Quakers and Houses

It may be Friday the 13th, but I've had a SPECTACULAR day!!! First off this a.m. I saw my favorite guy coming down the street. Yep, he's the postman :) Gotta love that guy especially when you go out to the mailbox and find a package addressed to you!

I ripped that thing open and lo and behold I found this: Quaker Biscornu

Stitched by: Melissa for the USEBB Spring Quaker Exchange

Isn't it just scrumptious?! She did a fabulous job and I just love the fiber she used....it definitely has the colors of spring in there and it looks fabulous in my stitching curio cabinet ;) She also sent the most perfect extras ~ a pad of butterfly cutout post-it notes *extra sticky* and 4 skeins of Vicki Clayton silks in my MOST FAVORITE COLORS!!!! Now I've been thinking, wondering, filling carts, emptying them again, asking questions, about Vicki Clayton silks for well....a long time. I just want to try them so much! Well worry, think and wonder no more! I can now try them out in the yummy colors of: Blue, Yellow, Green and Pink!!! THANK YOU Melissa! I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your lovely exchange :)

Next up: The SBEBB House with Landscaping Option. This is my first exchange with the SBEBB, and I was lucky to get Becky, SC (herself) as my partner! Oh YIKES...is what I thought...not that I don't adore Becky...because I do, but it was like...Oh YIKES, how can I make something that will even live up to anything that she has made OR anything that she has received from all you lovely stitchers out there that exchange with her. I was in a quandry for sure....but dear Becky chose as her Landscape option: Beehives and a flower or two :) So I got out all my patterns and started thinking about what I was going to stitch. I came up with this:

Elements from Diane Williams designs: Daisy Lane Cottage, Peach Tree Cottage and Joy in the Journey. I slapped a bit from each of these all together and I think it turned out pretty O.K. Oh, the little beehive hanging from the tree is a Vonna Original ;) (all rights reserved, please! ~ LOL!!)

So, I got it all stitched up and then I thought....HOW in blue blazes am I going to finish this?! Then one day, it hit me from out of nowhere....a picket fence! That's how I wanted to finish it...mount it on a white picket fence. So my husband and I discussed the possibilities and had it all hammered down that I was going to buy some basswood and make a picket fence. So I went to Hobby Lobby and was walking the wood aisle and I found the PERFECT picket fence already painted and everything :) So I came up with this as my finish:

SBEBB House Themed Exchange with Landscaping Option

Alrighty then....that's all I have for today. Whoops, one more thing...I made my very first pinkeep today :) And if I do say so myself...I LOVE PINKEEPS! I think I'm going to make about a dozen or so more....if I only knew what I was missing! Would love to show you...but alas this pinkeep isn't for me :( and it's going to be rough parting with it because it is beautiful. Oh, well...I'll make another for myself.

O.K. folks...that's all I have today...now I'm getting *really, really* close to having my 1000th commenter AND I have the prize all picked out and purchased and ready to go...will it be you?! Have a great weekend everyone! Thank you for visiting :) Come on back again real soon!