Fun in A Box

Vistaprint.ca.  Heard of it?  Word of warning:  if you order their stuff once, you will constantly get 'discount special' emails.  It's addicting.  I made a rush order before the Gardenscape show.  All of those cards I ordered went in the first day.  200 gone!  Another 200 business cards were taken in the next 2 days of the show.  So I needed to order more.  Get this!  It was all free.  No kidding.  I only paid shipping for 250 postcards, 20 thank you cards with envelopes, 100 rack size brochures, a box of 250 business cards, return address labels, a keychain and a coffee mug.  lol  Isn't that insane?  It all arrived today, unexpectedly early!! Big perk.

Okay, I know the coffee mug & key tag are extravagant, but it was free!  I have no photo of the mug because it's in my hand.  I love this company because if you wait for the right emails, you'll see what you want come up for free eventually.  I also like the fact that I can upload my own photos.

I went shopping yesterday, and found really beautiful embroidery threads that are being discontinued locally (the ones with the dome lids). They are going for $4/1000 meters.  Wow.  And the sparkle is so pretty!  I also like the casing.  You can let the thread feed up through the hole in the top and it feeds great.  You don't have to rig up anything weird to use these fine threads for thread painting.

There are lots of amazing colors in these sparkly polyester embroidery threads.  I picked up this collection for my prairie paintings.  It's made by Hemingworth and you can find them at Century Textiles (a few blocks behind HobbyWorld).  I'm so loving these threads.  Here's some progress I've made with them...

Deep Summer Fields

Yes - more french knots.  I stitched them all while sitting out in the sun yesterday.  It really is spring!!  Even my kids have spring fever.  Check out what my littlest boy did!  Love it.

~Monika