Happy Dance! - "Pumpkin Hollow" Fin!

Hi everyone, how have you been doing?
It's been almost one month since I posted the last time.

As I told you that I can't buy new cross stitch stuffs anymore (lol), though my friend (no blog) presented me some new charts as I wrote about it!
I was so happy to received them!! Thank you, "N"!! :)

When I saw this lovely design, I couldn't resist to start to stitch!
And rarely happen, it was quite fast to finish for me!

Isn't this design so lovely?!
When I saw the chart photo, I thought more darker colours that chart calls for, but when I gathered all threads they were quite colourful, and so if it wasn't lovely, I was going to undo with different colour.

But when I finished and saw the whole design, I thought it's so lovely and perfect!!
It was so fun to stitch a long this design, so it doesn't matter if someone asked me to stitch this design again, I would do that! :)

Here are some french knots parts, it's been so long since I have done french knots last time, so it was quite difficult for me this time...
Oh, I shouldn't forget to tell that I changed this pumpkin's flower colour and also the pumpkin that there is left of the sign board ("Pumpkin Hollow") since the colour didn't show up well on this linen colour.


Thank you so much for your visit even though I haven't been updating regularly.
Now I'm in stitching mood, so hope I can share some finished pieces or WIPs soon!


Take care and have a lovely day!





Design : "Pumpkin Hollow" by Little House Needleworks
Threads : DMC
Fabric : 28ct Zweigart Cashal Linen (Light Sand)

My WIPs 0918

Finally the day I can share my works (WIPs) with you came today!
Now I feel good that I can update my stitching works on my blog!
There are so many WIPs, though at the moment I'm stitching them below.

At first, I'm stitching "Dog Lessons For People #143" by Lizzie*Kate.
Actually I was stitching "The Tea Room" by CCN but couldn't concentrate on at all, so decided to change the chart that I stitch to this!
The thread colours call for this chart are very colourful and lovely, so it makes me feel cheerful!
My son Tass loves dog, so I want to hung this on his room when it completed! :)

Next project is "Simple Joys" by LHN.
Actually it's stopping stitching at the moment, so the photo is the same as before I took.

Here is "The Tea Room" by CCN.
I started this with my mama friends, but couldn't concentrate on stitching this at all, so changed the design to "Dog Lessons For People #143" by Lizzie*Kate.


My all mama friends who I'm stitching with (5 people includes me) have chosen LHN or CCN designs as I thought!!
One of my friend is very fast stitcher (on Aida at the moment... but will switch and try Linen soon!), so she has stitched many of designs already!
I will share some photos of her works one day later!

And here is now I'm stitching "Pumpkin Patch" by Prairie Schooler.
I want to buy new chart for Halloween by PS, though if I bought my mum would be mad (lol), so I'm stitching the last year version.
Also my mama friend that I talked about is stitching this, too!

I hope I can show you more works forwarded later when I update next time.


Take care and have a lovely weekend!
Bye for now,

Happy Birthday!!

Today is my Birthday, I became thirty-something!
But, unfortunately I wasn't feeling well today, and so I couldn't celebrate my birthday.
Just received natural & organic cosmetics from mum!
Recently my mum nags me that there are too many cross stitch stuffs in this house, so she announced not to buy ANY new cross stitch stuffs from now on!!! sigh and sad...
　

I'm just happy to being with my family, this birthday reminded me about it as I wasn't feeling good.
I'm happy enough to hear that Sweetie always says "Mummy I love you!" and kisses me!
Thank you for my family, especially Sweetie, I love you, too!

Thanks for your visit.
Bye for now,

Past 6 months of our life...

Today, I'm going to share and show you many photos that I took in the past 6 months.
I wasn't feeling well at all, though my mum asked me to go out so often if I could change my feeling... So even though I was very tired I went out with Sweetie when I could.
Here is some photos when we went to see tulip fields near by the facility where I have worked before I've married.
There is very huge ground and so we lied down on the field, it was very nice feeling in the nature.
But after that, we found so many deer's dungs(?) on the field, and we screamed!! (lol)

Here are some photos when we went to a shores of a river with my brother's family!
It was the first time for Sweetie to play in the river, so he was very excited with his cousins!!
They found a frog and I tried to touch it! geeeeee, but ces't la vie, it's mum's lesson to touch them!

Here are some photos when the summer festival was held at Preschool.
Sweetie wore Jinbei and played a lot!
Last year, my mum sewed Jinbei for him, though he hated to wear them...
So she (my mum) seemed a bit sad (lol), and threw away this year as Sweetie can't fit in anymore...

By the way, I changed hair style, before I was going to let my hair grow, though it's too hot this summer and so I cut my hair about 20cm and now it's bobbed.
I also changed glasses, so it looks quite different from before!

