Coming home from the trade show is usually such a let down for me, but coming back home to paradise does make it just a little bit easier. Something to look forward to especially when you are headed to the baseball game and opening day no less! The festivities at Petco Park in San Diego did not disappoint as the Navy presents the flag in a grand manner with all the pomp and circumstance, and finishing up with a flyover. Trevor Hoffman throwing out the first pitch. And if that wasn’t enough it was a great game and the home team won. I do love my baseball in case you couldn’t tell!

Destination Dallas theme this year was “my favorite destination”and some of the canvas artists were quite clever in with their ideas! Leigh’s favorite destination is Neiman Marcus as you can see the bags and boxes as part of her displays. Too cute!

Leigh’s new design is called “Staccato” and as always there are 8 wonderful new designs in the series. She has it available in the larger squares and also the smaller coaster size. I can just see beads and glitz and so many fun stitches.

The blue one is my favorite! I am sure soon you will be able to see them all on Leigh’s website.

This was me getting ready for my class and putting the thread kits together very early Sunday morning and I mean very early. I had good intentions of doing it Saturday night after we had dinner at Rise, but instead we had a technique class with Wendy Harwood, owner of Aristea! I would like to thank her for her generousity as she had canvases ready for us on bars, threads, silk ribbons, beads, fancy beads, ribbons, memory thread, needles and wool roving as she taught us stumpwork and needle felting! I can’t wait to finish my stumpwork dragonfly and try my hand at the felting. Thank you so much Wendy for sharing with us.

I think tomorrow I am going to stitch all day and watch baseball! and until next time…keep on stitching