Happy birthday to my most wonderfully awesome husband, Timmy!
(If a picture is worth a thousand words….)
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Christmas 2012, Photo A Day BEGINS NOW!
It is December 1, 2012.
I don’t need to say more, do I? You have your lists, you are checking them twice, trying to figure out where you can buy a few extra hours or days, cheap.
One bright spot every day(should) hopefully be this blog post. As I have for the past three years, I am going to post a Christmas photo, hopefully early, every morning. MAYBE, a bit of peace, humor or reflection about Christmas.
Starting NOW.
December 1, 2012. This little guy lives on our tree. He reminds me very much of a little elf my grandmother had when we were children. He isn’t an Elf on a Shelf, but who knows if he is mischievous or not?
How to see photos each day?
- Well, come here every day!
- Or sign up on the sidebar to the right, to receive notifications.
- Or, go to my Facebook page and like my page. (Your mileage may vary with THIS option because of all the silliness that is FB)….so remember to LIKE the page, and add me to your favorites or what have you.
- Or go to my Pinterest page.
- Or ask me to add your name to my email list! Or check out this link to my photo gallery, where you can see all the previous years photos, and where I will TRY to keep up with adding the new ones daily.
- ALL previous photos are available for purchase, as prints or as cards. (I will assume no one wants the family photos in the gallery. I will have to say no if you want to purchase those few, sorry)
(If you are receiving this via email and want your name REMOVED, please, contact me. I will certainly do so.)
I welcome and treasure comments!
Happy December!
Oh, Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree….
It is now the ‘official’ start of the holiday season, the turkey has been eaten, the crazy folks who wanted to do Black Friday are napping, curled up amidst their shopping bags.
I got this idea for a Christmas tree pin from… well,I was walking around the Houston Quilt Show, in an overloaded daze, to be honest, all sorts of ideas flying through my head, and this one glided by slow enough for me to grab a hold of it and plot it out, step by step as I wandered.
- Create snips or burrow through your waste basket for the left over snippets of your last project. Don’t worry if they don’t play nice together.
- Then, locate a piece of Peltex about printer paper size. Lay out the scraps on the Peltex, covering pretty much the entire surface. (If it’s fusible, iron it now, if not, press down with your fingers to kind of lock everything in place.
- Rummage through your specialty yarn stash and artfully drape a yard or two all over the fabric.
- A nice glittery piece of gold tulle is layered on top of all of this.
- Head over to your machine with a pretty thread and go wild practicing some free motion quilting.
- Because too much is never enough, I spritzed the entire thing with some fabric paint. (This, along with the yarn, tulle and stitching, kind of makes it all blend together nicely)
- Once that dried, I got out my paint knife and a bit of Golden’s Medium and swiped it across the entire thing, and sprinkled with glittery stuff. (Not really glitter, it’s tiny little flecks of iridescent goodies I found somewhere, once.)
- I glued a piece of white cardstock to the back –(next time, I will use green, so I don’t have to worry about paint on the back)
- After it dries (LONG time, lol, go to work or something fun like that) I cut the entire thing into 2 inch strips, and then cut out tree shaped triangles. (Forgot that photo!)
- I used a mix of medium and bright green acrylic paint and painted all the white edges, dipping the bottom edge into micro beads before laying out to dry.
- My last step was to paint the back green, because of the sloppy edge of the green I applied.
- Signed, dated and glued on a pin back!
The finished pin! A full sheet produced 24 pins.
Enjoy!!!
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