Greetings lovely friends & readers
It was another busy week here at Threadbear HQ 💗
This past week I received some wonderful surprise mail, all the way from the U.K.
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| Sid was most taken with the card of the Owl, the Pussycat & the pea green boat !! |
Pam - a longtime reader of my blog, wanted to send me something to say Thank You for my blog & all the links & tutorials that I share with you all out here in blogland, so she stitched me this absolutely beautiful Needlebook & filled it with goodies before sending it across the oceans & the miles to me here at the bottom of the world.
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| The front (left pic) & even the back (right pic) had a gorgeous design stitched on it |
Pam's work is just exquisite & I know this will be treasured as well as Very Well Used.
Thank You So Much Pam for your kindness & generosity. 💕
This past week I was able to meet up with my Craft Group ladies again - we are allowed to have small gatherings indoors now, so we all met up at Maureen's home last Monday.
This is what the table looked like as we all worked on beaded Christmas trees that Gail & Maureen had stitched onto fabric for us ready to embellish. All we had to bring along was a selection of charms, beads & any broken jewellery bits. None of us finished our trees (there was lots of chatting & catching up) but I have clicked a few pics of our works-in-progress.
I just loved the top left hand pic of the doiley tree Maureen had made & would love to make one similar.
Joyce's one (top left) was almost finished - Sharlaine's is the green one.
I think these two were Sally & Liz's ... I will show more pics when the girls (& myself) complete them. Some of us are going to frame ours & some will make into wallhangings.
This past week I had a haircut which delighted me immensely 😊
Also I took all the vintage china off my dining room dresser & gently washed it all after a winter of fires & dust.
I decided to take the beautiful birthday quilt my dear friend Leeanne made me, off my bed for the summer so I found a way to drape it over my dresser & thought it looked lovely with the china all around it.
When I was happy with the arrangement of all my china I added just a couple of simple Christmas touches to the dresser.
This past week I dug out this Christmas Pattern that I purchased (about 4 Christmas's ago) from Grandmothers Garden
The Pattern is called Christmas Bowl Fillers & comes complete with a pre-printed panel from Bonnie Sullivan of All Through The Night designs. You applique the preprinted designs with wool felt - I had fun sorting through my scraps of wool felt & Miss Pip very graciously approved my choices for me 😉
Once the handwork was done I quickly sewed & stuffed them into tight little cushions & then I added some feathery wool to the outer edges to give it a fluffy Christmas look. I also stitched some tiny charms to several of the cushions.
I have had this tiered tray for ages but never ever used it so I really enjoyed doing a Christmas display in it using my new cushions/bowl fillers.
These 6 wool felt decorations were handstitched by me way back in early January in this post * here * - this was an Op Shop kitset purchased for $5. It is lovely to be able to add them to my Christmas displays this year.
You might remember on my last trip to Mum's in early October I purchased these 2 china tureens ($6 & $4) from the SPCA shop. You can read about them * here *
They were both minus their lids but I had thought I would like to fill the larger one with my citrus potpourri & make up a candle in the smaller size one.
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Yesterday I did just that & I am so pleased with how they both turned out - the candle fragrance is Christmas Time, which I thought was perfect & the potpourri smells of delicious orange/clove scents.
The Mr is away riding Moto X this weekend so I am hoping to finish all my Christmas decorating. I am usually always a not-before-1st-December kind of girl but this year I am trying to be more organised & it has felt like it's bringing a little Joy to things. I have been thoroughly enjoying watching "Christmas House Tour" YouTube videos & I may do a little pictorial House Tour when I am finished so long as I don't bore you senseless 😉
Wishing you all a wonderful rest of the weekend dear friends,
Thank You - as always - for your visits here today,
With much love & friendship to you All,
Julie & the furry ones x0x0x
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