Do designers hate us?

Well, not us personally but our bank account for sure !!! So I was nicely and quietly checking the internet ( as I often do) , browsing some cross stitch sites ( just to have a look !!!! ) , ended up on the new releases page ( a girl has to stay current on the newest releases, right? ) and saw THAT:

The new Dimensions Christmas collection !!!! And here I was in love ... again !!! I just love those birdies . They are so perfect ! So here they are on my wish list. I'm weak , I'm very weak ... Oh well, I am just a stitcher ... Sigh .........

But wait! ( yes, it would be too easy if there will be be only one ! ) They also got another cute one ( because one is not enough of course !!! ) You know I have a secret crush on Santa ( and no, I haven't started therapy yet ... ) and this gold petite kit will join my stash one day !!!

You may also like that stocking ( I, I stitched their gold petite with the same design and I really enjoy it)

And what about this sleigh? Yes, I it too !!! I'm telling you : designers want us to go bankrupt !!! If you want to see them all, got to ABC stitch and let me know if you can resist !!!

Should I brag more about my autumn harvest? You're going to be very tired soon because it's such a pleasure to stitch that one: the colors are amazing, I'm having so much fun stitching reds, oranges, or yellows . Chuy even told me: you must really enjoy that one a lot because you are so quiet at night !!!

FIRST GIVEAWAY !!!!!!!!!!

To celebrate my first 600 posts, I decided to do a giveaway. Actually I planned it a long long time ago because I know a lot of you love to stitch for christmas and De fil en aiguille is THE french magazine ! Of course, the mag is in french but there are the DMC threads listed. You can see some details here if you want to review the mag before entering

The rule: you have until staurday to enter. I'll draw a name on sunday (my time) probably using random.org or I'll have a kid pick a name in a bowl (that's why we have kids, right? ) You have to put a link on your blog to this post telling your fellow stitchers about this giveaway (no exception ) but if you don't have a blog, just drop your email with your comment. Everybody is welcome, everywhere in the world !!! So join the fun !!!

Thanks for your nice and conforting comments about Pierre fifth anniversary. I know those images can scare all the parents or make them very sad (it would have scared me a lot before Pierre got sick; I would have even probably leave the blog as fast as I could actually I'm such a big chicken Nobody wants to imagine it could happen to their child ) It does make me sad to see these pictures and I don't look at them often; actually, I had to look for them to do the post. We still go day by day, I still worry A LOT whenever his legs hurt or whatever hurt and it's still hard on me to think my child almost lost his life twice before the age of 8 years old... It still doesn't make sense to me ...

Let's talk about something fun now: my Lanarte of course I guess you are going to see me bragging about my Lanarte until I finish it (unless green comes in the way )

Happy ???

It should be the day of the but I don't feel like it even though I do have a happy dance. The colors with the camera are very close to what they are in real ! I even took some close up for you to see the details.

I know nobody cares but I feel very down today. Pierre's homeworks are still a disaster. He has so much troubles with abstraction that it is hard for him to understand when the sea is salty, why the icebergs are not, and so on ... And I can't find the right balance between not putting pression on him because of his leucemia and getting the things done ... I'm probably not the right mom for him ...