A plethora of pumpkins

Thank you, thank you, thank you, all you fluffy-bunny blog readers, for welcoming me back to Blogland with such sweet words. And so many of them! You have no idea how much that means to me. It is no wonder that I couldn't wait to get back. Somehow I had the feeling I had a lot of friends out there and I really needed that friendship to make me feel a little better. I do feel better. I feel a whole lot better and you can all take a moment now to pat yourself on the back...

...there you go... and smile, because you have made a silly old girl very happy.

Enough with the weepy stuff. Onwards! I've tried to do a little blog reading, but I'm still waiting for my very own - legal - internet connection to arrive here in the form of a modem, or a router, or whatever you need to get connected. I don't speak digibese, sorry. The few blogs I have been able to visit were, as always, a joy to read and drool over. One of them, KarenV's (SO glad to see you back in Blogland, too!) got me thinking. Brave woman that she is, she made an entire list of her WIPs and made them public, too, informing us of her intention to actually work on them. I thought: that's what I should do too: just make it public. Come out of the closet, as it were. There must be some way to reduce the old WIP list? But hey, I believe I've found an even better way of getting rid of WIPs: just leave hearth and home and forget to take them with you! That way you can just enjoy heaps of guilt-free bouts of startitis. That's what I'm doing right now, in between growing pumpkins, stitching Neighbourhoods, raising a son and translating this year's Harlequin Christmas special: starting every gorgeous project under the sun. I just HAD to start this one:

Oh. My. Word. Kathy Barrick-Dieter is brilliant. This is Frederick. Isn't he gorgeous? Goodness knows, this one will never get finished, but I don't care. No progress pics, girls. When I say I've started, I mean I crossed two stitches.

I'm also awaiting this one:

Obviously, this new BBD Loose Feathers needs to be stitched as soon as it arrives.
And this one!

Ooh, I love it. It's from the June 2008 issue ofCross Country Stitchng magazine. I had never heard of a GAST thread called 'Cinders', but that's the colour used for this alphabet. Nice.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, behold...

My pumpkin patch.

I'm so thrilled! Even if this year's crop yields nothing but pea-sized pumpkins, or even just some flowers, or even if they don't grow any bigger than this, I don't care. I've had so much fun seeing all these tiny green planties emerge from the soil! Any more fun and I'm afraid I might not survive :o) You do understand that some sort of Halloweeny stitching is in order, you know, to really get in the mood. Hmm. Which witchy chart shall I choose? Heh heh heh... Any advice is welcome!

Again, thanks for visiting, for commenting, and for being there!

Until next time :o)