swap goodies

look what i got! for the dia de los muertos swap on swap-bot. i think it is very sweet. it's a free-form embroidery from anita(Bastet59) from humble, tx. with extra black fabric to make into a pillow if i want, and i think i will! some holiday cards and floss, too. how nice. :-)

did another swap on swap-bot. this time a day of the dead embroidery swap. hosted by snifferooski, who i got and sent this embroidery to. funny thing is she used the same pattern for her partner, but we both changed them up a bit, so that was cool. kinda crappy pic here but the only one i got. darn it, my camera is broken. maybe i'll get one for myself for christmas, hit up the sales. actually, sure i can get mine fixed. we'll see. anyway, i haven't received my piece yet for the swap. can't wait to get it. hopefully it's not a month late like the last time. but things happen, i know. oh, and it's a pattern by carina. http://www.etsy.com/shop/polkaandbloom

oh, finished a piece for my grandma. she wanted me to make it for her to give her secret santa. it's like one i made for my mom when i first started doing embroidery. here it is. a banner from sublime stitching with the julie west patterns, tattoo letters, and even the flower is from the lisa petrucci patterns with a little heart added. haha. sublime stitching all the way! :-)

cute!

starting on a piece for my friend kat. it'll be a kinda buddha theme. :-)

for melanie

i've had this for awhile. so i decided to send it to my cousin melanie in oregon. i really love this one but had never put it up or anything, so i figured it needed a new home. i was kinda upset that it got a little dirty sitting in the hoop for so long, but you can't tell that much, prob not once it's up on a wall somewhere.

just mailed it off yesterday with another piece i did for swap-bot(a purse--gonna have to do some more of those) and i mailed a postcard to my dear friend kat in germany! it's fun mailing stuff off. and even better to receive stuffs in the mail! what fun! so i'm just finishing up a contest piece for badbird designs(stitched by hand group on flickr). and then i think i must really start thinking about xmas gifts! it'll be here in no time!

CRAZY!

Marigold Sugar Skull

finally finished this! ordered this pattern awhile ago from Stitching Polka and Bloom on Etsy. The dots took me forever to finish! I love it!