Hello All....
Well I am getting caught up on postings and emails so I can show you what I received in the mail while I was off spending time in my hometown again this past week.




First off I received this wonderful mini quilt from Connie T. in our "Spring Blooms Mini Quilt" Swap. She did a beautiful job on her quilt and I absolutely LOVE the fabrics she chose! This little wall quilt measures about 18" square features several jewel toned fabrics with gold gilt edging high lighting the design. She also included a little "Loyalty Wallet" plus a quilters guild pin from a quilt guild in her area as a small surprise for me and it was all wrapped up in yet another fat qtr. of beautiful metallicted fabric. THANK YOU to Connie for doing such a great job!

I received a really cute candy cane ornament and several goodies from Lori in our "Summer Ornament" exchange in my Chatty Stitchers Yahoo Group. She sent along so many extras in addition to the ornie she cross stitched for me. How nice of her! We were both running behind in getting things sent and she made up for her lateness (ha) by sending the ornie plus several recipe cards for summer grill cooking, a pre made bookmark blank, a cute little "Witchy" clothespin doll for Halloween kit, another holiday plastic canvas kit for a ornie, plus put the candy cane ornie in a nice little organza gift bag. THANK YOU to her for all the great ornament and for all the extra goodies too!



OOPS! OOPS! OOPS!
In my last post I goofed up a bit in the post and want to correct that now too and my apologies to Mary B. for omitting the picture!
In the Krafters Korner Group I did a counted cross stitch patriotic exchange and my partner and myself surprised each other by doing the very same pattern! How funny is that? Mary B. did a very cute scissor fob for me as well as sent a attached scissor and patriotic red/white/blue star shaped buttons, and some metallic flosses too! Very cute! And THANK YOU Again to Mary!




Then right before I left for the 4th of July holiday I also received my nice little box of goodies from the June F-R-I-E-N-D-S Swap I participated in. Pat from Iowa sent something with each item starting from the letters of the word FRIENDS. I thought this was a clever swap idea and Pat managed to come up with GREAT ideas for goodies to send me.

F = Picture FRAME
R = Triangle RULER
I = A Cookbook from IOWA
E = ECOLOGY Tote Bag
N = Patriotic NAPKINS
D = Purse Wallet for DRINKS (Teas, etc.)
S = STEAM a SEAM Tape
Plus she sent along a extra SURPRISE item of the cute quilted wall hanging that I'll hang in my sewing room. THANK YOU to Pat for all of the wonderful items!







This week end I will get started on a couple of ornaments for more exchanges/swaps I am participating in as well as get things together for a couple of quilting projects I want to work on. I also need to finish pulling together Pat's FRIENDS pkg and get that ready ti mail off to her on Monday. Lucky her! She's been on a long vacation these past weeks so she will have her FRIENDS pkg. very soon from me!
Next week I am off once again to my camper in my hometown in central Minnesota for a family function and will have my entire group of 5 brothers and sisters and families there to visit with. I can't wait. It isn't often we are all totally together so hopefully the weather will be good and we can have a good visit with each other.

I am STILL waiting on a couple of exchanges yet so again when they are here I will post and maybe then will FINALLY be all caught up!

Hope everyone has a good weekend! ENJOY!

Keep a smile!
Lynn