Trick or Treat Blog Hop🧟 2022

It's that spooky time of the year for Jo @Serendipitous Stitching's annual Trick or Treat Blog Hop!

Start there to see where to begin collecting all the letters from the other blogs to figure out the Halloween phrase for this year.

I finally finished this one from Teresa Kogut, Silhowitches Quaker.

I changed just a few things and added more green to it, although it's a little hard to see from this photo. I also added my initials and date a little differently than normal, can you find them?

Eye bet you're looking for the letter right about now. 

Eye guess it could be here, but keep scrolling!

What's Halloween without a zombie?!

Here's the letter you're looking for. "O" my, after all, eyeballs ARE round!

Drag it on over to DJ @Tickled Pink in Stitches to get your next letter!

A Stitching Retreat Bonus 🥰

Since the Super Bowl stitching retreat was in New Jersey, and since I was driving near Edison, I decided to visit family friends.

Terry and my Dad have been penfriends since they were 15 years old. She lived in NJ and he in the UK.

Here is one of the photos she sent him.

This is when we first moved to the states in 1969, we stayed with them for a week before heading to DC for my Dad to start his job at the World Bank.

Mom, Dad, my older brother, and me (with the handbag!) Terry and her two kiddos, I guess Bob took the photo.

I saw them years ago when the Gmen were toddlers, but not since then. It was so lovely to see them for the afternoon and will definitely visit again when I'm near them for another stitching retreat.

Their sweet girl, Susie.

Their daughter, Laurie, is only a few years older than me and here are some of the times we got together.

On my way home, I was able to meet her for brunch! I think it had been over 36 years since we had seen each other and she hadn't changed at all - still a sweetheart! I look forward to seeing her again, hopefully sooner than the same time next year!

And because I didn't show what I was stitching at the retreat, here it is.

I'd like to think I'll finish it by this Halloween, we'll see!