo's. We try to watch <strong>Downton Abbey</strong> on Sunday evenings while stitching, so you can imagine that it is a bit difficult trying to concentrate on both at the same time, and not a whole lot of stitching is often accomplished!</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>"Snow Angel",</strong> a wonderful design <strong>by Lone Elm Designs, </strong>was given to me by my dear husband, along with a beautiful round wooden sewing box, for Christmas. </span></em></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>Last month, my dear husband and I celebrated a big milestone anniversary, and traveled to a very special historic inn in Camden, Maine, called the Norumbega Inn, which was like staying in a small vintage castle type of residence. Each room had an ambience of it's own, tastefully decorated with antiques, and the beds were just wonderfully comfortable.</em></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">My beloved Mother went peacefully to heaven the week before Thanksgiving, surrounded by family members. We pray that the love which radiated from within her, will continue to shine within each one of those whose lives were touched by hers. She will live within my heart forever, until we are joined together once again in eternity in heaven.</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-size: large;">On this first Sunday in Advent, "PEACE I leave with you. My Peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Your heart must not be troubled or fearful." (John 14:27)</span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>It has been much too long since I last posted, but a lot has been happening in our family over the past 6 weeks.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>My 84 year old Mother, who has Alzheimer's Disease, fell 5 weeks ago, and broke her pelvis in 4 places. She is now bedridden, and being cared for at my parents' home, by my youngest brother, his wife, and a full time Visiting Angel caregiver. Dad just couldn't bear the idea of mother being in a nursing home, and wanted for her to be in their home for as long as possible. It is a true blessing that my brother and his wife moved in with them last November. My siblings and I are so grateful to them, and we have all been taking turns visiting Mother and Dad. This is such a difficult time of our lives, but I know that many of you have gone through similar times with your own parents too.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>My stitching progress has been slow these many weeks, especially since I also caught a nasty gastrointestinal virus from the little grandchildren, which lasted 10 days! We love seeing them, but all three of them are in nursery school and daycare, so they pick up so many viruses and share them with us:)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Last weekend, we were able to attend a <a href="http://www.stitchershideaway.com/">Stitcher's Hideaway</a> Retreat in Mystic, CT, with Thea Dueck of <a href="http://www.victoriasampler.com/">Victoria Sampler</a>, who taught us to stitch a beautiful Christmas sampler. Since Mystic is a famous old historic seaport, the sampler was very appropriately called "Mystic Christmas Sampler", and had many tall sailing ships and lovely verses and specialty stitches.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Well, dear friends, it is time to end this very long post, before I bore you. Wherever you are, and whatever you might be doing, please know how much your friendships mean to me, and that you are always in my thoughts, even when I have not been in touch for a long while.</i></span></div>
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Kathy Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098056934345001536noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041260755130641612.post-70252961206135832262013-09-08T11:44:00.000-07:002013-09-08T11:44:00.004-07:00A Gorgeous Day & Thoughts of You, Dear Friends......<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Oh What a Day It is Today! The sun is shining, with temperatures in the low 70's, and a some billowy clouds drifting by, with a soft wind blowing. Doesn't that sound just perfect for an early autumn day? </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>On and off all week, my needles have been working diligently on the next letter of the 'Autumn' bellpull. The second letter</i> <i>"U", has taken shape with some of the rust coloured leaves and little acorns surrounding it.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>The colour changes are so numerous, that sometimes it becomes a bit maddening, but I keep telling myself that it creates the shading effects, so I persevere.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Sometimes it is difficult to even see the difference between some of the thread colours. I think that I might recommend some overdyed threads for anyone who might like to stitch this banner in future. I will happily pass on the pattern when I am finished with it if someone would like to stitch it.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Now, you may remember that I said that I prefer to only have one or two pieces at a time that I am stitching, but I broke my rule last week! My wonderful friend, Donna, (no blog), decided to embark on a <b>SAL</b> to stitch <b>"Giovanni's Alphabet" by Tempting Tangles Designs.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>In May, while attending Celebrations of Needlework, in Nashua, NH, a leaflet of this design was tucked into one of my packages, so I decided to look it up on <a href="http://www.temptingtangles.com/"><b>Tempting Tangles </b>website.</a> It is a re-created design, adapted from a magnificent design by Giovanni Ostaus, published in his book in 1561. If you love samplers, this one is magnificent!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>The Organic Rooibos Tea that Donna sent, is really delicious.\She also stitched these wonderful "Tea" towels for me, and sent along a beautiful little notebook, in which to write notes of our evening stitches too! How very kind and thoughtful of her. I sent her big HUGS! Now I am thinking about what my surprise will be for her, for our next SAL.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>My Necessaire Floor Stand arrived on Friday last week! I love using it with the Millenium Frame for stitching this wonderful sampler. It is a dream to use, and keeps my linen nice and tight, just the way I like it. I love it!</i></span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Hint, hint, Mommy..... I have my baby and I think that it really is past my bedtime! Are you ever going to turn off your light and put that stitching away?" </span></i><br />
