Good Grief!

Those who know me know I am a HUGE Peanuts fan. I especially love Charlie Brown. Today I went to the swap meet and found two very nice Peanuts items. The first one is a "garden statue" which, I found online, is selling for $120. I bought it for $15. I am sure I could've gotten it cheaper but it was definitely worth that much to me. He won't be going outside though. The second, I found, was a quilted pillow. There were quite a few pillows, all hand-made. The man selling them said his wife makes them and his kids stuff them. I love crafty people and especially crafty families. Here are a couple of pictures of my finds. If you have any Peanuts stitching you've done, or seen, please post some links or pictures. I would love to see them!

Happy Birthday! Free Design!

Ship’s Manor celebrates its 1 year Birthday with a free design for you!  For a limited time (Aug 13-14) a free Attic Treasures download will be available on the “Freebie” page.

Tell all your friends, send them to this website but please don’t share the pattern with anyone. This is a freebie only for you, thanking you for supporting me this past year.

The freebie will be ‘October Birdhouse’. It’s a cute birdhouse design ,that is the perfect size, to make into an ornament for your Halloween tree. Thank you everyone!

Deja Boo

Deja Boo and The Fortune Teller will be released this Friday!  I really enjoyed stitching these and working on the Gingham linen from weeks. I used a Chartreuse metallic from Kreinik to make 'The Fortune Teller' sparkle. The crystal ball was stitched with DMC's variegated threads which was a first for me. Here is a picture of Deja Boo!

Whisperwind Carnival

Coming soon!

A new Halloween-ish series called 'Whisperwind Carnival'. Two designs will be released  in August.

July

Wow, it's already July 16th!  I've been doing some stitching. Mostly I've been working. I decided to help a friend with his firework stand. I've never worked in one...actually I haven't done very much retail work at all in my life. It has been fun and exhausting and boring at times. Utah has some new firework laws this year. The old laws were: no aerial fireworks at all. No firecrackers. You could light off fireworks about a week before the 4th and a week after. Utah also celebrates the 24th of July. It is our birthday. So, again...a week before and a week after the 24th. This year everyone can light off fireworks for a month and aerial fireworks are legal. It is a HUGE deal for Utah. So, it's been busy at the firework stand. My yard looks bad, I am missing out on blooming flowers and tasty vegetables. I will definitely be releasing some new designs the beginning of next month. I am excited and hope you like them. Enjoy your Summer and I will write about, and post pictures, of my new designs in a week.

Celebrate, Summer and Halloween

Thanks to everyone for making 'Celebrate' my most popular design to date. I noticed the other day that the design is on 123stitch.com's 'most popular' list. Hopefully the success of it will get more people to try out my other designs.

I've been working on 'My Summer Heart'. It looks great but the stitching is slow going since I don't have a lot of free time right now. Also, lot's of exciting Halloween designs are in the works. So, please look for them sometime in August/September.

If you haven't already please check out my website. Ship's Manor

Jill Rensel

Amazed once again by her talent. She truly is an incredible artist. She takes stitched pieces (which are incredible works of art on their own accord) and turns them into masterpieces. I have had the honor of visiting her studio a couple of times and have seen artwork, done by her, hanging on the walls. If it were up to me I would live there. After all, her studio is only 9 blocks away from me. Jill, if you ever need someone to come down there and give you an ego boost just let me know. Those of you who haven't seen her work need to peruse her blog. I guarantee you won't be disappointed. 

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