Gim'me an A

Happy MLK Day to my fellow Americans!
I hope this finds you all well and enjoying your day no matter if you have it off or not :) My kids are off school today and we've had a PJ day as the weather outside is dull and gloomy. It's a red letter day, a PJ day that is, and I've enjoyed every moment of it! I just finished the final stitches on my Prairie Schooler Alphabet Sampler and here it is, the first installment:

Prairie Schooler Alphabets ~ Letter A

1/1 on 25 ct. lugana (Vonna's Bake and Basted formula)

using DMC as charted

Have you....
been following the progress over on the Prairie Schooler ABC Stitching Bee?There are ladies that started in December or even early January and have 3, 4 and more squares already done! It's amazing and everyone is doing their "own thing" with their projects. Its fun, yet a bit daunting to me....but I've met another goal of my personal January goals and it was to get this letter A block done. So WHOO HOO for me :)

Next....
you ask? Well....it's a surprise, of course! An oldie, that I didn't even know existed, nor that I even owned it (how sad is that) until I was rearranging and organizing my stitching stash and BLAM! there it was! Oh, I'm excited about this one. So excited in fact that I'll give you a hint. Its from an older book, one of my most favorite designers and it will go on one of my "walls" that I've been talking about creating. Hmmm....so that would be either the sampler wall or the Adam and Eve wall. Guess you'll have to wait and see! This whole wait and see deal that I've got going on this year in my blog has rejuvenated my stitching and blogging mojos. I sure do want to stitch fast so that I can surprise you. And I think that maybe my readers, visitors, friends and family are enjoying it too because I've received lots of positive feedback about it :) Cool beans!

Speaking of organizing....
yesterday my hubbie dearest took me to Office Depot. He wanted to purchase a new monitor for one of our computers because he thought the old monitor was not right (or something). Anyhoo, while he was checking out the monitors, I was aimlessly walking around. I found this 15 drawer organizing unit and was standing there salivating thinking of all the fabric and over-dyed threads I could fill it up with, but didn't want to ask for it because we've had an expensive couple of months. Well hubbie dearest came up and asked if I liked it. I said "yep" and he said, "not only is it functional but it looks nice enough that you could put it in our living room and then someday when you have a craft room it could go in there." I said to him with my eyes the size of silver dollars, "Someday I'll have a craft room?" and he said, "Sure you will when the kids are grown. I'll fix one all up for you with that Martha Stewart shelving and corner desk deal like you want." Well hootie hoot! That was news to me! So anyway, the hubbie dearest purchased my 15 drawer organizer and now I'm all organized up (after 6 hours of going through crapola). I have all my GAST, WDW, CC's and fabrics at the touch of my fingers. Ask for a color and all I'll need to do is walk behind my stitching chair and pull open a drawer where I have the skeins in there alphabetically and by brand. Need fabric...what count? They are all organized too by color and count. Yeppers, it was a good day!

So until next time and the next reveal....
Hands to work and hearts to God.
Love and Hugs,
Vonna