Christmas Past

here are a few more Christmas stockings…I used this as a Christmas card one year!  Between my family and my sister's and my two brother’s there are 10 other stockings hanging out !! opps…maybe 12 counting my own mom and dad’s……

Getting ready for Christmas

I have made custom novelty Christmas stockings for my family for the last thirty-eight years. My sister, mom, aunt and I owned a needlepoint shop in Spring Lake NJ  for a couple of years ..... I learned a lot , painted and designed a lot and wish now I still had the shop ! Oh well, now I just design, paint and stitch when a special person comes into our family. When my daughter married her love he waited patiently for his ... Here it is ..... You can see what his interests and accomplishments are!!!!! The backing is a bright orange camp and it is lined in a plaid homespun .... I'll take better pix later. The next picture is the painted canvas for my new six month old granddaughter!!!!!! Have to get great Aunt Chris to stitch with me she's in charge of all the figures.... I do the back ground,embellishments  and blocking and sewing it all into a stocking...... Got some great small wale corduroy in white and hot pink chevron !!! Check back in two months to see the finished project!!!

Old Pattern Tissue

Use old sewing pattern tissue for packing ... Plus it's fun looking back at old things you had sewn years ago!

Scrapppppy Halloween Quilt

Which comes first ... The chicken or the egg..... So I had all my Halloween stash out and made some bowls and a quilt for my grandie ... Lime green pumpkin is Jean Wells technique and fee motion quilting on pumpkin uses glow in the dark thread! BOO!

Halloween spoookieeeeee stuff

I make coiled rope bowls(see way down several posts) and my daughter wanted one for her K classroom so I dug out all my scraps and made one for the classroom and one for my granddaughter's babysitter ........ Now all we need are the treats.....

Seasons Grater!!!

Here are the Fall graters!!

Spring is Starting to Sprung

.....well lots of sun and temps starting to climb a tad higher....time to dust off some fun stuff and  make the house springy looking...new baby arriving in late April so better get things ready......so i have this old grater and at Christmas time I had evergreen pieces stuck in  it with some red ribbon tied around the grater. Now I seem to have this great seasonal thingy I can change out depending on what the season is....I'm so smart...tee hee....my late husband was a doc and he used to say if you hear hoof beats think horses...he was very smart!!!!

Here is the Christmas effect!!!! Plus I am into old license plates and cutting them up and making messages from them....the grater is fun but don't cut yourself!!!!! and I use the velcro command strips to attach it to the wall....

for my brothers beach house

my bro's 60th!!!!

my kiddos

this was daughter's save the date!!!! had a lot of fun collecting THESE!!!!!

my bro-in-law's 70th!!! he took it to fishing club meeting and made a hit!!!!!