sapphirestitching

Update 5-20-13/so the next 3 weeks i will be busy with 2 events in my life so i will be checking in from time to time. will have my swaps out in time, but if you have questions on ones i am hosting send me a PM.

Back to doing my public swaps keep in mind I do have strict rules to my swaps to keep it safe for those that are swapping. So see to the right the current swap I am hosting!

Card making, cross stitching, mini-album making, crocheting and what ever else I get into well it will keep my empty hours full!

All swaps within the US - I ship through my Paypal so you will receive a message with the tracking number so you will know when it will be arriving to your home. International partners you will know when I send cause I will make sure I click on SENT on the swap. So if you do not receive in a timely fashion recommended time period by our postal service please send a message and I will see about getting another one out to you.

Been busy with my thimble collection - added another more vintage civil war site dug ones. Those I not sure maybe about 30 of them. My Collection growing slowly right now. Currently have approximately 900+ assortment of them. Goal to have a 1000 by end of 2013!

My 2 large cross stitch projects are on hold right now for about 12 months - so busy with work need to get the mojo back so doing a cross stitch cow swap. Go here if even if you are not a cow lover you will love stitching these - typically can be stitched by a season stitcher in 8-10 hours really!

Love my Circut - have quite the collection of carts and now with digital downloads I am sure that I will be taking advantage of it. So if I am swapping with you for a card you can expect some cutouts.

Well I am a Cross stitching Fanatic that did one exchange for hand dyed fabbies and have been hooked ever since and now have turned it into a business. See link above

I have a line called "Lil bits of Fabbie"© - package hand dyed cross stitching fabric that can be used from Bookmarks to 8 x 10 charts. All package in assortments from 2-1/2" x 8" to 9 x 11, and then I have Limited edition fabbies that I dye up for Stitch Alongs (SALs) and sell the remaining out in larger pieces for those that have downloaded my chart and decide they have to have that fabbie! LOL!

My fabbies have gone in all corners of the world from here in the USA to Down under! Have a lot of repeat orders so I must be doing something right!

I also create my own charts for sale and some I just plain give away as bonuses to my group members/customers.

In addition to selling cross stitch supplies i am also selling scrapbook supplies on my Etsy Store - Stop on by

I have been married for 34 years to a wonderful man, 3 children, a 1 dog (my oldest one past away this past July 2012) which are my babies. Since my kids are all grown and on their own.

Well on my blog you can see the many pieces I stitched out on my own fabbie in my Halloween ornie Album, My SAL pics, and my original designs.

You can also see other pics of my SAL items that were my original chart designs. Stitched out by gals from all over the world.

My Blog Tutorials

Amish Folded Star

Mini Paperbag Album

Well I love from the time I get on the pc till I am off listening to my Pandora Box radio station found on my Blog.

I love from Folk(any) to Country to 60's-70's music. I do like contemporary Christian.

I even found out listening to my DD music I like some of the punk groups with that Folk punk sound. She is always making me listen to something new!

Love anything on the Scifi channel(well just about) Walking Dead, Grimm, Faceoff(amazing artistry), Being Human - Disaster movies - love and tender lovings stories. Old movies - Cary Grant is my FAV

Love to sit and cross stitch while listening to the old movies. Love the old comedy teams like Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers. Mysteries and old sitcoms like Lost In Space, McHales Navy, The Munsters to name a few! Current shows! Pysch, Ice Road Truckers, Castle, Warehouse 13, and those above.

Anything that has to do with Halloween, fun stuff like Nightmare before Christmas.

Well my passion is Cross stitching I also do crocheting, decorative painting, some scrap booking. Mostly do digital scrapbooking and memory videos. Making handmade cards, mini-albums and themed scrapbooks for gifts.

With my Cricut I have put all the carts I have on one of my boards on PINTREST

Passionate about taking pictures and then converting them into cross stitch charts, making photo cards, posting them to FB. Come view some of my pictures at Viewbug - SapphireMemories and making Scrapbook DVD's for Family and Friends!

Machine and hand Embroidery sewing and taking that embroidery fabric creating usable items. My NEW favorite is making Origami Bags. Just used my Singer Bias Tape Maker - LOVE IT!!!! - bought it 4 mos ago! and using it make my Mug Rugs for weaving technique! Can't wait till my next project!

More over dyed threads from Speciality companies like Weeks Dye Works, Dragon Floss, Carrie Threads. Open to trying all kinds. Unique threads for embelishing projects.

