Snowmen.....

Merry Christmas to all!!! I hope your  home is all decorated, your Christmas shopping is done and all wrapped....So now all you have left to do is enjoy baking yummy Christmas cookie....Then eating them with your family and friends...I truly hope that is your world...Mine, not so much...I love the holidays, the only problem I have is I always think I can stitch or sew just one more item then I will stop...But that never happens...Until my husband looks at me with that, are you crazy look, then I stop... The good news for me is that my daughter Mary will be home from college on the 19th, she is the best cookie make ever...So, on the 20th our home is going to smell like yummy Christmas cookies...But there is only one problem, she has the same issue her mother has...She always wants to bake just one more batch of cookie...Until her dad looks at her with that, are you crazy look, then she decides she has baked enough...Dose that sound familiar ....I know  Mary and I have problem...We never know when to stop...LOL...
 

I promise these are my last two items for the Christmas season...My Snow Angel Bag is adapted from a County Stitches pattern....The framed Snowmen were designed by Trilogy...
These are the items I am listing on TDIPT tomorrow night... I would love it if you stopped by...There will be beautiful hand make items to see...

Thank a bunch for your kind comment they make my day...
I am hoping you enjoy a safe and happy holiday season...
Merry Christmas,
Nancy 

Red and Green....

 Merry, Merry Christmas...My sewing room in a mess, as usual for this time of year, red and green every where....My dear husband says I have way to much fun in there...So much fabric and not enough time....I keep telling him I will teach him to sew, but he would rather watch football....I am sorry to say after all these years I still don't understand that game...

 I love working with wool...I thought I might put cross stitch together with a crazy wool ornament...These are what I came up with, the vintage hanger just make me so happy...

 My framed December picture is a design for Stacy Nash...

 Some more ornaments....I have been collecting ornaments for years, I still can't seem to have enough...My famous last words to my family  might be, please let me make just on more ornament...LOL...

 Merry Christmas is a design for Pineberry Lane...

These are the items I am offering  on Early Work Mercantile tonight...If you have the time stop by there should be lots of fun holiday items to see...
Jaxon told me this morning I wasn't allowed to start decorating the tree until he got home from school....I am off to pick him up so we can get started on the tree....
Thanks a bunch for stopping by and for the kind comments you make my day...
Take care,
Nancy

Christmas Goodies...

 

 

It is just about time to enjoy all the Christmas items I have been stitching for months....I don't want to rush things to fast, first I have to enjoy a big Thanksgiving dinner and weekend  with all my favorite people...Then it is down with the orange and brown and up with the red and green...These are a few of the items I have been working on...I have had this great vintage potato masher sitting on my desk just looking at me....I couldn't decided just what I wanted to do with it then it came to me....I have this pattern from Notforgotton farms that I was dieing  to punch, so this is what I came up with....Santa is standing on the masher with vintage tinsel and rusty bells tied around the handle... 

Peace on Earth Pin-keep...This is my own design stitch on natural linen...Put together with vintage fabric..

Next is Up to the House Tops...This is also my own design...I think that little house is just sitting all cozy in a forest of trees just waiting for Santa...

Skating mouse is staying nice and warm in her sweater, scarf and mittens..Just waiting to skate around the Christmas tree...

 These are a few of the other ornaments I have been working on....I just love stitching Pineberry lanes Santa pulling his sled with his tree on top...

Last is my Snowflake Table Runner...Pieced together with some great vintage holiday fabrics....With white on white wool appliqued
snowflakes...

These are the items I am listing on TDIPT tomorrow night....I have been enjoying just looking at all the beautiful holiday fabrics I have...I would love to head back to my sewing room and keep working on holiday items...But my dear husband likes to eat...Perhaps I should make dinner instead....

I am off...Thanks so much for stopping by and for your kind comments they make my day...
Take care,
Nancy 

Happy Halloween with Christmas Stitching?????

HAPPY HALLOWEEN !!!! Today is the best day ever for small spooks....This is my grandson  Buzz Light Year....Who can't wait for the festivities  to begin....He has been in his costume since 7:00 this morning....My question for the day is, when do you think he will let his mom take it off ??? I am thinking it might be spring before that happens...

 I know it seems odd with today being the favorite day for spooks...But I have been stitching Christmas teats like crazy...First off is a Christmas sampler designed by Black Bird designs...In a time worn frame...

Santa pin-keep...

Merry Christmas Pillow...

 Christmastide hang bag...Adapted  from a Pineberry Lane Design...

Patch work Christmas Tree....


