Bonnet Ladies Counted Cross Stitch Pattern

I didn't accomplish as much as I had planned on yesterday.  I'm in slow motion these days.  I picked up some groceries, made some apple muffins and did just a bit of stitching.  Here's an update on my Victorian Purse:

I'll work on this some more today.

Nightmare and Lucy are still adjusting to our loss of Simba.  They're both very restless and are very vocal and hanging on me.  They've both always been talkers but now are talking even more.  Nightmare sits by the front door constantly.  I think he thinks that Simba is coming back through the front door.  I don't know why.  My cats are strictly indoor cats.  He must just know that we take things out and bring things in through the front door.

I talked to my vet the other day and he said it takes 2 - 3 weeks for companion animals to adjust to a loss.  They're both eating well so in time, they should be okay.  I'm sure they're picking up on my grief and restlessness as well.

Finally for today, we've re-released my Bonnet Ladies Counted Cross Stitch Pattern:

This pattern is available from Magcloud.

Crazy Quilt Purse

After running a few errands yesterday morning and watering my plants, and pulling a few weeds (no shortage on those), I spent the rest of the day just stitching on a new crazy quilt purse project:

I thought it would be nice to work in more traditional Victorian colors than what I normally work with.  I don't know when I sewed this block up but I pulled it from my basket of ready to stitch on blocks.

I may finish up the stitching today since all I have on my to do list is to run for some groceries.  I may bake some muffins this afternoon too.

Wedding Mystery Revealed

Despite aimlessly wandering around this house, lost without my Simba, I managed to finish my Wedding project yesterday.  Are ya'll ready?  This was a 2 part project.  A dress and a heart:

This is an angel shaped votive holder.  I meant to take a picture of the frame before I assembled it but with my little Simba being sick when I started the assembly process, I just forgot.

Here is the angel without the heart and without the glass candle holder:

The heart is just tied on so it's removable:

Here's the back:

Once I got the dress and the back on, I stuffed it with tissue paper so the dress didn't "crush" or cave in.  It also needed some weight so the tissue paper helped with that too.  I cute a piece of cardboard for the bottom, glued that on and then added felt.

I glued the vintage lace on to wings and halo and trimmed everything out with cream colored braided gimp.  It took quite awhile to assemble this because I could only do a little gluing at a time.  I used E6000 Jewelry glue to assemble the entire project.

This project was quite a challenge but I'm very pleased with out it came out!

In other news, I stopped at the dollar store yesterday for a few things and found these pretty little butterfly beads:

They're just little plastic butterflies but they're pretty.  If you have a Dollar Tree near you, stop in and pick up a pack.

Finally, I finished up on my little pink cat doll:

These never look like much of anything until I get them put together.  I don't feel like sewing at the moment but maybe later this week I can get my last couple of stitched pieces put together.

Bonnet Ladies

For all the cross stitcher's out there, I'll be re-releasing my Bonnet Ladies in the new Magcloud format later this week:

A Little Pink Cat Doll

I can't seem to do much these days other than clean my house and do a little stitching.  I don't feel like sewing but thankfully, I keep a little basket of pre-sewn crazy quilt blocks all ready to work on. 

I pulled out this little pink cat doll and starting stitching on it yesterday:

I'm quite fond of this little border at the top:

This is worked with my Waste Canvas technique.

I think I'll ask Bubba to take me up to Home Depot today for a plant for my front porch.  Other than that, I know I need to take it easy for awhile now.