it took me long enough

well i finally finished a project i started some time ago. don't you love when you accomplish something like that? i do.
i started a project in november of 2009. on my old blog, the tink-n-frog i showed this picture:

this pattern was knocking around in my brain and just begged to be drafted out. i got the pattern this far and had even gotten a great deal of the wee creature sewn together before it went into hibernation. i kept running across this project and wanted to finish it. since it was meant for a christmas decoration, i thought this would be the perfect time to complete him. and i'm so glad to show you him today.

our middle son has named this wee fellow Stewart

he's a very clever and dapper fellow. i had originally planned on just having him visit for Christmas, but as long as it took the dear fellow to arrive i think he will probably stay on for some time. of course he will have to be fitted with a change of clothes as the time passes. i mean he would not want to be seen in his christmas vest all year long.

after seeing him, and naming him, the middle wee one has decided that he would like to have his own wee mouse. this of course means that i need to make one for the youngest wee one as well. you know in my free time. (grin)

cheers!

soft in the head about halloween

i'm not sure why but halloween is my favorite holiday. nope not christmas, nor easter, thanksgiving is so-so. i'm not sure if it's the implied possibility of magic happening, or the concept of being able to fly around on a broom. maybe it's the true beginning of fall for me. the corn mazes. the apple picking. the ability to start baking yummy things because the weather has cooled. i don't like the gruesome, ugly, commercialized concept of slasher movies and horror flicks bit of halloween. i'll pass on that stuff.

i mentioned in the last post that i saw these lovely and amazing beauties on flickr. they inspired me to create my own felt skullies bunting to display with my other halloweeny things. i finished the last one tonight. i thought i would show you the collective group before i sew them onto the vintage black ric rac i found recently.

the color is a little wonky in the photo because the skull on the bottom here, that sort of looks gray is actually a lovely pistachio color. i used glow in the dark embroidery thread on it. i'm not sure if it will really glow that much since i only used two strands. i'll have to let you know. i'm rather partial to the red, black and white ones. they seemed the easier to do. isn't that odd?

i am going to be sewing these to the ric rac after i complete this post. i'll watch one of my "fall" movies, bell, book and candle, one of my favorite movies (i seem to have several). kim novak, jimmy stewart, elsa lanchester, hermione gingold, ernie kovaks and jack lemmon. kim wears a beautiful red velvet dress that at first glance looks black. it's simple in shape and form, but the color simply captivates me every time i see this movie.

off i go to start stitching.

cheers!

mu-who?

hello my lovelies!

hopefully everyone is enjoying their day, or evening which ever might be the time of day for you.

i was poking around the internet and stumbled across this, muju. this is a close up of the center. isn't that amazing felt work. doesn't it just inspire you to get your felt out and start cutting. making intricate designs of layered colors? well???? or is it just me (blush).

i also found it rather ironic that the artist are currently residing in Cornwall. since our family has been deeply engrossed in watching the series Doc Martin on netflix. if you haven't ever watched this series i will warn you now and tell you it's highly addictive. after i got home from work one morning this week my husband told me that it was all my fault for showing him this show. he had ended up staying up all night watching several episodes.

and because of how the town looks in the show, my husband is walking around telling our oldest son that he wants to move to Cornwall, England (grin). he has also suggested that we move to Canada, become Canadian citizens so that we can go to England without passports.  of course i'm not sure how we are supposed to move to Cornwall, let alone to Canada and then England when we don't even have the funds to move to the western side of this bleedin' state. (sorry for the cursing).

but i digress (as usual). i just thought the muju creations were fun and original. so poke around the site and see if you don't get inspired. i'm off to try and do some embroidery work.

**update**
my husband went back to a garage sale to try and pick up an ostrich egg that we saw earlier. the eggs were all gone but he brought home a surprise for me instead. a digital camera. it's low mega pixels, like 1.3, but it might work better than the camera shy cell phone. i will just need to make sure the two of them don't meet and have a chat over a cuppa. wish me luck and now i'm off to play with my new camera.....(grin)
cheers!