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<br />Kathy Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098056934345001536noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041260755130641612.post-22611067533933006022013-08-25T14:19:00.001-07:002013-08-26T08:07:00.550-07:00Peace Like a River.....<div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Little did I know, when I began stitching this adorable LHN <b>'Little Sheep Virtues' PEACE, </b>that I would find scriptures and hymns about <b>'Peace'</b> floating through my mind as I stitched! What incredible blessings! </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>I found myself humming, <b>"I've Got Peace Like a River" </b>(see the two little fishies swimming in the river)..... I've got peace like a river, I've got peace like a river in my soul....."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Heaven only knows how much we need PEACE so very much in our hearts, in this very troubled world that we live in, all around the globe today! </i></span></div>
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yesterday was a shower of blessings, as family members gathered to celebrate the marriage of one of my sister's youngest son's. It was a perfect sunny, blue skied day, as we heard the young pair exchange vows under a canopy in a beautiful park garden. The looked so happy and the bride was radiant. </span></i></div>
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Kathy Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098056934345001536noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041260755130641612.post-53849972538969456132013-08-09T08:13:00.000-07:002013-08-09T08:13:21.037-07:00"Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head........"<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Oh what a day of heavy rain we are having today, although it remains still warm and very humid outside......not especially a day that to venture out, but a perfect day for stitching!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>I am a wee bit behind in my posting, but want to thank all of you very dear friends, who sent me so many wonderful birthday wishes. Last week, my sweet friend,<a href="http://www.cuckistitchingcove.blogspot.com/"> Cucki,</a> from South Africa, sent me a lovely package of of wonderful goodies! I feel so blessed.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Now for a little more stitching progress on Quaker Christmas II. Stitch by stitch, I am happy to say that there was no 'frogging' this week! Yea!</i></span><br />
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<br />Kathy Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098056934345001536noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041260755130641612.post-75789200662753658752013-07-28T10:27:00.001-07:002013-07-28T10:27:39.757-07:00Let There Be Peace On Earth<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>'Let There Be Peace On Earth', and let it begin with me..... Such a beautiful sentiment, and so much needed in this very troubled world. This was the verse that I finished stitching last night on my <b>'Quaker Christmas II' </b>sampler, and I thought, "How very appropriate, and so beautiful."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>It is truly a joy to stitch each little motif of this sampler, and I finally crossed the "half way" mark last week! Maybe there is hope that I will have it finished in time to have it hung up for Christmas!</i></span><br />
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Kathy Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098056934345001536noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041260755130641612.post-77009987785147297342013-07-04T09:12:00.001-07:002013-07-04T09:12:34.729-07:00GOD BLESS AMERICA ON THIS INDEPENDENCE DAY<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>We who live in this great nation, have countless blessings that have been lavished upon us. Every day we need to give thanks to God, for providing us the freedom to live freely, and independently from tyranny and with freedom to practice our religious liberty. May we continue to be a country whose lands are deserving of God's blessings upon us. God Bless America! </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>This sweet little bear reminds me of the way I feel lately....not all bandaged up, but a little out of sorts, as I have been experiencing a lot of pain in my left hip and leg for about 6 weeks now. After a lot of tests, I had an epidural steroid injection last week, but the effect was not successful, so I will have a second one on July 9th. I am praying for it to relieve some of the pain, as it is interfering with my ability to sit comfortably for very long! Imagine my distress of not being able to stitch very much every day!!! </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>The grandchildren thought that this was wonderful. There were so many people, children and little pets on leashes all over the building, and Ella, Emerson and Harrison loved it.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Blessings to all of you, my very dear friends. Thank you for always keeping in touch with your very special comments. I love every one of them, and treasure the friendships that we have kindled with one another.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Have a lovely & blessed day!</i></span>Kathy Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098056934345001536noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041260755130641612.post-73046924564839837872013-06-15T09:02:00.001-07:002013-06-15T09:02:39.172-07:00A VERY SPECIAL GIVEAWAY FROM KIM!!