Looking a Little Like Christmas, But not Feeling like Christmas

Here's some pictures from little areas of our home.

Pine cone tree, ceramic tree, and almost tree shape from mini stockings

I am a nativity collector.  I put several in the kitchen, den, computer room, my bedroom, bathroom, had to pack several of them away.

This is in the front hallway, on a bookcase.  An advent tree, You put one ornament on the tree each day until Christmas.  You can catch a glimpse of an angel my dad got me on one of his travels when he was on a ship in the Navy.  She is stuffed with a crinkly outside material and she has a ceramic head.  This elf that I found among my christmas stuff that we have had for years.  And one cute snowman, me and my mom both adore snowmen.

I don't know why this one didn't come out clear.  It is the cutest moose rowing a canoe, with a christmas tree in the canoe.  this is on the door to the garage.

This is how my mom hangs the old german ornaments.  On a line that my dad strung across from one plant hook to another.  Some of these ornaments belonged to my Grandma.  The red one with the green line around it has a leather strap to hang it from.  The pink ornament pictured by itself is one of only a few left from when we lived in Italy.  and I like the big red, green, purple and gold one even though my mom said she doesn't know where it came from!!!  My favorites from the german ones are the pine cones and walnuts, and of course the little boys (not pictured, there is one in blue pants, pink pants and gold pants) and the angel.

My mom displays her cards across the curtain rods in the kitchen, excuse the very 70's wallpaper, Yikes!!!!

Here is a little flower arrangement that I made for my end table in the den.  Also a very hard to photograph glass tree with glass ornaments, very fragile.  That was a very lovely gift to me for the beginning of the holiday season.  Also an above the door wooden painted santa that was a long ago gift to my mom.



A few decorations that are in my room, on one of my book shelves.  If there is anything that I love to do besides crafting it has to be reading.  Right now I am reading fiction books about quilting, and I want to try quilting something awful, but I am making myself wait until the new year!!! And just use the crafts I already know for the holiday season, which reminds me I am way behind, I'd better scoot!!!

Hugs, to all René

To Little Blue Mouse, I want to sincerely apologize for taking so long to post this.  I appreciated everything.

I put my name down for a pay-it-forward over at Little Blue Mouse and  I received this wonderful package.

She had a whole year to fulfill her promise but she quickly fulfilled her obligations with all these lovelies.

Beautiful Packaging!!!

Love the Card

I was so excited to receive this beautiful needle case, Love it!!!!

And this draw string bag is just lovely.  Also I received beautiful lavendar sachets and a wonderful thumb pincushion, which I didn't have pictures of for some odd reason, they were also lovely and very much appreciated.

 

The rules of the pay-it-forward are, that I need to find three bloggers who would like a handmade gift from me and who are prepared to do the same, and I have 365 days in which to do it.

If you want to participate all you have to do is just leave a comment on this post telling me your favourite colors.   I will leave this open until December 15 and if more than three people are interested, names will be drawn from a hat.

I promise it won't take me a year! 

Hugs,

René

 

Tomorrow I will be back with another swap post I am way behind on.

 

Also I have so many things I want to share I don't know where to start!!!  I guess the first place is with time!!!

Happy Thanksgiving

Just a quick post to share with you what I made for my Grandma for Thanksgiving

Here is the link to the turkey coaster/ornament

I owe several posts, received items, and a pay it forward post, also have several items to show that I have made.

Hugs,
René

Finally, a F.O. (Finished Object) Crochet

 Hello,

I finally have a finished crochet project to share.  This is a wheelchair wrap that I made for a friend's friend.

It is such a nice pattern to work with.  Then I made the flowers.  The one on the right is from Bunny Mummy's website, she links to where she found the pattern.  The other one I made a flower shape (the largest first, then made one a little smaller and stitched it on, then made one more smaller one and also stitched that one.  Today I found the buttons to put on the front of the flowers.

 

I went searching for what edging I could use, ended up back at Bunny Mummy's and used her v-stitch edging.  It went perfectly with the wrap because at each point in the wrap there is a v-stitch.



Here is the back of the wrap.  I was trying to show the pattern in the wrap.  It has open holes all along the bottom and also up the side, but it wasn't very easy to show in the pictures, and it was very sunny outside when I took these pictures.

I tried folding the wrap too, this might be the picture where you can see the holes in the pattern the best.

Here are close-ups of the two flowers and the backs.  I did not use the same yarn to make the flowers that I used on the wrap, but I believe they coordinate very well, I didn't know how well until in these pictures the flowers blend in so to the wrap, especially the backs.  Again I went searching about how I was going to put the pin backs on, looking for different options, seemed I remember seeing somewhere where the pin back where it gets sewn didn't show or was covered up after, but I couldn't find that way.  Again Bunny Mummy and Attic24 had examples of pins they made and showed the backs (thank you ladies) so that is how I finished my pins, and I am very happy with the way they turned out.

I need to turn my crafting attention to making crochet items for a bazaar in November, and hats and scarves for the homeless, and any gift making I am doing.  So I hope to have many more f.o to share soon.  I will return to my WIP's in January, and see what I can turn into more f.o's!!!!!

Hugs to all,

René