Inspiration Board

I joined in on the fun over at

Ucreate - Create with Me Challenge

for May...

I have had this beautiful frame hanging around for some time now...

I got just the right amount of inpiration to get this done..

And I must say I love it..!

This will look so good in my craft room too..

All recycled materials...

An old velvet bed spread,

A beautiful oval carved frame,

And the chicken wire from a previous project. 

Spray painted gold to match 

Bits of metal embossing and some small cloths pins

Wha La! my creation is born

It is so humid and hot here in Texas

It really is hard to get a good clear

Picture of this , it is a bit on the shiny side

With the blak and gold distress paint

even my little clips are decorated to match

with embossed metal tops

added a bit of bling with metal embossed flowers

to match my decor

And she turned out to be a real beauty

Not living in the garage any more

Good for her to finally

See her second day

Meaning this beautiful

Old wood frame

I grabbed from who knows where

She lives in my studio now

Happy Crafting and Visit

Ucreate to see all the other entries for this month

DeeDee

Celebrating Memorial Day

There is discipline in a soldier, you can see it when he/she walks.

There is pride in a soldier, you can hear it when he/she talks.

There is courage in a soldier you can see it in thier eyes.

There is loyalty in a soldier, he/she will never compromise.

...A soldier isn't a title that anyone can be.

These special people are chosen to protect you and me ......

 

Thanks to all soldiers past and present

To thier families and freinds

And all who sacrific

For me to be free

 

To my Soldier Gabe

Thanks for being the person you are

It means alot to me.

 

 

DeeDee

COH- Crazy Quilt Block #4

This weeks stich is the last assigned one and it is the

Half Chevron 

There are many versions of this stitch and

Many fun things you can do with it...

I only know this from seeing the other ladies work.

Mine is pretty amatuer yet.

and I did another version of this one too

just to learn a bit more

my block is moving right along..

I will be doing all the same stitchs on

my own block too

Its hard to make them match since this is crazy block style

So none of the seams are the same

But can add all the same stiches in the different spots

I will work on mine in between my swaps

just to keep me busy.

Laughing hard on that one!!!

keep me busy.

I will work out the rest of this block

ans be back with the finished product soon

Happy Stitchin

DeeDee

COH- Crazy Quilt Block # 3

I am still working away on my

Chain of Hearts 

Do Your Own Block Swap 2011

The next stich assigned to us is the

Chain Stitch

... yeppie one I can do and do well!!

 I added this pretty butterfly with a flowing

Chain stich behind him..

I added some little pinwheel things

and then a pretty butterfly with a trailing whimsy of wind

this will get a bit of pizazz soon

this is my block will all it has right now

it is coming right along

we have one more assigned stitch then

we can work on the rest how we want it to be

freedom of expression

coming up soon

Happy Stitchin

DeeDee

Posting Comments

I have noticed this problem when trying to reply to freinds posts...

If they have word verification I cannot post...

If they do not, I can post...

Please Blogger can you get a few things fixed..

I cannot see my freinds list

I am always signed in..

And my tools on my web page are gone.

I have to go into my dashborad everytime.

I cannot enter for giveways ,

ask questions or anything..

really takes away from the blogging experience...

I am praying things get back to normal around here soon

Are you having the same problems as me..

you know of a solution

please email me
or post here if you can so everyone can see a solution

Happy Long Weekend to all y'all

DeeDee

Sisterhood of the Traveling Goat

I started a swap way back in November..

see a post about it Here ..

 this post showed the first item I recieved to work on from

 Deb of Mosaic Magpie

I was then to send it off to Australia to be with my goat

he has no name or a home yet.. but off he went to Lizzie in Australia

I made these fun plates for each of us

to document the travels

I wanted to make passports

but ran out of time

here is the goat I recieved

to start a project from

Deb's goat

I named her Jenni

 The project I started with her

the front is her new home

on this fun Journal book

See the details upclose

love the cardinal in the tree

here is the back

it has the destinations

some marked out in Red "X"

Jenni didn't make it far

before the swap went a jar

I got this project I started back

and finished her up

for my freind Deb

aren't those flowers so cute

and the lisencse plates too

on the inside a special poem

written by my friend Gayle

the story of Jenni's travels

please read it to the end

a nice paisley lined the inside

a great place to hide my poem

just for Deb to see

and the binding

the story of this journal

"The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Goat"

this was my favorite part of the whole deal..

I loved how this journal cover

turned out.. and so glad that one of the goats

made its trek back home safe and sound

back with its mom Deb

I am a person who likes to finish what I start

so I feel great accomplishment

in calling this swap DONE!

I hope my friend Deb knows the love I put

into her journal

and enjoys it as much as I did making it for her

Farewell my freind Jenni

off to your new home

I am off to work on my next swap

still with stitchery and fabrics

stay tuned for some fun new things

Happy Stitichin my Freinds

DeeDee

Beary Special to Me.....

I did a swap way back at Christmas time

with my new friend in Germany ...

check it out Here 

in this swap I recieved a little bear name Merry Xmas. 