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>This morning, I discovered that <a href="http://www.wisdomwithneedleandthread.blogspot.com.au/">Kim</a> is having a wonderful giveaway to celebrate her followers. Look at the gorgeous handpainted Limoges, petite hinged box that she is so generously offering along with a beautiful scissor fob too!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Blessings!</i></span>Kathy Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098056934345001536noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041260755130641612.post-27597337691386154432013-06-14T10:31:00.000-07:002013-06-14T10:31:04.631-07:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>If anyone has wondered where I have strayed these past many weeks, it has been a journey on many paths, some leading to joyful things and some with some more difficult pathways to traverse. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Among many of the happy journeys was a wonderful trip to meet our little granddaughter, Kyleigh, who celebrated her FIRST birthday many thousands of miles away, but we were blessed to be there with her and our son and daughter-in law for the celebration!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>It has been the most wonderful blessing for me to have a very precious Mother, now 84 years old, who has always loved me and my siblings unconditionally all of our lives. She has been my role model as a Mother, wife and now a Grandmother, and I am so thankful for her example in how to love and care for my own family. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Our own sweet children and grandchildren gave me beautiful and funny cards for Mother's Day. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>On Friday night, our daughter, Carra, stopped by with Miss Ella to show us the winning cupcakes from a cupcake contest earlier in the afternoon. It seems that Carra's 'Cookie Monster cupcake was the winner, but Miss Ella ate the winning cupcake on the way to our house. So they brought some of the other very special cupcake entries for us to sample.</i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Quaker Christmas II is still on my stitching frame and will be for quite a while until it is finished. I love all of the beautiful little motifs and songs in this wonderful design.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Last week, a most lovely surprise was waiting for me in my mailbox, from my very special friend, Donna, (no blog).</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Isn't this a very special treasure? I love the little bees buzzing about above the flowers, and the beautiful marking pin that Donna stuck in the top right corner. Thank you so much, Donna! I absolutely love it!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>May you be be blessed with with love, joy, peace, contentment in the little things in life, and comfort in the midst of the trials and sorrows that are part of life. But most of all, God Bless You every day!</i></span><br />
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<br />Kathy Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098056934345001536noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041260755130641612.post-16956509627910488732013-04-25T07:33:00.001-07:002013-04-25T07:33:23.004-07:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Good Morning, Dear Friends! What a beautiful spring day it is today, with the sun shining so brightly and the sky a clear blue. Yesterday the temperatures here reached 75, which was very welcome after a few very very cold and rainy days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As many of you know, Google Reader is going away, so I wanted to tell all of you, who would like to continue to follow my blog, that I am now signed up with <span style="color: #660000;">Bloglovin</span>, so that I won't lose touch with all of you, my very dear friends. I hope that we can continue to share our love of stitching and friendship there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Though I have been terribly out of touch with all of you, I have thought of you every day, and treasure all of the wonderful things that you have written to me here.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Stitched last spring, I love this cheery little <b>April Wordplay </b>by Brenda Gervais,<b> </b>of </i></span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>'With Thy Needle'.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>The past few weeks have been filled with with it's bits of busyness. But, thankfully, in between those busy hours, I have also enjoyed stitching with my Wednesday morning stitching friends at our LNS. We have such a wonderful time, stitching, chatting away and laughing until our sides hurt. It is such wonderful medicine for the soul!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>'Quaker Christmas II' </b>is coming along. I am almost finished stitching the top 3 sections, and will soon begin on the 4th page!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Last week, I received this wonderfully unique design from <a href="http://www.dollsmusings.blogspot.com/">Anne</a>, who had stitched this biscornu and then offered the design as part of a giveaway. I love it!</i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As you can see, I haven't made a lot of progress yet, but it is a beautiful design, and I am really looking forward to stitching it so much. It calls for all DMC threads, but could be stitched in silks too. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">It made me think about so many people in other countries, around the world, like Israel, who live in terror every day, because they are threatened on every side by evil that threatens to take away their very lives and savage their countries. We are so blessed in America, that we do not live under that fear every day of our lives. B</span></i><i><span style="font-size: large;">ut we must hold fast</span></i></span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> to our faith in God and live according to His principles, the same principles, upon which our Founding Fathers created our great nation. