Another Finish to Share Along With Lousy Photos of My Christmas Gift Stash Additions

I can share another pre-Christmas finish with you this morning   : )   This pinkeep is from a Gettysburg Homestead pattern.

In my last post I showed the "stocking gifts" my husband said would not fit in my stocking.  Inside one box were the following additions to my cross stitch stash.  You may be able to actually tell what some of these charts/kits are if you are in any way familiar with them & your eyes are good at deciphering blurry things.  Since sometimes, like in the photo above, my camera will take nice clear photos ... & at other times it takes photos like the barely discernible ones you see below ... I don't know what to think.  It's disappointing to say the least.  

The majority of the charts in the next 2 photos are Prairie Schooler Santas.  That stitching temptress Marly over at Samplers & Santas had been posting some of her PS Santa projects all along but the closer it got to Christmas the more she posted.  Not just a Santa here or there, mind you, but a never-ending array of them filling boxes, mantel tops, garlands, trees, windows, etc.  I was able to keep my distance at first.  After all, Santas do not dominate my Christmas decor.  Marly, however, would not give up.  Like those pesky peckers that she has constantly peck-peck-pecking away at her house, Marly post-post-posted those blasted PS Santas until I couldn't resist them anymore.  Feeling like a cheap tramp I armed myself with my husband's financial backing & rushed off to my favorite stitching supplier's site ... 1-2-3- Stitch ... & ordered every PS Santa chart I could find.  Upon their arrival I just handed him the unopened package & said "since you paid for these you can wrap them up for me for Christmas if you want."    

This shopping tactic began a precedent.  Any cross stitch items that I ordered from Thanksgiving on that he paid for were given to him, packages unopened, to wrap up for Christmas.  He just put all the packages into one big box & I had fun opening each one & discovering what I had ordered ... many of which I had totally fogotten ... lol!  Now comes the hard part ... what to stitch first   : )