Pick your floss winnner today!

Thank you for entering  another give-away. Today will be fun for one lucky winner! YOU pick which collection you want! Ultimate Pink Collection, Purple or Browntones.
I also have the Green Collection.
The lucky winner is Cindy in Maryland. Please email me and give me your address. nbelgian@aol.com.

Thank you for joining in the fun. We will have another give-away soon.
                                            Nancy
 

Another very busy week at The Motto Shoppe

It was another very busy and productive week here at The Motto Shoppe. I stitched two mottoes for customers....it seems like the harder mottoes are the ones that they would like me to stitch and I understand. Some do take longer to stitch and have more detail.
The first was Give Us this day our Daily Bread. This pattern is one I reproduced from an antique I had in my collection. I buy and sell the antiques all the time. Once I realized I had too many....the walls were full....several closets were full....it was time to sell some of them so others could enjoy them. Anyways...here is the motto in one of our fancy frames with the fretwork all around. My son makes these and I carve The corner leaves.

And then I stitched another one on brown paper...didn't I just say I wasn't going to do another one??? I have stitched 3 on brown paper in 6 weeks and just gave a quote for another today. It is much harder to see the pattern on the dark paper and rough on the eyes. You need good lighting when stitching on the darker paper. This is my Home Sweet Home. A nice companion motto to the Scatter Smiles on brown paper.

And now I am headed back to carving frames and corner leaves for 6 frames. Floss?? Still on the back burner but I will do a marathon dyeing session soon and have it completed.

 

Don't forget to sign up for the big drawing tomorrow for your choice of gift boxes of floss. Several colors to choose from.

 

Thanks for stopping by. Have a nice day.

Nancy

Rainbow Floss winner today!!

We have a winner today for a box of Rainbow floss! Thank you to all who entered......and the lucky winner today is :

Lydia Stevenson. Congratulations! Please email me and give me your address. nbelgian@aol.com

 

Be sure you have entered the give-away and the drawing on the 28th for Pick a Box of Floss! Pick your favorite colors! Scroll back a few posts and you will find the post to enter your comment.

 

And make sure you are signed up for the Birthday Club. Drawing to be on the 1st of each month in 2016. Just email me your month and day of your birthday.

 

Back to work.....another super busy week. I stitched two more mottoes and I will show pictures of them this weekend.

Nancy

A very productive week of stitching

It was a very productive week of stitching to say the least. I had 4 orders for stitched mottoes and I am happy (my sore hands are happy too) that they are stitched, framed and in the mail.
I snapped a few photos before I put them in the frames. It is so difficult to fight with the glare from the glass.

The only difficult one was the dark brown paper since it is harder to see the pattern on the brown. That is also one of my favorites. I keep saying I am going to keep the next one I stitch and hang it on my wall.
I also received a motto I had sent out to a model stitcher...thanks so much Sue!! I had her stitch this on my darker golden parchment linen. I will be hanging it next to some antique mottoes with dark paper and for me, the darker linen looked better. She did an excellent job for me once again.
The Stitching Parlour. I will put it in one of my hand carved frames.

I have more linen to dye for a customer and then I will get back to dyeing floss. It seems like it has been put on the back burner for quite a while but orders have to come first.

 

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great weekend.

Nancy

80 skeins, 1600 yards of floss set

The Complete 1795 Floss Collection has 80 skeins, 20 yards each. 1600 yards of floss! I will be phasing this out and I only have two sets left if anyone is interested. Pictured at the right, a great selection of colors. I will still have singles of a lot of the colors until they are sold out as I am not reproducing them since I will have the new line of repeat (stock) colors this year.
I simply need to make room for all the new floss colors. I gave away (donated) a lot of floss recently of the smaller amounts of the single colors. You can't imagine how large of an area it takes to display and store each color. Some of you have asked for pictures of my display but it is going to be a couple more weeks before it is all put together. Each time I get back to work on the floss I get more orders for stitched and framed mottoes. Once again I got 2 orders yesterday so I will be carving frames today and stitching mottoes for a couple days. I am always amazed at the number of people who admire the mottoes but have never taken a stitch of any type. I guess we all figure that each of us learned as young girls to do a little simple embroidery, crochet or something similar. I remember one Christmas when I was 5 my Mother gave me the little metal loom kit to make pot holders with all the colorful stretch loops. Do you remember those looms? I believe they are still selling them but they are now plastic. Anyways....I sat and made pot holders until the entire package was empty! Then I went on to all kinds of needlework and crafts. I was 10 when my grandmother gave me two needlepoint pictures with ornate oval frames. The flowers were finished in the middle and you simply filled in the background with the continental stitch. My stitches were not perfect but I still have the pictures displayed on my wall. I think we all cherish things we saved from when we were little....I am a pack rat that saves everything. I have other cherished items that I will share with you another time....another story.

