Lucky Streak and a Tusal

Where to start?  There has been much going on and many things keeping me busy.  Do you all remember my last giveaway?  Well, after emailing back and forth with CalamityJr, I decided to send her the 272 Words pattern with the DMC.  I had never seen this pattern before, and have to say, it is an ambitious project, something like 24 pages ambitious!!

It is the Gettysburg Address!  Looks like she and Denise from Riverside Stitching will be doing a SAL later this year.  And even better, perhaps we can all convince CalamityJr to start a blog so we can see her progress!  I'm sure many of you have seen her comments on your blogs, so perhaps you could leave her some encouragement in my comment section!

I have been stitching, but can't show the projects just yet.  The first of what I hope to be twelve new ornaments, is stitched and needs to be finished.  I'll be able to show you all next week.  I am working away on an exchange piece as well.  After that, it will be back to the Humility Sampler.  It calls to me whenever I sit in my chair!

I do have some stitching to show you.  My friend picked up stitching about 16 months ago....and not just stitching, but stitching on linen!  She's currently working on a project using 40 count ~ I'll show that when it's done, but in the meantime....feast your eyes on this!

She's a natural!!  She wanted to use her name instead of the wording that was graphed, and wouldn't you know that Paulette from Plum Street Samplers was kind enough to graph it out for her!  How awesome is that?

In other news, we had just enough snow for the boys to try out their new sleds and for hubby to try out his new toy ~ the snow blower!  It's all gone already and I am more than ready for spring!

It's time to post for the TUSAL!  If you aren't sure what this is all about and would like to join, just click on the link:  TUSAL.  Here is my January jar...can you find it?

I thought if I distracted you with the "Dirty Snowmen", that you wouldn't notice how empty the jar looks....

There has been a jump in the number of my followers (Welcome!) and I think it may be due to a very lucky streak that I had this week!  Last year, the hostess of the TUSAL, Daffycat, collected donations throughout the year for a giveaway for those that posted their updates every month.  I was shocked to see my name announced as the winner!  It will be like Christmas all over again when the box arrives!  Thank you to all that contributed and to Daffycat for hosting.  Then, Valerie from Fog City Dweller, let me know that I was the winner of her beautiful giveaway ~ she suggested I go buy a lottery ticket, I may just do that today!

In the spirit of the recent snow, and being that we haven't had an earthquake since August, I'll leave you with another Pooh quote...

“It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily.
"So it is."
"And freezing."
"Is it?"
"Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately.”
― A.A. Milne