Ornament Finishing

I'm definitely a slow poke finisher.  One day spent finishing these 3 ornaments.  Sheesh.  Guess I need more practice. 

Anyway, first up, Little Flake Tree.  I was going through my ric rac from Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe
and this turned out to be the perfect match.  A turquoise gray color.  Going through my blue buttons I found a cute little one just right for the top. BTW, get yourself over to the Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe to sign up for her giveaways.  She is very generous.

The back is nice and sparkly.

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This is the iStitch piece.  I used a thin chenille trim from Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe that was the perfect red.

And the back, all ready for the recipient to remember who, what and when. The colors look washed out in this picture but they are really nice and vibrant and the gold in the fabric shines.

This was by far the easiest to put together. (I'll have to remember that for next year.)

This was the most difficult to figure out.  36" pieces of floss are not going to make cording long enough to go through 2 little cushions and then loop through a scissor handle as a fob.  Just sayin'.  Directions for putting this together were seriously lacking.  Clear directions are worth their weight in gold, aren't they?

You HAVE to try your hand at one of these button tassels.  This was the easiest part of the whole thing.

I'll show you the back of the larger cushion after Saturday's Christmas party.  This is for my secret stitcher and has our initials on it.

I finished the Merry Christmas bird in a whole different way.  Not an ornament at all.  Nan's Needlework Notions  taught me a finishing technique this past summer and I'll show you that soon.  I love it.

Marsha

Happy December!

Today is the 2nd day of December.  What a great day!  It is my daughter's 29th birthday.  I can not believe my third child is celebrating her 29th year.  I remember the day she was born.  I spent a good part of her labor in the bath tub at home.  Our good friend came over to watch our two boys and was extremely nervous that I wasn't rushing to the hospital.  It was a very very cold night.  I also remember my buzzer didn't work in the hospital room and Rich had to run to get the nurse.  She came in and had to run to get the doctor and when he walked in he turned to wash his hands, glanced over at me and then ran over to the bed.  I remember hanging halfway off the bed (no epidural) and being helped back on the bed when she arrived.  The funniest part was me excitedly telling Rich "It's a GIRL" (we were convinced I was going to have a 3rd boy) and him saying "no it's not" and then me saying "Yes it is - LOOK!"  We named her Dana but I kept calling her Sarah for two weeks, 'cause I had really wanted to name her Sarah.  Funny how you remember all those silly things.

So, now that you're bored to death, here are some pictures of the fantastic giveaway that I won from Faye over at Carolina Stitcher.

Anticipation....


What a generous surprise!  Not only the scissor fob but the scissors too, AND an ornament.

Look at that stitchy goodness.  Satin stitched spools of thread in shades of red.

A perfect, fussy cut backing

And that button finishing detail with a silver charm on the end.  I really do need to copy this for a friend.  What an awesome idea and not hard to do.  I hope you don't mind Faye that I NEED to try my hand at this. It's one of the coolest ideas I've seen.

My added surprise.  A wonderful new ornament for my bird/cross stitch ornament Christmas tree.

Hopefully, you can read it.  That star button is the perfect added trim.

And look at the piping.  Lovely.

Thank you very much Faye.  I loved winning your generous giveaway.

Marsha