Small Finish and a giveaway extension!

I managed a small Christmas finish yesterday in the midst of an absolutely crazy weekend. You can get my Santa pattern here.

I had 2 performances last weekend plus all the rehearsals. It was kinda crazy. Just one more performance left and then I have a break until next year which I'm looking forward to. Everything will be taking a break including softball.

So I have been working on Santa and I managed to finish him despite the lack of motivation and having to do a couple of exams.

Oh I don't think I've mentioned this yet. I got accepted into a dual diploma course business and management. I'm taking a step away from teaching and we shall see where it leads. As I told my grandma yesterday I want to eventually run my own craft shop but what form that shop takes I'm not sure. I don't know whether I will just run workshops for kids or have a full shop with a cafe attached. There are lots of options and I'm throwing them all around at the moment. Nothing is happening quickly I need experience first and everything I'm doing is testing the waters and moving in that direction.

But back to Santa I finished stitching him yesterday morning I think but only now getting the time to post.

 Doesn't he look SOOOOO cute! To understand the size they are only about 2 inches high. I'm going to turn these into some sort of Christmas quilt hanger or something. I'm not sure exactly what!

 

 L and C were looking for something to do so they both picked up some sort of stitching. L is doing her cross stitch Sampler while C is doing a tapestry style star. He is getting better since I put him on Plastic canvas. I will update with their work soon.

I've also been working on things that aren't my designs. I'm loving the way this one is turning out but I'm so out of practice working on evenweave! I've been working a lot on aida recently.

GIVEAWAY NEWS!
Ohk for those that made it this far I'm giving a couple more days to get an entry into my giveaway. It's a couple of posts back. I understand the silly season means noone has time to keep up to date so I'm giving some more chances to get an entry in. You have until Friday your time to post your entry!!!

Happy Stitching!
Caitlin

Carolers and a Giveaway!

So I now have some carolers in my shop and to celebrate having so many awesome designs up finally! I want to do a special giveaway on my blog.

You have the chance to win the pattern of your choice from my etsy store.

To enter:
1. Visit my store and pick your favourite design.
2. Post about this Giveaway on your blog
3. Reply on this post with your choice and a link to your blog post.


ETA:
I HAVE extended until FRIDAY the 13th your time. SO I will wait until ALL of Friday around the world has finished before drawing!


Happy Stitching and Enjoy!
Caitlin

Giveaway :D

Heather over at Heather's Stitching Story is having a giveaway of some country cottage needleworks and Little House Needleworks charts.

thanks :D

Giveaway

Nicola over at Stitching By A Cornish Sea Shore is having a giveaway of a lovely chart if anyone is interested.

Giveaway

Gizzimomo's is having a cute giveaway of mouseloft kits. Go check it out.

My Memories Giveaway

Well I got contacted by the lovely people at My Memories Suite


I got to have some fun with their great software. I'm usually not into scrapbooking because I didn't want to add another craft to my already long list of things that I do. But I couldn't resist trying out this software.

It was so easy to download. I just went to the website and downloaded it. There are also so many cool kits with backgrounds to download. (though I'm not sure background is the right word.)

While I was fiddling I came up with a wonderful design. I could not resist using this picture. Such a cute little boy.

I also tried it out with my stitching as a way to display the finished pieces. I think I could really get to like this! Such a pretty finish and better than anything else that I do with photobucket and actually easier too!

I do have a lot to learn about what to put on a scrap book page but this software definitely makes it easy. I think I will definitely have to make use of this for my wedding. So easy to organise the photos.

Now to the fun part the people at My Memories have offered one copy to my wonderful readers.
To enter this giveaway:
1. You have to be a follower of my blog.
2. Go to My Memories and tell me which kit you like the best.
3. For an extra entry follow them on any of these 

Blog- http://blog.mymemories.com/
Facebook- http://www.facebook.com/pages/MyMemories/140359372717593
Twitter- http://twitter.com/#!/mymemoriessuite

For everyone else there is another offer as well. Using this code: STMMMS65811 
you can get $10 off when you buy the my memories suite for yourself. Click the button below to use the code!

 

So get posting your favourite kits you have until Sunday the 3rd of JUNE(American time) I will hold it open the extra day to match up for everyone.

Caitlin