Stitching Friends and Goodies!!

How does one keep busy on a beautiful, but warm, October weekend.  With baseball of course!  The boys had games and practices both days that kept us running all over the place.

For other events in my life, let me go back a few days.  On Thursday, Brett, Anna and myself were able to meet up with Peggy Lee of the Kentucky Sampler.  We started with a two hour session at Starbuck's.  The rest of our day consisted of shopping at the Strawberry Sampler and Kohls, then off to lunch.  We had a ton of fun!

Here we all are at the Sampler.

Here's Peggy Lee at lunch - did you see the name of that BBQ sauce? 

This tote bag is from a general store in Kentucky where Peggy Lee is from.  The back tells the story of the store and the front shows the picture.  A girl can never have enough tote bags - thanks Peggy Lee!  I love it and I know it will enter the rotation of bags I use to carry my stitching.

 

How appropriate to find a package waiting for me when I arrived home that contained the traveling pattern that originated with Peggy Lee!  The blue shown under the pattern is the journal where each stitcher is documenting their project details and leaving special notes for Peggy Lee to read when it finally arrives back home.  The fabric at the bottom is what I'll be stitching on - 32count Antique Gold by Silkweaver.  My thread choices will remain a secret until I finish.  I put my other projects aside and started working on this Thursday evening.  The perfect way to finish my day.

 The following are some goodies that I won from June at Butterfly Wings.  I may have to stitch up a few of those motifs from Anchor for some Christmas ornaments!  Thank you so much June!

I want to take a moment to say hello to my new followers!  Oh, and Ned the Gnome has done some more traveling.  To see what he's been up to, click the picture in my sidebar!

Thanks for stopping by!



New Friends, Baseball Season??, Treasured Gifts, and a Birthday

Where have I have been for the last six days?  This is where is all started.  Last Thursday my friend, Brett, and I traveled to the Strawberry Sampler to meet Peggy Lee of Kentucky Sampler fame.  

Do you know if you show up before they actually open the doors, and no one is in sight, all you have to do is bang on the door, hold up a box of munchkins, and they will come runnin' to let you in!

Here we are in all our glory:

I'm still trying to figure out where all that extra me comes from.  I guess it is not a great idea to wear a down vest when there is picture taking!! 

Peggy Lee stitched a beautiful sampler for her new grandson, Liam, and is leaving it to be framed.  I forgot to get a closer picture of it, but I know she has one on her blog!

 From here we headed to Trader Joe's.  Check out Peggy Lee's blog to read all about the shopping bag!  The last one was snatched up by someone in our group - but not me!  I had to console myself later at my grocery by buying this one at the checkout.  Cute for spring, but still not like the one from Trader Joe's!

  From here we headed over to the Christmas Tree Shoppes.  Here we found the latest and greatest in Easter fashion:

Sadly, Peggy Lee had to leave us early to pick up her MasterChief from work.  I think it is safe to say that if Peggy Lee lived closer, there would be some crazy times to be had!  I am so glad that we finally had the chance to meet.  If it works out, we'll be able to meet up with her again before they head towards home in a few weeks.

Friday was spent madly trying to catch up on laundry and packing for a weekend baseball tournament.  We left Friday night and headed to the Rehobeth Beach/Georgetown, DE area.  The temperatures were anything but beachy and the team pulled an early game on Saturday.  We were all at the fields by 8am!!  Here is my oldest in action:

The team was pretty rusty as the weather so far this spring has not allowed them much outside practice.  Definitely not their best outing!  We found out Saturday night that we were to have the early game once again on Sunday.  As luck would have it, Sunday's games were canceled due to the cold and snow, yes, snow!!!  With the temperatures hovering around freezing, I don't think anyone was really that upset. 

There was a wonderful surprise waiting for me when we arrived home.  A box from dear Myra!  When Myra won my 100+ Followers giveaway, one of the extras I sent to her was a charm pack of BBD fabrics that I had won from BBD a while back.  She graciously said she would make something for both of us!  I know how wonderful her things are, so I sent her the other charm packs that I had and asked her if she would also make me a needlebook.  Well, this is what I found in the box:

Minus the chocolates of course - the boys grabbed those right away!

Both sides:

I am thinking of using the fabric basket to hold some of my stitching goodies.

 

In this piece of fabric was a pack of sunflower seeds!  My oldest heard me talking about it and got excited, until he realized that they weren't ready to eat.  We have to plant and grow them! 

Here is the front of the needlebook.  I love it! 

Opened to show the front and back.  Did I tell you Myra is amazing! 

The inside - with needles included!  She thinks of everything!

And my favorite part, which I didn't find until later.  Myra is sneaky and hid this under the inside piece! 

Thank you again Myra.  I will treasure these gifts always!

I can't wait to see what else she creates with the extra charm pieces!

Well, it's official.  It's March 30th.  My baby's 7th birthday!  Here he is on the beach this past weekend:

He suddenly realized that a big wave was coming in fast!

The  boys in my life...time is passing faster than I'd like and these are moments to be remembered...

Now, I'd better get to bed.  There is a cake to be baked, icing to be made, presents to be wrapped and fun to be had later on (and baseball practice squeezed in as well)!

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