Halloween. . . The Branch

Here is my update on When the Owl and

Witch together are Seen,

etc. . . etc. . . etc

Done on 32 count Herotic linen fabric

with over dyed threads.

It actually is coming along nicely

considering the day I had at work

today. It was typical Monday

after a vacation.

I am glad I was not at work last

week because they had a week

of He ~ ~ double toothpicks!!!

I did something very stupid during

my vacation and it made the whole

week horrible.

Today was really no better.

So when I got home tonight I

really needed to do some stitching.

It always calms me down and I

can get through the evening.

I also watched Yankee Doodle Dandy

on TCM tonight, I just love that

movie staring James Cagney.

It was a flag waver, perfect

for 4th of July.

I enjoyed it very much.

James does

a spectacular job of singing, dancing

and acting.

I have always liked him

.

So what better piece to stitch on than

my Halloween one so here it is . . . ENJOY!!!

Thanks for stopping by, hope you have your

tea or a cup of Joe.

Take care all and remember to Thank God

for your freedom.

God Bless your stitching fingers . . .

Lenna

July Angel . . .

Happy Independence Day!!!

This is the Angel I did in 2000 for the 4th of July!

Isn't she the cutest little one?

I had to get my magnifying glass out to see

what date I stitched her.

I always put my name and date, in

thread, the same color as the background

fabric and it makes it very Hard to see,

much less read!!!

I had red hair at the time so I actually

coached down some other

threads that were not for stitching,

I had acquired from a friend for her hair!!!

She was such a HOOT to stitch. I had so

much fun doing her. The little buttons

for the basket, bee, bird and

firecrackers

came with the pattern

and it just makes it come together perfectly.

I used the threads that were called

for and put them down on my favorite

fabric in a 28 count.

They don't make

the fabric anymore so I bought 2 yards

from Hobby Lobby

before it was all gone.

It's a good thing cause I can't, for the life

of me, remember the name of the fabric.

If I had known I would live this long I would

have bought another 3 yards.

I have done several angels in the past, a Christmas

One, Noah's Ark, an Autumn One and a Halloween One.

The Halloween One is ~ Willa's Broomstick Co.

Made with a Zing!!!

I will have to take a picture, cause I had

forgotten how darlin' she is!!!

That will be my next post tomorrow

night. I am on vacation this week

so I have nothing but time.

I have the patterns for about a gazillion more so

maybe someday I will work on them again.

So many stitching's and so little time.

It's hard when you don't have the time and you work.

Time flies so fast. One day it is Monday and

the next day it is Friday.

I also make cards and I am working on my son's

get well cards and a special person

who missed a lot of holidays.

Guess I had better close for now. I will leave you with this

thought ~

How sad would it be if our Fore

Fathers had not fought so hard for the privileges

we have as Americans to be FREE???

How sad would it be if the next generations

had not cared that we were free

and kept

that privilege of Freedom for us to enjoy???

How sad if all those sacrifices would have been

in vain???

Let's not forget this year and

every year from now on just how

very Precious

that Privilege is to us all!!!

And how many made it possible for us

to enjoy!!!

God Bless America

It Is the Best Place To Be on This Earth!!!

Thanks for dropping by and thanks for the comments

if you could leave one.

God Bless your stitching fingers . . .

Take care ~

Lenna

Halloween. . . The Branch

I know, I know don't yell at me!!!

This is called ~ Halloween ~

The Branch by Bent Creek,

Snappers.

It is the newest piece

they have put out

and being

Halloween I had to have it.

But, in my own defense

I had the fabric,

most of the threads,

so I only had to buy three patterns.

I decided to use Heroic for the fabric

by Picture This Plus!!! ~ again.

I told you I had a big piece left over!!!

I think The Branch

with the tree house, owl, birds,

webs, spiders and little house

will look smashing on this

piece of fabric.

It has all the colors of Halloween

and it will go

with all my other ones

I have started!!!

Thanks for stopping by and God Bless

your stitching fingers . . .

Lenna

Autumn Angel, Christmas Angel and 40 Days Angel, Noah's Ark . . .

The first one up is the Autumn Angel.

