Greetings from My Castle

It’s Monday, two days after Christmas 2021, and I spent this morning fully finishing three cross stitch ornaments for my new cross stitch tree. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!

This little tree was a total impulse buy at Lowes earlier in the month. I am not an impulse buyer, but this tree had caught my eye. Ho Ho Ho is a pattern by Priscilla Blain of Stitching with the Housewives on Etsy. Isn’t Santa adorable in his red long johns! ***

Joy was a complimentary design from Misty Pursel from Luminous Fiber Arts, and this sweet little design with Mrs. Claus, Christmas in the Kitchen: Candy Canes, was a pattern that I had purchased last year but which I did not get stitched until last week. This pattern was also from Misty Pursel. 

 

These last three tiny pieces were stitched during my needlepoint phase. I was delighted to see that one was dated . . . ‘88. :-)

Recommendation: If you have Amazon Prime, definitely watch Being the Riccardos; it’s wonderful!!! Nicole Kidman gives a marvelous performance as Lucille Ball. The film deals with the sometimes stormy relationship of the couple, the filming of “I Love Lucy,” and a political crisis which threatens the program.    

Please do watch it; it is really well done.

Stay safe everyone.

*** Yes, I was curious, so I googled to see why they are called “long johns.” There was a famous boxer named John L. Sullivan who wore this attire into the boxing ring. People started calling them John L’s, and eventually they became long jones. Now you know. :-)