Good Morning Stitchers!!!
I know that it has been months since I posted.  But, I am back, now!  I am doing well.  I have been doing other things....1 of them being.....a brand new adoption!!!  I did it!!!!   I couldn't help it, she needs me.....She is a tiny thing like Babee-Girl, the Chi.  Her mouth needs help...frankly it looks like-to me, that she has been kicked in the mouth...and she has a swelling on her side.  She can definitely eat, thank God.  Soft food*  She is a shiny black with just a touch* of brown on her eyebrows and legs.
I have a miniature Dachshund on board and her name is *Bella*, which she answers to!  Wow, now I see just how much *July*, the Chi-weenie, has grown!!  She went around with her nose in the air for awhile, but didn't hurt Bella any, even when feedings came.  July is B-I-G now!!  LOL!  I think somehow, she knows that Bella has been hurt.  She has warmed up to her now.  But....no denying, July is QUEEN dog!!
Babee-girl is rocking now.  She is so loving and so smart!!  All 3 1/2 pounds of her!  Bella fits right between the sizes.  This little bit of a girl takes no words from July.  If she wants it, she takes it!!
I am so glad that I took Bella.  She is a good dog.  I think that she is about 7 or 8 years old. She and Babee-girl sleep with me while July sleeps with Joe.
So far, this year we are starting to have a winter!!  I am soooooooooooo glad!!!  We had such a super one last year!  Hopefully, Christmas will be just right, again, this year!  
My health has been just fine in the past months.  He took me off 2 pills!  Cool, huh???  I do have a new *ouch*...My finger next to my pinky locks up when I bend it to make a fist.  That smarts!!!
I don't know that it is but I intend to dig him-the doc-on my next visit!  It seems like it is *out of joint* and a good tug would put it back in place...
Joe found yesterday that he needs cataract surgery.  I am glad that it can be fixed!  Otherwise, fit as a fiddle!
I am still playing the games!!  There is no getting away from that....LOL!!!  I got the 2 new Pokemon games-Pokemon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire.  I have started Ruby and put the other one up for Christmas along with other *treats*.  Thank goodness I don't need the grumpy finger to play!!!
I haven't been doing any cross stitching or designing, until this week.  I really just couldn't get in to the groove of designing or stitching since mom passed.
I think that is fixing to change!!
So......what do you think????

Pattern Name:    Mean so much
Designed By:    Tonia Pappan
Company:    OakHaven Designs
Copyright:    1999-2014
Fabric:    Aida 14, Black
    70w X 60h Stitches
Size(s):    14 Count,   5w X 4-1/4h in
    28 Count,   2-1/2w X 2-1/8h in
    32 Count,   2-1/8w X 1-7/8h in
    36 Count,   1-7/8w X 1-5/8h in
Floss Used for Full Stitches:
    Symbol    Strands    Type    Number    Color
    7    2    DMC    300    Mahogany-VY DK
    1    2    DMC    301    Mahogany-MD
    9    2    DMC    304    Christmas Red-MD
    4    2    DMC    310    Black
    C    2    DMC    321    Christmas Red
    V    2    DMC    400    Mahogany-DK
    X    2    DMC    498    Christmas Red-DK
    H    2    DMC    666    Christmas Red-BRT
    #    2    DMC    676    Old Gold-LT
    L    2    DMC    677    Old Gold-VY LT
    P    2    DMC    680    Old Gold-DK
    N    2    DMC    729    Old Gold-MD
    E    2    DMC    815    Garnet-MD
    G    2    DMC    816    Garnet
    K    2    DMC    986    Forest Green-VY DK
    J    2    DMC    987    Forest Green-DK
    F    2    DMC    988    Forest Green-MD
    T    2    DMC    3829    Old Gold-VY DK
Floss Used for Back Stitches:
    Symbol    Strands    Type    Number    Color
        1    DMC    310    Black
Notes: Please send your friends & family to secure a copy for their own!!