I have to say that I had a hard time buying Halloween candy at Target yesterday...When right next to the Halloween department is the Christmas department where Christmas carols  we playing....What can I say I love to stitch with red and green....These are the items I am offering on Early Work Mercantile tonight....http://earlywork-moonpieprimitives.blogspot.com/...I hate to rush the seasons by....For today I am going to dress in orange and black, give out Halloween treats to all the spooks in our neighborhood....While in between  answering the door bell I will be stitching a little something for Christmas....Also I will be waiting to hear....From infinity and beyond....from my favorite Buss Light Year...

Thanks so much for visiting and for the kind comments they make my day.....
Take care,
Nancy

More Pumpkins....

I think I might have a problem.....I am seeing pumpkins in my sleep....I keeping thinking of new fun things to do with them...I have to say I am going to be a little sad when pumpkin season is over this year..

This is my Harvest Mouse with his pumpkin, he has topped it with lots of fall goodies....

Next is Tom The Turkey he is hoping to adorn a shelf or a cabinet top and not a Thanksgiving table....Tom is a Raven's Haven design...

 

This is Hatty and her pumpkin...I was lucky enough to have her publish in Prims Magazine the Fall of 2011...I made her again for one of my favorite customers...

 

My last project was a special order for the same wonderfully customer...I am so happy she keeps me busy.....

Those are a few of the thing I have been working on...I am offering the Harvest Mouse and Tom the Turkey on TDIPT tomorrow night....If you have a chance I would love it if you stopped by....

That is about all for me today...I am still think of one more pumpkin I can make before I start working on snowmen....

Thanks so much for stoping by and for your kind comment they make my day...
Take care,
Nancy

Fall is Here...

I absolutely love the fall, in Washington state we have the very best apples... I am trying my best to eating as many as I can...I love them with caramel, in salads, in pies and just plain....I love cool nights, colored leaves, wearing a high neck sweater, but most of all I love pumpkins...Here are a few I have been working on for Early Work Mercantile tonight...My harvest moon pumpkin is adapted for a Stacy Nash pattern...

I also enjoy a few witches around my home this time of year...

Colored leaves and black crows....

I believe that every one should have at lest one or two candy corns around their home...Just for fun even if you don't eat them...Those are just a few of my favorite thing about fall...If you have the time stop by Early Work Mercantile tonight there should be a lot a fun new fall items to feast your eyes upon...Thanks so much for stopping by and for the kind comments...They make my day....                                                    Take care,                                                                       Nancy                            

                                                                         

 

Happy Fall!!!!!  Mary is at school safe and sound Jaxon has started kindergarten, the evenings are getting cooler, my pumpkins and tomatoes are finally starting to ripen....I am ready to start decorating with black and orange...Life doesn't get much better than that...But I have to say that I really miss Mary and Jaxon..My house is too quite and the girls bath room is staying clean...Never fear Katie will be home on Sunday for a week, I am sure she can take care of the clean bath room for me....

 

I thought I would share a few of the items I have been working on, first off is my Sampler Pumpkin...

 

I would like you to meet Harriett....I love her green face and the spider sitting on her lap....Harriett is a Ravens Haven design...

My last Pumpkin has a Sassy bird on the front....I think she is dressed in her best feathers for a night on the town...

 

 

These are the item I have been working on for tonight's post on TDIPT... Stop by if you have the time you might find just that fall decoration you are looking for.....

Thanks so much for stopping by and for your kind comments they make my day....
Take care,
Nancy

School Starts and Early Work Mercantile...

 I am a little sad that summer as flown by....My sweet Jaxon starts school tomorrow, I leave on Saturday to take my daughter  Mary back to college....Our home is going to be way to quite....I hate to admit it but Mike and I are super boring with out kids at home...But the good news is I have been spending every minute I can in my  sewing  room.....I am happy to say that it looks like a orange and black bomb went off in it...That is just how I like it this time of year...I have been working on  witches and lots of pumpkins...

 I have been punch needling like crazy....I find it so easy to take along with me when I am out and about....The best part is, punching is great for a long road trip...The pumpkin heads are all my original designs...

 This very funny witch is a design from Ravens Haven...She make me laugh...

These are the items I am listing on Early Work Mercantile tomorrow night...If you have the time stop by, there should be lots of fun items for fall...
I am off to draw more pumpkins to punch on the 12 hour road trip to take Mary to school....I can't think of any thing better than  being able to punch for 12 hours straight....I better make sure I have tons of floss...
Thanks so much for stopping by....Your kind comments make my day...
I hope you enjoy the last bit of summer...
Take care,
Nancy