Thank Goodness for College Football

There was a time when I ordered way too much "stuff" - yarn, fabric, seeds . . and then I stopped most of that when I began cross stitching and it all switched to linen, charts and floss but lately I haven't been ordering much at all. It seems like over the past several weeks everything I ordered got stuck somewhere and it all arrived today. Opening the door and seeing the packages, it looked like way more than it was.Vince makes a lot of noise about my ordering habits but he doesn't really care but when it appears that mountains of things have been delivered, he can get a bit frustrated and vocal about it.

A football game had his undivided attention and that was just what I needed because the mail man brought packages, UPS brought packages, Amazon brought packages (twice) and Fed Ex brought packages. It really wasn't nearly as much as he would have thought it was had he seen it all arriving.

This was an order from Michael's. The top gizmo is the Happy Planner punch for the disc journals. They're usually $55 and Michael's had it on sale for $27.50. I have one but I've used it for about 5 years and I don't know if they last forever. I would be sad if I was in the middle of punching a bunch of pages and mine stopped working.

The rest of what I bought from Michael's was ribbon for finishing cross stitched Christmas pieces and it was all on sale half off.

Then there was a pack of fat quarters - Teresa Kogut's Naughty or Nice fabric line. I will need these for finishing some of next year's Christmas projects.

Can't see much and I don't want to take the packet apart. You can see a better picture of them here.

Next was a floss order from Colour & Cotton. I've used (mostly pulled for projects) a lot of red skeins for patriotic and holiday projects. I've also pulled a lot of greens so I replaced some of those, along with a few other colors.

Last year (or maybe the year before), I ordered this chart and the wooden sled from Chantelle's 141. I got the chart out the other day to make a PDF to get loaded into Markup so I could stitch this for next year. I got sidetracked, turned my back for a minute and two little adorable pups shredded it and there was no putting it back together again so I ordered another one. (This is why I prefer to buy PDF charts vs. paper charts!)

Next, I'm in Grace Notes' linen club and the monthly fat quarter arrived today!

This color is Balsam Fir and I love it! I saw on Colour & Cotton's Facebook page that someone was stitching Teresa Kogut's Pink Coat Santa on a minty green dot fabric and I started thinking I might want to stitch mine on green. Then this arrived today and it may be perfect!

I don't know . . I'm not starting this right away. Since I LOVE green linen, there are probably numerous projects that would work on this linen.

With Grace Note's linen, I also get two packets of finishing trim.

Last . . not something I ordered because you may remember the old mixer issue and I wanted Vince to take mine apart and fix it . . didn't happen. He found one on Ebay and ordered it. It arrived today so that order really doesn't count against me!

As far as I know, there's nothing else that I ordered arriving. After the first of the year, I'm going to see how long I can go without ordering anything!