Happy Valentine's Day!!!

"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you."  
Wayne Dyer

I hope you get to spend some time today with your sweetheart!!!

 Blessed Be, Meagan

Happy New Year 2012!!!

I hope you all had a wonderful, safe New Years.  I sat on the couch and stitched so mine was GREAT!  =) 

I am not really into making resolutions, more into adopting life style changes.  This year I am going to make daily attempts to live in the moment and not feel bad about things that I haven't done or look forward into things I need to do.  I don't know about you, but it seems to me that time just flies by so quickly.  It seems like yesterday that I had babies, and now all of my kids are in school full time and in just the amount of time that I have had kids they will all be gone from my home.  I know that the time between now and then will go by quickly and I will be wondering what happened to those years of my life.  I think that as we look ahead to things to much we loose this moment right now.  For instance..Christmas is so many days away...and the next thing, etc.  If we are always looking to those forward days we loose today and other days in anticipation of "what's next".  So I am going to move forward and do what I can each day to be happy in that day.  Play with my kids, stitch a little, etc and just try to be present so that in 12 or so years when I have an empty nest I will feel like I really was present and lived those years and am ready for the next chapter in life. 

Well...next post will be needlework.  I know I haven't posted any projects for a while...well I have a lot to show you..so stay tuned!!!

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas!

Wishing everybody a joyous and happy day.  I hope that you may all be surrounded with the ones you love.  To those who serve overseas and their families we thank you for our continued freedom.  Merry Christmas!

Hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Ok I'm two days late, but I was still thinking about all of you!  I had a wonderful day and lots of good food.  So much to be thankful for! 

I will update soon with some stitching and a Christmas Give-a-Way!!!!

Happy Hallowe'en

I hope you all have a blessed Hallowe'en!!!  

I want to thank you all for your emails and comments on my give-a-way.  I wish I could give something to everybody, but stay tuned I will do this again very soon!!!   As promised it's Hallowe'en and the winner is Allison H!

Please email me with your address and the charts you want =) 

Give-A-Way Bonanza!!!!

Hope you are all enjoying a wonderful Autumn season.  The leaves are changing and we are getting to see a lot more of that change because the weather has been mild and the leaves are staying on the trees longer....that's what the weather guy says anyway...  Well enough science... LOL

I have a couple of give-a-ways here that I'm planning on and I hope you will all enter for a chance to win!

I am almost to 2000 members in my Yahoo Group!  WOOHOO!  I love these stitchers and I am so honored so many like to come togther on our little space on the web.  I will be doing a give-a-way when we reach the 2000.  So if you are not part of our group where we have exclusive freebies, swaps, challenges, and games click the Stichy Witchy on the right side panel and join us!!!

The second give-a-way is going to be a little different.  You will receive an entry for each of the following steps.  I will be giving away 6 designs of your choosing..this is for any chart your little heart desires..even the new Angels and Bride's Tree.  

• Post about my give-a-way on your blog
• Comment on this blog post
• Like Brooke's Books Publishing on Facebook
• Tweet about the give-a-way
• refer a friend to our yahoo group

Please email me letting me know which of the above things you've done and I will enter you in the drawing that many times =)  I will be drawing names on Hallowe'en!!!!  


Thank you all for your continued support of Brooke's Books Publishing!!! 

Autumn....Really????

Well....as you can see by my lack of blog posting I have been enjoying SUMMER!  We had a very long cold spring.  I guess they call it a Dog Wood Winter?  I have many other things I call it...none of them sound nearly as nice as that...  I personally am holding out for an Indian summer.  The last half of July and all of August have been perfect!  I think if we would have had a proper summer I would be ready for Fall.  It is my favorite time of the year, and it has Hallowe'en!!!!  It is what it is...and isn't change the one thing in life we can guarantee on?

I have been doing a small amount of stitching and am really happy with the progress of this piece.  I picked it up a few months ago for my cousin Heidi's wedding gift, unfortunately it wasn't done by the wedding because I ran out of floss.  Once I am finished with this piece I will have it framed and get back to BBD Anniversaries of the Heart.  I have some changing and fixing to do on that, but it is a lovely piece.  My plan is to finish it over the winter, and then next year get all of those little things like ornaments and such done before I decide on another large piece.  I will keep you up to date with my progress.

In stitches!  Meagan