Tiny Bird Stitching

Hi friends! I have been stitching some precious ornaments for friends. Still cannot show you. I can show you this tiny, little bird I stitched up for Winky. ;)

This is stitched one over one on 32ct lambswool linen with DMC. I mounted it on a tiny Ball jar wooden tag. My first Christmas decorating this year. HA!

I am listening to an audio book while making gifts for friends. It is titled In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer. I found a piece of paper I had saved from years ago, with this book name on it. I had wanted to read this book, and I forgot about it. I am so glad I came across this reminder again. Wow. What an amazing TRUE story.

Amazon.com Review

When World War II began, Irene Gutowna was a 17-year-old Polish nursing student. Six years later, she writes in this inspiring memoir, "I felt a million years old." In the intervening time she was separated from her family, raped by Russian soldiers, and forced to work in a hotel serving German officers. Sickened by the suffering inflicted on the local Jews, Irene began leaving food under the walls of the ghetto. Soon she was scheming to protect the Jewish workers she supervised at the hotel, and then hiding them in the lavish villa where she served as housekeeper to a German major. When he discovered them in the house, Gutowna became his mistress to protect her friends--later escaping him to join the Polish partisans during the Germans' retreat. The author presents her extraordinary heroism as the inevitable result of small steps taken over time, but her readers will not agree as they consume this thrilling adventure story, which also happens to be a drama of moral choice and courage. Although adults will find Irene's tale moving, it is appropriately published as a young adult book. Her experiences while still in her teens remind adolescents everywhere that their actions count, that the power to make a difference is in their hands.

Read it! Or listen to it!

I am hoping to have some stitching pictures to share with you soon. You know how it is this time of year. So secretive for a bit. ;)

Have a wonderful, beautiful week my friends. I have thanked God for YOU!

Stitching and praying,
Vickie