Stitching, stitching, more stitching and loving it!

I wanted to try something new and I couldn't resist these little stitchery pillows!

I had some muslin that I tea and coffee dyed with a little bit of vanilla. I couldn't decide if I liked tea dying or coffee dying better soooo I put them together and it's perfect. When you can't decide choose both. The stitcheries were fun to do and making them into little pillows made them come alive. The patters came from Olde Time Stitchin .

I had a few little punchneedle pictures left from my craft fairs so I'm going to put them on ebay this afternoon. I just love these little pictures you tuck them anywhere. I just draw the picture on the punchneedle cloth and work on it until I finish because I can't wait to see how it's going to turn out. No two are the exactly the same because each picture is drawn freehand.

I love sunflowers!

And the color pink!

More sunflowers...did I tell you I love sunflowers?
I've put more penny rugs on ebay and some dolls with great starting prices for auctions and buy it now.
I think I'll add these pillows too.
Click here to see my ebay offerings.

Here's the pillows I stitched this weekend and made them up into pillows yeaterday. Do you think they need anything else? I like them prim but not too prim. Should I add buttons, bells, rusty pins, fabric bows.....? Should I dye them more? What do you think?
I found the "love my dog" stitchery at Samantha blog click here to visit her blog...she also has a giveaway going on right now.

Happy Stitching,
Leanne

We're Going To The Super Bowl!!!!!!

Packers are going to the Super Bowl!!!!!What a great game!

I'm loving the celebrations!

Now to plan the Super Bowl party!

Go Packers,

Leanne

Packers vs Bears...It doesn't get better than this!

Guess where I'll be on Sunday?

Sitting in front of the TV, with my family,

All snuggled up in my Packer gear.

Watching my favorite team...The Packers....play da Bears.
This is a huge game for the Packers.
There will be no cars on the road because everyone will be watching their favorite players....
Arron Rodgers
and Clay Matthews battle da Bears.

I'll get thirsty so I'll have a beer or two...

and of course some snacks.
I'll bring out my Packers helmet chip and dip bowl.


The kids and some friends will be here to watch the game so
I'll make a few appetizers....
no not this one...lol...but I just love how this looks.

I might make this mushroom and cheese stuffed bread...it's yummy.

For sure we will have cheese....

and more cheese.

We'll have some brats....

and burgers.

and watch our Packers!!!!!

Here's a song to get you in the mood....

Song

it's an oldie but a goodie.

Go Pack Go!!!!!!

Enjoy your weekend,

Leanne

Raggedy Red Annie And More

I love red head Annies!

And I love how this Annie of mine turned out!
I designed her myself...I can't believe I did it but I did...designing is for talented people that can draw.
I love sewing Annies!I laugh every time I look at this School Girl Annie!

I made her from a pattern from Maureen at SweetMeadowsFarm.

Anybody feel like that when they were in school? I did...lol.

I love how this penny rug turned out!

I made while I watched the Packers vs Bears game.

Packers won!

It makes for a happy week!

I made this one too!

And all these!

I've posted these things and more on ebay.

Click here if you would like to see everything.
I'm also starting a selling blog
Click here to see my selling blog.

Enjoy your day,

Leanne

Ringing in the New Year

Wishing you all a year full of joy, happiness and good health!

We were looking ahead on the calendar and there are a few fun dates

tomorrow will be 1/1/11

and in a few weeks 1/11/11

and in November 11/1/11

and later that month 11/11/11

Lots of ones...maybe one should be my new lucky number!

Cheers,

Leanne

Sharing Some Christmas Decorating Pictures

Now that Christmas is over I have a little time to share some pictures of my decorated house.

I love decorating for Christmas!

Bringing out all the decorations that I have collected over the years and adding some new finds.

This is the top of the refrigerator.

The little elf was made by me about 15 years ago and the polka dot present cookie jar is new this year. I love polka dots!The top of the hutch in the kitchen. The cookie jar that the tree is in was my grandmas it didn't have a cover when I got it so it makes a perfect pot for the mini tree to go in.
Nutcrackers that were painted by my mom. She painted them for Jack.... what a wonderful gift.
The Santa sign behind the nutcrackers was painted by me.

The top of the hutch in the dining room.

On Christmas Eve before our guests were about to arrive I needed some kind of decoration for the kitchen island. I cut the cedar from the tree outside and placed it on the bottom of a plate. Then I took the tangerines that were in a fruit basket and sprinkled them with cranberries...the perfect decoration. It took me about 5 minutes to put together and I got so many compliments on it. See I do work best under pressure.

The dining room table before dishes.

The Christmas tree after Santa came.

The dining room table all set and ready for guests. I had the kitchen table set too but didn't take any pictures. Notice the color of the walls and the new drapes. If you look back to some of my earlier posts you can see the room with wallpaper.

That's all I have for now. I'm keeping everything up until January 6th when I have Bunco. I'm not sure we'll play Bunco...maybe we'll have game night. We played Tabu, Catch Phrase and Apples to Apples over the holidays and had so much fun I though it would be fun for the Bunco girls too.

Enjoy the rest of the holidays!

Leanne

Dining Room Makeover

Dining room with wallpaper....

I have to say I loved this wallpaper but it was time for a change.

Below the chair rail was a burgundy sponge painted looking wallpaper.

Burgundy valances cover the top part of the windows.

What was under the wallpaper...

Pink Walls!

and more pink walls...

not a good color for the dining room.

Bring in the painters...yaaa right!

Did I mention I started this project December 1st.

I will post pictures of the after soon.

I will also share Christmas pictures too.