She was done with the colors called

for in the Fancy That pattern.

I stitched all of them in 1997,

a long time ago.

I used a linen fabric, probably,

28 count ~ you think?

I put orange sparkles in her wings,

in her garden of corn stalks and

a pumpkin.

Her body is a bird house

and there is a fence

at the bottom which the crow is

perched upon.

He lives in the mailbox

that serves as his house

with the word Crow

on the side.

The flag is up!!!

She has a star on her halo

and a bee that does glow in

the dark ~ on the vine.

She also has little pumpkins

on her slippers.

The second one is a Christmas Angel.

She was stitched on a very light green

linen fabric, 28 count.

I used the threads called for in the pattern

and added a sparkly thread in white

for the wings.

There are lights in her halo and

button light bulbs

in her wreath

with a huge red bow on the top.

She is surrounded by packages

and flanked by a Christmas tree.

She has big stars on her slippers.

And last is the Noah's Ark Angel.

She is stitched on a grey blue

linen fabric with the over dyed

threads called for

in the pattern.

She has sparkles in her wings,

there is a half moon, sun and star

that also has sparkles.

She has a bird on her halo and

a vast a ray of stars, and a bird

surrounding her body.

There is also a little, big, fish

peeking out of the waves.

For embellishment's she has

a cool turtle

and fish button

I found somewhere, that

makes it look 3D.

She is bravely standing in the waves ~

while over her head it says ~

40 days and 40 nights!!!

I remember back to 1997,

I had such a blast

stitching these three Angels,

one after the other.

I worked at Frames Etc. then and

I framed them all there.

The Noah's Ark one has a floated

look and the mat board is covering

the floated substrate.

It creates dimension and protects the

glass from being broken by the buttons.

If you don't raise the glass above

any hard object, ie button,

shell, or rock the pressure caused

by the object will eventually

break the glass.

Your Welcome!!!

Physics!!!

The turtle is also a bit larger than

the rest of the buttons so I

needed to raise the

glass above the picture.

As usual, thanks for looking at the craft I

dearly love.

Your comments are always welcome!!!

God Bless your Stitching fingers . . .

Lenna

My Pride and Joy . . . Tristan

This is my son, Tristan, one of my Joys in life.

He has been ill ~

but he is working very hard

to get better.

I went to his FB page and there

is a picture of him playing with,

Pearl, the poodle, who belongs

to his wife.

She is a very neat dog and she loves

her many tennis balls and

her two masters.

It made my heart sing to see him looking

so much better than I thought he would look.

He is a sweet, gentle, nice man who is so

grateful for all the prayers he has received

from strangers.

I also want to take this opportunity to thank all

of my stitching friends who have offered up

a prayer or chant for his complete recovery.

Prayer does help, I know, and it is so appreciated

by all of my family.

Tristan, we all want you to know that we love you

very much,

love your sense of humor and

can't even begin to imagine a world without

you in it.

Your constant laughter is something

that is such a part of our lives.

Your brother, sister, brother-in-law, sister-in-law

and nieces and nephews

feel the same way.

They love their Uncle Tristan so much.

Magoo, has also been praying for you.

Please, do what the doctors say, EAT and

get well soon.

I also want to thank his wife, Morgan, for all

she has been to him, for loving him so much

and for being there to keep him safe.

Thanks so much Sweetheart ~

You are the

best woman he could have ever married.

Hope to see you soon on your turf!!!

The SEA!!! YEA!!!

God Bless your stitching fingers all . . .

Thanks for dropping by ~

Lenna

Happy Blogoversary . . .

Who knew?

I had completely forgotten this is my

2nd blogoversary!

Which must

not be a word in the dictionary!

Anyhoo ~ so it is!!! It has been a very

busy couple of years.

Man, it went by fast except for the

month of May when I wrote

everyday.

What a chore!!!

I only missed two postings one by

one minute, and one by two minutes.

I have to say I have learned a lot

about doing a blog.

As some of you know the first one

actually, did not work out so I

had to move everything I had written

and write it all over again.

When I got that finished I slept good

that night I can tell you!!!

