Anne is Ready for Tea Now

Anne Stradal (she's the owner of ABS Designs) has finished her vacation stitching another designer's Japanese portrait and is ready to celebrate. Here's the blog entry describing her final touches to Nippon Textures.

http://thecapestitcher.blogspot.com/2009/01/let-tea-ceremony-begin.html

The above is the companion piece to the Squiggee Three Women and a Peach which I just finished (and need to get on that album cover). It is really worth a visit to Anne's blog to read how she stitched this piece. It is similar in some ways to my stitching of Three Women and very different in other ways. Click on the photo to enlarge it and you'll see why I have been asking Anne to do stitch guides for her pieces for years. (Ok, the truth was I've begged and begged, especially for the fabulous Door canvases you can see on her website by finding the link on the left top part of her blog.)

Lovely collaboration, Anne and Gail!

Jane/Chilly Hollow
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow

English Gentleman with Plum Pudding

This charming Englishman with his pipe, his umbrella and of course his plum pudding is for sale on the Buy It Now portion of eBay for $45 plus shipping. The seller has a lot of the Dede Santas from various countries, so click on View Seller's Other Items to see other nationalities.

http://tinyurl.com/79b5eq

Robin, this one's for you!

Jane/Chilly Hollow
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow