The Dell Fiasco Is Over!

Okay, so I finally received my refund check from #Dell!  Now, I can pay my Best Buy bill and I'm good to go!  Thank goodness!  I will never buy another Dell product again.  But at least they send my refund in a reasonable amount of time.  So that little fiasco is over!

In other news, I took a urine sample to the vet today for Lucy.  Our vet wanted to make sure that there was no infection from the Bladder surgery that Lucy had just before Thanksgiving.  I'm thrilled to say that there are no white blood cells and no red blood cells.  All is good with her!  And now that the sun is out more often, Lucy is more active.  I guess critters don't like so much darkness either.  She did nothing but sleep since her surgery.  Now, she's been laying the garden window and watching the birds on the feeder!

I have a few finishes to share today.  First are my little cat door hangers that I made around Thanksgiving:

I'm still trying to figure out how to feather the edges of the photos in Photoshop.  If anyone can clue me in, I'd appreciate some help!  In my Corel software it was called "a vignette".  I really like that look, especially on my Etsy photos.

I also listed this little Hanging Heart pillow for mom.  She made this from a vintage linen that I found at a flea market earlier this Summer:

I just talked to mom a little while ago and she said she was working on some more Valentines Day things.

Okay, I'm off to make some dinner!

A Few Vintage Hankies

Scott and I went to a little flea market (okay, it was a big flea market) on Sunday.  It felt good to just walk around and look at all the wonderful junk!  Sometimes, I wonder who buys certain things and sometimes I wish I had more money!

I was however honestly happy to find a few $1.00 vintage hankies:

These are pure, concentrated treasure to me!  Most of them still have the little label on them!  I'll be using these in future crazy quilt pieces.  That blue rose is screaming at me so that one will probably get used first!

I finished up a project that I stitched last week:

Yes, a little Cat Door Hanger.  I love this one.  The purple flowers on the top left are tatted flowers that I made with beaded leaves.  In the bottom right, you can see the blackwork fill-in that I'm experimenting with more and more.

Finally for today, my current project is this green purse block:

I'm ready to start adding the glitter (beads and sequins) to this piece!  Again, in the top left, you can see more of my blackwork fill-in.  I think I'll be making some more of those purple tatted flowers!