Here are some photos when we went to the sea recently.
We just went to see the sea, but Sweetie + I went into the sea!
It was like hot spring, it was amazed, how hot summer this year is!!!
We decided to visit here again to swim, so I bought swimming wear!
It's hardly believe that I wear swimming wear, probably more than 10 years since the last time I bought swimming wear in Australia...

After we went to the sea, we went to the hotel near by to have some tea and cake.
Background is the sky that I took on that day, and other two photos are from the cafe.
Aren't they beautiful?!

He looks like a big boy already, his teeth already came out!!
It's quite early, isn't it? He just became 5 years old, though...

In Japan, when we were child, when my bottom tooth came out, we throw the tooth on the roof, and then when the upper tooth came out, we buried the tooth in the ground.
But recently there are milk teeth box, so I bought lovely one and put them in it as keepsake.


Sorry that I shared just daily topics, not stitching photos nor story at all, though thank you so much for your visit and reading!
I appreciate for your comments always!

Take care + will update stitching issue next time!

Bye for now,

Spring Exchange FROM Marie-P

I have mentioned that Marie-P. and I were going to Spring (Easter) Exchange, but I was really ill in the last Spring and so even though I was stitching a little by little from earlier, I couldn't make and complete anything for her...
Moreover, I'm sorry that I hadn't been showing you her beautiful work on my blog for ages.
I apologize for you, Marie.
I will planning something surprise for you one day!

By the way, here is her wonderful Spring pinkeep!
How lovely this is, I love this Prairie Schooler design so much and wanted to stitch one day as like she did!
So I was so surprised and very happy to receive this so much, you know at that time I was so ill so I was truly happy to have this and so I take this pinkeep to my bed room when I sleep and put it on beside my pillow some days :)

She trimmed edges with flowery lace (sorry I forgot the name...) and put while pearl pins.
And on top, she added very springlike colour organza ribbon.
How sweet colour combination this is!
I really love this, Thank you so much, Marie!

On the back side, she used Easter egg's print fabric, it's so rare for us Japanese, because Easter is not major yet in Japan.
So we Japanese stitch friends searched and told me the meaning of Easter and why bunnies relates for Easter? etc...
But I already forgot it... (lol)

Anyway, her stitching and finishing is just perfect!!!
I really admire for her works, if you had chance to see her works IRL, you would be amazed!


I organized photos for blog, so I will update sometime later.
Take care and have a lovely weekend!

Thank you so much for your visiting!

It's been so long!

Hi everyone, it's been so long since that I wrote the last issue...
Almost 3 months???

I was not feeling well in the first 2 months of during this 3 months, though last 1 month I have been doing quite well, so I'm stitching and going out with Sweetie (not Sweetie lately, he became a big boy!).


Even though in the first 2 months while I was not feeling so well, when I found a fine day (weather and my health), I went out with my brother's family, etc... for Sweetie Tass, as he couldn't go out a lot this summer for me...

So, I will organize photos that I took in this summer and will also take photos of my stitch, exchange from Marie-P (sorry Marie!!) etc, from now and will update my blog in a few days!


I'm sorry for everyone who worried about my health.
Recently I'm doing better than before!


Thank you for stopping by, and bye for now!

Hi, I'm Back with this!

Hi, I'm back here! It was a very hot day today, like in August... but I'm still surviving!
I have been stitching this LHN's "Simple Joys" when I was feeling fine.
It has not done yet, though I wanted to post this today, as today is the special day for me.

Recently I have been messing up (always? lol) threads, so it was quite hard to find the right threads the chart calls for (actually I couldn't find them out), so I looked for similar colours of threads for this design, so most of the threads are different from the chart calls for...

Actually I have plenty of time to stitch when I'm feeling fine, but now I'm addicted in gaming online (silly me!), but I will finish this in this week or in the near future!

Tomorrow my friends will come to my house to stitch together!!
How fun would that be!

I'm going to look for charts we will stitch, we will decide which one we will stitch, maybe we choose as we like...
I will report about it later!

Take care and have a lovely day!

Bye for now,

BE HAPPY!!

What's going on my life!

Thank you so much for your visit although I haven't been updating at all, and thank you so so much for your warm comments, e-mails, e-cards, etc...
Sorry that I made some friends worry very much, I apologize for my late reply, At the same time I really appreciate for your warm hearts, as always!

Today I feel fine at the moment (now it's in the morning), and so I decided to write what was happening in the last one month.

Since I wrote the last post, we all had cold. Mum and Tass got well soon, though I have been suffering from cough even now.
I don't want this blog to be "Sick Blog" though! (lol)
I was thinking "Why lots of blue things happen to me!!!", but mum told me "If Tass became like you, can you bear for it??" Of course "NO", so I changed my mind that these happen instead of Tass would have.

