I am new here!

Hi everybody,

My name is Natalya and I'm happy to join MSherry lovers blog! I am from the 3rd largest city in Russia - Novosibirsk, which means in English - "New Siberia". And yes, its located in Siberia. I have a lot of hobbies - scrapbooking, card making, sewing, making teddy bears, decoupage. But cross stitching is the leader! My grandmother taught me more then 19 years ago and I can't stop! I love cross stitching!

Right now I have a maternity leave and spend all my time with a 1.3 year old son. He is very nosy boy and it's quite difficult to find time for cross stitching when he is awake. But almost every day I try to spend at least 20 for my favourite hobby.

And one of my favourite designers as you understand is Margaret Sherry. Her characters are so lovely and funny. I think most of my relatives and friends have at least one MS cat or any other MS design.

Here is my blog, but I post all my works in the Picasa WebAlbum. Welcome!

Halloween exchange - posting alert!!

Hello ladies!
So how is everyone doing on your Halloween parcel?

I finished mine last weekend but I still need to take photo before posting =/ Monday and Tuesday were really busy days, I hope to take photos today and go to the post office until tomorrow :p But I know there's time, I'm sending to Angel, mail only takes a few days to arrive ;) No worry! :)

What about you? Only 4 parcels on the way yet.. will everyone post this week? Who's behind, who's running? :p

Important note:
There was a some confusion about the stitching piece...
Do you remember when I posted here about the choice of design? Margaret Sherry has only a few Halloween designs so we agreed it could be a free choice = free choice of any Margaret Sherry designs!! Here on the group, is always about Margaret Sherry, ok ladies? :)
So.. there might be a couple of unexpected suprises :p heehheeh I hope no one will mind and will forgive the misunderstanding, next time, everyone will know better =)

To everyone, please, pay attention to the posting time, if you're sending to some friend who lives far away, don't take too long to post! Try to post this week, ok? We don't want our partners to receive their gifts after Halloween :p Please, try your best ;)

Don't forget to send me an email with the photo from your parcel and let me know you have posted it!!
Thank you :)

SAL Puppy Love complete :)

Hello ladies!! :)
I know I have a few emails to reply, I need some free time to update our exchange list status :p I'll do it later today, everyone will get an email reply from me very soon ;)

Right now I want to share with you the reason why I was away from my laptop during the whole weekend :p I did a cros stitching marathon!!! LOL I stitched two puppies on my SAL and..

... it's complete!!! :D
Happy dance!!!! Uhuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu :D

I didn't stitch all french knots, just for punctuation. I was doing the knots and it wasn't looking nice because my french knots are big :p On my cross stitching, I don't have tight stitches and looks like the same goes for my french knots. Mine are not tight and small so it was looking to messy with so many dots close to each other!

I'm very happy with my final work, it needs a pretty frame now :)

Hugs&Smiles,

Bee Happy

I stitched this one a couple years ago for a giveaway. Here's the original post!

And here's the picture:

This is the one and only (so far) Margaret Sherry Design I have stitched. Once my finances get straightened around I might be able to shop for more designs and necessities.

2013 Blogversary Exchange Flashback

Here is a flashback with all parcels from our last exchange! :)

Valma to Joey


Joey to Heather


Heather to Lentochka


Lentochka to Cucki


Cucki to Amber


Amber to Simone



Simone to Judith


Judith to Angel


Angel to Olli




Olli to Gislene


Gislene to Rita



Rita to Fara




Fara to Noni



Noni to Anne



Anne to Deb


Deb to Valma

Well done ladies! All packages arrived to the destination, everyone did a great job :D Thank you so much for you participation!!

Hugs&Smiles,

Hello - A New Member

I just wanted to take a moment to say hello and introduce myself. My name is Julie and I live in Florida. Some of you may have even heard of the town I live in: Zephyrhills. No, I was not the Powerball winner back in June :( .  That would have been too easy, lol.

Anyway, I fell in love with cross stitch over 10 years ago and found it to be a great stress relief while studying at Michigan State University. I like a variety of concepts/designs and haven't really figured out who my fave designers are. I do love Margaret Sherry designs mainly because they are fun! I am also fond of larger designs, as you can see in my blog. Besides cross stitch, I enjoy photography and writing. Also evidenced in my blog.

I work for the State of Florida as a Veteran's Employment Rep. I am a Navy veteran. I have a couple of cats that are at once the love of my life and bain of my existence (those of you who love cats may understand). I look forward to learning and sharing from you all on this blog. I have stitched at least 1 MS design, but they are on my portable drive which is currently back home over 1500 miles away (I am in Denver for training for my job). I will post when I return home.

Blogversary Exchange - From Canada to Brazil

I’d finally received my parcel from Amber, our friend who lives in Canada!

The Brazilian Post Office – as everybody knows – is slower than a snail… I was the last girl to receive this Exchange’s parcel but it doesn’t matter anymore because Amber had made my day!

Thanks, sweetie! I've loved every detail, every word you have written to me. The little pillow is over

cute!

Thanks also to Nia! We have lots of fun when we are joining and sharing our stitches.

a gift for two twin girls

A friend of us has two twin daughers and we wanted to make them a cute gift. They will be soon 2 y.o. so, the classical blanket wasn't a good idea.

So, my friends and I stitched and made this:

They are two photos' album, two towels and 4 sacks to contain the albums but also for further other uses.

My contribute is this one:

the children are too young to understand, but their mother liked a lot our gift and we are pleased to have made a friend happy :-)

Update! :)

Blogversary Exchange
I'm happy to say that this week our Blogversary exchange was finally close, with the last parcel arriving to Brazil! Simone got her gift from Amber, it wasn't sent later, mail in Brazil just works pretty bad =/ Once in a while, we are lucky and a package can be delivered quickly but.. often it happens the other way around, takes over one or two months to arrive to our friends!!

I'm missing one photo to post our flashback, Joey never sent me a picture of her parcel so I asked Heather, I'm waiting for a reply to my email and then I will publish the post :)
This is why I always ask for a photo when you post your parcel, so I won't have to write to everyone later...


Halloween Exchange
It's rolling! :D heheheh
Angel was the first one to get her package ready to post!!! It has officially started to cross the globe! :D


For future exchanges
I had a suggestion from Judith, we could add one more thing to our exchange partners info, the age. I think it's a good idea, it helps to know if we are sending gifts to a friend who's 20 or 50, right? It's not about the stitching but all the items in general, it may help a bit to know our partners age, don't you agree? So, I will ask everyone about their age but feel free if you prefer to keep it a secret ;) heheheeh It won't be published here on the blog, just sent by email with your address to your partner :)


Hugs&Smiles,

Sorry for my long absence

Hello , all my friends,
As you certainly has noticed I haven't been here for a long time.

We had and have a very bad time.. I t's  about my mother's health. Now after beeing in several hospitals she has been diagnized with liver and stomach cancer. The hospital marathon began at the end of June.

I think you know and can imagine how my feelings are. They can't do an operation because of her weakness and now she must do a chemical therapy with 84 years. I do hope all will be OK with her  At the same time my dad being dement had to stay in several seniors home. We switched beetween hospital and seniorhome.

I do hope that I can settle down after a while.
I'll try to fullfil my duties very soon. and I hope that I can be here more regular as before.
Stitching helps me better my mood.

I Haven't yet read all the further entries but I#ll do it from now.

Hoping that all of you are fine

Love,
Judith