King of the Kitchen ~ Designs By Lisa

If you've been reading the LTS blog you've probably picked up that the kitchen and I do not get along. In fact, the big guy asked me recently where I'd like to travel when the kids get older. I said probably Hawaii, Ireland.....he interrupted and asked for a more domestic local. Maybe Texas or Arizona, I suggested.....nope closer he replied.....like maybe the kitchen. He laughed for quite some time at himself.

Seriously? He's nuts! He knew when we got married, I was not skilled in the kitchen department. I am certainly not the Queen of the kitchen, but the big guy on the other hand, is FABULOUS at making pretty much anything and everythign under the sun.....and so I will stitch this fun little design for him to let him know that if I can't actually make "food" in the kitchen I can still flex my stitching abilities there (:

Fabric: 28 Count Hand-dyed Sandcastle Jobelan #429-503 from Wichelt
Threads: Gentle Art Sampler Threads,DMC conversion included

Beads: Mill Hill glass seed beads # 00367

Frame: East Side Mouldings: 800-840-6077

Design Size: 9 1/2" w x 7 1/2"h

Stitch count: 134w x 106h

Kathy from Designs By Lisa is having an exclusive sale on this fabulous chart till May 16th. Sale price is $5 and that INCLUDES shipping! Be sure to get over to her website and order b/4 they are gone!

Sublime Stitching

Did you hear Sublime Stitching is having a Cinco de Mayo sale? Just enter the code ~ YAY4CINCO ~ at checkout and get 5% off your order till the end of the day today!

Plus....Dia De Los Muertos is only $2.50 ~ that's 50% off!

Off to shop a bit...I need some funky summer patterns.

Happy B-day Stitches 'n Things

The following is an excerpt from the Stitches 'N Things Newsletter ~ BE sure to check it out!

Drum roll please ........................ Effective at midnight o'one Saturday May 1st............ Since we're turning 18, you get a month long birthday present of 18% OFF** your orders!

** discount excludes DMC floss; not applicable to items already discount/on sale; not applicable to items ordered prior to May 1, 2010. No special orders = items not normally carried in the shop catalog/web site. Key tags will not be punched during the sale month.

** Your order form, if ordering from our secure shopping cart/catalog, will NOT reflect the 18% off discount. That discount WILL be taken off manually by us when we process your order through. You will receive the discount on all applicable items that you are ordering.

Wowsers! That's cool .. but wait a second Deb, how will I know if I'm getting the discount? How will I know if what I'm ordering is in stock or not?

Not to worry. Since it's impossible for me to know ahead of time what items will be wanted at the discount, if you are ordering from our web site and what you are ordering is not in stock, it WILL be re-ordered for you AT the 18% Off Discount! It's the items we don't have on our web site that are considered 'special orders' and are not applicable; those items we do not now carry or have not carried in the past.

Now .. lets take this UP a notch and find you MORE WAYS TO SAVE on your Charts/Books/Leaflets!

• IF A CHART is not in OUR catalog, but it IS on our Merchant Mall catalog at HOFFMAN Distributing ... you'll still get the 18% OFF Discount when you order it in May!
• IF A CHART is not in OUR catalog, but it IS in the chart catalog at NORDEN CRAFTS ... you'll still get the 18% OFF Discount when you order it in May!
• IF A CHART is not in OUR catalog, but it IS in the chart catalog at WICHELT IMPORTS ... you'll still get the 18% OFF Discount when you order it in May!
• IF A CHART is not in OUR catalog, but it IS in the chart catalog at YARN TREE ... you'll still get the 18% OFF Discount when you order it in May!
• And .. just to prove I'm really in a good mood and not stressed out with 'this birthday' ... you'll also get 18% OFF ALL FRAMES, whether in stock OR special ordered! ALL CUSTOM FRAMING (mats, glass, spacers, mounting fee) will be 18% OFF!!! Custom Mats from Sekas OR Jill Rensel are also 18% OFF.

Happy Birthday Month To Us ... Happy Birthday Month To Us ...

Happy Birthday Month dear Stitches N Things (and dear Stitches N Things customers) ...

Happy Birthday Month To Us (er, to you)!

Have you heard? Sit 'N Stitch is holding a HUGE canvas sale and YOU are invited! Now through March 31st, all canvases are 20% off. No this is not a typo....20%. How fabulous is that? So what's on sale? Cheryl's laundry list of design companies include:

Melissa Shirley
JD Designs
Ewe & Eye
Trubey Designs
Melissa Shirley
Tapestry Tent Designs
Rebecca Wood Designs

...well you know how it is, there are WAY TOO many to name here. Stop by the Sit 'N Stitch shop or online and be sure to tell Cindy we said hi!

SUPER BOWL SUNDAY IS HERE!

If your house is anything like mine, today is a national holiday. For my husband and son it is the last YYEEEHHAAAAA for football for the next few months, to them it is bitter sweet. For me and the girls, we are thrilled to get a short reprieve from the sport.

Don't get me wrong I love that the big guy and little guy do things together, it's just that I wish it was something that I found interesting. Sorry, no love for football here.

Well that's not totally true. I have come to love football (over the past 10 years) ever since I found that most LNS's and ONS's take Super Bowl Sunday as a way to give back to stitchers!

~ It's Super Bowl Sunday and that means lots of LNS's are having FABULOUS SALES today! Fiberworks in Iowa is giving SYHO members 15% off in store and 10% off online orders today. Be sure to say SYHO sent you for your discount!

This sale is a great way to pick up the the 1st design by Glendon Place in the SYHO Designer Encyclopedia (shown below).

Stitches 'N Things

'we don't want to work that hard' sale

All orders over $50 before tax andshipping will receive FREE shipping (not including frames, scrolls, andlights). Good now through 1/13/10.

Be sure to let them know you heard about it from LTS!

I'm off to get some fabric and threads for a Country Cottage Needleworks project I am working on. I am redoing the girls rooms and the Country Cottage Kids collection is perfect. I am making pillows from the Princess Parade and She Sells Sea Shells and the girls LOVE the Little Ballerinas so they can hang them above their beds. I can't wait to get started!

Here's a few pics of the shop. I think it looks like a stitcher paradise. I could stay there all day!

The New Release Display

Thread Heaven

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Till next time ~ Stitch On!

SALE ~ Bag Smith ~ SALE

Project bag is $25 till midnight August 6

Ok so excited! I just got word we can offer The Bag Smith project bag for LTS members for $25 instead of the regular $32. ~ Offer ends 8/6/09 ~ the LTS link is below ~ this is a great bag for all your knitting, stitching, sewing...basically ANYTHING for needles, this bag has you covered.