No photos but just a post

I had forgotten how much I love movies.  I participated in a Market Research this week and the company I was doing it for turned out to be Robert Murdoch's BSkyB.  Now we have belonged to Sky since it first started I guess in 1989 or thereabouts but trying to cut back and save money I cancelled the movie channels about a year ago.  


Well this week there were three movies I wanted to see so I thought to heck with it I'm going to join again.  So today I watched The Women which turned out to be a real feel good movie and I loved it.  Even DH sat down and watched it with me.  It was a remark of the 1933 movie (don't ask me which one) and starred Meg Ryan and even had a guest appearance by Bette Midler which I loved because I love her.  This movie was about a group of 4 girlfriends and I thought it was going to be a non-musical rehash of 'The First Wives Club' but it wasn't.  It was just a real feel good factor movie so if you haven't seen it yet get it somehow because it is so worth it.


The movie before also starred Bette Midler and her being in it was the only reason I taped it (not really taped cause we don't have a VCR anymore I saved it on the Sky+ box which has a hard drive) and it was called 'Then She Found Me' and was nothing  I thought I would be and I LOVED it.  Really LOVED it.  It also starred, and was directed by, Helen Hunt and was a great movie, but more so if you are Jewish, because it is a very Jewish movie and I didn't even know this until it started and I heard the music and thought hey - I know this music.  Okay I know loads of music but this music I really knew.  But if you are a Bette Midler fan it is a great movie despite the Jewish bit.

The third movie is being recorded as I type and is called 'Body of Lies' which I haven't seen yet but really wanted to.  So I have had a film fest today and tomorrow, well tomorrow I shall just watch this movie.


Also I spoke to my sister-in-law in the States and my brother isn't doing well.  He won't eat and is sleeping a lot.  All his bloodwork came back just fine.  So we don't know what's up.  Hopefully, please g-d, nothing.


Oh yeah and I almost forgot.  I am on a diet which is really working and I lost 9lbs this week!  Yeah me who doesn't move a lot!



So until next time ...

Lots of Love

Patti xxx
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission - Eleanor Roosevelt

I don't know how to head this one

As most of you know I have been in a number of exchanges this year.  Most of them have gone smoothly but some not so smoothly.  

Well I am delighted to say that the needlebook I stitched for Theresa has been received in La Jolla, CA.  I used a Shepherds Bush kit called 'Be Happy' though I didn't stitch the words on because for a needlebook they would have made it a really weird shape.  I bought the kit here in the U.K. from a shop called Fobbles.  I also sent with it a handmade scissor fob and Theresa emailed me and told me she loved them both.  This was my first attempt at making a needlebook and I think it came out okay.  I followed Merry Cox's needlebook making instructions from an old copy of SANQ.

The same day I sent this one out I sent a replacement one to Daphnee because the first one was lost in the mail.  It was an Autumn (Fall) Exchange organized by Nina.

This was the one I originally sent to Daphnee and although it wasn't an Autumn ornament I did it in Autumnal colors.  But it never arrived.  So I then stitched this one as the replacement:

This is the front of it

  And this is the back

There was a lot more work involved in this one as you can see and I was really pleased with the outcome of it.  But, I heard from Nina this morning that this one hasn't been received either.  I am so upset it just isn't true.  All that work for nothing!  And not once but twice in the same exchange.  I feel really bad for Daphnee but I have honestly made and sent her two ornaments and a hand made scissor fob with the second one because I felt so badly that the first one was lost in the mail.

If any of you are wondering who Gracie is.  Well if you are as old as me and American you will remember the George Burns and Gracie Alan show which actually started out as a radio show in the 1930s and transferred to a TV show beautifully for 8 years.  The clip I have attached has Jack Benny in it too.  Now Jack Benny was notoriously tight with money and funny and he had another show his wife Mary and he always had a violin in his hands.   I loved both shows as a child and would still watch either now.  It was a then sitcom and Gracie was George's patsy (NO NO NO not me).  She acted the dumb one and it was always very funny because he would feed her one line and she would go on and on.  George and Gracie were actually married, but she passed away in  1964 after having retired in 1958 due to heart attacks.  Anyway at the end of each show George said to Gracie "Say goodnite Gracie" and she would return with "Goodnite Grace".

Say goodnite Gracie.  Goodnite Gracie
Lots of Love

Patti xxx
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission - Eleanor Roosevelt

I have a bone to pick with some of you

Why?  You ask.

Because on September 5th Carol released Sew Red (above) for no payment whatsoever. and then ....

Sew Blue

... on September 20 Carol release Sew Blue (above).  and then ...

