~Fuzzy Snowmen and Christmas Cookie Embroidery~

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

~Cups of Snowmen~

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