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Fanciful Wings

A whole week has just flown by, and I have been busy running here and there and in the end feeling like I haven't accomplished anything...I hate when that happens! But even with the weeks busyness in small pockets of time I did accomplish something after all. I made a whole basketful of fanciful wings! It innocently started with with one...and turned into thirteen.

That's what happens when you start digging through the fabric bins..."oh, this would make pretty wings...oh and this one too...and this one"...and so on! There are truly sooo many possibilities with these wings, and if I would have got my derriere in gear I could have had some lovely Valentine's wings decorating my house right now! 

P.S All these fanciful wings were made with love for a dear friend, to give to her family members in memory/celebration of her Mother's life.

Do the Funky Chicken!

I'm a little embarrassed to say that this is a project I started....Ahem...10 years ago! It is a wool hooked rug kit, and i'm not sure why I didn't finish it? I must have been distracted by another lovely craft...this happens quite often.

I have always adored hooked rugs and wanted to try my hand at a small project before jumping right into making a Gi-normous rug. You know, the kind that sits in front of a lovely warm, glow, warmy-glowing fire? Well, this kit will have to satisfy for now. It makes a 12 x 12" Funky Chicken Rug. It will probably end up as another pillow on the couch, that will end up on the floor with the other 10 hundred pillows the Honey and kids throw down because there is no where to sit!

Snowflakes

Christmas has come and gone and we are still enjoying our vacation time here. We have spent the days doing whatever we want...whenever we want with no scheduled plan! It has been so nice and relaxing and I am really enjoying sleeping in and taking afternoon naps. That doesn't happen too often!

Another thing the girls and I have been busy doing is cutting out beautiful tissue paper snowflakes! I found this lovely little book on the 'New Books' shelf at the library and couldn't get home fast enough to try it out. I added it to my  'Addictive Things To Do' list...you really can't make just one of these, because they are so pretty AND there are 75 different snowflakes to choose from.

They look so detailed and difficult to make, but it's so simple and easy to do, and the coolest part...you can use your kids scissors! I know we have a handful of them hiding around the house. Take a look at our fancy flakes!

This Is How I Felt...

I've been busy over here making lots of felty things!

I made myself a special little treat (pincushion)! Doesn't this look good and scrumptious? A White Chocolate Orange Truffle Latte, with a rolled Pirouline cookie and a sweet piece of hand-stitched chocolate.

Yummy!

I also had a chance to make a little extra Christmas money, and gladly took the offer...3 custom felt stockings! A lot of handwork and beading went into these.