Sew Autumn

... on October 11 Carol released the Sew Autumn also for free.  Gratis free and for nothing.  All the three charts were released without any payment required at all.  All Carol asked from you is that you emailed her and requested you emailed her and she would send any of them to you.  Well over a thousand cross-stitchers asked for one, two or all three of these charts.

So why do I have a bone to pick with you?  Because then Carol released .....

Sew Noel

and would you believe that practically nobody was interested in purchasing this chart for the $4.00 that was asked for it.

Now I'm Jewish and will never stitch this, unless it is for a present for somebody, but I bought it because Carol had been so kind in letting us have those other charts for free that I felt I should support her and so I did.  No, I'm not holier than though but just like Carol's charts whether free or otherwise and hoped all of you would too.

Carol has now released Sew Winter for those of you that wouldn't stitch a Christmas chart or just want a seasonal band of samplers.

 

Sew Winter 

It would be really good if some of you that asked for Carol's free charts would support her now that she is selling them for $4.00 and those of you that missed the free charts can still get them if you purchase one of the two for sale charts.

How do you get one or all of them?  Just click on any of the above pictures and it will take you straight there.

Okay my moan is over now.

So until next time ...

Lots of Love

Patti xxx

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission - Eleanor Roosevelt

Another Giveaway

 

 

 Zuzana is having a wonderful giveaway on her blog.  All you have to do to enter is go to her BLOG and leave a comment on it which you can easily do by clicking on either Zuzana or the word blog which is in capital letters and it will take you straight there.  Then just leave a comment on your blog just like I did above. In other words easy peasy japaneasy!  But be fast because it ends on 30th November 2009.  Good luck to everyone who enters it.


So until next time ...

Lots of Love

Patti xxx
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission - Eleanor Roosevelt

Ask Me About My Grandkids by Lizzie Kate

I am such a cow it just isn't true!!!  This bivagitch (that's Havagav for b*tch - all you do is insert three letters into the word and then only you an the person that can speak Havagav know what you are talking about)  never thanked Lori for the wonderful cube she stitched and made for me for the 1st Lizzie Kate exchange. 

This is the front

This is the back

And I LOVE it to pieces and thank you so much Lori for stitching and making this for me.  It is just gorgeous and since you asked so nicely here are some photos of my grandchildren - well you did ask:

This is a photo of Sammy & Lily taken last Christmas

Okay this is the real Sammy & Lily.  He is a total

doll and she is .... well she is

And this is Oliver taken today relaxing whilst Danielle does her shopping

And finally here is the Lizzie Kate I stitched and please don't ask me who for because I have forgotten.  My memory is just like a sieve - and what's more this is the second one I stitched because the first one the damn British Post Office lost - at least I am assuming it was them because of all the strikes they have been having which I think have now stopped, but who knows they change their mind from day to day.

I really loved this one because it is my favorite saying

and it drives my DH round the bend which I LOVE!!

Okay say goodnite Gracie ...

Goodnite Gracie!

and until next time ...

Lots of Love

Patti xxx

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission - Eleanor Roosevelt

And the WINNER is + an exchange received

The Winner according to the Randomizer thingy IS  Carol R!  Congratulations from me.

List Randomizer
There were 39 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

1. Carol R
2. Liz
3. Kathy
4. Julia
5. Julia
6. Berit
7. Angelasweby
8. Joby
9. Jeanie
10. Blu
11. Lynda
12. Kim
13. Vivi
14. Lynda
15. Cole
16. Deb
17. Barbeeque4
18. Mainly Stitching
19. Margaret
20. Drea-Dear
21. Brigitte
22. Nina
23. Ellen
24. Gabi
25. Nina
26. WendyJo
27. Kat
28. Alice
29. SilkLover
30. Siobhan
31. Miss 376
32. Melissa
33. Gaynor
34. Shakatak66
35. Jeanie
36. Berit
37. Lisa
38. Marjorie
39. Deb

Timestamp: 2009-11-16 16:31:16 UTC

I am firstly sorry that not everybody could win but there will be another finished giveaway on the 1st of December.  (see how Anglicized I have become - note the date)!

  
Secondly I am sorry this is a tad late but I just got home from a hospital appointment - all day.  Well not really but I do have to have my gallbladder out.  The appointment was for 10:45 this morning and I didn't get seen until 11:30 and that was only after I complained that I had been waiting way longer than some people who had already gone in so I went next.  No big deal apparently it will be done (hopefully) by keyhole surgery.  Then we went out for lunch (not that I ate a lot because I have the most awful stomach ache) and then some shopping and now I'm home and feel just awful.



