I just looked again at my first Shaker Box. I always was admiring the Boxes when I saw them on the web. My friend Laurie helped me to buy a special one for a special project. The top of the box is a solied piece of wood. It´s from a cherry tree, downed during the Hurricane of Isobel. The tree had "spalting" in the grain, and so this box is one of a kind.
And I also got a little box for a scissor and a thread pallet. I´m looking forward to line the box in a special way.
Mercredi 28 décembre 2005
I really have no stitching time at the moment, but this Catherine Agnes by Indigo Rose is so much fun to stitch. So I did a little progress on it yesterday. So now how it looks after stitching two days on it.
Yesterday I had a new start. I started Catherine Agnes by Indigo Rose. I totally forgot how funny and fast this Indigo Rose designs are to stitch.
Here´s my progress after day 1. I think I´ll stitch on this till it´s finished. So hopefully it will become my first finish in 2006!!
Catherine Agnes progress after day 1
Dimanche 25 décembre 2005
I stitched "For a Special Stitcher" and "For a Dear Friend" by Elizabeth design and finished it as a needlebook for my friend Susan. Now I got the message that it´s arrived.
needlebook front
needlebook back
Vendredi 23 décembre 2005
I just pulled out all my items for decorating the tree tomorrow. DH really brought the most beautiful tree today. I´m really satisfied with his selection!
I have a wide range of Christmas decoration for the tree, mainly glas balls in the different colours. Each year the familiy don´t know how our tree will look like. Taditional with straw stars, or white and gold, or coloured........??? I love to choose every year a different style of the tree.
When I looked through my Christmas decoration I just found little wood crisp boxes which a girl friend painted for me years ago. It was at a time when children were very young and they always wanted a tree with a lot of chocolate and sweets. I don´t like the look of chocolate at the tree, so my friend made this boxes for me. They are very little about 3 - 4 cm (1,2-1,6inch) and they have a hanger for the tree and you can open them and put sweets inside.
I think they maybe would look nice too with a stitched cover??? Maybe I´ll make some for next Christmas!
I used the last month of the year to do some progress on Watergarden by Chatelaine. I´m still up to 18 Wips, and when I´m doing a little progress on my different WIPs I think they are not called UFOs :-)!!
Soon the Christmas holidays will begin and I think I´ll celebrate them maybe with one or two new starts
:-)!!
But it´s so hard to decide which project to start next. I´m not sure what I´ll beginn?? Maybe Catherine Agnes by Indigo Rose, or one of the needlwork accessoires designs I have in my stash, or maybe a new sampler???? Or maybe I´ll spend some days without stitching???
I would love to know how much WIPs everybody has in their working basket???
Today I got a wonderful Chritmas package from my dear stitching friend Laurie.
She sent the most loveliest, tiniest, cutest, prettiest Christmas Stockings I ever saw!!! I love them!!
Can´t wait to decorate our Christmas Tree. Usually in Austria the tree will be decorated briefly before the Christmas evening. The tree is a surprise for all the little children. Our daughters (18 and 10 years) always want to be surprised too.
So I have to do the decoration in the afternoon of the 24th December. Nobody may go into the living room, At the evening a bell rings and the "Christkind" brought the Christmas tree and all the presents.
I think we will stay on this tradition till my daughters will be merried :-).
I stitched "Oh Christmas Tree" by Drawn Thread and finished it as an ornament. I stitched it for a Christmas exchange and now that I heard the recipient received it I can post a picture. It´s stitched with silks on 36 count linen and it really was a fun little stitching with all the speciality stitches.
Vendredi 16 décembre 2005
Today I got a wonderful Christmas package from Rachel. And if you know me, I never can resist to open my packages earlier :-)!!
Rachel sent me Amy Mitten silks which I always wanted to try but never got the opportunity to buy them, wonderful silk ribbons which I love to use for finishing, a wooden needlecase and a thimble for my collection.
And she made this wonderful needlebook with the Tokens and Trifles perforated paper cards. I saw this on the web but never thought how much more lovely it looks in reality. It´s really beautiful and an a wonderful heirloom needlebook!
And last but not least she made a wonderful scarf for me. It really fits gorgeous to my winter outdoor jacket, isn´t it :-))?? The only wearable cloth in the moment to go out! Here it´s snowing and it´s cold and stormy!!
I love how my stitching small collection is growing!!
I started some of the big Chatelaine Mandala Gardens (Watergarden, Taj Mahal and Egyptian Garden) and didn´t make progress on them the last months. So slowly they were on the way to become UFOs. But after I spent some days on vacation in an oriental region I got into the mood to decorate a part in my home in an oriental style. So I pulled out my Gardens and..........cracy like I am *lol* signed up for the new Chatelaine Mystery IX! Today the kit arrived (right in time to give it to me by myself as a birthday present :-)).
No idea if this oriental feeling will continue till one of this gardens will be finished!! But that´s me, always without self control :-)!
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