He is so much fun...

but he found himself a bit lonely

here in the USA all by himself..

So I contacted

Birgit 

to see if she could help us out...

He needed a partner in crime

She had her eyes on something I made that she loved,

 so we set up a private swap..

and we both sent extra lovelies

but I got this one little lovely

that Merry Xmas truely loved  

The parcel is from Germany

and it had some very fun gifts

my second Christmas ball

and some candies too

A little note to me as I shuffled thru the box

look at all my fun gifties

can you say happy face

this card with all it dimensions..

it is beautiful for real

then we have this little bag..

with bears all on it..

what could be inside???

a special note from all our bear freinds

A little girl bear named Cherry

she is the exact opposite of

Merry

in her colors

she brought me the smallest

gummy bears I have ever seen

her sized gummy bears

Cherry and Merry Xmas met for the first time

a wee bit shy were both

but soon were very close freinds

Merry wants a hug from

his new freind

they match together perfectly

the perfect little couple

now both happy

here in the USA

Texas

Thanks so much Birgit

I love my little bears.

they are just so adorbable

so glad we got to swap again

and so happy I too

now have a new freind.

 Happy Day

from

Me, Merry Xmas and now Miss Cherry

(thats how they say it in Texas)

Soldering with Trisha

A good while back I took a class over at

The Little Blue House 

With

Trisha at Trishicious & Co

 

We made the cutest little box and

A locket which I ruined messing with it..lol

That happens sometimes

I will show you when I make a new one

But take a look at the beautiful

Jewel box I did make

She showed us how to make this lovely

Little bird with solder

So easy and fun to do

And then this beautiful glass glitter

Was a very special touch.

I love the elegance of this simple

Little jewel box

We made the gold rose silver with a

Silver pen

(Clever Girl)

Isn't it beautiful and I made it

wowsers!... check out her site for other fun things

You can make too

I loved this and kept it for mine

Happy Crafting my Friends

DeeDee

Ladies Night Out

At Merry Go Round Glass shop.

Vicki posted we'd be making wire suncatchers...

I didn't know what to expect ..

didn't really wanna get out of the house...

but decide to go anyways..

I am glad I did I love my

Windchime Suncatcher

here is my design

and the completed solder job

this Zinc ring was hard to solder to

mine looks messy to me

I cut my chimes but ran out of time to finish it

so will add some more of those turquoise baubles

and make it sing in the wind

My freind Becky had an awesome design.

she called this her sunburst

I so love going to the glass shop

I am always inspired

and make some very fun things

and learn new things along the way

I love working with the leaded Cane

Happy Crafting

DeeDee

OMG! OMG! Look What I Have

 I have my most favorite flower in my garden....

I cannot believe it...

in Texas

Real Lilacs in bloom

the smells

Heavenly!!!

Not a full blown bush

but a few plumes

enough for me to smell them

and it grows on

I am in Heaven right

and look I have been blessed with

 one other

treasure

Rubarb in Texas

I so hope it grows big

even if they don't prosper and flourish

I am blessed for what I have

we shall see how they do.

I have done pretty good here

I am smiling today

Happy Spring

DeeDee

More Flowers

I had to make something for my girl when I went on vacation.

My Freind Sandy come by with a hat she purchased and I just loved it..

so I set out to make a mock version.

hers was done on a military camo hat.

the flower was hot glued to the hat. 

That was to much print for me so I went to my local Walmart 

and found this cutie for $5.

and set out to make me a hat.

I found a cute flower pattern on line to make a flower in layers..

I cut several layers of different fabrics

and added a gem to the center and made it a pin...

yep so it can be changed..

or worn on a scarf or a jacket or on a purse.

take a look

Jenni is looking a bit sassy isn't she

I also made this fun pink version to go on her black hat

it looked lovely to

I think I see making more of these in my furture..

She really liked them so I know they were

ok...

See ya next time

DeeDee

COH- Crazy Quilt Block #1 & #2

I joined the Yahoo Group Chain of Hearts..

they make and swap hearts....

with very, very nice hand works abound... 

They swap other things from time to time also... 

this time it is a crazy quilt block. 

I started out behind because I HAD  wanted to take my vacation. 

but I quickly caught up...

each week they give us a new stitch to use 

the first week was a

Button Hole stitch..

I thought I new this one...

but nope not what I thought it was.

take a look

The #2 week was the Raise Cup stitch

I still need to add my tiny small little beads to the flower centers

inside the cup.

I just love this little girl, but not so sure they will..

actually I think she is not very good.

I am not confident with her

She has found her new home now

and she looks pretty comfy

and she is growing on me

a bit

She now lives

On this fancy block that I soon will embellish

lots more..

cannot wait to see our next stitch.

So stay tuned and watch her grow

my goal for this year is to enhance my hand embroidery work

I am stitchin with the big dogs

but I know they wll help me find my way

and be a part of thier realm soon

Happy Stitchin

DeeDee