I also received an exchange from Drea-Dear (Andrea) for the TTE2 blog and I would like to show it to everyone here and thank Andrea at the same time, though I have thanked her once already (all pictures are clickable to enlarge them)

This is the outside of the needlebook

 This is the inside of the needlebook

And this is some extra Aida, ribbon and thread that

Andrea included so I could make a matching scissorkeep

So until next time ...

Lots of Love

Patti xxx
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission - Eleanor Roosevelt

The winner chooses

Hi, 

It's me again.  I have decided that on this occasion the winner will choose how he/she wants this finished.  It can be as a pin keep or a pin cushion.   I know those aren't a lot of choices but hey it's better than no choices at all, aren't they???

To get to the correct post, click on the word post for entering this competition which ends on November 15. (all images are clickable to make them larger) and sorry this photo is so much darker than the previous unfinished photo but this one was taken at night and the other one was taken during the day.

To save you having to read through the previous post here are the rules for this giveaway:

1.  Leave a comment on the linked (from the photo above) post for one entry
2. For two entries please leave a posting and/or a link in your sidebar to this Giveaway on your blog linking back to this or the previous entry
3. Leave a separate comment saying that you have posted an entry on your blog (I will check and that way I will get to (hopefully) see loads of different blogs, so that I know to enter you twice.
4. Silly me forgot to put the end date and that is November 15 at midnight BST (that's British Standard Time worse luck) 

 I have also finally finished (ok I did the stitching and Janet did the finishing for me) of the object below and okay I knew is was BlackBird Designs but just couldn't remember the name of it, okay so I'm getting old(ish).  It is called 'Buttons and Blooms For The Cure' and was a limited edition kit and I got one.

The bag was, of course, pre-made by BBD

And this is the little pin cushion

Now whoever is going to be choosing whether they want the unfinished (but stitched) BBD finished as a pin cushion please do not expect me to pipe it, but I might you never know.

So until next time ...

Lots of Love

Patti xxx

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission - Eleanor Roosevelt

My 4TH GIVEAWAY TO YOU, 2 Giveaways I Won and 1 lost in the mail exchange

Okay, now I always say that when I am speaking for real - just ask anybody that knows me.  I think it has become a habit.

The first thing is my October PIF that should has been posted on here October 1 but I'm just a bit late and it isn't even finished!  What a devil I am!  Not on time and not finished but I will be and I will show another photo, probably either tomorrow or Sunday and show you what you will actually win (and it will be ironed).  You see I stitch in hand so stuff gets even more creased than it comes (this is R&R linen which does come creased).  But here is the almost finished photo of it - stitching that is.  It isn't that big and will either be finished as a pinkeep or a pincushion.  

I just want to tell everyone that this is my Pay It Forward you guys don't have t do anything but leave a comment as described below to enter into it.  You do NOT have to do a PIF.  It was just my way of upholding my end of the bargain with the three PIFs I signed up for when nobody wanted to sign up with me I just decided that instead of getting anybody to sign up for a Pay It Forward I would just stitch and finish one thing every other month.  So here is Month 4's Giveaway with NO STRINGS attached at all.

Now Sandra Carstairs finished hers like this and I am inclined to do the same.  I am just waiting for some gorgeous pins to arrive and as I have finally learned how to make twisted cord this week courtesy of my friend Angela (no blog but photos).  All you have to do to enter this giveaway is:

1.  Leave a comment on this, and only this, post for one entry
2. For two entries please leave a posting and/or a link in your sidebar to this Giveaway on your blog linking back to this entry
3. Leave a separate comment saying that you have posted an entry on your blog (I will check and that way I will get to (hopefully) see loads of different blogs, so that I know to enter you twice.
4. Silly me forgot to put the end date and that is November 15 at midnight BST (that's British Standard Time)
   

Okay and now for the two Giveaway wins that I WON!!!
First I won a Giveaway from Ellen Chester.  Boy was I ever excited because for those of you that know me I am a HUGE With My Needle fan and I chose Bunnies in the Garden and My Needles Workbox which is one of the new charts.   When I went to look for something else you will never guess what I found I already had!  Yep you have it in one.  I found Bunnies in the Garden so I would have had two of them.  So I duly wrote to Ellen and told her and she very kindly let me change Bunnies in the Garden to A Hornbook Exampler which I know for 100% that I do not own - ok it's one of the few of Ellen's that I don't have and here are my wins all safe and sound here in the U.K.  Ellen is just so lovely and yes I have met her in real life and she even came to my home once about 3 years ago I think with a load more people from The Sample Guild.  Thank you so much Ellen it really really really is appreciated and I promise I will stitch Bunnies in the Garden just as soon as I can.

and I can't wait to start stitching them but I am not allowed (by Ellen) to stitch them until I have stitched Bunnies in the Garden which thankfully is all kitted up.  But I won't let me stitch Bunnies until after I have finished one of my UFO's.

