Monday, April 12, 2010

Hello Monday

Well, does anyone know where last week went? lol It just flew on by me, and sadly time didn't fly because I was stitching. I did find a new project to start on Wednesday, funny how it's so much harder to finish a project than it is to find one to start! lol I found a Dimensions House-Mouse kit on sale @ JoAnne's. Growing up my mom always used tons of House-Mouse stationary and had some of the rubber stamps. I regret passing up the Making Lemonade kit (three mice drinking out of a pitcher of lemonade) when I saw it on clearance @ Hobby Lobby last spring. This kit is called Hot Stuff, with a mouse roasting a marshmallow using the fire breath from a pepper eating mouse. The kits even come with a House-Mouse foot-printed mat for finishing the piece.


I started the piece this weekend and got the Hot Stuff across the top stitched. I'm not sure if I like the stitches between the orange & red in the letters that called for a mix of 1 strand red, 1 stand orange. When you look at the piece up close it looks the stitches are funny because some show one of the colors more than the other, oh well, from a distance it helps blend between the colors.


Hope everyone had a great last week and good beginning to this one! I am off to watch some DVDs that need to go back to the video store & catch up on blog reading! Nick

9 comments:

  1. Cute new start! I like those House Mouse designs!

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  2. Oh it's so cute! Makes me want a smore!

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  3. What a cute design! I've never seen these little mice before but they look like a fun stitch.

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  4. That's a cute & fun design. Great start. :0)

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  5. I think that the stitching looks fine. That method is used a lot to give some blending. Sometimes you have to step away from a piece and look at it from a distance. It looks great.

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  6. very cute! I too love House Mouse....in fact, I just purchased 2 of the new HAED charts that are HM...one is the mice eating applesauce...reminds me of my triplet grandsons!

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  7. Thanks for the comments guys!

    Shari - I did not know that HAED had House-Mouse designs! I just checked them out, I like the one of the two mice in the autumn wreath. Thankfully this one I'm working on is just a little bit easier than a HAED design ;-) lol

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