Wow…has it been a long day!! I’ve been at the first day of my Holiday Gift Show and just wanted to show you the prim holiday dish towels that I made for this show. I had about 25 to 30 towels…so I displayed some from the window display, hung some on the booth wall, and laid others on the table tops and shelves.

They have sold really well. Here is some close-ups of the designs that I put on them.

The show was very slow today and we never really got the big crowd that we usually have on Friday. I hope that Saturday is much better…cuz if not, it is going to be another very long day.  Also not nearly as many crafters/vendors…one room has about half the booth spaces not filled at all. The room we are located in is the fullest, but we still have several empty spaces that did not get filled. This show is held in a very large arena complex and is in its 26th year. Kind of sad to see it this way as it has always been known as the big holiday show that kicks off the Christmas season. Many are wondering if there will be a 27th year.

Well, it’s late here…so I’m off to get some rest. I’ll be back in a few days to let you know how the show turns out. Until then….    prim blessings, Cindy 

Isn’t this the cutest little snowman clothes pin ornie!! I purchased this from a fellow crafter at the show on Saturday. I can’t wait to hang him from a branch on my snowman tree. The show was good, but the crowd was all gone by noon around the time that the Ohio State vs Michigan game started…which made for a very long afternoon. Here’s a few pics from my booth…the set up was about the same as the other Christmas show, but with a lot more fuzzy snowmen in the booth.

The snowmen were a hit again, but I still have some left to take to show this coming weekend. I almost sold out of the Christmas/Winter jewelry that I had and sold all the snowmen pillows but one. I’m also low on dish towels and was busy today embroidery more of them. I’ve been doing some prim Christmas/Winter designs and I love how they are turning out. Hopefully, I’ll have some pictures to share in a few days.

Oh….just look at what was delivered to my house this past week.

I had ordered this little rooster lamp to sit in the corner on the kitchen counter by the old cubby that I picked up from the prim shop by my sister’s house.  Hmmm…might need  penny rug for that rooster to sit on.

The cubby is a mustard color that has been sanded to show the red paint underneath…so the lamp should look really good sitting beside it. I can’t wait to get it in place on the counter and decorated, but it will have to wait until after this weekend when my show season is finally over.

Well, it late here…so I’m off to get some rest as I have another busy day of embroidery tomorrow. Until next time….    prim blessings, Cindy

Sorry that I’ve not been around this week as I been very busy getting things ready for “The Country Christmas Boutique” show that is this Saturday. I feel like I have so much catching up to do and I promise that I will be back to visiting all of you soon. I’ve only managed to get around to a few of your blogs this week and have missed reading what you all have been up to.

Remember on my last post, I mentioned that I had gone to a prim shop that was right around the corner from my sister’s new home…well, here are the goodies that I picked up.

I have wanted an old cubby for my kitchen for a long time and couldn’t find one…so, I was thrilled to find it. Now, I just have to find the time to get set up on the counter and put some prim goodies in it.

I also got this wire star that has rose-hips in it and does it ever smell good. I hung it from the knob of an old chest-of-drawers that is in my dining room. I love this old piece of furniture…my MIL purchased it at an auction and refinished it for me as a gift to go in my youngest DD’s nursery 23 year ago. It is one of my favorite pieces of old furniture that we have in our home. It is a great little piece to have in the dining room…I have it filled with tablecloths, placemats, napkins, and candles.

Well, I had better go as hear these little guys calling me to finish them up. 

I made 18 snowmen this week and all I have left to do is put on their eyes, noses, and  the snowflakes that go on the scarf. (Couldn’t find more rusty stars, so this bunch is getting rusty snowflakes instead.)

Oh, before I go…I have to show you a picture I took of my geranium that is still in bloom on my front porch. I’m so shocked that is still in bloom this late in November. I think that is likes where it is sitting and has been somewhat protected from the frost and cold nights that we have had.

This is what it looked like a week ago and now it has 11 flower blooms on it. I’m going to leave it out there as long as it is still in bloom….curious to see if it will still be in bloom on Thanksgiving.