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This morning, this scripture was with one of my devotionals, and seemed so appropriate for those who have lived with fear, and those who are now living with fear.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>'For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for life; weeping may endure for a night, but Joy cometh in the morning.' (Psalm 30:5)</i></b></span>Kathy Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098056934345001536noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041260755130641612.post-51250044216963823432013-03-30T20:38:00.000-07:002013-03-30T20:38:53.071-07:00Blessings for You!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>I want to thank all of you, my dear friends, for your very thoughtful and caring messages to me, while I was sick. They lifted my spirits so much, to receive them, and each day, I was a little better, and now I am feeling just fine!</i></span><br />
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Kathy Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098056934345001536noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041260755130641612.post-75882556576918418012013-03-23T08:05:00.001-07:002013-03-23T08:05:57.244-07:00Thoughts of You....<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>My thoughts have turned to all of you so many times, my very dear friends, these past few days, knowing that I have not been in touch with you for about two weeks now. I can't tell you how much I have appreciated all of your many kind and thoughtful words of encouragement and prayers, for my parents and our family. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Believe it or not, even though I had the influenza vaccine in the fall, I came down with some sort of terrible upper respiratory infection, which is finally starting to subside. I can't remember when I have been so weak and felt so ill. The persistent cough was the worst, and I spent a week having to sleep in my recliner, sipping on water and sucking cough lozenges all night. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Today I feel like I have turned a corner, thank heavens! As you can imagine, my needle and thread were not moving very well for days, but here and there I managed to take a few stitches.</i></span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This afternoon, our daughter and her husband are having a little birthday party for our granddaughter, Ella, who will be turning 3 years old next week. I am so happy to be feeling well enough now to go out, and it should be a wonderful time with all of the little ones. Hope to show you some pictures next time!</span></i><br />
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This week, our daughter-in-law sent us this adorable picture of our little granddaughter,Kyleigh, now 10 months old, such a sweet, happy little girl. They live a few thousand miles away from us, and we are just aching to cuddle and kiss this little one very soon! </span></i><br />
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">We might live far away from one another, but you are always in my thoughts, dear friends. It is wonderful that our lives connect with one another through the threads that have bound us all together in friendship.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I am getting a little eager to start stitching on something new, and think that I may need to switch off between Quaker Christmas and a new project. Haven't decided what my new piece will be yet, so stay tuned!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We were very blessed to spend some wonderful time, this past week with our two little grandsons, Emerson and Harrison. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">On another note, I would like to ask for prayers for my elderly parents, William and Eleanor, who are 86 and 84 years old. Mother has very advanced Alzheimer's Disease, and Dad, who had a triple bypass and mild stroke, in the past 3-4 years, is alert, oriented and managing fairly well, with my youngest brother and his wife living with them. However, in the past few weeks it has become very apparent that Mother will need more skilled care very soon than any of them are able to provide for her. My sister, who lives about an hour and a half from them, is looking into Assisted Living Residences for them, close to where she lives. She and I are working together to facilitate a move for them very soon, but we know that it will be a huge change for them, and especially for Mother, who is so easily upset by any change in her environment or daily routine. We need so much prayer for them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Thank you, to so many of you, my very dear friends. I know that many of you, too, have or are dealing with very similar circumstances in your own parents' lives. It is not an easy thing, when the roles of parents and children change, and we need to take on the role of figuring out how to help them be willing to accept the good care that they now need. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Forgive me for rambling on today, but thank you for listening and for caring, as I know you do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Blessings to all of you!</span>Kathy Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098056934345001536noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041260755130641612.post-5800400284002644252013-02-26T07:36:00.002-08:002013-02-26T07:36:30.104-08:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Oh where have the days flown, so quickly past? Every day, for the past few weeks, I have thought, 'today I will post on my blog and catch up with my blog reading'. I have missed all of you, my dear friends, so much!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>So much to share, but not sure where to begin. This past weekend, my dear friend, Janet (no blog) and I attended the Stitcher's Hideaway Winter Retreat in Mystic, Connecticut, and had an absolutely marvelous time! Can you tell that we didn't get a lot of sleep? But oh, what fun!