Good Afternoon Stitchers!!!
Well.....the cold events are taking place in Georgia this year.  We haven't had a wicked winter like this ..ever!
The US tempts have plummeted all over except,California, which has been in a severe drought, even the mountains are naked!
What is weird about it is this......3 days maybe 4 cold.....then up it scoots to 70 for 2 or 3 days!!!  Then a new freeze comes and that is the cycle this year!  Azaleas, in some parts, BLOOM....then POW 25 degrees....
I am sure dreading summer this year.....LOL!!!
Cat, even with that double winter coat, says.....NO!
I understand that England has had some weird weather, too!  Until this year, we have never heard of a polar vortex! 
I have really enjoyed playing my video games.  I am about 1/2 way played "Bravely Default" on my Nintendo 3DS XL.  http://www.pinterest.com/toniastitches/the-legend-of-zelda-a-link-between-worlds/
I play a game then I post about it.  I have really enjoyed the last 3 I have played.  I am thinking about getting a new one-Kirby Triple Deluxe-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZfhOl5dAu4
In the meantime, I have a new design for you!!!  I do hope that you like it and will stitch it!!

Pattern Name:    A bit of Ireland
Designed By:    Tonia Pappan
Company:    OakHaven Designs
Copyright:    1999-2014
Fabric:    Aida 14, Blue
    57w X 62h Stitches
Size(s):    14 Count,   4w X 4-3/8h in
    28 Count,   2w X 2-1/8h in
    32 Count,   1-3/4w X 1-7/8h in
    36 Count,   1-1/2w X 1-5/8h in
Floss Used for Full Stitches:
    Symbol    Strands    Type    Number    Color
    G    2    DMC    163    Celadon Green-MD
    D    2    DMC    310    Black
    N    2    DMC    353    Peach
    V    2    DMC    433    Brown-MD
    T    2    DMC    712    Cream
    O    2    DMC    798    Delft Blue-DK
    X    2    DMC    815    Garnet-MD
    c    2    DMC    816    Garnet
    1    2    DMC    947    Burnt Orange
    K    2    DMC    986    Forest Green-VY DK
    7    2    DMC    3815    Celadon Green-DK
    F    2    DMC    3816    Celadon Green-MD
    3    2    DMC    3817    Celadon Green-LT
    P    2    DMC    3820    Straw-DK
    J    2    DMC    3852    Straw-VY DK
    L    2    DMC    B5200    Snow White
Happy Stitching!
Stay Safe!!
Tonia

It be raining ice pellets in Brunswick, Ga!!!

Hi there all!

I am so beside myself as it is doing something that hasn't been done since 1989, when we got 6 inches of snow*,  where I live!!  After a slow rain all night, the temp is dropping instead of rising this morning.
Hooray, we are really having a winter this year.  We are having snappy cold days one after the other, although it is the pits that it warms right back up to 70 and then another boom comes!!  LOL
Since we stopped having winters, 14 years ago and I went wheelchair bound,  I gave all my pants to my nieces up north.  I have 3 pair of thin pants......The rest are shorts.....har!! har!!
I can't go outside anyway....
I wonder......we are having a winter* since late October,  are we heading back to normal weather for us...finally??!
I do detest heat for 9 months out of the year...3 months mild(60's, 70"s).
Now, California is going through drought like we did for 8 years around here.
Jacksonville, Fl has been slammed with rain the past year.  We didn't get anywhere near that amount.  But..it was rain!

So, all you snow birds be careful with the wicked winter that yall are having this year....
Until next time...
Happy Stitchings!
Tonia

I'm bacccccccck......(January 25th)

