Free Pattern Links

It took me so long to find some Christmas freebees I used to tag long time ago. Couldn't find it when I needed to compare and show to a friend which one she likes. I'd reckon I pinned this post to always appear on top of my post. Thanks to somebody from my stitch group, She had this on file. Free Christmas Design . Especially for Maria, you can find this also on my pattern links at my right sid

Home is where the heart is

Having two homes is not always fine, especially when one house is on the other side of the continent. It breaks my heart leaving one for the other and it makes me happy coming home to both of them. If I have a private jetplane I probably load all my stuff back and forth so that, I have them, when I needed them. Just kidding, even if I can afford it, I wouldn't even think of it. I probably bring tons of chocolates and barrels of wine to the Philippines and a whole mango and banana trees, with the inclusion of its roots  to Belgium. Neither of the two choices is good for obvious reasons. I only need not to forget my bible, my books, my patterns and my current WIP. And my husband of course. :)

Anyway I guess its the confort and privacy of the four walls and its roof that makes one house special, but it is still the family itself that maketh it a home. And if we bring our family with us wherever we go, we can still find a place we can call home or at least felt at home. I only wonder what Our Father's home look like. I have hopes, loads of hopes to be there sometime. Meanwhile here is my Works in progress on my UFO

Pin and cut

I'm a bit dissapointed to discover that some of my pins (pinterest) was already removed due to copyright reasons. I can understand why, But when sometime, one pattern is not available nearby I feel so lucky to see them online that I deny the fact that it could be illegally tagged. I learned my lesson and I thought about pinning and cutting all at once. Can't help it really. Over the years when my friends are collecting shoes and bags. I am collecting books and creative patterns of all sort. My last count was over the thousand ( sewing, quilting and cross stitching) Pinterest comes handy sometimes but I'll reckon its better to pin and cut all at once. Not that I rely on it. When I found pins that i really love, I buy it whenever I got a chance like this one:
Autumn story . I saw it first in Pinterest. I like it so much that i even ordered it overseas. This is one op my current WIP nowadays.

Stitching using pattern via Windows live photo gallery

Aside from using board notes Apps, scanning my pattern and viewing it via windows live photo gallery has been my habit ages ago. My husband doesn't like it of course. He says its not really good for my eyes. What he didn't know is that, it helps me in a way to distract my attention moreoften than not. Co'z whenever my computer is open, can't help but once in awhile check on google alert for the latest news in the world. And then I checked on facebook, bloglovin, blogspot, etc. Windows 8 user have more advantage because they can use multiple tabs. As u can see here in my sample, at the lower right corner. I can make it larger or smaller view. It helps a lot whenever I am busy with a small patterns. I can also count using my cursor. I can move the picture itself up and down, go to the next or the last pages or check on the whole picture. It works for me and I been doing this for years now.