Summer and a winner for last contest!

Congratulations to Claudette497 who posted a comment about her preference for black & white charts - I emailed her yesterday to pick her favorite Pickle Barrel Design chart and I will mail it to her! Thanks again to everyone who left a comment and for now I am switching away from color charts and doing it in black & white. 

Otherwise I am working on a new Fall design right now - then I better get some Christmas ideas down on the computer.  My question today is do you like Christmas designs that use lyrics from old favorite Christmas carols? I'll be waiting to hear your thoughts - and Happy Stitching!  

Since I don't have anything photo related to designs so instead I will share some random summer photos with everyone today...

The photo at the end of the crazed two year old is our son about four years ago - it is the funniest photo ever!!!!

New Release - Available beginning of August!

"LAKE LIFE" will be shipped out next week sometime so be sure to ask your local needlework store to watch for it under Hoffman Distributing's New Releases shortly!  Ahhhh summer may be half over but there's still plenty of long, lazy summer days left at the lake or beach - cheers!

And the winner is.....

Well I asked and then you all told me your opinions and black/white charts it is!!!  I am just publishing the attached chart called "ON THE ROAD" so here is a picture of the framed design and what the new black/white format looks like.  Fingers crossed you all love it!!!  I will post this weekend who the winner - or perhaps winnerS are from leaving your comments about color vs black/white.  Happy stitching!!!