Gifts from dear friends!

Hi, friends.
I have been stitching a little by little almost every day!
Now I have been stitching "Zippity Do Da" © La-D-Da, though I also have "Christmas Sampler II" © Prairie Schooler as my WIP, and the Christmas is coming soon, I will switch to "Christmas Sampler II" from "Zippity Do Da".


By the way, here are some gorgeous presents that I have received for a while ago.
I'm sorry that I couldn't update them for a long long time.
Here is Huswife from Merumo.
I participated in her Giveaway, and I wasn't selected for a winner, but she kindly make such beautiful needlebooks as second chance of her giveaway!

Giveaway @ pleasentree～日々の楽しみ

Here is a link to the post to wonderful giveaway for the Japanese earthquake.
pleasentree～日々の楽しみ: Giveaway
I hope more people will donate and pray for Japanese people.

Thank you,

The Winners Are...

Hi! I just finished drawing of my 3 years stitching Giveaway!
And now here are the winners!!!

The brown one with coffee baked Lilly of the valley's winner is No. 44

A Samler Of Stitches : Margaret

And, Pink Lille of the valley's winner is, No. 29

Stitching under the Southern Cross : Rowyn

Congratulations, both winners!!
I will e-mail you and let you know that you won!

Sorry for the other partisipants, but it was fun for me, too!

I hope you enjoyed this game as well.

Take care and have a lovely weekend!

Happy stitching!

Private Exchange FOR Nina

Finally I could manage stitching and finishing Nina's Exchange, whew...

We had been talking about our private exchange since the last year, and she sent me wonderful exchange in April, but I couldn't make anything nice, I have never failed such many times before, then took time until send it out recently...

As you know, Nina is so talented and I've received wonderful works of hers first, so I was very hesitating to stitch and make something for her... you know what I mean?!
I was going to stitch sewing case by Lavender Lace, but there were so many specialty stitches, and also one over one, and I failed so many times, so I gave up!

Next time, I decided to stitch and make sewing sets by French designers, but the almost whole stitches were one over one, and I gave up again, as I can't do it...
Then decided to make this tin designed by LHN for her, but you know, again I made careless mistake on it, and so I decided to stitch one more piece...
I have never failed so many times like this time before!!
There must be BIG frog still on my shoulders!!

So here are two tins for her and for myself because I decided to complete mistaken one for myself.
I know Nina likes pink, but the design is based on light blue, so I added light blue flowery ribbon around the stitched pieces, and added pearl beads on four corners.

I also made a fob and pincushion for her.

Uhmmmm, it was too much, too fussy?
I was a bit worried about this, but I received a sweet mail from her, and she told me that she loves everything, so I'm so happy and feel relief now!

Here is mine, I will post how I failed and made mistake on hers and mine, though I added small ribbon charm on the mistaken spot to hide it.

This exchange had also another highlight, we exchanged our countries spices!
Her fiancee Tamas wants to try Japanese spices, so I sent her many of spices of our country and also instant miso soup, etc...!
I hope Tamas and Nina will love them!!

Thank you so much Nina for this lovely exchange!!

Here is a Strawberry Diary, we (actually sweetie) picked 5 pieces of strawberries this time!
This photo was taken on 5th of June, now strawberries are taking nap (lol), there seem not so many left to grow up...
Hope they will grow up more and more and let us taste again! :D

There is only one day left two days left for GIVEAWAY!
I changed the deadline to 14, June (Sunday) Japanese time.
So please join in this drawing!

Anybody can join in, who has no blog, quiet follower, friends, 日本の方（日本語読めます！）, first visitor, etc... everybody can join in!If you join in this GIVEAWAY drawing, please leave your comment or message to their posts!

If you'd like to be entered for this pinkeep, please click (here) or photo to leave your comment or message!

Of course you can join in for both drawing!If you would, leave your comments for both, please.

If you'd like to be entered for this pink pinkeep, please click (here) or photo to leave your comment or message!

Of course you can join in for both drawing!
If you would, leave your comments for both, please.

Thank you SO much for participating for this GIVEAWAY drawing!
There are so many people is joining this GIVEAWAY and I'm so happy and having fun to read your comments!!
It's always so much fun to read comments especially from first visitor or quiet followers!

Take care and Thank you for your visit!!!
Happy Stitching.

Design : "Loving and Faithful" © Little House Needleworks
Fabric : 35ct Wichelt linen (Cream / Ivory)

Thread : Crescent Colours (silk / thread pack)

WIP - Kazuko Aoki's design

Hi, how are you doing?
I have been feeling gloomy nowadays as the weather is also gloomy and dull...

