Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Tagged, again!

Sharon at One Life To Live tagged me for this. I tagged her with the 6 Random Things and she played along; so it's only fair...

The rules: Find the 6th folder in your photos folder and then the 6th photo in it.
* Pray that you remember the details *
Post it on your blog.
Tag 5 others, leave a comment to let them know they’ve been tagged.

Nature's Creatures


At least this was a picture of something I can write about!

I stitched this a couple of years ago but I had the kit since I was first married. Probably since 1985 or 1986? OMG! When we were newly married we lived in Virginia, near Newport News. Rick was a Marine, stationed at the Naval base near there. Anyhoo, we would go to the mall but never could really buy anything as we were always broke! There was a needlework store in the mall and I used to look at this kit every time we went. I think it was like $12-a fortune to us. One day, Rick up and bought it for me! I was just a beginner stitcher and I did a quite a few stitches in the tree before becoming completely intimidated with the size of the project. It sat in my stash through many moves until a couple of years ago when Jessie spotted it's cuteness and begged me to stitch it. I rekitted it with DMC and stitched it on white 22 count aida.

The only thing I don't like is my little worm in the apple. He is supposed to be a bullion stitch but after many unsuccessful attempts I gave up. Defeated by a damn worm. Rats.

I tag: Paula, Julie, Kendra (she might need blogging ideas.) Jennifer and Karen.

9 comments:

  1. Oh WOW!! This is such a beautiful piece!!! Well done you! ..x. Thanks for sharing its' history too, makes it all the more special!
    ..x..

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  2. That piece is so cute! You don't see kits like that anymore with lots of cool stitches. I miss them.

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  3. It's such a wonderful piece, thanks for sharing it's history :)

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  4. This is such a fun piece!!! I'm sure it brought back a lot of memories~~

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  5. Cute piece of work,not sure i have a 6th folder LOL

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  6. That's a great piece! with a wonderful history! Now aren't you glad you finished it?!

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