Good Afternoon Stitchers!!!!
I know...I know....I have been very naughty...The time really got away from me. I was, also, making a decision.
Mom's passing was a slow down for me, too.  I really came to grips about what is important in my life.  I knew
this one since I lost my best friend years ago...ALWAYS tell those and show them how much you love them...
you may not get to tomorrow.
I was bouncing back and forth (like Tigger ) could I fully retire?  Did I really want to?  I, still, dream up patterns
so I guess that part of me want be silenced.  LOL!  I want to stitch more,  I am heavy into my game playings,  I
dabble in crocheting, I want to start painting cross stitch fabrics,  I got a whole bunch of paint colors, I cut back
on  going to the country to my friend-Dot's place to Sundays-for girl day.  It's just Dot, Kathy, & me-all the guys
stay away!!  I lost 2 of my old birds* this summer, 1 that laid eggs...
My doggies are all fine!!  Babee Girl has really come out of her shell!!  She will spin and spin around when she
wants your snack!!  July has grown into the "chosen Doberman on duty".  You'd swear that she'd take your arm
or leg off.....big joke.......you touch her, she melts into oblivion..so much for bad a** Doberman!
My Friends...........HEAR YE......HEAR YE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Georgia is having her first winter in over 10 years or more!!!!!  I am LOVING it!!!!  It is so freaky seeing that we
are colder than California!! My kitty Echo is feeling it, too.  He know longer wants to go out!!!!!!  I have no
winter clothes anymore, I have 3 pair of pants.  I usually wear shorts year round!  We are getting rain, not too much where I live, but every drop we need.  California is feeling what we felt for 6 years.  Jacksonville, Fl has gotten so
much rain this & last year...we are only an hour and a half north!!
Joe and I have been blessed with no major illness. 
I did close my Group* January.  I hated what yahoo did anyway.  Since the strokes I don't do major changes at all.
We had a good Thanksgiving spending it with Dot and her bunch and Kathy and Tim.
Joe and I have a peaceful, cold Christmas.  Loved it.
Santa Joe got me a new Nintendo 3DS XL.  The blue one with a gorgeous Pokemon Buck on it.  It sold out
quickly.  The other was a red hawk and it sold out.  They are limited editions.  Pokemon is a DS game.  The new ds game units are in 3D & NO glasses needed!  Stunning!
The 3DS games I have are:
Pokemon X, Pokemon Y, Luigi's Mansion-Dark Moon, Rabbids Travel in Time, The Legend of Zelda-A link between worlds, Etrian Odyssey Untold-The Millennium Girl, & Fire Emblem-Awakening.
The DS XL games:
Pokemon Black, Pokemon White,  Shin Megami Tensei:Strange Journey.  You can play any ds game on the 3d unit.  Just slide the 2d button on.  I want to get Bravely Default* when it comes out on the 7th of Feb.  The New Kirby Triple Deluxe looks good, too.  They haven't a date on that one.
I got a bunch of movies, too.  So.....nice and peaceful....
Here is a Valentine treat for you!!!
Enjoy!!!!!!

Pattern Name:    Magic is
Designed By:    Tonia Pappan
Company:    OakHaven Designs
Copyright:    1999-2014
Fabric:    Aida 14, Cream
    60w X 53h Stitches
Size(s):    14 Count,   4-1/4w X 3-3/4h in
    28 Count,   2-1/8w X 1-7/8h in
    32 Count,   1-7/8w X 1-5/8h in
    36 Count,   1-5/8w X 1-3/8h in
Floss Used for Full Stitches:
    Symbol    Strands    Type    Number    Color
    J    2    DMC    304    Christmas Red-MD
    X   2    DMC    310    Black
    E   2    DMC    321    Christmas Red
    c    2    DMC    498    Christmas Red-DK
    P   2    DMC    816    Garnet
    7   2    DMC    971    Pumpkin
    L   2    DMC    B5200    Snow White
Floss Used for Back Stitches:
    Symbol    Strands    Type    Number    Color
        1    DMC    310    Black
        1    DMC    816    Garnet
Notes: Please do not make copies* of this design and pass*
to friends, kit up or sell* in any fashion.

Stay Safe!
Tonia

Hi there Stitchers!
I now that I have been away for sometime.  I have just been getting some things done around here.  Plus, I am fixing to start something NEW for me..............................
Crocheting!  I am loving the little Amigurumi.   I got the Pinterest, too!!!!!  See?!?!?
http://pinterest.com/toniastitches/ 
I bought lots of crochet needles and yarns and threads in assorted sizes and colors.  Got to start with easy before I move up to the teeny tiny Amigurumi!!!!
The Pinterest can spend some time ,too!!!!
Wish me luck and the power to stay with crocheting!!!!

And now,  something new for you to sink your stitching fingers into.....
The is the largest piece that I have offered here!!
I think I got it down to small charts with big symbols!! 
I hope that you like this!

I will be back to post new charts & key!!!

Hi Everybody!
I do hope that yall are all safe, healthy, and feeling just plain good.
We have had kind of a winter to make it here in Georgia.  I am loving it!!!!  Easter comes very soon and it will be next fall-winter before I am graced with these cool days.  I don't have much planned for Easter.  Stay close to the house and cook for Joe and me.  I am thinking a homemade peach cobbler* for desert whatever the main meal is.  I am craving peaches.  Though fresh peaches aren't ready this time of year.  But, I could find some California ones at the grocery store...
Our little city has been in the news.....is so very tragic.  Mom is walking and pushing a stroller, with her son in it.
Low and behold 2 hoodlums stop her and want her money.  She doesn't have any.  They threaten to shoot her baby and as she pleaded for her baby's life....he shot the baby boy in the face....What made matters so very much worse is that the hoodlum's aunt and mother lied to the police, saying their boy was with them.  They all have been arrested now.  I hope they stay in jail.  I hope that both teens* live the remainder of their lives in prison-no parole ever.  The horror that the parents endured.  The mom* is getting ready to move back to her parents-out of state.  
So many teens these days are without guilt, religion, manners, lies (look to the parents-adults for that fault), remorse, laziness, they steal, fight, and more.  I know that not all teens are like this....but, there are many many that lead these lives.  Too many, much, more than the good kids.
Pray for these affected by this horror.  They deserve your prayers so much.  The little ones of today are filled with so much violence in their lives...
I am, still, thinking about those who lost at with the Sandy Hill Murders!!   Then, the poor little Amish children... and so many more.

