Valentine

I have been busy preparing for my valentine promotion at my shoppe, Marcella-Mia.
Here are some of the little tags that are completed, still lots more to do.
Mt theme is olde worlde red and pretty pink and will include lots of hearts and roses.

Waste not, Want not...............

The old saying, "Waste not, want not," couldn't be more true in making this pincushion heart.

I had been saving all my scraps of fabric from my recent sewing activities, I just can't bear to throw any away and knew I would come up with an idea to use them up. Well here is my 'waste not, want not' pincushion heart, made entirely from scraps of fabric, a combination of wool, cotton and ticking, sewn together in a crazy patchwork style and stuffed with more scraps of fabric. Two buttons and a bit of ribbon finishes it off.It was fun to make, oh so easy and I love the weight the fabric stuffing gives to the heart.

February -a month of love

Yes its February already and yes the air is filled with love. February being Valentine month, certainly puts the world into the mood - adverts a-plenty, movies, shop displays and so on.

One can't help but feel that love is in the air.

I am busy preparing for my Valentine open house on Thursday 12th Feb. and Saturday 14th.

It will be the first open house at Granny's Cottage Shoppe and there is still much preparation to do with rooms for bedroom, bathroom, lounge, dinning and kitchen displays and the outside garden to sort out. I can see it all taking shape, even though its slow progress but am happy and sure my mum would have been too. This was mum's home, hence the name Granny's Cottage Shoppe. I hope to get lots of pictures up soon but for now if you haven't already visited my Granny's Cottage shoppe blog, just click on the link to take you there.

Crazy pincushion time

It's that crazy pincushion time again for me. I'm so hooked on making these, I just can't stop. I needed some for my Valentine open house so made a few of those tiny ones, great for taking around in your sewing bag. Some are in cotton red stripe and wool with roses or hearts for the "Roses are red" theme, others and I think my favourite, are the pink stripecotton and wool felt, Sweet as sugar candy" ones. I so enjoyed making the birds and berries, the little pot was one of my recent discoveries on my Wednesday wandering. I have a few more to make for Easter.

Heart pincushion

Just finished a heart pincushion for Valentine. As well as a pincushion, its a scissor keeper and needle book. My theme for my Valentine open house on 9th February is "roses are red" and it will be more along the lines of vintage/victoriana/country/prim. I have so many ideas buzzing around my head but am finding it hard to get down to work after the holidays.