Has the Postman brought you anything Fun 2011

[RosemaryH]

Oooh lovely stash!!



Nothing stitchy related, but a 6 books for my bookworm, Joe! Just three more in this series to find, then he'll have the complete set.

What is the set of books that Joe is collecting? Are they hard to find?

Rosemary

[~threadbear~]

No, you can get them easily enough Rosemary, but they can be £3 -£4 or more per book, so I scout around until I find them cheaply.

Have you heard of the film 'How to train your dragon'? These are the books that comes from.

[RosemaryH]

Yes, I have heard of the film. Know what you mean about the price of books, sometimes by shopping around you can save enough to technically call one of the books "free".

Rosemary

[Nina]

I got 13 DMC threads (which one has ran out of my collection)

[corby_stitcher]

This morning i got a load of AOY charts from Rosemary.
Thank you Rosemary, the wife loves them.

[Trylla]

After searching high and low, I found a company that hand-dyes 25 ct lugana. It's called Sassy's Fabbys and the service was great. Lauren answered all of my emailed questions quickly, kept me notified about the status of my order, and shipped it fairly quickly. I received it just over a week after she posted it. Not surprising as most mail from the States to Canada seems to be taking at least that long.

Now the good stuff! I received three 18x27 (is this a fat quarter?) pieces of 25 ct lugana in (l-r) Night Magic, Butterscotch Cookie, and Nightfall. The mottling on Night Magic and Butterscotch Cookie is pretty subtle, but Nightfall is wonderfully splotchy! I love it!



I also received two 18x13 pieces of 18 ct aida in Royal Purple and Amphibian. The mottling on these two is incredible!



Deciding on what patterns to stitch on these beauties will be so much fun!!

[RosemaryH]

This morning i got a load of AOY charts from Rosemary.
Thank you Rosemary, the wife loves them.

You are very welcome, so glad that she likes them.

Rosemary

[Mabel Figworthy]

Oooooh Trylla Nightfall is gorgeous!

[~threadbear~]

I was drooling over that one as well Mabel!

Lovely fabrics Trylla!

[karen4bells]

I was drooling over that one as well Mabel!

Lovely fabrics Trylla!

that makes at least 3 of us--just love all the fabrics but nightfall is awesome!!

[Rose]

Oh those are beautiful!!!!!! Amphibian is gorgeous!!!!!

[Carole]

Oooh, yummy fabrics. Night magic and Amphibian are beautiful shades. Can't wait to see what you do with them

[Mabel Figworthy]

Not yet, but I've been told my Stitching Bits & Bobs order was posted yesterday, so I live in hope. Tandem Cottage haven't let me know anything about my order yet

[Vega]

I love that Nightfall fabric!

I received my fabric of the month from Picture This Plus. This months color is Mercedes, I order mine in the crystal fabric. At first I thought it looked a lot like last months cut, but the molting on this piece is absolutely wonderful!

[Angel]

I got the first donation from this forum for my friends CF stall, a beautiful Geisha stitched by Mr X and donated by Lisa. Sooooo pretty!

[dollystitcher]

As some of you may know, I did not receive my Christmas Exchange biscornu when the exchange was on. I later received a lovely PM from Newfie Princess, who was the lady chosen to send my biscornu. She explained why there had been a delay and was very apologetic even though none of it was her fault as there were reasons beyond her control. However, I just wanted to show you what the Postie brought me from Canada yesterday, and as you can imagine I am over the moon with them. First of all, my beautiful Biscornu, which I am sure you will agree was worth waiting for


Next was this gorgeous little scissor keep


Then finally there is a selection of metallic threads in beautiful colours, a pack of plastic thread bobbins, a bobbin ring, Some really pretty crystal embellishments and finally a wonderfully scented Vanilla candle which I forgot to take a photo of as I was so excited

So once again a very big thank you to Tamra for my wonderful gift.

[pamelam]

That's such a pretty and delicate looking biscornu! The threads are gorgeous and the crytals look pretty!

[~threadbear~]

What a gorgeous biscornu! And the crystals are beautiful!

[mauveme]

Oh that;s great, so glad you got it. Love those threads too,,

[RosemaryH]

My postie has just brought me the lovely All Our Yesterdays diary from Lisa, thank you so much it is great and I can assure you it is very much appreciated.

She also brought boots, silver collectable spoon, and roman coins (for OH).

Rosemary