Heart Stitches

 Once again I find myself inspired by Pam Garrison and Charlotte Lyons.

The above are still works in progress.... but I needed to update my blog, so you get a sneak peek!

The photo above was taken with Instagram... thus the "different feel" to it....

And....then I got all caught up in making some other things... you know how one heart leads to another...

I started making hearts that I learned in a class led by Alisa Burke... (Christy Tomlinson's Twelve Artsy Ornaments of Christmas).... the flowers watercolored on text paper and cut into hearts and stitched up....

 Then I made the brown bag ones!!!!

(I can't find a picture of those little bags we all (?) made.... but I know I did.... anyway.... stitching the lace and text on brown lunch sacks...you remember?)

Anyway...the paper hearts are lightly stuffed with fiberfill and stitched up, too!

Warning........... start at your own risk.

Highly addictive!

One more ornament....

I put some of my mother's old buttons and things

inside an empty glass ornament

and

then glued a crocheted snowflake on top...

which is one of many my mother crocheted when she was living.

I gave it to my sister on Christmas Day!

I saw them HERE!

And I'm sure Patty led me there!

Thank you girls!

String and beads...

So Saturday, when I should have been working on some stitchery,

I did this instead.

It's been "weighing on me" as BFF Virginia would say!

I have lots of ideas of what I want to do with this idea...

but I must wait!

But thought I'd show it to you anyway....

It's, of course, from Rebecca Sower!

She showed us how here and now that I go back and look at that...

I have some practicing to do!

Have you made these yet?

Crocheted Dress

I have had this little doll dress as long as I can remember.

My mother made it.... I dressed dolls up in it.... I'm guessing the 60's but could've been in the 50's now that I'm writing this.

My sister claimed it after me.... but I retrieved it from a box at her house last year.

Michael's has frames and shadowboxes on sale right now....

so today I placed this little jewel in one!

Well, for now I'll stick with the 60's.... makes me feel younger that way! I stitched one of my mother's crochet needles in there, too!