My favorite Hand dyed threads - actually silk is from Hand Dyed Fibers. they are so smooth to work with. From solids to varigated. Use them exclusively in my designs.

Love Batiks, genuine African Print fabbies Would love to have some Australian printed fabrics and other regional prints that are from where the sender is mailing from. EVEN YOUR HAND DYED FABBIES!

My favorite colors are orange to browns, sages, burnt reds, coastal whites anything that would have a pallet of primitive colors.

Beads, buttons all kinds. Needles for my embroidery machine, go through a lot of them. (Brother machine). Charms to add to my cross stitching projects.

Anything for Card making!

NEW! Acrylic Stampers and embossing folders! New obsession!

Beads

Buttons - fun ones, antique ones

Antique sewing implements

Anything from Nightmare before Christmas - Ice Age, Rudolf the Reindeer and the Pirates of the Carribean

Fabric Quarters and/or 5-6" fabric charms

Love The books by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child and only in hardbacks - I just don't know love the feel of a hard back book when reading it! Looking to collect all of them! Started with the Ice Limit and was just hooked!!! If you are wanting to swap with me there a few books by the authors singly I do not have and have duplicates of the co-authors that I will trade that are new.

Love anything about Lincoln.

New or old Cross Stitchning magazines - especially the UK ones.

Thimbles from all over, all kinds, does not matter, collection up to 859+ and growing! Current collection of States needed:

NEW HAMPSHIRE

SOUTH CAROLINA

Any from Canada

Have from around the world currently

ARUBA, AUSTRIA, BAHAMAS & NASSAUA, BERMUDA, BRUGGE(BELGIUM), BELGIUM, BERLIN (GERMANY),

CANADA - 2 Plus the following providences *Victoria, British Columbia

CESAR MANRIQUE(FROM THE CANARY ISLANDS), CROATIA - CITIES IN CROATIA; OPATIJA, PULA, VRBNIK, CUBA, DENMARK - 3 DIFFERENT, DOMINICIA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - 4 DIFFERENT ONES, DEUTSCHLAND, EGYPT, ESTONIA, TALLINN, FINLAND, GENT (BELGIUM), CRETE GREECE (2 different ones) AND JUST GREECE, ONE MARKED WITH HOLLAND ON THE INSIDE, HUNGARY, 5 FROM ICELAND, IRELAND, ISRAEL, JAMAICA (2,) KIRKENES(TOWN), KIRUNA(TOWN,) LOFOTON, NORWAY, LONDON(RED PHONE BOOTH ON IT AND ONE WITH LONDON BRIDGE WITH THE STATUE OF DISCS THROWER (FOR THE OLYMPICS JUST RECVD IN SWAP 7-19), A WHOLE BUNCH FROM UK CITIES MARBELLA, MAROC(MOROCCO), MAYLASIA, NAUSSA, BAHAMAS, NORDKAPP, NORWAY, OSLO, NORWAY (CAPITAL), POMPEII, PORTUGAL - SEVERAL STYLES, SAINT LUCIA, SAMPI, NORWAY, TRUMSO, NORWAY, PARIS, POLAND, NORWAY, VIKING IN NORWAY, SCOTLAND, SINGAPORE, ST THOMAS, VIRGIN ISLANDS, ST VINCENTE ISLAND, SWEDEN, SWITZERLAND, TURKEY (2,) THAILAND, VENEZUELA AND WALES

Love antiques sewing tools - pincushion and thing sewing related Love hand made cards Biscornus, needlerolls and scissor fobs Handmade from exchange partners All kinds of speciality threads for cross stitching projects. Not much of collection but do like receiving post cards with the exchanges/swaps

Also collect snowpeople. Especially the smore snowmen.

And anything that has to do with Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer! Fabric, figures, ornies and so on

Anything gross, distasteful. There is not much that I do not like except receiving items that are smokey, musty or mildewy smelling.

NO COFFEES, COCOAS OKAY

ABSOLUTELY NO PERFUME SCENTED - HIGHLY ALLEGEGIC!

No ATC's - do not swap them - thanks don't need another addiction! LOL!

EXPECTING FROM:

SENT OUT TO - WAITING ON RATINGS OR COMMENT TO PROFILE:

NEVER RECEIVED FROM:

@funkepunkemonke for FAD GROUP: Another Fat Quarter Sewing Challenge mail out date was for April 2, 2009

Angeled for my hostessed swaps: Bakers dozen PC swap HALLOWEEN CARD SWAP Summer Scrapbook Fat Quarter Swap for @NightPrincess019