So back to work......then back to dyeing floss for the new line.
And be sure you have signed up for the next two give-aways, the Rainbow Floss boxed set will be on the 25th and the 28th will be for the pick your favorite color box of floss.
Have a great week.
Nancy

Happy Valentine's Day and we have winners!

Happy Valentine's Day!

We have two winners today. The first winner will get a hand made necessaire filled with stitching goodies.

The winning name drawn was Patricia Geary. Congratulations! Please email me and give me your address. nbelgian@aol.com. The second winner will receive two of my Quaker charts to stitch. Be True in Heart and Love and You shall be Loved.

The name drawn was Debbie Haggard.

Congratulations ladies. I hope this has added to the joy of your Valentine's Day. I truly love to share with my friends.

Have a wonderful day everyone!

 

Sending Valentine's Love.

Nancy

Ultimate Green Collection boxed floss by request

I had a request to do a green collection yesterday. I looked and I did have half a dozen greens that have not been previously listed......so I added them to a few singles that I had and here you go:

I guess I could add this to the list on the previous post for you to choose from in the drawing. I will also list these on ebay with the other boxes.
Back to work...............oh my goodness am I busy.............
Nancy

New give-away, new floss boxes, enter now!

I am as busy as ever around here. Trying to finish my orders for stitched and framed mottoes and I see the light at the end of the tunnel. I am moving everything around in my office/workroom to make room for this whole new line of floss. My goodness....what a challenge!! So I thought I would box up some of the older colors, add a few I never had listed before and make some collections. Here is what I came up with:
Pretty in Pink, all shades of soft pink, cherry pink, coral pink, etc.
Ultimate Browntones, tans, rust, browns, rust, copper, etc.
and The Ultimate Purple Collection with lots of lilacs, purple, variegated and tone on tone colors.
12 skeins, 240 yards per box. I will list these on ebay shortly. Very limited editions.

Lets give one away! YOU pick which collection you want!
Rules: You must be a follower at the right and you must post a comment here. Post on your blog or Facebook and get 25 more entries. Drawing to be February 28th so hurry and enter.
I ship world wide.
Good luck everyone!
Nancy

Rainbow Floss winner today and a new give-away, enter now!

We have a winner today!!! And what is the best thing to do after a give-away? Have another one! So if your name was not drawn today.....you can still win this great box of Rainbow Floss.

Today the lucky winner is: Fiore. Congratulations! Please email me and give me your address. nbelgian@aol.com

 

Now......lets do it again! Post a comment here to enter. Same rules for every drawing. You must be a follower. Click to follow by Faithful Friends at the right. Post on your blog or Facebook and get 25 more entries. Drawing to be February 25th. And remember that you must check back to see if you are a winner. You must follow....and I don't have the time to hunt you down! LOL

 

Thank you to all who entered and Congratulations Fiore.

Nancy

February Birthday Club Winner!

As we start another month we also have another winner in the Birthday Club here at The Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe. If you have not signed up for this yet be sure that you do. Just email me your month and date of birth. Each month we will draw a winner to receive a surprise gift from me, valued at $25-35. I post world wide so anyone can enter.

So lets get to the winner! The name drawn today was Dawn Cooper. Congratulations Dawn! He birthday is on the 10th and I know we all wish her a very Happy Birthday! It started out pretty good!

Please email me and give me your address Dawn. You can also tell me your favorite colors to help me out.
nbelgian@aol.com

Tomorrow I will draw the name for the gift box of Rainbow floss....be sure you are signed up for that drawing.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day. I know Dawn will!
Nancy