It has been a blast sharing all of my

needlework, and I have so much

left that I have finished and framed

but not posted.

My bedroom walls have probably 40

finished pieces hanging.

One wall is just filled with

different kinds of needlework.

One wall is snowmen and one angel and

another is cats.

I have a teddy bear wall and of

course Crayon Duck.

When I have to move from

this house many boxes will be packed with

a little piece of me, as I tend to

include that in every piece I stitch.

Every cross stitch, also has

a little anger in them ~

that I release by stitching.

That is why it is so hard to just get

rid of them like my mom would like me to do.

She is afraid to come into my room cause

she thinks the pictures will fall on her.

It's not like they are on the ceiling

just waiting for her to enter!!!

So . . . thanks from the bottom of my heart

for coming by and leaving your helpful comments,

wisdom, kind words, and admiration of my love

of stitching. I have basked in the glow of these

comments and learned many things

from you wonderful women.

Thanks also for all the help you have given

me while I completed this project.

God Bless your stitching fingers . . . and keep

up the beautiful work.

Take care ~

Lenna

Halloween Rules . . .

This is my update on Halloween Rules!!!

I got the rest of the tombstones done

with the inside letters with

the moon rising behind them.

See how cleverly the designer wrote

out Halloween and

used the W for the branches

of the tree?

Ah, to be a designer and see things

like that with the naked eye.

Amazing!!!

I found out the fabric is called Heroic

and it is by Picture This Plus ~

32 count. I am getting used to this

count but it isn't easy for me.

I dearly love 28 count fabric cause

my threads seem to lay down

completely.

Next on the pattern I get to start on

the individual patterns.

YEA!!!

I would have gotten farther along on my

piece but I got some disturbing news

on Wednesday and I just couldn't stitch.

My youngest son, Tris, was in a very bad way.

He has had a psychotic break, which he now

says is NO break. He thinks he will call

it a nervous breakdown as they used to,

cause it is truly a break down!!! He still

has his wonderful sense of humor ~ God

Love Him.

He was taking some Adderall for ADD and

began staying up all night and not eating

and sleeping. He is getting plenty of

rest, food, prayers and love, something he was

really never lacking in before this happened.

He is a funny, kind, gentle soul who I love

with all my heart and so if you want to

say a prayer he and I would be so

grateful.

Everyday I talk to him and see some

small improvement. God is Good to us

and we are so Blessed to have the love

and support Tris needs at this time.

I want to take this opportunity to thank

everyone for their support and prayers.

He has felt them, too.

Thank You!

Thanks for stopping by and reading my post ~

I vow to have this framed before Halloween.

God Bless your stitching fingers ~

You are the best and I treasure your friendships so much.

Lenna

Halloween Rules . . .

Good Morning all you beautiful Stitchers . . .

I have been bouncing around the blogs ~

boy, you ladies are working on some

awesome projects.

The stitching is gorgeous to say the least!!!

Even though I haven't always commented

I am checking you out.

Great Job!!!

Keep up the good work and I will be checking

back on your progress. This time I might

even leave a comment!

This is my latest progress on Halloween Rules . . .

It is a real pleasure to stitch on this piece.

It helps that I love the fabric so much.

I fell in love with it the first time I saw

it at retreat. I was looking for a piece for this

project and I knew it would look great.

However . . . I did ask some of my stitching

ladies what they thought and not one of

them liked my choice.

So . . . to be fair, I did look again, decided

they were as wrong as wrong could be

and bought it anyway!!!

So there!

It is a count I don't usually stitch on but

I am adjusting.

It is 32 count and the stitches are beginning

to lay down better.

That is the biggest problem I have with

32 count.

On the other hand, on 28 count I don't seem to

have any problem with how the stitches look.

Anybody else have that problem?

I hope to get the tombstones in tonight

and spell out rules on them.

So off I go to get some stitches done

before I have to get ready for work.

It's another day of ordering and a late night

to boot.

I do dislike the late nights so much,

but ~ unfortunately no one asked me.

You just do what you have to do!!!

Take care and keep at the important stuff,

ie ~ stitching.

God Bless those stitching fingers ~

Lenna