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They are just too precious!!! That fox is my favorite--he's so handsome!! :wub: :wub: :wub:
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Of course you had to have them and what a great deal too. I guess we will be seeing them stitched one day which will be fantastic.
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Fab four Nicola although not the Beatles! :lol: These are so delightful. love the fox best but the look in the rabbit's eye is incredible - so lifelike. No wonder you had to buy all four. How could you not. I had Very Crafty email & looked through them I still love the squirrel but did not buy any.

These latest 4 certainly do make up a lovely picture of British wildlife. Enjoy stitching them when you have time & we'll all enjoy watching these beautiful pictures grow.
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Sally, what perfect presents for Betsan and Steve! I assume that the "map" one will be for Steve and the "Kiwi" one for Betsan?
Great find :D

Mabel, the treads look so beautiful and shiny that the special envelopes are a must. You got "real stamps" too. They are getting a rare thing, now that the post office like printing labels instead of using stamps!
Looking forward to seeing your next project, using these threads...

Nicola, your four new kits are so lovely that I could not decide which was my favourite.
By the way, how are you getting on with your Pako Organizer?
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poppy wrote: Nicola, your four new kits are so lovely that I could not decide which was my favourite.
By the way, how are you getting on with your Pako Organizer?
Fantastic! I really enjoy using it and it's so much handier having a bunch of needles already threaded and ready to go! Obviously takes a little time threading them all before a session but I think it's great! :wink:
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fablous kits Nicola. Love the fox, great colours. All are lovely in their own special way - so well designed. enjoy stitching them.

bookmarks will be good mementos Sally - imagine how surprised your friends Will be when they get them. & Mabel love your latest buys :applesauce:
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The expression on the fox's face is priceless - contented bliss!
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Not really a stash acquisition, and not a delivery either, but a gift from my MIL - we were at the Devon Guild of Craftsmen to see an exhibition, and the had these lovely wooden door wedges. Until now the door of my craft room was wedged open (when it was safe to do so, i.e. the pussycat was outside) with a bright green frog wedge that used to be in one of the children's bedrooms - it works, yes, but this one was something quite different. As I was debating with myself whether I could really justify another extravagance, my MIL took it out of my hands and gave it to me as a present! It now sits looking beautiful in the craft room. Trouble is, it rather shows up the scruffy door....

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It is a beautifully crafted doorstop, Mabel. I love wood :wub:
How kind of your MIL!
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:wub: I love h and made things where the maker loves the medium he is working with. Ages old craft but always so beautiful - even simple things like this door stop. Lovely for you to receive it from your MIL.
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A great and useful gift - just don't look at the floor - and besides you are probably the only to thinks it's scruffy..
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The room used to be the boys' "den", Sally - believe me, both the floor and the door are scruffy :-) !
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I've seen those wedges before at craft fairs....never occurred to me that they were for doors!!! :doh: :tizzy: :oops: Silly Wombat!! :lol:
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These all arrived the week before last, some of them just before we were setting out for my in-laws so I couldn't even open the parcels or play with them :shock: !
Here are 50 beeswax hearts, now kept in a little china pot that once belonged to DH's grandmother:

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Cards from Craft Creations' Value range - not so many different colours but perfectly usable:

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Coloured sadi purls:

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And some doeskin samples (no, that's not Bambi's mother :-) - it's a very drapy lovely woolen fabric)

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What a stash with endless creative possibilities, Mabel! The little pot looks handpainted.
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:applesauce: :applesauce: :applesauce: Some real nice additions to your stash Mabel!!
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What a fabulous stash Mabel. My mind boggles at the diversity and yes I am so looking forward to seeing what happens to each of them. :)
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Wonderful Stash and what a great use for Grandma's pretty Pot! 8)
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Looking for velvet or something similar, I found this large remnant for £2.50 at our local fabric shop :dance: :dance:

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