Day 12 of the Blog Hop & some Winter Evening Stitching ~

Happy Friday to you!

today marks the 12th day on the

Buttermilk Basin Handmade Christmas Blog Hop!

today's designer doesn't have a blog, but she has a Facebook page

where you can visit daily & read all about her designing & such ~

I love her style!!

https://www.facebook.com/CrabappleHillStudio

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It's been lovely getting back into my cross stitching ~

{{you all know by now how I tend to flit from one medium to the other}}

but the peaceful, quiet & repetitious act of simply pulling thread through linen is my favorite.

(ok, ya got me…everything I do if my 'favorite')

;)

I love to sit in my cozy stitching spots

and watch a movie, or listen to Christmas music lately…

and stitch away ~

the tin-type photo shown in my pictures 

...shows a woman holding her needlework in her lap!

when I first found this tin-type on my travels,

I though she was holding a dishrag ~ but upon closer inspection under my mag-light,

it is indeed needlework of some-sort ~

THAT makes me so very happy & I'll treasure this photo forever…

in fact, it resides tucked into my sewing basket and travels with me wherever I go, and since it's tin it holds my little Swallow magnetic needle minder I made from a mother of pearl button!

~ useful and pretty ~

and I wanted to say a big, heartfelt

THANK YOU

to everyone for your positive thoughts & well wishes for the return of our beloved little Tig

who has now come home

YAY!!!!!!

{he is being loved on by everyone today, and seems a bit bewildered ~ but no worse for the wear}

…Tig went missing for three days which set our farmyard into a tizzy.

but now he's home again safe & sound.

and 

N E V E R

ever going outside again!

welcome home handsome

The Farm Shop is open today & tomorrow

10 - 3

come on in and warm up by the wood stove

& see all of our new goods for the Yuletide/Winter Season ~

Don;t forget to bring your handwork with you and visit for a while :)

* Blessed be *

 Lori