Vintage Flower Garden ......in a demitasse

This describes one of my latest pincushions, a little blue demitasse turned into a vintage flower garden. I love making these! This one has a ring of pale blue vintage flowers and a touch of pink posies with a little vintage bunny pin peeping out.
These are sooo easy to make. Here is what I did.
Find yourself a pretty cup. Add a little stuffing inside cup, to about halfway up and set aside.Draw and cut out a circle of felt, 1 to 2 inches larger than the cup, depending on how high you want the pincushion to end up.
With a strong thread, sew a small running stitch just inside the edge of circle.
Pull up thread until the felt circle fits just inside cup, secure your stitches. Stuff felt circle well, making sure all creases are puffed out and pincushion is firm. When you are happy with the shape, run a thin line of glue around inside edge of cup and turning your felt pincushion "upside down" (open end faces into cup), glue to cup.
Trim around edge of cup/pincushion, decorate top and add a few pins and you will have a pretty pincushion in a cup. Enjoy.
If you're interested in this little pincushion and other items, take a look at my Whimsical Wandering Wednesday.

Valentine

I have finally finished the last stitch in my Valentine items in preparation for this coming Saturday's Valentine Open House. My home is almost ready, the displays are done, now all i need to do is mark all items. Most of what I have on sale I have made, and added a few items from my personal collection, items I have never opened or used and perhaps someone will now enjoy them.
My themes are "Roses are Red" and "Sweet as sugar candy",I will print the labels tomorrow. Here is picture of my 'vintage' angels of love and a link to show you some of the displays.

Early Morning

The "dawnsily" light promises a beautiful day. Everywhere is fresh and crisp, and our first large sunflower is already searching for its warmth. We grew these sunflowers from our seeds we buy for bird food. It seems not only do the birds enjoy them, but the passing groups of monkeys too. The other day, after waiting in anticipation for our first sunflower to open, we watched as a monkey tore off the head of the flower and promptly proceeded to eat it. Although these monkeys can be a nuisance, I find their amuzing antics fascinating to watch.
Well I finally can get to show you one of the sunflowers, stretching high above our rooftop.

Here is another photo taken in the early light, a well used chair under a shower for a good resting place on a "hot" day.


This Australian myrtle tree shaped as a topiary, contantly gives a wonderful display with its pompom white flowers and red fruit.

Oh me, oh my.................

I am the winner of a delightful charm necklace made by Sylvia Anderson in her Valentine giveaway. Thank you Sylvia, I am thrilled!

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.

Pink & Blue

will never do,
all the boys will wink at you!
How often we chanted this little verse as children and one can see why these two colours catch the eye.
Part of my valentine theme for open house is pink and blue, the other part is "Roses are Red". I just love my little one cup tea cosy in candy stripe pink with bouquet of roses a-top. The little soft pink and blue apron is a vintage, the pink organza is so delicate. The lovely rose bowl and plate are amongst my favourite crockery pieces. now to get the rest of the sewing done.

I've been tagged!

by Sue of Rabbit Hollow Prims
I now have to tell you 5 things about myself -ok,mmmmmmmm
1. I still bite my nails, mainly when watching a movie.
2. I'm an early riser, around 3am. Its the time I do most of my crafting.
3. I love a walk in the garden with my two doggies as the sun comes up.
4. I really can't decide whether i prefer primitive to victoriana, so enjoy both mmmmmmmmmmm like the french look too, country as well -aaah well why not all of it!!
5. Never use a pattern in my crafting, prefer to add lib and see how things turn out.

Now to tag five folk
Sue of collector of Crafts -you need to get that blog going
Jennifer of The old painted cottage -I have only discovered your blog and i love it!
Lisa of Crafty Ladye Creations - hope this helps you towards your 100th!
Trudy of Bits of Wool -good to see ou are posting again.
Niki of nostalgia at the Stone House -another newly discovered and wonderful blog.

Bag Chicks

Aren't these just so cute and clever, chicks made from plastic bags, what a great way to recycle these. A lovely surprise gift from my son and DIL from their trip to Cape Town. I love chicks, sheep and ducks and am thrilled to add to my small collection of such.

Queen of Hearts

Just finished my Valentine whimsical doll for 2008, well almost done except for a bunch of hearts for her to hold. I have about three weeks left before my Valentine open house and am working flat out to get all done that I wanted to do. Why do I leave it so late? I really needed to start work on this last year but there just never seems to be time to catch up!!
Queen of Hearts was made without a pattern, i love to create ad-lib, just winging it along. Her dress is a lovely old deep red wool fabric, its ever so soft and fall beautifully. Her trims are vintage lace and real feathers, her crown i made from a broken real pearl necklace i have had for many many years. Her head is painted muslin
and sprinkled with mica

New blogger

my dear friend Sue, has finally entered the world of blogging. Take a look here,her grand-daughter Abby is just tooo cute.