But there are so many to share and tell you!
On Tass's Birthday (5/14), he was on TV program with lots of children to sing "My Neighbour Totoro"s theme songs, because the singer of Totoro's theme (Azumi Inoue) was on TV to sing them, so we went to Osaka.


Osaka is just one hour from here by train, but for my present physical energy, it was quite tough, so we decided to stay over my relatives house in Takarazuka.
I enjoyed the time there, but from the second day, I got high fever, and although I had antivirals it didn't go down, so I went to emergency hospital...

After we came home, my mum had cold and then Tass too, again...
I have also been having cold while they were having cold, then suddenly my cough got very harder than harder like asthma, I couldn't breath well, since I have experienced asthma so I knew it doesn't asthma attack, but it was like that, then went to see a doctor to check up.
Finally my examined paper has arrived, then there were nothing wrong, no allergy, no other disease.
But I have still been coughing... Actually I lost my weight, so it was quite good exercise!
My friend said to me "If you kept coughing, you would be able to be thin!!" (lol)


By the way, Tass received a guitar for his birthday present from mum (me), and then he is now having private lessons to be like "Naotaro Moriyama" !!
But when the last lesson was held, he was sleepy and he was almost going to sleep with guitar (lol)
Actually I'm also having lesson to help him because he is still small, so I remember better than him and now I can play easy songs! :D


No photos, but just wanted to tell you how we were (are) doing.

Thank you so much,
I hope I will be able to share something stitched piece with you on the next post!

Take care and have a lovely day!

News about Scissors Sale Blog

Hi everyone, thank you so much for many of comments, e-mails to cheer me up!
I'm feeling better than before lately.

Today I have a NEWS about Scissors Sale...
Unfortunately but, I will stop selling them FOR A WHILE.

I was going to help to buy the same scissors with me as I've got many questions where you can buy them.
But I was surprised, I've received so many orders, more than 450 orders in 3 months...
So it became like a shop.

Most of them could understand my health and gave me warm words, but some people were very in hurry and I received e-mails almost everyday to send them to them, even I told them that I was not feeling well...
Maybe this became like shop or business, so I can understand they misunderstand and mad at me...

So until I feel completely well, I will stop selling scissors for a while.
Please understand about this.

I will organize papers and send invoice of PayPal a little by little for whom on the waiting list.
Please understand this all of mess.

I apologize for the delay to send out scissors for you all.

Thank you,

I'm getting better a little by little...

Hi everyone, so sorry that I made you worry about Tass and my health...
Thank you so much for concerning about it, I received many of e-mails, but sorry that I couldn't even reply you back.
I really appreciate for your warm hearts.

Tass got well after I posted last one, but after that I haven't been well somehow...
At first it was cold, but even though after I recovered from cold, I haven't been well at all.
I couldn't move at all because I was too sleepy felt really sluggish and also felt very dizzy whole day and everyday since then.


I was very disappointed and was irritated by myself that I can't do anything.
I have been quite making customers trouble about scissors, I'm so sorry about that.

But since yesterday, I tried to reduce to have my medicines, my condition has changed a bit.
I can move better than before, I didn't need to sleep whole day, so I realized that was excess of take in medicines that I have been taking for ages.

So I will discuss about this issue with my doctor on this coming Sunday, probably this means my ill is getting better than before! (I do hope so!)
But why am I always talking about our health all the time? This is a stitching blog, though!!!

I truly sorry for the customers for scissors to keep you waiting for a long time.
I will try to do my best.

And sorry Marie-P that I couldn't make you anything for our Easter exchange.
I will share your beautiful work on the next post!


Thank you so much for concerning about our health.
Take care and have a lovely weekend.

Bye for now,

He is safe, but I am...

Hi everyone, thank you for concerning about Tass.
I received so many messages, e-mails etc... I really appreciate for your kindess.


Finally he got well from yesterday, at that night that the day I posted the last one, we went to emergency hospital as his fever wasn't ordinary, and a doctor said the treatment that Tass has been having doesn't right for this sick, but Japanese emergency hospital is just for the first aid, so the doctor couldn't do anything, just gave me antifebriles.

But his fever didn't go down a day after either, so I called emergency hospital to tell me the doctor's name who gave me good advices at that night, but they didn't tell me who it was as they say it's the rule.
That's nonsence, so I tried so many times to ask who it was, but they never told me about it, so finally I got angry with her who was on the phone, and told her "You shouldn't decide oneself, you should talk about this issue with everyone where there are, you can hold a meeting or whatever from now, I will wait, so give me a dicision later, because if his fever doesn't go down, he might die!!!"
And finally I could hear who it was, actually phone call was from a doctor himself!
As always Japanese isn't depending on the circumstances at all... always says rules, manuals, etc...



The doctor was the pediatrician who has own hospital near by.
So we went there soon, and he totally different examine and gave us totally different medicines.
Then, Tass's fever went down soon!!!
His hard cough and running nose also disapeared!!
He also suggested to go to otolaryngology to check his ears and nose, then we went there, Sinusitis was found in his nose...