</i></span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">We stitched our little hearts out and met so many </span></i><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">other </span></i><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">wonderful stitchers. We talked and talked, and shared our joy of stitching with one another. Oh, what great fun we had! We can't wait until our next retreat!</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Thank you for all of your wonderful friendships, which mean so much to me. It is always a blessing to share with you, and I love each and every sweet comment that you write.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i> 'Heaven & Nature Sing'</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i> By Brenda Gervais</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Of course, after every finish, we are already dreaming about what the newest start will be! I have had this precious baby sampler design in my stash for a very long time, just waiting for a sweet little someone so that I could stitch it.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>This will be for the first granddaughter of a very dear friend. The thread colors are so soft and delicate, and the design will be finished with tiny little seed beads. It is difficult to read the sweet sentiment in this picture, but I will save that for you to see when it is stitched.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>They smell so yummy that I am almost tempted to have one with my tea right now! In fact, that sounds like a wonderful idea! </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Well, dear friends, I wish that you could drop over to share a muffin and some tea with me, and we could sit a while and stitch and watch the snow gently falling. What a lovely thought.....</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>I think of you so often, and always look forward to the times that we share our lives, our stitching, and the times of our lives together. It is a rare and special gift that our lives continue to weave with one another, through the threads that bind us all together.</i></span><br />
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<br />Kathy Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098056934345001536noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041260755130641612.post-6535888371452283702013-01-16T10:26:00.001-08:002013-01-16T10:26:38.011-08:00A New Day and A New Snowfall....<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Hello again, dear friends:) I apologise for my rather dreary post yesterday. This morning we awoke to the most beautiful, soft powdery snow falling ever so gently, covering everything with a blanket of snow. I am one of those girls who absolutely loves the snow, having grown up in 'Snow Country'. The fir trees all look so lovely covered with snow today, and I am absolutely loving this beautiful day!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Thank you for all of your sweet notes yesterday. Just the 'pick me up' that I needed, to hear from you. I was supposed to go to my Stitching Group this morning, but my stitching friend, Bev and I decided that the roads were not safe enough to venture out. Oh, how I miss being with all of the girls though. We always have such fun together on Wednesday mornings, stitching and chatting away.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Decisions, decisions......so many wonder designs in my stash calling me to 'stitch me, stitch me'.... I finally settled on this one for my first project for 2013.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i> 'Heaven and Nature Sing'</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i> Love these snowflakes!</i></span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yesterday, much to my surprise, a wonderful package, full of goodies arrived in my mailbox from <a href="http://www.xxstitcherxx.blogspot.com/">Chris </a>. </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Each one of these goodies, was beautifully wrapped in gold paper. I absolutely love the wonderful commemorative pillow, that Chris stitched, in honor of the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton. There are even 3 commemorative porcelain thimbles for the Queen's Golden Jubilee! Thank you so very much, Chris! How kind of you!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Our little grandson, Harrison, celebrated his First Birthday with us last weekend. He was a bit overwhelmed by all of the fuss being made over him, as we all sang 'Happy Birthday'to him.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Let's blow out the One Year Old Birthday candle!</i></span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Harrison sampling the cake, decided that it tasted very yummy, indeed!</span></i><br />
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Emerson decided that it would be fun to wear TWO birthday hats to celebrate the occasion. Oh what fun!</span></i><br />
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well, dear friends, as you can see, we have been having a lot of fun recently with our grandsons. Next week we will be celebrating Emerson's 3rd birthday. More fun to come!</span></i><br />
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is wonderful sharing with all of you, my very special friends. Thank you for all of your wonderful comments, which mean so much to me. I am so grateful that our lives continue to 'cross in stitches' with one another in friendship!</span></i><br />
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Blessings!</span></i>Kathy Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098056934345001536noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041260755130641612.post-29862140117612274342013-01-15T13:33:00.000-08:002013-01-15T13:33:20.314-08:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Hello dear friends! I must admit that I have missed my special times with you over these past weeks. Where, oh where does time go so quickly?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Since we took our Christmas tree and decorations down last week, everything looks so bare. </i></span>Kathy Ellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10098056934345001536noreply@blogger.com6