Christmas Purse

This is my Christmas purse I made. I didn't think to take pictures of it when I first made it. A couple of days ago I was sitting at work and thought about it. It was hard getting good pictures of it as it is filled with all my stuff! This is the front.
This is the back of my purse along with the handles.
This is a close-up of a little pin wreath I made a few years ago. I usually wear it on my clothes but thought it looked cute on my purse!
This is a little hand project I decided to work on some. I had started it a couple years ago and had forgotten all about it till I was going through some patterns and found it tucked between them! So I decided I would work on it some.
Here is a close up.
This is a cute little angel pin I crocheted a few years ago. I got the pattern off the Internet, but am not sure from who. Sorry.

Green Fairy Wall Hanging

Yeah! It's Friday! Don't know if this is a good thing or not because tomorrow I get to take my two kids to go school shopping! We have to drive 70 miles to the nearest large town as they really do not have what the kids need here in our small town. When the kids were really little I could get most everything here. But now that Keith is 6 foot and has to have khaki pants and wears such a big shoe we have to go somewhere else to find them. And of course Tara cannot just wear regular school pants she has to have name brand ones! So off we will go. I always feel sorry for Keith as he hates going into the girly stores with Tara and me looking for Tara's clothes. I think we will hit the book store first and he can get the books he wants and sit on a bench in the mall and read while we shop! Or he could probably stay in the book store while we shop. Now I know this may sound crazy, after all the boy is 6 foot and about 200 pounds, but I worry about leaving him alone in a store! He is after all still only 14. Of course he does have his cell phone to call me should he need me. I have always been a very over protective mother. My kids have told me this on more than one occasion. I can't help it. It's in my blood!
The good thing about going school shopping is I get to go to the fabric store while I am there!!! That's my favorite part. Of course my kids don't care for going there. Oh well, they will have to endure since I have to endure all the other shopping. I hate shopping for clothes.
Below are two pictures of my Green Fairy Wall Hanging. One of the whole thing and one of a close up of just the fairy. If you remember from a few posts back I made a hussif with a photo of myself in the Green Fairy costume. I was in a play about Rumplestiltskin when I was 7 years old.
Hope y'all have a great weekend!

Tulip Quilt Blocks

Thought I would post these pictures of my tulip quilt blocks I am working on. I guess like a lot of others I go from one project to another. I get tired of working on one thing and switch over to something else. Then later I will come back to it. I started these blocks a few years ago. There are five different colors of tulips and 110 blocks in all! Each block will be a finished size of 8 inches. I am hand appliqueing them using the blanket stitch and matching embroidery thread. I know I will one day finish them. And they will make a lovely quilt.




I have a very dear friend who will be 86 years old on June 9th. She is still as sprye as ever! She has more energy than I could ever think of having. She still does all kinds of handwork and pieces quilts by machine. She thinks I am nuts to spend so much time doing my sewing and quilts mostly by hand. But I would much rather sew by hand then the machine. For one thing I really don't have anywhere to sew on my machine at. It is set up on my table in the den where my father sits all the time and it disturbs him for me to sew. So I try to use it as little as possible. Hopefully, one day I will have a room to put all my sewing stuff in and then I can use my machine more.

More Jacobean applique' blocks

Here are the other four Jacobean applique' blocks I have done. I do not understand why two of the photos uploaded sideways, nor do I know what to do to get them turned the right way. Maybe if someone knows they can tell me! I sure would appreciate it!

Saturday afternoon

Daughter T and I have spent the afternoon watching lifetime movies and doing laundry. Hubby was at work and son K was at a party. I've also been talking to my best friend throughout the day as she is in her 2nd day of driving to Minnesota. It is a long way from Alabama to Minnesota! She said she will be so glad to get out of that truck for good! She should be there by now. I talked to her last about an hour and a half ago and she said they had about a hundred miles left to go!

Above are some baby booties I crocheted for a lady who works with the same company as I do. Some friends and family are having her a baby shower tomorrow to which I have been invited. I also bought her a pack of 5 onesies to go with the booties. In case some don't know what onesies are they are little teeshirts that come down long enough to snap between the legs. Nice and cool for summer and easy to handle. I sure hope she likes them. I loved them for my babies.
These are 2 out of 6 Jacobean applique' blocks I have made. I ironed them all today and my best friend thought I was nuts ironing blocks in this heat! It is a scorcher today! We have the AC going but it seems to do little good for this 48 year old menopausal woman! One day I need to get some more blocks done to add to these and make a quilt! I did all these using needle turn
applique'. I just love it!

More close ups of Memory Wall Hanging

Close up of our house.
Close up of pine trees.
Close up of store that was 5 miles down the road that we went to.
Close up of wisteria bush. I love wisteria bushes. They smell great!

Close up of rose bush. My mama loved roses, especially red roses. So my piece would not be complete without a rose bush!

Memory Wall Hanging

I decided that my first post to this blog should be a wall hanging that I designed and made to represent a very special memory of my childhood. I hand appliqued, hand embroidered, and hand quilted this wall hanging.

When I was about 8 years old we lived out in the country. Not many cars passed along our road. One day my cousin and I decided we wanted to make some money. So we set up a table beside the road. The only thing we could find to sell were crackers and pecans! We only had one customer that day and that was my oldest brother, Keith (the thin boy). My cousin (the blonde) and me (the brunette) were so excited.

My brother was 16 years old at the time and so very sweet. Not only did he buy our crackers and pecans, but he took us up the road to this little store that was there to buy candy with our money. We rode there in the old blue truck.

My brother died at the age of 24 when I was just 16. He was such a kind and loving person and I miss him terribly.

The tree in the picture represents a Chinaberry tree that was by our house that we loved to play in and have Chinaberry fights by throwing the little hard green berries at each other. Boy, did they hurt!!

The little red flowers along the side of the road are clover. There really was no clover on our road, but I put it there in memory of another story. My mama loved to tell the story of how she was over at my aunts house when we all arrived home from school on the bus. My two girl cousins were all excited and telling my mama and aunt that there was strawberries along side the road and they needed to hurry up and go pick them. My mama knew exactly where they were talking about and told them that it was not strawberries, but clover! My cousins kept insisting it was strawberries and so finally we all got into the car and Mama took us to where they were at so she could show my cousins it really was clover! That clover still grows in the same spot and everytime I pass there when it is in bloom I remember this story.



Close up of my cousin, me, and my brother, Keith.