Get A Cup Of Tea......

because I have alot to share with you today! Oh, and not only was there frost on the pumpkins this morning, here in northern Illinois but now there's snow on the pumpkins too! Ewwww....What's up with that?

Anyway, I want to share with you first, the last of my Thanksgiving Doorknocker designs. I completed this last night and plan to sew all 3 of them up over the weekend:



My next small projects will be a set of 3 Christmas Doorknockers. I'll start working on this one later today:



After working with Autumn colors for the past week, I'm thrilled to be able to work with blue now!

I mentioned yesterday that I made another handbag over this past weekend. Well, here it is:



The actual bag is one of those plain wicker handbags. I bought it on sale at WalMart a few weeks back for only $3.00! I knew I would never carry it the way it was so I bought some fancy fabrics and some tassle fringe and set out first thing Saturday morning to turn it into a one-of-a-kind eye-catching handbag!

The first thing I did was make a sleeve out of muslin so I had a foundation to work with. I ruffled the layers and sewed them onto the sleeve. Then I sewed the tassle fringe to the bottom edge of the sleeve. Once that was complete, I hand-sewed the sleeve onto the top edge of the bag. I took what was left of the fabric and made gathered flowers and leaves, sewed them on, added some big pearl beads for flower centers, added the cording and strung some smaller pearl beads and I have a really cool new handbag! I told you I like the Victorian Gypsy look! I did add just a bit of fabric glue behind the flowers to keep them in place. It's decorated the same on both sides.

While I was taking photos this morning, I remembered that I never showed you the beautiful beaded purse that I bought back when we were in Galena over Labor Day weekend. Here it is:



This is so beautiful! It's very heavy from the weight of all the beads and it works with almost every outfit I have!

You're probably wondering what I do with these beautiful purses. I use them. I use a different purse everyday and I don't care what anyone thinks! I am well beyond caring what anyone thinks about me. Quite honestly, where I live, it is not the fashion mecca of the US! But I love beautiful clothes and purses and I feel great when I use them so I do.

Last but not least, this little beauty is now available for purchase in my Etsy shop:



So those are today's photos! I have to work now. I'd rather be stitching but the sooner I get my work completed, the sooner I can start on that Christmas Doorknocker!

Peacock Handbag

Peacock Handbag
Originally uploaded by Kitty And Me.

Ok, so photography is not my medium! But I think this is enough for you to see, finally! I know Gina's been waiting on this photo.

I just love this handbag! It's hard to see but I used fuzzy, sparkly, black trim around the outside of the peacock and on top of that, some black gimp which I also used around the edge of the bag. Also on the edge, some beaded fringe.

Most of the trim was sewn on by hand so this one took me hours to finish but I just love it so much! It has "gypsy" look. Yes, I do love the Victorian gypsy look!

Stop by again tomorrow to see the handbag that I made this past weekend!

If you like the peacock design and would like to have the pattern to stitch, click here.

Thanksgiving Doorknocker 3

Thanksgiving 3
Originally uploaded by Kitty And Me.

I always do these little holiday doorknockers in groups of 3! This is the 3rd in my Thanksgiving series. I stitched on this quite a bit yesterday and plan to complete it later today. As you can see, I got a little creative with that blanket stitch! The next thing I'll add is some buttons and then I'll finish off the beading. I'll do the finishing on these over the weekend and add them to my Etsy shop next week.

My next project will be a set of 3 Christmas doorknockers. Then I'd better do my mother's Christmas gift.

Our New Truck

Our Truck
Originally uploaded by Kitty And Me.

Well, I added some USB thingy's to my big computer here so now I can transfer photos directly to this computer without pulling out my laptop! Yeah!!!

I had to try it out so I thought I'd share a photo of our new truck. Scott and I bought this just 2 weeks ago. It's the first brand new, "no one else ever owned it" vehicle that either one of us has ever had!

Isn't it gorgeous! And I love riding it. It's so comfy. It's a 2006 Ford F150. Scott is a Ford mechanic so we bought it from the dealership that he works for. I haven't driven it yet. It's much bigger than my Towncar but I plan to take it out and drive it this weekend.

Thanksgiving Doorknocker 2 Complete

Thanksgiving 2
Originally uploaded by Kitty And Me.

I finished this little doorknocker yesterday and started on the 3rd one. I didn't get very far on it so I'll scan my progress tomorrow.

I'll admit, stitching with these Autumn colors is a little boring! I'll be glad to get back to working with purple, pink and blue!