Showing posts with label woodland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label woodland. Show all posts

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Cross Stitching

I began cross stitching! I got such a fun, modern book Storyland Cross Stitching

Here's my first project I made! And, Luna trying to sleep on it so I couldn't finish it. Aw, what a cutie and a sweetie!
The finished product! Originally the pattern showed the top triangles, and then they framed the fox in at an angle, so the whole thing was in the shape of a triangle (becaue it's meant to be a triangular pin cushion). I just reversed the order and direction and put a border on the bottom as well. Then through trial and error I made up side borders! A bit of cross stitch and back stitch! For my first project I'm a bit proud!
Then, I began making some fun little things that are shown in the book to be made into buttons. Love the fabric color I chose!
I love all four designs! Not sure what I'll do with them, but I'm making progress and having fun!
Stag, Key, Bird, Crown

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Christmas Update!


Want to see some more Christmas stuff?


My favorite Japanese vintage reindeer - My other vintage reindeer

A great vintage bell with silver leaves, red bauble corsage and the red mercury glass spiky things
Vintage bottle brush wreath

Adorable vintage salt and pepper shakers, yes the bench came with it and they do come off. And, some of my bottle brush trees (notice the red bases)

My winter girls!


Blurry picture. Newest vintage bottle brush tree, and my largest! Also, two new (vintage) tins I acquired this year.

Adorable vintage cracker jack boxes. I got the bottom one last year and the top one this year.

Animal/woodland type setup. Fox from Target, some TY Christmas toys, a moose my brother gave me when I was a kid, a penguin snowglobe on the left from my best friend, and a cross stitch Santa hanging in the middle, my mother made in the 80s.

Re-did some of the stuff. Hello Kitty and beaded bells now on top of a vintage Hudson's Christmas box, from Detroit. Look at how beautiful!

British Jim Shore Santa

Two more Jim Shore Santas. Tea on the right, and an ornament one on the left (also some vintage corsages, mercury glass in a belljar and S&P shaker)


Most of my vintage Japanese Putz houses. I added a few bottle brush trees and a tiny Mr. and Mrs. Clause ice skating!

Vintage feather tree and three vintage star tree toppers, along with a glass one on the red tree


One close up of the tree, as a teaser.

Of course, there's more to come. More shots of the special ornaments on the tree. Set up of certain lights. And my collection of garlands which I started putting up today! three are up, and at least two to go.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Hope if anyone is out there looking at this, they enjoyed it! I'd love to know the kind of decorations everyone else is doing. I have a wide variety of tastes and I like just about everything, which I'm sure you can tell!