We’re back from CATS and did a good job of filling up the trunk of Kat’s car! Jenni picked up the least of us all, but she did find a few things and did lots of catching up with friends on The Wagon. I met lots of new people *waves* and promised to post (which I already did!) and not be a stranger.

So, what did I buy, you ask? Well, Jenni and Kat and I did a good job of making sure we all bought stuff even though the number of vendors was small. So here’s my list:

“Bead Embroidery: The Complete Guide” by Jane Davis – What an awesome book this is! Although I can tell you now that you will never see me adding beads to picots!

A new chart from Enchanting Lair called “Dragonsheart” – it’s not on their site yet and we left our digital camera in PA (we hope) so I can’t post a picture. *sigh*

All three of Stacey Tippin’s cute kitties, “Tis the Season,” “Harvest Time” and “Kitty Love”

The Cat’s Whisker’s “Cherry Blossom Spring”

Some skeins of Jo’s lovely silks for Long Dog’s Rosemarkie (you’ll just have to wait until I start this to see the colors! Nyah nyah!) Oh, and an Oops Pack of silks… I finally broke down and bought one after three years of skipping it. *grins* (As an aside, I saw some pretty new things on the Long Dog Samplers page I’d not seen before… however, no more new purchases for me!)

From Brittercup Designs, “Harvest Hunt,” “Britty Kitties II” and “Britty Kitties III”

Picture this Plus is selling charts now. Have you seen the !? Who Knew ?! silhouette series? I picked up “Wild Fairy Light” and some 40 count Fresco linen to stitch her on. 28 Fresco is called for, but the 40 count piece was much cooler looking. I can already hear some cooing over the coolness of some of these charts! Ship ‘em to me and I’ll send them to you so you don’t have to deal with the hassle of postage! It’s been a while since some of you have done some US stashing! *looks innocent*

Liz Turner Diehl was having a show special of buy-two-non-2007 charts and get the third one free. So Kat and I banded together (since she didn’t have either of the kits we wanted) and got three charts. The chart I picked was Pollyanna’s Summertime Lamplighter Knot Garden. The picture does not do it justice. It’s very pretty!

The next thing is from Rouge du Rhin. I can’t post a link directly to the picture of the chart I bought, but if you click here and scroll down to the bottom of the page, you’ll see “Monogramme Pour Manon.” That’s it. It was pricey at $20 for that chart and the whole alphabet with it, but I really liked it and I can never have too many pretty alphabets, right? RIGHT?

We had an interesting experience in the Silver Needle booth. It was packed. It always is. This year, I wanted to hunt down the chart for Just Nan’s Crystal Roses. Kat and I were oozing our way between the crowd into the Just Nan corner of the massive booth and found the bin with the charts in it. There was a woman standing there with a clipboard and those glasses that librarians tend to wear with a really fancy string of beads to make sure she didn’t lose them. She was surrounded by other women who were asking her the usual questions about charts and floss and beads and fabric and she was answering. Kat reached over to unobtrusively grab a Crystal Roses chart for me just as this woman set her clipboard down and they collided a bit and she (Kat) jostled the woman’s clipboard which resulted in Kat receiving quite a scowl. Kat apologized, found out that the chart she wanted was sold out (the story of Kat’s day at the show, I’m afraid. ) and off we went. Later in the show, we found out that the scowling woman was Nan herself. Gee, scowled at by Nan… if I had known that I may just have put that Crystal Roses chart back.

My final items are the 2007 JCS Ornament Issue (there is this awesome blackwork kitty in there!), a really cool bag with cats on it, a Stoney Creek book with ballerina fairy on it and a funky tape measure.

Oh, and something for my Halloween Exchangee. *grins*

WHEW!