A Charming Giveaway

I can't believe it's been so long since I've posted. Where has the time gone? Oh well, what a perfect post to do for a new post. A giveaway is being done over on Singingwoods. (Click the name of the blog to go to the post). The owner of this blog does lovely jewellry. If I had the money I would buy some VBG. Go over and look at her post regarding this giveaway and look at all the fairie doors that she has posted. I love it.

Gift Of Stitching Creative Cross Stitch Challenge #5

Gift Of Stitching an online cross stitching magazine has been doing cross stitch challenges. I noticed their latest one and was intrigued. A simple cross stitch pattern that can be embellished and made into anything you would like to make it into, with one stipulation, you had to put something in the middle of the flowers, as the post stated it could be a button, bead, or whatever your imagination could think of to embellish it. As I belong to my local Embroider's Guild Chapter, I thought I would create a new name tag. You can never have too many name tag, lol. For my embellishments I used 2 gold bee beads, 3 size E beads in the center of the flowers. I used Caron's Wildflowers Spruce for the stems and leaves, and Sky Blue Pink for the middle flower and my name. I used DMC Perle 8 #552 for the Purple flowers and the floss for the back stitch around my name. For the back stitch around the stems and leaves I used DMC floss #502. It was a quick stitch. A bit harder to do the finishing on it, lol. But all in all I'm happy with the results of the piece and will be looking forward to wearing it in the future to a meeting.

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Beagle Puppies Have Arrived

Well y'all Lacey went into labor yesterday morning at 12 am and had two pups by 2:30 am. Then she proceeded to have nothing for the next several hours. I ended up calling the ER vets here roughly 2 hours after her last pup was born. They told me I could either bring her in there and see what was up or I could wait until my regular vet was open. Needless to say I waited until my regular vet opened up as I know that an ER visit is expensive for a dog just like a human. I called mom and dad at 7 am my time as it would be 9 am there I think..it could have been earlier I'm not sure. Dad told me to wait to see my regular vet also.

At 8 am (roughly 6 hours now) I called my regular vet and was there by 840 via my next door neighbor. My regular vet's partner was there and she gave a dose of Oxytoxin to induce labor. Within 5 or 10 minutes I could see that Lacey was having active contractions now. After 15 minutes from the 1st shot the vet gave her another. Needless to say after an hour of waiting Lacey still had not had another pup. So the vet prepared me for her to have a C-section (had already thought it would happen). I left with my neighbor and came home and crashed. I got a call from the vet at roughly 11 yesterday morning just as they were going to prep her for the surgery she had 3 puppies. 2 were stillborn and 1 was alive. Yay, so they opted to let nature take it's course even more as need be. Well at roughly 2 pm yesterday vet calls again and she said nothing had happened so they were definitely going to prep her for the C-section. They did the C-section and she had another 4 puppies in her. 2 were alive. While the vet was preforming the C-section she found out that Lacey had a tear in the uterus and it was irreparable and went ahead and spayed her too. So she ended up with 5 puppies, 1 male and 4 females.

I went to pick her up with my neighbor and got a call from the vet Lacey's not coming around from the surgery like they like and they would like to keep her over night to monitor her. I went and saw her anyways as we were close to the vet. I get there and she looked so sad and doped up. I then proceed to tell the vet about a pup I had sold that had been bred once and then spayed herself, didn't do well with the medicine and needed to have a blood transfusion. The vet assured me that all this was, was shock from the surgery (I had a feeling it wasn‘t but went along with her). So off I go home. Bam I get home and I get a call from the vet, "We checked Lacey's blood and she's in the 12% range and should be in a 30 - 45 % range on blood count. She needs a transfusion." So they transferred her up to the ER vet and they kept her overnight. Gave her the blood transfusion and the would call me if anything went wrong. I didn't sleep a wink last night in anticipation of a call. Well no call came and we headed up the freeway to find the ER vet. Found them and then took her back to the vet so that they could monitor her a little today. I just called my vet and she gets to come home today. I'm so happy. I've seen it all with my dog's pregnancies.

I'll post pics of the pups as soon as I can on my blog.

Blog Giveaway Opportunity

Kathy of Kathy's Stitching and Other Comments is having a Giveaway. If you click on the link and leave a comment your name will be entered into the drawing. If you blog about it she'll give you an extra entry into the giveaway. Go have a look at her blog she has the cutest new furbaby. An Irish Setter pup named Rory.

So I thought I'd show a couple of pictures of my own furbabies.

Here's Hunter's Rusty Buttons:



Here's Miss Lacey Bloomers:



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Bookmarks Have Been Received In Canada

Tara informed me today that she received her bookmarks and silk thread today, so I thought I would show a picture of the bookmarks I made for her.

Here they are:

The one on the left is a design from Dumani Designs. It's the flower design one and of course I changed the colors and added beads. I used Caron's Impressions Baby's Breath and Spruce. In the center of each flower I put a small gold sequin and gold bead. I finished the bookmark off in a Nun's Stitch and fringed it.
The bookmark on the right is a Victoria Sampler Freebie. I used the color scheme that was set forth in the pattern for this one as I liked the colors myself. It was a bonus that Tara likes that softer palette too, lol. The only thing I really changed on this pattern was the edge. I made it complete buttonhole around it and it was supposed to be done in the Nun's Stitch. Included in her package was a floss card of Rainbow Gallery's Splendor in a nice soft pink color.

Tara, I'm glad you like the bookmarks I made. I hope you will treasure them as I treasure yours.

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Free Chocolate Anyone?

The company Mars is mailing people coupons for free chocolate. It's amazing. Who doesn't need chocolate? Or for that matter something free in this economy. You have to sign up on fridays to receive the mail 6 weeks later but it can be done :-). Here's a link to what they are calling the Mars Real Chocolate Relief Act. Just click on that and it will take you to the page.

So get some free chocolate and too remember....

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