I cheated, but just a little

I worked on the Vervaco mini secret SAL this past weekend and almost finished the vase on the top shelf. It only needed a couple more hours of work to complete the greenery, so I cheated a bit and finished it this morning:

Those pink flowers were charted to be the same as the other batch of yellow ones, but I had some nice pinks in my floss box for another design so I decided to add a bit more color to this piece and I'm really happy with the result.

I actually would have finished this last night except that I spent a couple of hours on Saturday driving up to my LNS for a Nashville Market show. There were quite a few designs that caught my eye this time; I had already placed an order for several items, and then picked up just a few more at the shop. I love the Meow and Woof blocks by Hands on Design, so I pre-ordered those, and I like the Scary Apothecary series but I was really trying to resist them--until I got to the shop and saw them in person and just had to have them!

As I love Halloween stitching I also picked up new ones from Praiseworthy Stitches and Glendon Place; GP's Phantom Plantation is now my favorite of Cheryl's haunted houses so far:

Those cute little buttons are from Puntini Puntini; not sure what I'll use them for yet, but I know I'll find the perfect project at some point.

Also got a couple of Ink Circle charts that looked like they would be fun to play around with using various color combos, and a sweet little design by Blackberry Lane Designs:

Finally, I had pre-ordered a couple of the new PTP fabrics and they actually showed up that day, which was lucky. These are Demoiselle and Memory on Belfast and opal Belfast:

I can see Demoiselle becoming one of my new PTP favorites, as it would look good with a lot of Mirabilia designs, especially the fairies--I might have to dig Adia out one of these days...

As for my Enchanted Alphabet, I went with option #3. I almost chose the first one, with the deep purple mat, and even wrote the email with that choice, but the more I looked at it the more I thought it would draw too much attention towards the little girl and away from the letters. I think the third option will bring forth the letters a bit more, as it pulls the colors from them really nicely. Honestly, with Jill and Amber working on this I don't think there is any such thing as a bad choice.

Hope everyone has a great stitchy week!