Susan's Phone Pouch

Here is the finished pouch for Susan. Made from a beautiful cotton batik in green and
burgundy. Isn't the silkie cute?


Using Sassa Lynne
threads I created the
vine. The roses are
made using silk ribbon,
hand dyed by Candi at
Candi's Eye Candi.

The heart is red silk
thread.

Again using Sassa Lynne
thread I finished it off with
a buttonhole stitch, and
beads of course.






The back matches
the front fabric, as
does the handle.

Isn't this a beautiful
fabric?











Here is the inside with a little pocket for a bit of
organization.














I am very pleased with the result, I hope you will like it Susan.

Susan's Phone Pouch

I am working on Susan's cell phone pouch. I hope she will like it.

An Award

My dear friend Candi has given me this lovely award.
I have been very slow in passing it along.

Thank you so much for honoring me, Candi.














Here are the guidelines for this award:'This blog invests and believes in the PROXIMITY - nearness in space, time and relationships. These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers' aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes for self-aggrandizement! Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers!'These are some very wonderful gals to visit. They are thoughtful, friendly and have so many wonderful ideas. I am supposed to pass this along to 5 people and here they are:).
Carole
Veronica
Karrin
Debbie
Leslie

Stocking Details

Beautiful stocking details done by my RR friends,

Moira















Susan

A New Year -A New Look

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! I thought after 2 years it was time for a new look. Is it to much? Let me know what you think.

This is the stocking I am doing for my daughter, Samantha. I will share close ups of different parts of the stocking in the coming days. The colors for this stocking are meant to depict Tuscany.

First is the beautiful silkie. The pearl cotton used to make the wagon wheels and to frame the silkie Wildflowers 008 Nefertiti, also around the silkie are garnet beads. On the left is a pretty brown flower lace added by one of the gals in my RR group, I sent the stocking around to get their help and talents for my daughter (who by the way just love it). Below is a pretty ribbon I got from one of my Treasurey Club packets from Evening Star Design. Alot of the fabrics for the stocking and the silkie came from there as well.




















I could not resist showing Samantha the stocking when she was here for Christmas, and even got her to do some work on it. This is her first needle work, the heart is all hers. She did a great job.
The seams to the right and left were creations from the RR gals.



















Full front.



















F


Full back.












I would like to invite you to visit my Wyoming blog, there you can see the addition we are working on and things about the house. I want to begin a new segment on Rustic cabin decorating over there here is the link.....http://newlifewy.blogspot.com/

The new year already looks like a busy one, right now we are taking a little break from the frantic schedule we kept before Christmas. I hope you will stop by from time to time and see what we are up to.

May you have a happy and blessed new year.

Christmas & Happy New Year

Wow, how time flies, it is New Years Eve already. We had a wonderful Christmas and I thought I would share a few pictures with you.

First is our little tree. Good thing we went up the week before to get a tree, because it snowed nicely for Christmas, but meant we could not go up on the mountain. Bryce and Tristan had a blast playing in the snow, sledding, jumping in drifts and building forts. Rocky was so happy to have children to play with.




















Because of the very recent remodel we still have things that are out of place (or still in their old place, lol). We decorated around the old stuff. Samantha did all the decorating, it is always fun to work with someone else's decorations. She keep saying "this is going home with me".

Not having a mantel we decided to use the old closet shelf to hang the stockings, and cloths pinned the beautiful card to the garland. See there are the old closet poles, grin.
To see how this room looked just days before go to my Wyoming blog...here















Christmas morning brought lots of fun gifts, but not before the coffee (or cocoa) and cinnamon rolls were made, which is a family tradition, designed to make the morning last longer. We also take turns opening gifts so everyone can see what the others got instead of just ripping into the pile. Depending on how many are together it can take an hour or more.















This is Miss Mew's first Christmas and I am very surprised at how good she has been with the tree, given her personality, I figured she'd be up in the tree and attacking the ornaments, but she didn't. She did check things out but she was very good.......I did catch her batting at one ornament, and chewing on the tree but that is about it.




























Samantha and the boys made ornaments for me. I can not find my ornaments anywhere so they made me new ones. This darling set of trees are the cutest, and made from scrapbook paper and little clay pots, I just love them.





















The wreath turned out so pretty and just a few of my snowman collection.




















Speaking of snowmen. This is the one that Bryce and Tristan made the day before they left for home. We had such a fine snow storm a day or two earlier, with about 10 inches to play in, with nice 2 foot deep drifts.




















On Sat after Christmas we went up to Cody to do some shopping. Samantha and I found some fun treasures, here are mine. We also enjoyed lunch at the Erma Hotel, which was built by Bufflo Bill Cody. We had planned on going on Friday after Christmas but were a bit snowed in.















We sure had a wonderful time together, Andy did alot of the cooking (ya). The guys went out bunny hunting several times and did not come home empty handed. Tristan loves to eat rabbit, and begged to go out again, at which time Bryce shot his first rabbit. Both boys are going to be hunters I think, which makes Papa very happy. They also all did some crafting projects out in the wood shop, they spent a couple afternoons out there making different things.
Samantha and I enjoyed our time together, it had been a year since we have been together, we did a little bit of stitching, too. We spent an afternoon making soaps with the boys, they enjoyed making different shapes, colors and smells.

The house is very quite and "big" without the gang here, Kirk and I are still getting used to that and the dogs and cats are rattling around also, they miss the kids.

We were in hopes all of our kids could come for Christmas, but alas it was not to be. We are looking forward to their planned visits this coming summer.

For New Years we will go down to the Paintrock Inn for primerib dinner and fellowship with friends here in town.

We send our wishes to you and yours for a very HAPPY NEW YEAR, may God bless you richly in everyway.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Finally Some Stitching to Share

Thank goodness for evenings and stitching. It has been so busy around here with the building going on, I am trashed right now, but I wanted to share what I have been up to with needle and thread.

This block belongs to Susan, we are in a RR group together. I am the last to work on this block so it will be on its way home this week.

My additions are, the circle motif on the right done in Sassa Lynne thread Sherwood Forest, I used my new Creative Stitchery Success Strips to help create this motif and the button hole stitches on the left which is a pretty pink and green sparkle thread that I got from Evening Star Design.
Next are the half wheels and the heart designs, these are done in pearl cotton, and using Carole Samples templates. The pretty pink ribbon is also my addition.















I also worked the seam treatment under the word HOPE. This was done in Sassa Lynne also, using a design from Treasury of Crazy Quilting as inspiration.

And here is the whole block with everyones work on it. I hope you like it Susan, I will be sending it this week.