Snow!

It snowed early this morning and then turned into sleet and then freezing rain.  So the pretty snow turned into yucky ice by the end of the day.  So today was a productive day of stitching.  Will post pictures of progress on Wednesday!  But here is a picture I managed to get before the ice came.

I am alternating between my cross stitch project and my knitting project and I took some shots of the blanket in progress.

Hope to get more done in the morning, while waiting for the ice to melt.

Totally Useless Stitch A Long

I joined the TUSAL hosted by Its Daffycat, click here for info.  I have always heard that keeping the snippets is good luck for stitchers.  The snippets from my first project at as a teenager are saved in a jelly jar covered with a tiny lace circle.  Since then I have kept all of my snippets in…….

…..yep a plastic bag.  The picture does not do justice to the amount of ORTs that are there because this little sandwich bag is packed with thread.  So for the purposes of TUSAL I am recycling a triangular candle jar.  Candle jars are easy to repurpose, just put them in the freezer for about two hours and the wax comes out fairly easily, and then just wash the jar.  I plan on keeping this snippet jar for decoration, and I might divide up this bag and make some neat little ornaments like Charlene at Needle in Hand.
My Wordless Wednesday posts will be updates on a secret WIP for a friend.  It is also my project for the TUSAL. 
Happy Stitching!

Wordless Wednesday

Goodbye 2010

So 2010 is almost over, I can hardly believe it.  I got one BIG project finished, and won a blue ribbon for it at the fair, and managed to finish some smaller projects.  I am looking forward to 2011 and have started my big project for the year.  I will post pictures when I am able.  Santa must have read my blog post about Tinkerbell because look what I got for Christmas.........

Not sure when I will get to start on it, but it is in my stash!  I also took advantage of the After Christmas Sale at Down Sunshine Lane and picked up some Lizzie*Kate Christmas projects.  I got the Merry Christmas double flips and the Christmas Rules double flips.  Not sure when I will get to work on them, but they are in my stash!

Well my Tigers, the Clemson Tigers are playing so I am going to cheer them on! 

GO TIGERS!



Merry Christmas

I hope that everyone has a wonderful Christmas!  Wanted to share a few of the ornaments on my tree.  Hallmark ornaments are a tradition in my family, and my sister and I both can decorate our own trees with just our Hallmark ornaments.  So the tree looks different from year to year to except for the family favorites.  Some of the new ones for this year

I loved this toy when I was a child and now I love the ornament!

Love her expression, can you tell I like Tink?

The 2009 Flower Fairy, a marigold, isn't it darling?

 I made a few handmade gifts this year, but can't show the pictures until after Christmas, I can give a sneak peek, tho!

Felt poinsettia ornament

 And last but not least before Santa comes to town, is a updated picture of the Tinkerbell sketch.  I have a few more detail lines to add and then her wings, and she is finished.  Trying to include in the 2010 finishes!

Merry Christmas!

Another Tinkerbell

So Tinkerbell is one of my favorite Disney characters.  I have had both of these patterns for a long time, and since I was between BIG projects I figured I would finally complete them.  So here is the progress on the second Tinkerbell. 

The fabric and thread are really light so this is what it should look like when finished.

It is much bigger than I thought when I purchased it.  If you look close enough I have almost completed one wing, and her dress.  The stitches are all half and back stitch, which gives it that sketchy look.  It is from Janlynn.  Will keep you updated.  So on my wish list is the Peter Pan Thomas Kinkade cross stitch pattern.

I have a BIG project in the works.  But it is a gift so trying to decide if I should post pictures

Happy Stitching!

Ornaments Galore

Things have been very busy for me lately!  But I have made time to create a few things.  The Junior Ambassadors of Clarendon County sponsored the First Annual Holly-Daze Market, which brought businesses of all kinds together in one place to jump start your holiday shopping.  We had gift shops, crafters, clothing stores, artists and a lot of other vendors as well.  My parents had a booth selling their wood crafts and Pampered Chef, and since I got them involved in this event I decided to make something for them to sell as well.  I decided to make ornaments as my contribution to the Kountry Kreations table.  My sister discovered a neat idea a few years ago for decorating glass ornaments.  Simply put you pour arylic paint into a clear glass ornament swirl it around and drain.  You have a uniquely painted ornament!  Click

here for step by step instructions.  So I thought why not etch something on the outside of the ornament after the inside is painted.  So I painted six different ornaments, three different color combos: Clemson, USC and South Carolina.  Then I attempted to etch a matching logo to the outside.  Those didn't go so well.  See below

So next thought was to decorate plain colored ornaments.  I spent hours searching for ideas all over the web some were cuter than others, one that caught my eye was pastel flowers on a coordinating ornament.  So I took it a step further and wanted to make my own flowers to go on the ornament.  So another search later, I found several tutorials on making ribbon flowers.  I picked out a variety of ornaments as well as a variety of ribbons, and started making flowers.  Below are some of the results

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  Soon I will be posting my Christmas decorations, I love decorating for Christmas!