Many Thanks to All!

I want to say a Big Thank You to all of you that have stopped by my blog, left comments, sent e-mails, shared photos or offered suggestions, especially over the last few weeks. Work has been very busy and rather draining for awhile - which has left less time for the fun things in life - like blogging and stitching. I was supposed to be on vacation last week but ended up canceling that because of things going on at work. That is okay except I thought I would have lots of stitching time which, of course, didn't happen. I am trying to catch up on e-mail this week - so if you haven't heard back from me yet, don't give up.

I have been working on several new charts even though I've been rather distracted of late. I'm having trouble deciding which version I like best on some of them, so I may just post several versions and let the everyone decide for themselves which one they like best. Is that silly? I'm just not good at these kinds of decisions and there are other things to stress over, rather than this.

But, before I post new charts, I have to share pictures of the wonderful PIF I received from Carol S on Thursday afternoon. She sent a perfectly stitched and finished floss tag, even including some gorgeous Ozark Sampler threads that I can hardly wait to stitch with! I'm going to have to try making some of these tags, they are a really cute finish. Thanks so much, Carol!

This PIF Round is Full!

Thanks, Renée, for signing up for this PIF round! I'll let everyone know when I start the next one so if you didn't get in this time, don't despair! I am all about second chances!

Room for One More

I have room for one more person in my PIF round if anyone is interested. :0) And Aury, Jacqui, Michele and Sonya, please email me your mailing addresses so I'll know where to send your gifts. My email is: xstch crzy 2 @ yah oo. com (without the spaces, of course) Thanks, girls, for signing up - I'm looking forward to making something special for each of you!

New Pay it Forward Round

I'm told that if you put goals in writing you are much more likely to accomplish them. I hope that is true because I'm more of an impulse person, doing things on a whim rather than in an organized manner. I'm hoping to get more done this year so I have signed up for three SALs, one exchange group and now a Pay It Forward Round from Carol's blog. I am new to this, but as I understand it, this is how it works: The first five of you that leave a comment here on this post requesting to participate will receive a handmade item from me. I will send it to you sometime this year. In return, you will have to post in your blog that you are taking five names and you will send a handmade item to each of them in return. I think it will be fun and will help keep me focused on completing projects throughout the year.

I should have some new charts up in a day or two. Between the devastating ice storm here in Oklahoma (my home phone is till not working!) followed by my son's winter break from school (which always means a trip to visit my parents out of state) things have been off schedule for several weeks. We go back to work and school starting Monday so things should settle back out and I will get back to posting charts a little more often.