The other Giveaway that I was so lucky to win was from Missy Ann on Day 10 just after Mini Me ad I were discussing, via email, which one of us would win.  Deb said she would and I said I would and what's more I DID!!!  And here are photos of everything I won and thank you so very very much Missy Ann not only for picking me out but for sending me such a wonderful card as well with such lovely words in it.

And now on to what was lost in the British Post Offices strikes that were happening for what seems like months!  It was an exchange which was due to go to France and never got there so here it is for you all to see

I am so sorry it was lost in the Post because not only did I really like it but my friend Angela (no blog - link to her photos above) liked it so much before it went in the mail that I made her one exactly the same.  Never mind such is life but I have stitched and finished a replacement which I am really pleased with and as soon as it is received by who it is meant to go to I will put a photo of it on here.  I also finished a needlebook exchange but didn't mail it because I was so frightened of our darn Post Office strikes which thankfully have now stopped.  So I am mailing everything on Monday because hopefully the backlog will be under control by then.

So until next time ...

Lots of Love

Patti xxx
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission - Eleanor Roosevelt

I was wrong ...

 just for a change!  So what else is new I hear you ask?  Nothing but I was really wrong because  Brenda at Pumpkin Patch Primitives is having another fabulous Giveaway at the moment. The VERY generous prize are TWO Fat Quarter Bundle of Red Rooster's Pumpkins & Spice Fabrics by Whimsicals plus a $100.00 voucher for her shoppe now how cool is that??!!! I, personallly, would love any of these three prizes because I really really love these Fat Quarter bundles and of course the $100.00 would be nice too.


So, rush on over to her blog, and if you tell Brenda that I sent you AND you post about it on your own blog, then I will receive an extra entry, so go on, help me to win – go on, you know you want to!!!!  

Another reminder that Missy's 13days of Halloween is still happening and I still have NOT won and today is Day 10 I think.  But going on often I'm wrong .... But go on click on her name which is a link to the giveaway and put your name down for this too! So until next time ...

Lots of Love

Patti xxx
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission - Eleanor Roosevelt

An Amazing Giveaway

Okay apart from everything else I do I have now started quilting too.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE quilting almost as much as stitching and I really want to make a bag as well as a quilt.  I am attending quilting classes at Patchwork Corner which isn't that far from me and I am having a great time there but stitching is still my first love.

Brenda at Pumpkin Patch Primitives is having another fabulous Giveaway at the moment. The VERY generous prize is a Fat Quarter Bundle of Red Rooster's Pumpkins & Spice Fabrics by Whimsicals – how cool is that??!!!

So, rush on over to her blog, and if you tell Brenda that I sent you AND you post about it on your own blog, then I will receive an extra entry, so go on, help me to win – go on, you know you want to!!!!  


Another reminder that Missy's 13days of Halloween is still happening and I still have NOT won.  But go on click on her name which is a link to the giveaway and put your name down for this too!

So until next time ...

Lots of Love

Patti xxx
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission - Eleanor Roosevelt

Some finishes - finally!

The very first thing I want to do on this entry of my blog is to thank every single person that visits it and leaves comments.  I really do appreciate each and every single one of you that come and look at what I've been up to.  


Some people email me and thank me for leaving comments on their posts and I never do that.  Bad bad bad Patti!  So I thought that the first thing I should do is thank you all from the bottom of my heart.


Then I thought I would finally post the finishes I got back from Deb in the U.S. and from Janet here in the U.K. (all images are clickable to make them much bigger)

Janet finished this for me and she is here in the U.K.!  It is, of course, Shepherd's Bush Quaker Heart which I decided I wanted finished as a heart.If you would like her to finish something for you you can reach her here
 

If you remember Janet finished this for me too and it really is exquisite, and I hope Deb loved it as much as I do!  So if you are as finishing challenged as what I am just EMAIL Janet and she can, and will, finish for you anything and everything expertly.

These next things have all been finished by Deb for me and the finishing here is extraordinary too and I love them all.

Just a freebie that I made into a pinkeep ages ago.  Okay I didn't make it into a Pinkeep - Deb of Artistic Needle finished it into a Pinkeep with a scissor pocket at the back

Now this is called A Queen and it's again a Shepherd's Bush kit that I really love that Deb finished into a pinkeep too and I love it!  I did this because Deb (different Deb) calls me Queenie so I thought it was appropriate!  It used to embarrass me but I doesn't anymore - in fact I kinda like it now!

