Waiting for Ruby

I am glad I didn't strike out...

   

Yay! The lovely Nathalie from Innamorata left a comment on my post about French blogs, and I was able to contact her through her blog and order some of that wondrous fabric! She replied to my e-mails but for some reason(they didn't go to my spam folder) I didn't receive them. I have had this pillow design in my head for oh so long, ever since I saw the fabric on French blogs,and I have been working little by little for days, anxious to complete them!

   

I hand-stitched felt onto the corners of circles of fabric ,mimicking the design on the fabric.For the purple center circles,I embroidered a rustic flower design onto deep eggplant-colored felt.

My husband didn't even groan when I told him about the pillows because he knew how much I wanted to make them(although that doesn't mean he won't throw them onto the chair with the others when a game is on and he wants to lay on the couch!). When they were finished he said the hand-stitched circles reminded him of baseballs. I guess in that case these are pillows we both can enjoy!

Birds of a Feather Stitched Together

Another "bird themed" patchwork project! This time a pillow to coordinate with my patchwork ottoman cover. I embroidered feathers in one corner,and a simple bird on the center patch. Bubba Chic made a patchwork pillow with embroidered birds,and I was inspired to make one for myself!

Spring Ahead

I feel so Springy but yet not,springy. I have been under the weather, but thinking of Spring weather.

My butterfly paintings,inspired by paintings that I saw that cost $600 each,prove that you can make something beautiful for next to nothing. I used scrap plywood,moulding,and paint and ended up with these.

I have been thinking about making paper flowers for so long,so when I saw Martha Stewart's paper flower kits at Michaels I had to get one. They are all so pretty,but I chose the dogwood blooms. They were so much fun to make!

Sorry about the blurry picture,for some reason every picture I took came out this way....

Deck the Halls Forget the Malls

I am so excited about our new wool bedding! We're supposed to put the sheet on top of the wool,and we will,but for now it feels so good to run our fingers through! Besides,I love how it looks uncovered! I need practice with photography,that's for sure. Our pillowcases are red gingham,not pink! The walls aren't pale blue,but robin's egg. I painted the swan painting hanging above our bed. In the movie "You've Got Mail" she has this painting above her bed, I put the movie on pause and tried to copy it! I love her apartment in that movie,and her little shop. But of course,the fact that it stresses buying from small shops,is the best part. Speaking of that,I won't step foot into a mall this year. Walking around looking in little shops is so much better.

Yesterday, while searching through baskets at a second-hand store I found these adorable ornies(2 look as though they were once part of a crib mobile) and hankies. I am actually using hankies right now,so it was great to find some under $2! I even found one to start Ruby's collection.I love the picture of the ornaments on the wool because it looks like they are in deep snow!

The butterfly shadow boxes were copied from one I bought from Anthropologie,but go figure,the butterfly fell from it's spot from the purchased one-and the ones I made are fine!

Our tree doesn't look perfectly decorated like the ones I see on other blogs,our ornaments are like "The Best Loved Doll" (one of my favorite books as a child) worn and loved.