Take care everyone and I’ll be back to post photos of the Christmas show either on Saturday evening or Sunday. Until then….       prim blessings, Cindy

Welcome to my booth at “A Christmas To Remember”.

Come on in…

…and have a peek at what goodies I had to offer.

The fuzzy snowmen were a hit!! I sold all but one and got an order for one from a follower of my blog that came to the show. (Hi, Cindy…thanks for the order.  It was so good to see you again… and your little fuzzy snowman & I will be seeing you soon.) Since the snowmen were such a hit, I’ve decided to make more for the show this coming Saturday. So if you don’t hear or see much of me this week…you’ll find me under the fuzz that I will be cover in from head to toe!! LOL… 

 Before I go, here  are some more peeks at the goodies in my booth.

Well, I’m heading to my work studio to start making more of the fuzzy snowmen. I hope to post again in a few days…last week, I went to a prim shop with my sister that is right around the corner from her new house and I found some prim items that I will share then. Until next time…..        prim blessings, Cindy

Just a couple of more days to work on goodies before my Christmas show season starts…and then 3 shows for 3 weekends in a row. It will be here and done before long for another year…or just done. More about that at another time.

I sure have been putting in some long hours each day just crafting away. It’s a lot of work getting ready for 3 shows that are back-to-back and I find that the older I get…that I just can’t work as fast as I used to…and I certainly can’t pull those all nighter’s anymore. Well, enough about me getting older (LOL)…let me show you what I’ve been creating.

I’ve spent part of today working on a new project that is part machine embroidery and part painted…and I loved how it turned out. I made six of them, but still have the finishing touches to put on a few.

~Gingerbread & Snowman Shovel~

  The gingerbread is painted and the snowman is machine embroidery. It is hard to see in the photo, but the little hang-tag is of a gingerbread inside a stocking holding two tiny snowmen. These were a lot of fun to make…and I might just have to keep one for myself.

Also finished working on these…

~Word Pillow Tucks~

I put some in a basket that my MIL made for me years ago…so that you could see them displayed. I have these in our guest room…this is the room that Josie sleeps in when she stays over-night with me. She had ask if I could make this space for her all pretty and girly. Well, this is also the room that family from out-of-state stays in when they come to visit, so I’m going with a more country cottage feel in there. It is still a work in progress as some of my DD things are still in there that she left when she moved out. I did find a quilt for the bed and some fabric to make a dust ruffle and curtains. This will be one of my winter projects and I’ll be sure to share some pictures.

I also finished up more of these guys…

~Large Fuzzy Snowmen~

I plan to spend the next couple of days making up some ornaments and some Christmas/Winter pins. They are good sellers for me…as they make great stocking stuffers and are perfect when you just need a small gift. I’ve saved them to the end to work on, because they are quick to make and I can make a bunch of them in a day ot two.

I’m not sure if I will have time to post again before the show on Friday…but I will be back with show photos either Saturday evening or Sunday. Until then…..        prim blessings, Cindy

My how time has gone by quickly…my first Holiday/Christmas show is in 5 days!! I’ve been busy working on getting some sewing items finished up, so that starting tomorrow…I can do some painted pieces. I finished up all my Winter/Christmas pillow tucks and realized that I had packed them all away without showing you any pictures of them. Remember theses  two pictures from a few post back…

Luckily, I had kept one Christmas pillow tuck for myself. I took a picture of it to show you, but I will have more to share after my show this weekend as I always take lots of photos of the items in my booth after in it all set up.

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Also on my last post, I showed you this picture of some fuzzy fabric and ask if anyone had any idea what I making with it.

And I’m thinking that by reading the title to my post…you all now know that it was Snowmen! Fuzzy Snowmen!! And I mean really Fuzzy Snowmen!!! This fabric was a pain to work with…my clothing got covered in fuzz when I cut the snowmen out and it got covered again when I sewed them together. But in the end, it was worth it as they turned out really cute. I made 8 of them…6 really large ones and 2 small ones. These next two pictures are of the small ones…the big ones are waiting for me to put their eyes and noses on. So, I’ll show you the big fuzzy snowmen in my next post in a few days. They all have little black buttons for their eyes, a polymer clay nose, 3 rusty jingle bells down the front of their body, a small rusty star on the body, and a large rusty star on the scarf…with a rusty snowflake hanging down from it.

