Hello, my first post

Hello,
I am Maria Elena and I live in Italy and this is the first time I write in this blog even if I joined you more than an year ago...
I love Margaret Sherry, off course, or I wouldn't be here LOL. I have many work in progress and have done several patterns in the past.
Yesterday I found 2 small penguins I stitched in 2006 for a Christmas project. On that year I stitched almost 20 of them, but these 2 remained in a box until yesterday when I decided to make two Christmas decorations of them:

What do you think about them?
My work in progress (ok, my UFO's, let's be honest! LOL) Are the 2006 Calendar Cats and the 3 stitching mice (I don't remember the name of the pattern right now).

Summer exchange

Hi girls!
I came to show the goodies I received from Dinny, Indonesia.
Everything is beautiful!!
Take this opportunity to tell you that I contacted the Eleana, my partner in this exchange to apologize for the delay in shipments of pampering. I sent on Friday and I believe that in ten days she receives.
Kisses and up!

Summer cat

Sophie is the daughter of a good friend who lives in Costa Rica, taking advantage of the outstanding work organized by MSLovers always SAL, I sent my Summer Cat and this completed the 2nd phase of the project.

The idea is to hang on the wall, the frame is under the little picture, taking the concept I've seen a lot of vintage stores virtual Pinterest and of course the bloggers to whom I am fond.
And you, a cute kitten with melon ice cream.

Eleana

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My summer cool cat - SAL#3

I did it! With a one-month delay I finally did it:)
Here is my lovely cool cat!

I am not sure if it is ok to post lots of details her, so you are welcome to my blog.

By the way, ladies, are you going to make a bag with your cool cats stitchings or you have other brilliant ideas?
Please share with your SAL-mates:)

Wish you all a great day!

Summer exchange:: Update!!

Hello ladies!!

I'm happy to see that all our exchanges parcels are travelling safely. Simone is waiting to receive from Dulcinella but this was the last package being posted and mail service in Brazil is very slow :p I'm sure Simone will receive her goodies soon :)
Lija and Dinny also sent to Cris and Lu but I didn't get any feedback from them yet, I'm assuming both parcels arrived to their destinations too!

The sad part is that (more than one month from our deadline) there are still 3 friends missing to post their parcels or to tell us how things are going =/
I want to let everyone know that I'm giving my attention to that, I've writen emails to Eleana, Cris and Lu (more than once..), I hope to close our exchange soon!! Very, very soon!!
I think everyone should post their packages until the end of July, too much time has passed already.. Let's give it until July 31st. Marcinha and Francesca, do you agree with me? Would you mind waiting one more week?

Thanks to everyone who joined this exchange, made something special for their friends and also made an effort to post it as soon as possible. You make the exchanges fun to the group! :)

UPDATE July 26th:
. Eleana posted her parcel - list updated!
. still no reply from Cris or Lu

UPDATE July 30th:
. Lu posted her parcel - list updated!
. still no reply from Cris

Summer Exchange from Olli

Hello!

You will not believe what I received in the mail from Ollie.  She has so spoilt me!

"What's in the box?"

Firstly I opened the mailing box to find inside a package wrapped in lovely orange tissue paper and a box of Dutch orange tea.

Then, when I unwrapped the orange tissue paper I found the most adorable fabric covered box with a lovely MS design on top.... the design is simply gorgeous and it is one that I don't have..  So sweet and so cute!

But... it doesn't finish there...  when I opened the box look what was inside!

Yummy..... 

 And more....

Ollie, I absolutely love my summer exchange gift.  Thank you so very much.
The little tea holder is going to sit next to our kettle to use when we make a cuppa, and the lovely orange tea is going to work with me to enjoy when I need that extra special pick me up :o)

Our exchanges are getting better and better and yet again we are all being spoilt by our exchange partners.  Thank you lovely ladies for yet again another wonderful exchange - everyone's exchanges are fanastic!  And thank you Nia for organising yet another great exchange.


Pop on over to my blog for further stitching updates!

Til next time, happy stitching

Stitching Noni

Summer Exchange from Judith

Hi gorgeous ladies!!
It's me again....

Yesterday, I received my Summer Exchange package from Germany!! Yaaaay...!!!

Look at what Judith sent me...

And here's a closer look at the Margaret Sherry piece she had stitched...

It's stunning!
If I'm not mistaken, the design is the Picture Purr-fect from Cross Stitch Crazy #153 (correct me if I'm wrong).

Thanks, Judith!
And I'm very glad I took part in this exchange. It's been a great experience....

Happy stitching, friends!



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My Second Cat - SAL#3

Hi gorgeous ladies!!

I finally finished stitching my second cat, the Summer Cat.
A bit behind schedule, as always... but very glad & relieved right now..!!

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news update #14

Posting request!
Ladies, please, don't write on your blog and then copy-paste here. When you do that, your text settings will come from your blog and mix with this blog settings, then we get little letters, huge spaces.. =/ Please, make sure that doesn't happen. Thank you :)

Summer exchange
We are more than 2 weeks ahead from our deadline, please, if you haven't posted your parcel do it soon. Except for Dulcinella, who had some troubles with her health, I know her partner understands and it's all good! Dulcinella, I'm sure you'll send a lovely package when you have the opportunity :)

To all the other ladies who are behind: come on, move those needles and put some stamps on your work!! :p hahahah

Please, let me know if I'm missing someone on the list. You can check it on the right sidebar :)
. sent = posted the exchange parcel
. received = parcel from friend received
. ok = a bit behind but will post soon

SAL #3
Are you feeling the heat? It's Summer already! Your Summer cat wants to get out of the bag :p heheheh Show us some more Summer cats! :)

New designs
Another tip from Valérie!! :D
Cross Stitch Crazy has new designs on issue 167, a set of 14 brand new Margaret Sherry chart cards :) It's on sale since July 5th but the bad news is that we can't buy this issue online yet, we will have to wait a little more =(

New Author
And there's one more friend on our group!! Let's welcome Denise, from Canada :D

From Noni...to Olimpinpin

Hi girls

Last week I received my gift exchange from Noni.

I want to thank you for the beauty of her work and additional goodies, I post some photos...

My gift exchange looks in my sewing room, right now.

I hope Judith soon receive your gift exchange. And share it with all of us.
Finally, my thanks to Nia for organizing this wonderful experience and all of you for your participation.

Do you want to see the full story?, click here...

Happy week!