“Happy Week” from Helga Mandl Designs
Helga Mandl of HMDesigns is a designer I discovered not all that long ago who has some really great designs on a variety of subjects to offer. Every single one brings a smile to my face, and a couple gave me a belly laugh (which we all know is great exercise and feels wonderful, too).
I already know I’m going to have to add her newest design, Welcome to my Kitchen, to my own collection because I’m in love with the frying pan button! Plus, that looks like a male cook, and my husband is always asking me why I don’t do more of the cooking (I don’t recall cooking being anywhere in my wedding vows, and obviously, I’d much rather be stitching than in the kitchen).
With Helga’s designs you choose whether you’d prefer to receive her charts in .pdf format or by mail (as you might expect, the mail option requires a small shipping fee). I usually choose .pdf charts when I can because, besides preferring to spend my $$$ on stash than shipping, quite simply, I like the INSTANT gratification!
I’m a particular fan of Broom Parking:
And from now (actually, it started yesterday; I am running behind) through April 23rd, HMDesigns is offering a special incentive to all customers: 35% off your entire order! Helga calls this “Happy Week,” and the term certainly fits at least here in the US where we procrastinators are all hopefully just finished filing our taxes. What better way to celebrate that and spend a bit of your refund (or spend a bit to console yourself if you had to pay taxes instead 
) by taking advantage of a sale.
Here is Helga’s design called Beehive, which is just perfect for that warmer weather it seems we’re all either waiting for or struggling to hang onto — and I love how she used specialty stitches to create the beehive:
Even though Helga’s designs are available from the UK shop Celtic Rose Needlecraft, I chose to order directly through Helga myself in the past because the cost was slightly better for me as a customer. In fact, wanting her designs was the reason I signed up with Moneybookers, which is similar to PayPal for those who might not be aware of it. I had no problems working with either Helga or Moneybookers and will gladly do both again to take advantage of this sale … and would even without a sale because I like Helga and her designs so much.
So please go visit HMDesigns right away … I’m sure there is something there you would love to stitch!
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August 22nd, 2007 at 11:25 am
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