I have finished Private Exchange for Nina, and PIF for the last participant of round 1 : Staci, and sent them out, so feel happy that I have no commitments, I have been stitching what I want!

I bought Kazuko Aoki's book and had been stitching a design for two, one is for myself, and another one is... as you probably might know, for my mum (lol)
This is very beautiful design and I fell in love, as well as my mum.


When I gathered threads, there were almost no threads in my stash, so I went out for buying threads.
Her design is very natural and so beautiful, so I like it!
I'm going to stitch other designs from her book later.







Here is a tomato diary.
The left one was taken on 28, May and the right one was taken on 5th of June!
It's so fun to observe them. There are about 5 tomatoes on the tree!
Hope they grow more and more and will turn in red!

There is still some days left for the GIVEAWAY!
I changed the deadline to 14, June (Sunday) Japanese time.
So please join in this drawing!
Anybody can join in, who has no blog, quiet follower, friends, 日本の方（日本語読めます！）, first visitor, etc... everybody can join in!

If you join in this GIVEAWAY drawing, please leave your comment or message to their posts!

If you'd like to be entered for this pinkeep, please click (here) or photo to leave your comment or message!

Of course you can join in for both drawing!
If you would, leave your comments for both, please.

If you'd like to be entered for this pink pinkeep, please click (here) or photo to leave your comment or message!

Of course you can join in for both drawing!
If you would, leave your comments for both, please.


Thank you SO much for participating for this GIVEAWAY drawing!
It's always so much fun!!
Especially to read comments from first visitor or quiet followers!

Take care and Thank you for your visit!!!
Happy Stitching.

Flowers, Flowers

I have been taking and keeping photographs of flowers which I have been taking while I take a walk with Sweetie.


Here they are, they are very beautiful, I love how I process these photos!
I lost link of the site for free download of photo editor, but next time I found it, I will link it.

There is still one more week for the GIVEAWAY!
I changed the deadline to 14, June (Sunday) Japanese time.
So please join in this drawing!Anybody can join in, who has no blog, quiet follower, friends, 日本の方（日本語読めます！）, first visitor, etc... everybody can join in!

If you join in this GIVEAWAY drawing, please leave your comment or message to their posts!

If you'd like to be entered for this pinkeep, please click (here) or photo to leave your comment or message!

Of course you can join in for both drawing!If you would, leave your comments for both, please.


If you'd like to be entered for this pink pinkeep, please click (here) or photo to leave your comment or message!

Of course you can join in for both drawing! If you would, leave your comments for both, please.


Thank you SO much for participating for this GIVEAWAY drawing!
It's always so much fun!!
Especially to read comments from first visitor or quiet followers!

Take care and Thank you for your visit!!!
Happy Stitching.

One Gloomy Day...

This week the weather here is dull and gloomy... so I don't feel much well, and seems like big frog is still on my shoulder...
Whatever I stitch, I make miss, and am frogging so many times...

Here is some photos that Sweetie is playing at the small park.
At first he couldn't do anything (he is a bit clumsy type, lol), but recently he daring climbs playground equipments, sometimes I feel fear seeing him, but boy should be like this!



Go Sweetie!! Be strong and brave, boy!!

What I like about him is, he always say "Hello" with big voice!
And then go into a circle and make friends!

Here is carefree mum, stitching while he is playing.
Recently Sweetie is interested in taking photos, as he is seeing me taking photos a lot.
So guess, who took this photo? Yes, my Sweetie took this photo of me stitching!
He is a good camera man for me! :D







There is still one more week for the GIVEAWAY!I changed the deadline to 14, June (Sunday) Japanese time.
So please join in this drawing!

Anybody can join in, who has no blog, quiet follower, friends, 日本の方（日本語読めます！）, first visitor, etc... everybody can join in!If you join in this GIVEAWAY drawing, please leave your comment or message to their posts!



If you'd like to be entered for this pinkeep, please click (here) or photo to leave your comment or message!

Of course you can join in for both drawing!
If you would, leave your comments for both, please.


If you'd like to be entered for this pink pinkeep, please click (here) or photo to leave your comment or message!

Of course you can join in for both drawing! If you would, leave your comments for both, please.


Thank you SO much for participating for this GIVEAWAY drawing!
It's always so much fun!!
Especially to read comments from first visitor or quiet followers!

Take care and Thank you for your visit!!!
Happy Stitching.