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I took a break yesterday from all my crafting and went to a Christmas Open House at a prim shop that was in the next town over, which is about 20 to 25 minutes away. My friend and I sure had a fun time…and so did the other 50 to 100 ladies that were in there shopping. (This prim shop is the largest one we have around here and it is located in a large mall.) We stood in the checkout line for 45 minutes!! My friend asked if it was worth standing in that long line. We looked at each other, then laughed and said…Oh, Yea!!…at the same time!

I purchased some ornies for my Christmas trees…

…and a large red tin heart that I hung in my dining room with this big ladle.

We also got a free Gooseberry Patch Holiday cookbook…

Which after looking through it, made me want to make some Christmas cookies. And of course, it is too early to be making any of them just yet…so I did the next best thing and made some embroidered Christmas cookies. Only giving you a peek of the candy cane cookie for now and will share a plate full of these embroidered cookies with you soon.

Well, it is back to crafting in the work studio for me. I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. We are having the nicest temperatures here…65 degrees yesterday and 70 degrees today. Seems strange to be making snowmen when it is so warm outside, but I hear them calling for me to put their eyes and noses on. Until next time…. prim blessings, Cindy

I’m happy to report that my hiding in my work studio has worked…I did not catch the flu and I got a lot of crafting done.  Plus, Mr. D is feeling much better and has gone back to work. You know that when one doesn’t feel well, sometimes a cup of  hot tea can make them feel better. Well…..while in hiding, I made myself a cup or two, three…actually four cups of snowmen!! And I sure felt better when I got them all done. 

Since taking the photos…I added a little hang-tag to each one the says either “Snow Wishes” or “Snow Folk”. I think that they are much cuter than the photos are showing them…and I tried several times to get better pictures, but had no luck. Thinking it is the camera…I have a new camera on my Christmas Wish List. (Hint, Hint Mr. D) 

While in the kitchen trying to get good photos of the snowmen…I realized that I forgot to show you my newest rooster that I got right before we went to Tennessee. I only have a  couple of roosters…a large one on top of the fridge and my weathervane one…but I just had to add this one to the collection…it is a shelf sitter.

Think I will leave you with a peek at my next  project that I’m starting to work on. Any ideas on what you think it might be? Well…you’ll have to check back in a few days to see…cuz I’m only letting you have this peek for now.

Until next time….      prim blessings, Cindy

Just a quick post as it is late here, but I wanted to share some goodies that I finished up yesterday and today. All those embroidery designs and the fabric snowman borders that were on my last post were for these dish towels. I got them all done, priced and packed into the show crates and realized that I had not taken pictures of them…so, I unpacked them, took photos of them, and then repacked them. What can I say…I must of been having a silver moment!!  LOL… (And if you have seen my photo…you know that I have alot of that silver stuff.)

Mr. D is still feeling under the weather with that nasty flu. I’ve been trying to stay busy hidden in my work studio and told Mr. D that he was band from there, so that hopefully the flu wouldn’t find me. So far…So good!! While hiding, I really have been crafting…I made some really cute prim snowman pillows that were from a pattern in an old issue of Create & Decorate magazine from a few years ago.

I’m thinking that one of these pillows might just have to stay in that bowl this coming winter. I made 6 of them…so maybe only 5 will make it to the first show. Well, I’m off to get some rest as I have lots more goodies to work on tomorrow. Until next time….     prim blessings, Cindy

It has been a crazy busy place here at Cynthia lee Designs since we’ve been home from Tennessee. My first Christmas show of the season is in two weeks and I’ve been hard at work making goodies to take to the upcoming shows. I finished up all 10 of the snowman pictures, got them priced and packed into the show crates. I did 5 with the words “Let It Snow” and 5 with the word “Snow”…and each one has lots of little snowflakes on them. Only 9 of them are going to the show though…cuz I’m keeping one for myself.

