A Quick Note

Remember I have a new housekeeping helper who has been with us almost 3 months now since February 2012? I think for those who following my blog will know about it.

Unfortunately, me and my husband had no choice but had to terminate her with immediate effect due to her sexual misconduct. We're in an awkward situation here as we found out she had been bringing male strangers home without our knowledge in these 3 months. Besides, we were so shocked to found some innerwears and apparels under her bed which are belongs to us.  I was so disappointed!

Now, I am so overloaded with my houseworks and I just have no time to visit your blog at this moment. I hope you're still with me and will give me some time to catch up with all of you and get back to normal.

Until next time, take care and happy stitching!

Happy Easter Finished by Minet and Mylene

On March 19, I was so happy to see this in my inbox. Minet sent me a photo of her "Happy Easter"!

She stitched it on a lilac checked fabric from Jobelan. Isn't beautiful?

She had changed some colors and left out the carrots and flowers because the fabric she had chosen has much color of it's own.

I had another wonderful finished by Mylene!

She finished it as a gorgeous flatfold. I absolutely love it! It is so beautifully stitched and I love the blue ribbon on the side.

Thank you Minet and Mylene. For these beautiful photos!

Thanks for visiting and as always thank you for your comment. Have a great week and happy stitching. :) 

Happy Easter ~ Free Chart

I've created this free new chart just for you.


Happy Easter.

You can enlarge and copy this chart by clicking on the picture.
This is a copyrighted chart. In other words, do not republish my chart on another web page, blog or elsewhere; even for free. Instead, you may give others the URL for this page so that they may come to this site for themselves. I appreciate that very much.

I hope you will enjoy it. You can stitch it with any color you like. If you've done the finished, please feel free to email me a photo of your finished @ vinnieytan@ymail.com so I can see it and would like to show it here on my blog. Or you can drop me a line to tell me about your blog address and I will visit your blog to view your finished.

Thanks for visiting and as always thank you for your comment. Have a great week and happy stitching. :)

Autumn Wishes Finished

With lots of houseworks and jobs last weeks, I don't even have the time to blog reading and my stitching has slowed right down but I got my new design done!


Autumn Wishes

I stitch whenever I have little spare time even though in a short amount of time. I had a lot of fun designing this one and it's fun to stitch too!

I received a Christmas parcel from Tatyana in January. Although it was a belated Christmas gifts but I was so thrilled to receive them. The items which she sent are really very beautiful and I like them very much. I would like to thank Tatyana for the gorgeous Star Ornament which is beautifully stitched by her, the finished is very nice and beautiful, Tatyana. I will treasure it!




And also thank you for the beautiful Christmas card with heartwarming notes, a very cute mini scissor with gorgeous scissor's fob, a very christmassy fabric, lovely flower bookmark cross stitch kit, useful eyelets and a Handmade Christmas Special Magazine with tons of awesome crafting ideas.

On December 2011, I sent a registered parcel with tracking number to my secret pen pal "Lizzy". The tracking shows "still in shipment" and it's been over a month. I had also checked on her blog but no news from her about the parcel; So I believe that she didn't get it. After two months, I received a returned parcel with the reason for unclaimed.


This is the unclaimed parcel which I sent to Lizzy. Wondering why she did not receive it. I registered the parcel under the name of "Lizzy" with correct address. I think the unclaimed reason is I did not register the parcel under her real name.

Many blogging friends and friends around me have asked if I will sell my cross stitch patterns. In fact, I do hope that I can have more time to get my charts ready and complete my selling blog. After 16 years of working in advertising and graphic design industry, I was so tired with my jobs since a year ago and I wanted to be a cross stitch designer. I have now completed part of my cross stitch designs into chart forms and I will announce my selling blog/website sooner or later.

Thanks for visiting and as always thank you for your comments. Have a great week and happy stitching. :)

Autumn Wishes. Halloween Wishes.

I'm giving myself a little break today, since I have been working out every day. Sitting in front of my computer, instead of rushing all my projects, I blog hopping, eBaying and daydreaming!

Not much stitching done on my "Autumn Wishes". But what I can show you is the second house was added into the design ~ the red house. There are four houses in this sampler.


I received this beautiful Halloween card and a very cute little owl ornament along with some sweet treats from my secret pen pal! The owl is so beautifully stitched and so neatly done. She also did a perfect job of selecting the backing fabric for this ornament. I just love it! Thank you so much, Lizzy! Since she wrote a return address on the envelope, so I decided to write her a letter.


I hope you have a fun Halloween.



Happy stitching :)
Vinniey

My Email Account Was Being Hacked by Spammer!

Just a quick note to you all. My existing email account was being hacked by spammer. I lost all my emails in a sudden! This happened after I respond to an "Official email from Yahoo" asking for verification.

To all yahoo email user, please don't respond to this spam sent by "Fake Yahoo Verification"! All your mails will be delete from your inbox and spam messages will send to all of your contacts.


I have 4 new "Failure Notice" messages in my inbox now, but the strange thing is I don't send any email to these 4 persons in these few days. I know this spam was successfully sent from my address to all my contacts. It fail to send to these 4 persons because their address was no longer exist. The "Failure Notice" which sent using my email address by the spammer read:



"Hope you get this on time, I made a trip to Edinburgh, Scotland and had my bag stolen from me with my passport and personal effects therein. The embassy is willing to help by letting me fly without my passport, I just have to pay for a ticket and settle Hotel bills. Unfortunately for me, I can't have access to funds, I've made contact with my bank but they need more time to come up with a new one. I was thinking of asking you to lend me some quick funds that I can give back as soon as I get in. I really need to be on the next available flight.

I can forward you details on how you can get the funds to me.

I await your response!"




If you get such email, just ignore it. Stay away from this scam.

For security reason, I will get another new email account soon.

Autumn Wishes

I have been missing in action for a while in blogland. I just have no time to post and read blogs. Too many things but too little time. I was overloaded with graphic design jobs and houseworks! Dark circles started appeared beneath my eyes now because I haven't gotten enough sleep. Our ex-cleaning lady will not come back due to some family problems. So we planned to hire another new cleaning lady and we have to wait for another 1 to 2 months for her to arrive. I hope you're still with me and will give me some time to catch up with all of you and get back to normal.

Pictures shown here are my latest WIP design ~ Autumn Wishes.



I managed to finished 1/4 part of the design. You can see sheeps, a pumpkin, apple tree and a incomplete house. It has four houses in this sampler. Love working on this piece.

I joined "Secret pen pal" organized by Parsley a month back. Each of us given an address of a participant. The rules are the participants must send a letter each month start from August through December. We must keep our identity secret until the last letter and post on our blog each month about the letter we had received (sorry, I was late posting this, I would like to apologize to my secrat penpal, I know you have been watching my blog several times).

Look what I had receive from Lizzy Penpall. Lizzy is not her real name. She named herself Lizzy because Lizzie Kate is her favorite designer.


I love the purple flowers in this beautiful card.

This month, she sent me a very cute card together with an adorable scarecrow.


Thanks, Lizzy! I love it very much.


He is now sitting on my display shelf.

Four months ago, my husband made a pond from a large plant pot and placed it on our center courtyard. He also bought a small pump and two black molly fishes to set up a fish pond. After few weeks, I was just amazed, because I didn't expect it, seeing our little pond having 8 little baby mollies in it.


And after two weeks, there are more than 20! Everyone in the house were so happy and excited.


Now, you can see a bunch of fishes happily swimming in it.

Until next time, take care and happy stitching!