If his fever didn't go down, he had to be hospitalized again...
Thank doctor, and thank god, and thank everyone who prayd for him!

But!! Instead of him recover, I've got his virus...
Soon I went to hospital and had medicines, so I hope my sick won't be more bad...
I have headache, one block nose, one running nose (lol), cough, fever, diarrhea, etc... everything he had!!
Have to go to bed, but I just wanted to let you know how he is now, as they all were worried about him.
Thank you so much for your warm heart.

I hope I will be able to be good health in a few days, as I have to work for scissors.
In Japan tomorrow (22nd) is public holiday, so post office is closed, so if I'm OK, I will send them on Tuesday.


Thank you for stopping by.
Bye for now,



[Edited on 22nd of March]
Today he said, he has ear-ache, so we went to emergency hospital again, and the result was an inflmmation of the middle ear, and he had treat... he cried, but now he is fine!

Actually I have been suffering ears problem "Patulous Eustachian Tube" for 5 years, and the other day when Tass went to an otolaryngology I had treat of it, but it was TOO much pain!!!
I couldn't move for a while as squatted down on the chair...
I'm sure even adlut male might cry!!!

Just a quick note...(again)

Hi everyone, thank you for stopping by.
Just a quick note, my son Tass has high fever from last week.
It's been 4 days now, so I think we will go to Emergency Hospital tonight if his fever keep going although he has got antifebrile.
If he is safe tonight, we will go to hospital tomorrow, too.
He had many checks but nothing wrong has found at the moment...
So I'm so worried about him.

So I can't handle with Scissors now, please please understand about this.
After he got well, I will manage Scssors, so please wait for a while.

Thank you so much for your understanding.

"Summer Basket" is nearly done!

Hi everyone, how are you doing?
Thank you for stopping by, I appreciate for you reading this blog!
I also thank every customers who bought scissors from me, I can't reply to each person soon as there are so many e-mails everyday in my mail box, so please forgive it and please don't worry, I have received your mails and payments!

By the way, BBD's "Summer Basket" is nearly done!
Isn't this soft and beautiful colour? My mum also love this sampler so much!
I left snowflakes around (actually I don't like snowflakes motives...), and also my initial "Y", so will be able to finish this soon!

Here is satin stitch part that I love!

And here is one over one part that I hate! lol

Colourful alphabets!

It's so fun to stitch along this, but I stop to stitch this for a while as I have an Easter exchange piece that I have to work!!
When I finished exchange piece, I will back to this sampler!!

Take care and have a lovely day!
Bye for now,

Design : "Summer Basket" (Loose Feathers #38) © Blackbird Designs
Fabric : 30ct St. Valentine's Blend by R & R
Thread : WDW and GAST

"Quaker Garden" Finished & BBD New WIP

Hi everyone! Thank you for stopping by.
Finally I finished BBD "Quaker Garden" (Loose Feathers #19).
Yahoo! It was very fun to stitch along, I don't know why I left this for ages...
I added "2010" and my initials, what I like in this pattern is two of white birds on both sides!
Aren't they beautiful?
I love grayish blue outline so much!

I already have found the frame online, so would like to buy it soon!
I hope it will be beautiful in the frame!

How about this marbled (original, lol) linen?
I think it turned out beautiful as seeing the finished piece!
And here is my new WIP! I fell in love with BBD more and more, so I started LF#38 "Summer Basket" that Sally at Salty Yarns traded with my scissors!
She kindly kitted up this beautiful pattern! Thank you Sally!
The thread colours are very softer than the original photo, so it's like spring has already come!!
To stitch this make me feel so comfortable and relax.
Here is a photo that the stitched piece on the black lap top.
I think you can see a little bit clearer than on the carpet.
I hope I can go forward speedy and would like to order frame for this, too!

After I updated this post, I will continue to stitch this!! :D
Today finally Sweetie could go to Preschool since his absence.
And today "Curry Party" was held there, so I went there, too!
He is very picky and he doesn't eat veggies and fruits at all at home, though he eats veggies at Preschool, huh? that means my meal taste not good? lol
I hope he eats them when he grew up!

By the way, as for the scissors, some items are out of stock, and I want to stitch very much now, and also have private exchange in this month, so please let me have my own time to concentrate on stitching, please!

I will re-open my scissors blog again soon, and will let you know about details here and there!


Take care and have a lovely day!
Happy stitching!

Design : "Quaker Garden" (Loose Feathers #19) © Blackbird Designs
Fabric : 30ct Garden State Java by R & R Reproductions
Thread : WDW and GAST


Design : "Summer Basket" (Loose Feathers #38) © Blackbird Designs
Fabric : 30ct St. Valentine's Blend by R & R
Thread : WDW and GAST