Thought you might like a peek at what I’ve been working on now…and yes, a peek is all you get until I get them all finished. Any ideas on what you think I embroidered these designs for?

Or what these fabric snowmen designs are for?

Well, I hope to finish all these items up tomorrow and will share what they are in my next post…that is if I don’t come down with the flu. Now is not a good time to get the flu with 3 shows coming up, but Mr. D came home from work not feeling well today and we have a feeling that he has the flu. I feel bad for him as it has been a rough week for him. He is the I.T. administrator for a health department and has been putting in a lot of overtime as they are getting things set up for their H1N1 flu clinic to give out the vaccine shots starting next week. So he has already been tired and going with less sleep (which most likely made it easier for him to catch something) and then to top it all off…his car broke down 2 miles from home yesterday. I had to go get him and we had to have the car towed home. ($60.00 to have it towed…oh, was that painful!! If it could of only gone 2 more miles!!) We are hoping this is something the Mr. D and my dad can fix without having to take the car to a shop to have it fixed. The only problem is that my folks are on vacation until November 12th. He is using my van right now…which is ok, since I’ve been home crafting and sewing in my work studio anyways.  Until next time…..        prim blessings, Cindy

I’m back!! From where you ask? We took off this past Friday morning and headed for the hills of Tennessee to visit with family. Mr. D and I had never been to the Smokey Mountain in the Fall before…we had always gone in the Spring or late Summer right before Fall. I must say that October is the prettiest time to see the mountains…the colors were beautiful. We didn’t get any photos on our way down as it rained all day…rain in Ohio…rain in Kentucky…rain in Tennessee. Nothing like hours and hours of rain!!

Since it was a lousy day for picture taking…I worked on all the little Christmas/Winter pillow tuck and got almost all of them stuffed on the trip down. (Pics of them coming soon.) I also worked on getting the prim snowman faces done for the framed pieces that I’m making to take to my Christmas shows. I’m making 10 of them and each one is a little different. I still need to finish up some the frames. (More pics of them coming soon too.)

We had a wonderful time this weekend. Family came up from Georgia on Saturday and we had a big get together to celebrate some birthdays. Mr. D’s parents, his sister, and BIL also traveled down from Ohio. They stayed with my MIL’s sister and we stayed at Mr. D’s aunt Linda’s home. She is an aunt by marriage but is also one of my closest friends. We stayed up late the first night that we got there sharing embroidery and sewing ideas. She had made some of the prettiest Fall decorations for her home and I forgot to take pictures of them to share with all of you . We so wished that we lived closer together and often think about all the sewing, crafting, and embroidering trouble that we could get in together if all those miles didn’t separate us. Thank goodness for email and phone calls…it makes the distance a little less. 

Look at what she made for me. (Linda, I just love it!!)

As you all know…I love my little Chloe!! Yeap…she went to Tennessee too!!

As you can see from the picture above that the sun was shining on the way home, but this is what it looked like when we first headed out for home at 7am Sunday morning.

Some fog as the sun started to rise. We would drive through fog and then there was sunshine…then more fog, then sunshine. The mountains were staying true to their name…there don’t called them the Smokey Mountains for nothing!! LOL…

It was hard to get a really good picture of the Fall colors with the fog, but the view was really pretty as we were driving through the mountains.

One of my favorite views of the mountains is when you come across Jellico Mountain right at the edge of Tennessee where it meets Kentucky. I was so hoping that the fog might have cleared by the time we got there…No such luck, but I have to tell you that this was an awesome sight to see. (The fog looked like a lake from a distance.)

The fog cleared up as we got farther into Kentucky and it was a very pretty drive home. I took a few pictures in Kentucky of some quilt square designs that were on the sides of some barns and I even saw one on the side of a shop in a little town near Lexington.

I love going to Tennesse…it has always been my favorite place to visit. There is just something about those mountains that have a special place in my heart and I think that they always will. But after being on the road, I’m always ready to see this site…

…telling me that I’m almost home.

Until next time…      prim blessings, Cindy