pushing daisies is BACK!

for a limited time only, but I'll take what I can get...


{sigh}

fake'in friday {& an announcement}

okay - so its taken me forever to get my act together but I think I'm ready to start selling prints of my photos on etsy :)

I still need to place an order for the prints {the above photo is of test prints I had made}...so I thought it might be fun to take preorders for specific photos that I might not have stocked normally. if you're interested here's the deal:

- go to my flickr photostream & copy the link for the photo{s} you're interested in. {hint - only pick photos with a doe-c-doe copyright watermark, anything else is not an original photo & therefore not mine to sell}
- convo me via etsy with that info and/or questions.

I'm willing to have pretty much any {copyrighted} photo printed but there may be exceptions...we'll just have to see.

each print will be $16 & shipping in the united states will be $4. to canada will be $5 and everywhere else will be $6. I think I will be able to safely ship 3 photos in one envelope for that flat shipping fee.

I will only be making 8x10 prints available...however, I'm setting them up with white around them so the actual image is about 5.25" x 7" so you could cut them down to fit a 5x7 frame if you wanted, like I did with the image of the thread in the white frame.

the deadline to preorder will be june 5th. you won't have to pay until the prints come in & I'm ready to ship them which will probably be around june 20th.

okay, there you go...end of announcement.

{have a great weekend!}

thursday = embroidery

I'm working on another large scale embroidery piece but dropped everything last weekend to make this pin for my friend wendi, using this pattern generously provided by barncat:



at about 4.5" its kind of too large to be worn as a pin though...oops! however, it looked pretty snazzy on her purse so I think we're okay :)

this week I thought I'd change things up a little bit and make the weekly vintage embroidery sample monogram related:




in total there are 3 frames & two {different sized} alphabets - just click on over to my flickr if you're interested.

happy stitching!

guys...in nantuk ombre

weekend photos

p.s. I used the pioneer woman’s 70's action {found via posie gets cozy} on these photos.

fake'in friday

and...before I take off for the long weekend I wanted to thank some people who were kind enough to mention this here silly little blog on their way cooler blogs recently:

the fabric shopper
one red robin
craft gossip needlework news
sew girly
hiving out
free people
whip up
craft

I'm always crazy flattered when this happens...and dumbfounded! it floors me that people actually come visit me & my men in belted sweaters here in this little corner of the vast internet :)

{have a great weekend!}

thursday = embroidery

I don't really have anything to share yet on my latest embroidery projects so I thought instead I'd show you a thrifted piece:


I got this at the thrift store for $4.98 the other day after work. I haven't put a battery in it yet to see if it works...I've just been admiring all the hand-work that someone put into it.




I've also got your weekly vintage embroidery patterns - this time its flowers from superior #154:




happy stitching!

men...in belted sweaters

buttons, mushrooms & boy scouts - oh my!

I went to a couple estate sales over the weekend & while in general there wasn't much to get excited about, I did manage to find some fun things:

some flowers

fake'in friday

{have a great weekend!}

p.s. thanks for all the nice comments on the deer - you're all so sweet to drop by here & then take that extra time to leave me your thoughts. I hope you know how much I love to read them & how encouraging I find them :)

thursday = embroidery

seriously, I don't know what possesses me sometimes...I decided we needed a big, embroidered deer head for above the mantle.

I used this vintage transfer:


to make this:


he's about 36" tall & 29" wide and is backed with 1/2" foam core.

I used #3 coton perle done in a chain stitch, which you can kind of see here:


I screwed up the eyes but I'm trying not to beat myself up about it too much...

moving on to today's vintage embroidery samples, which are from superior #125:


you can see the envelope & get more samples here.

happy stitching!

1983 ondori world of cross-stitch book

more photos of small thrifted things

it was a quiet weekend

happy mother's day!

wishing my mom : sue : mern : cill : jill : michelle : wendi : kelda and all you other moms out there a wonderful day.

fake'in friday

what's better than a good, old-fashioned church rummage sale?

a good, old-fashioned church rummage sale with a handmade patchwork sign advertising its location :)


{have a great weekend!}

thursday = embroidery

I found some big blue children's needles at joann's the other day & did this quick project using one of them:



I was inspired by this stitching instruction visual on one of the transfers I was scanning:


and what would thursday be without a vintage embroidery sample?! this week its 3 selections from Superior #169:




happy stitching!