Now....moving on......

I have a gift* for you stitchers.  There will be more in this subject line!!!

Pattern Name:    I know
Designed By:    Tonia Pappan
Company:    OakHaven Designs
Copyright:    1999-2013
Fabric:    Aida 14, Dirty
    68w X 69h Stitches
Size(s):    14 Count,   4-3/4w X 4-7/8h in
    28 Count,   2-3/8w X 2-3/8h in
    32 Count,   2-1/8w X 2-1/8h in
    36 Count,   1-7/8w X 1-7/8h in
Floss Used for Full Stitches:
    Symbol    Strands    Type    Number    Color
    J    2    DMC    208    Lavender-VY DK
    3    2    DMC    209    Lavender-DK
    G    2    DMC    210    Lavender-MD
    F    2    DMC    211    Lavender-LT
    O    2    DMC    310    Black
    P    2    DMC    433    Brown-MD
    B    2    DMC    754    Peach-LT
    E    2    DMC    815    Garnet-MD
    7    2    DMC    826    Blue-MD
    X    2    DMC    904    Parrot Green-VY DK
    c    2    DMC    905    Parrot Green-DK
    S    2    DMC    906    Parrot Green-MD
    K    2    DMC    907    Parrot Green-LT
    N    2    DMC    3820    Straw-DK
    D    2    DMC    3837    Lavender-UL DK
    R    2    DMC    3852    Straw-VY DK
    V    2    DMC    B5200    Snow White
Floss Used for Back Stitches:
    Symbol    Strands    Type    Number    Color
        1    DMC    310    Black
        1    DMC    3852    Straw-VY DK
Notes:  Thank you for supporting designers by not making
copies of this design and passing to friends,kit up, or sell* in any manner.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OakHavenDesigns/
Happy Stitchings!

Hugs those important in your lives, often, as you don't know that it could be your last hug...
Tonia--See my Pinterest http://pinterest.com/toniastitches/ pages for more goodies!!

Hi everybody!!
I do hope that you all are safe and healthy!  I have been doing things around the house.  It looks like we are not going to have a winter this year, either.....Drats...that means bugs galore!!!  Yuk!!
We could do more with buckets of rain, too!  We are so dry in these parts.
Our weather has been super weird for 6 years now....I suppose that means that the climate has changed in these parts.  Depressing....
Anyway, now for some happy news.....I have charted a design for you!  I hope that you will stitch it!!

Pattern Name:    My heart's desire
Designed By:    Tonia Pappan
Company:    OakHaven Designs
Copyright:    1999-2013
Fabric:    Aida 14, New Blue
    67w X 66h Stitches
Size(s):    14 Count,   4-3/4w X 4-5/8h in
    28 Count,   2-3/8w X 2-1/4h in
    32 Count,   2w X 2h in
    36 Count,   1-3/4w X 1-3/4h in
Floss Used for Full Stitches:
    Symbol    Strands    Type    Number    Color
    P    2    DMC    310    Black
    J    2    DMC    415    Pearl Gray
    7    2    DMC    718    Plum
    c    2    DMC    915    Plum-DK
    3    2    DMC    917    Plum-MD
    F    2    DMC    3607    Plum-LT
    L    2    DMC    3853    Autumn Gold-DK
    X    2    DMC    B5200    Snow White
Floss Used for French Knots:
    Symbol    Strands    Type    Number    Color
        1    DMC    310    Black
Floss Used for Back Stitches:
    Symbol    Strands    Type    Number    Color
        1    DMC    310    Black
        1    DMC    915    Plum-DK
Notes:  Please do not make copies* of this design and pass*
to friends, kit up or sell* in any fashion.
Tonia Pappan-Toniaw475@hotmail.com OakHaven Designs:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OakHavenDesigns/
http://oakhavendesigns.blogspot.com/

Happy Stitching!!!

Tonia