I hope you leap into the New Year, the Year of the Rabbit. Good luck to you!
Friday, December 31, 2010
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Anime Christmas 2010
Hi, everyone. I spent the evening with friends exchanging gifts and watching The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
Every year I get the same three basic items that make up the start of a gift bag for each friend: a bento box, a manga volume, and a cell phone charm. I then add some small gifts to the overall Christmas bag.
This year I saw these lovely bento drawstring bags on eBay so I bought those instead of bento boxes. Each bag had a different fruit design: apples, bananas, or grapes. The small gifts added to each bag were a ceramic rice bowl decorated with flowers, a cherry blossom metal bookmark, a 'tiniest in the world' puzzle kit, various candy such as Pocky, lucky stars, gummies, rice candy, and Yan-Yans.
I put alot of the candy in a gingerbread box. Aren't they cute? I found those boxes at Target in their dollar section. I really should have bought more of them for next year!!
I added two special gifts to my friend Kristina's bag: the photo-ornament with the Christmas Bells that I had stitched earlier in the month and a daily planner from Taiwan featuring one of her favorite bands, Fahrenheit.
I received some nice gifts from my friends including The Twelve Dancing Princesses by Kinuko Y. Craft, one of my favorite children's illustrators. I loved that fairy tale as a child. I also received two brooches (to add to my growing stash!), purple ear buds (they match my iPod), stationery, a candle decorated with my favorite anime characters, scented hand sanitizer, and a bag of Dove chocolates (yummy!).
Thanks to my friends for such a fun evening!
Until next time ^____^
Every year I get the same three basic items that make up the start of a gift bag for each friend: a bento box, a manga volume, and a cell phone charm. I then add some small gifts to the overall Christmas bag.
This year I saw these lovely bento drawstring bags on eBay so I bought those instead of bento boxes. Each bag had a different fruit design: apples, bananas, or grapes. The small gifts added to each bag were a ceramic rice bowl decorated with flowers, a cherry blossom metal bookmark, a 'tiniest in the world' puzzle kit, various candy such as Pocky, lucky stars, gummies, rice candy, and Yan-Yans.
I put alot of the candy in a gingerbread box. Aren't they cute? I found those boxes at Target in their dollar section. I really should have bought more of them for next year!!
I added two special gifts to my friend Kristina's bag: the photo-ornament with the Christmas Bells that I had stitched earlier in the month and a daily planner from Taiwan featuring one of her favorite bands, Fahrenheit.
I received some nice gifts from my friends including The Twelve Dancing Princesses by Kinuko Y. Craft, one of my favorite children's illustrators. I loved that fairy tale as a child. I also received two brooches (to add to my growing stash!), purple ear buds (they match my iPod), stationery, a candle decorated with my favorite anime characters, scented hand sanitizer, and a bag of Dove chocolates (yummy!).
Thanks to my friends for such a fun evening!
Until next time ^____^
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Where my cross stitch lives, part 2
My friend in New Zealand received her package last week, just in time for the holidays. Here are pictures of the cross stitch goodies that went to go live with her.
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Sunday stitching
Design: Rose in the Morning by Little House Needleworks
Threads: Recommended Crescent Colours
Fabric: 32ct waterlily Jobelan
Start: 10/02/2010
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Friday, December 24, 2010
Christmas Eve bread
Good afternoon! I hope you are enjoying the day with your family and friends. I decided to make some chocolate chip pumpkin bread this morning. The recipe actually makes two loaves so I shared a loaf with my aunt's family.
Have a great holiday tomorrow!
Until next time ^____^
Have a great holiday tomorrow!
Until next time ^____^
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Happy Winter Solstice!
Good morning! I hope you are enjoying your Winter Solstice, the first day of winter. Did you get a chance to view the lunar eclipse early this morning? I set my alarm last night so I could get up and view it for a while. It was a beautiful, clear night to view the eclipse. That is one good thing about living outside the city, you have a nice view of the stars if the weather permits.
In other news, I received a Christmas package from my dear friend in CA yesterday. Here is a picture of the contents of the box!
These lovely wrapped packages contained a lot of goodies. UK cross stitch magazines, a DMC travel kit, sweets from Taiwan, a 'Twilight Woods' lotion set from B&B Works, along with a lot of other fun stuff! I think the best part of the package were the letters and the Merry Christmas bunny card from Taiwan as I always love to hear from my friend ;)
I love how my friend wrapped everything and the 'love' box is adorable! Definitely a keeper as I have several boxes like this that hold my letters/cards from family and friends from over the years.
THANK YOU my dear friend! I loved everything.
Wishing you a Happy Winter Solstice! Until next time ^____^
In other news, I received a Christmas package from my dear friend in CA yesterday. Here is a picture of the contents of the box!
These lovely wrapped packages contained a lot of goodies. UK cross stitch magazines, a DMC travel kit, sweets from Taiwan, a 'Twilight Woods' lotion set from B&B Works, along with a lot of other fun stuff! I think the best part of the package were the letters and the Merry Christmas bunny card from Taiwan as I always love to hear from my friend ;)
I love how my friend wrapped everything and the 'love' box is adorable! Definitely a keeper as I have several boxes like this that hold my letters/cards from family and friends from over the years.
THANK YOU my dear friend! I loved everything.
Wishing you a Happy Winter Solstice! Until next time ^____^
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Ornaments
Design: Christmas tree and Christmas Bells by Heritage Series (JCS 1989)
Threads: DMC
Fabric: 32ct cream Belfast Zweigart and 28ct Quaker Rue Green
Finished as ornaments: 12-19-2010
Merry Christmas
Design: Merry Christmas by Glory Bee
Threads: DMC Alternatives 225, 347, 500, and 814
Fabric: 32ct cream Belfast Zweigart
Start/Finish: 12-19-2010
December 25
Design: Dec 25 by Lizzie Kate (JCS 2010)
Threads: DMC white, 699, 907, and 3688
Fabric: 28ct phoenix Cashel
Start/Finish: 12-19-2010
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