Christmas wishes .... continued....

We had a wonderful afternoon, it was just a pleasure to enjoy the company and relax with old friends. Thank you  ladies for your lovely little hostess gifts I am enjoying each one!! Thank you Jane for sending the lovely flowers, they put them in the cutest container that has a penguin on the side, looks great. I have heard through the grapevine that "Take Time to Collect" is in the new issue of Just Cross Stitch Magazine. I hope you enjoy the new Take Time installment, it was with the thought in mind of our little needlework tool collections! I do have an embellishment pack so let me know if you need one! It has the wool, silk, accentuate and silver key charm in it.

The season always brings with it a time of reflection and I had some time for it myself. A time when I get to look back at how truly blessed I have been. It's been a year of where I’ve had the opportunity  to work with amazing stitchers and shop owners on creating their dream needlework events and stitched projects. I would love to take this opportunity to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who has been a part of Jeannette Douglas Designs! I have truly been blessed by meeting every single one of you!  I would love to extend a big thank you to stitchers who have helped make my dreams a reality with the continued existence of JDD. Your support of events across the continent brings added passion to the work I do everyday in this little office of my mine here in Calgary.

Thank you again,

jeannette

Merry Christmas! and a Happy New Year - 2012 here we come!

Tomorrow.... tomorrow the cruise gals are coming over for a visit and maybe even a stitch or two! I am so looking forward to seeing them all since the cruise seems like just too long ago! What a wonderful time we had. Now that I have had time to breathe and relax, well, really I have been a designing fiend, but nevertheless, still have had more time than I did and I can sort through my memories and pictures and enjoy them. I am baking cookies, listening to some Christmas music with the fireplace TV station! But yes, it has been a productive November running into December for me and I am thrilled. It's been so fun to design! It always seems like things are simmering on the back burner but I never get to go forward, lots of ideas but no time to put them to paper. Thankfully I finally had time. But I did get up to Edmonton to help move my daughter to a different apt. quite close in to  the Whyte Ave area. After we had lugged many many boxes around - she is an English major and history minor - so books seem a prerequisite- we went to a lovely little place and had a very late dinner and shared a bottle of wine and talked and talked.  I collapsed on the "foamy" and slept like I have never before. She has a lovely dear little apt. and I am happy if she is happy. My other daughter got her dream job at Mount Royal University as a graphic designer, we are so pleased for her...... and then when Jeannette gets to design.... all is well.

Did want  want to wish you  all the vey best in the new year -2012! already! Hope all is well and that you are enjoying some of the Christmas activities and will have some time to relax between Christmas and New Years and get some stitching done!

Merry Christmas,

Jeannette

Home Sweet Home

How lovely to be home even though the weather is not stellar and even though there is the barest hint of snow on the ground, it is home.  I loved my time away to the eastern seaboard, there were some awesome events, and I loved it. Mystic, CT is such a wonderful charming port mixing the seadays of yore with the amenities of today in Mystic Village. Shopping was fun and the event by Stitcher's Hideaway was terrific. Sue did an awesome job and we all had a lovely time. Time flies when you are having fun and fun we did. Thank you stitchers for your thoughtful gifts and to be able to visit with you all made the weekend for me.

Dyeing to Stitch's retreat at the beach in Virginia Beach was the next event. Wow again! so nice to see you all and although the weather turned for a few days Tina and Teri of Shepherd's Bush and Theresa of Shakespeare's Peddlar and I did get out to enjoy some of the good days and walk out in the surf. Always so refreshing.  Thank you stitcher's for making it such a wonderful event and for some of your lovely gifts, they are sitting in my office enjoying a good spot!

Now I want to rearrange my office and clean up from the whirlwind year I have had, I can't seem to work in a big mess. When I used to work shift work and I would come on for night shift at 1100pm, I would have to clean the whole desk area first before I could do the stuff at the nursing station we had to do on nights. It seems I am no different now, have to tidy up to get to work on the next designs! It's clear the space, clear the mind or something like that. There must  be a special verse somewhere for that!

I have a couple of pictures to share, one of them is Kimberly Prater who sent in the JCS ornaments she did and they look just awesome! thanks Kim!

I have also added a free pattern in the free pattern page but it won't load the picture, so I am going to attempt to do so here and then you at least know what it looks like! The pdf file should still load from the  freebie pattern page. Enjoy! Okay I just checked and it is not, so bear with me and we will get it done! also I updated the link to the 2013 Hawaiian cruise, so check it out!