This is the front of the Needlecase I stitched from an Au Fil Des Reeves Kit I sorely miss this designer as her designs were incredible

This is the back of it and as you can see I stitched this at least 3 years ago and it just sat here until i finally mailed it to Deb and she finished it for me

And this is the inside of it.  It was supposed to have brown ribbon on the outside and close it but dummy here forgot to enclose the ribbon when I mailed everything el

A reminder that Missy's 13days of Halloween is still going on.  Now don't too many of you sign this because I WANT TO WIN!  


So until next time ...

Lots of Love

Patti xxx
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission - Eleanor Roosevelt

Does Anybody ??????

Know what this is and who the designer is please?  It's driving me nuts and I REALLY need to know this!  Thanks whoever tells me - you are a STAR (almost put tart there instead - if you live in England you will definitely know the difference)!

Also please don't forget about  Missy Ann's 13 Day Halloween Giveaway.  

Today is day 5.  

Good luck if you enter but I really want to win cause I think I'm becoming greedy!

So until next time ...

Lots of Love
Patti who's DH thinks she is too old to be called Patti anymore xxx
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission - Eleanor Roosevelt

Exchanges Sent and Received or not as the case may be

Hi
Ok this posting is going to be very full of pictures :-)
Some are exchanges I sent and some are exchanges I received.  Now I do not differentiate between forgetting who I mailed to and who mailed to me - I have forgotten the lot!  Useless is what my brain is!  
But here are all the photos.  I know what exchanges they were from but have really forgotten who I sent to and who sent to me - or have I said that already?  See I told you my brain was mush!  Oh yeah and all the images are clickable to make them HUGE!

Okay this first exchange was called 'By The Sea' and this is the gorgeous

Biscornu I received and if it's you that sent it I'm really sorry I forgot who you are But I really LOVE it and it sits in pride of place on my shelf dedicated to stitching

 

And this is the one I sent to somebody and I hope she liked it as much as I enjoyed stitching and making this up.

This is the Blackbird Exchange I received and it is really gorgeous and

I really really LOVE it and thank you so much whoever sent it to me

and this one is i a glass dish (big) along with some other small things 

that I LOVE

and this is the one I sent.  I did enjoy stitching this a lot because I LOVE Blackbird Designs and I even enjoyed making it up

This is the exchange I received for the Prairie School Exchange and it is absolutely GORGEOUS and I wish I could remember who sent this but I just can't.  I got two things instead of one and I LOVE them both and they are both on my shelf!

 This is the exchange I sent.  Now I loved stitching this but not making up because I wanted to finish it differently but couldn't because you know the old saying 'measure twice cut once' well I didn't and  it was too small to do what I wanted so this was the compromise. I am so sorry to whoever received this but it's still kinda sweet though not whatyou were going to get

Now this was the original one I was stitching for Nina's exchangebut it was coming out  so big that I stopped because even though I stitched this on 40ct it was still HUGE - much too big and I was unhappy

 So I made this instead and mailed it off and guess what?  Yup the British Post Office messed up AGAIN!  I am blaming them because they foul up so often and right now are on STRIKE AGAIN!  So I have had to stitch a replacement which I just have to make up and mail - tomorrow it is going

Apart from all the things I sent to Terri I stitched this for her too (you may have seen this on her blog)

And m friend Angela (Sweby) stitched thisfor me a couple of years ago and we agreed that we were going to have Christmas in July last year but it neve happened because somehow or other I lost what I was stitching for her but she still gave me this a few  weeks ago and I really really LOVE IT thank you so much my friend.

Please don't forgot about Missy Ann's 13 Day Halloween Giveaway.  Today is day 4.  Good luck if you enter.

I do hope you enjoyed today's post. 

So until next time ...
Lots of Love

Patti xxx

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission - Eleanor Roosevelt

Missy Ann is having a GIANT 13 day giveaway

And what is more it starts today October 19, 2009!  Look you know me and I don't really want to share but I want more chances of winning this giveaway so there is a button on the right hand side of this blog which will take you straight there.  Good luck everyone!


So until next time ...

Lots of Love

Patti xxx
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission - Eleanor Roosevelt

P.S. The heading on this entry will also take you to Missy Ann's blog!

I just had to share this photo

My daughter-in-law Danielle took this photograph (I think) of all the babies from her Ante Natal Group and my sister-in-law Sue asked if it was for real and I love it and thought you might all enjoy it.  You can, as usual, see the photo bigger by double left clicking on it.  (Can you tell I used to teach computing?)

Oliver is third from the right.  

He is the little boy with hair! 

So until next time ...

Lots of Love

Patti xxx
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission - Eleanor Roosevelt