Some more mail and ornaments

Hello everybody! Yesterday brought another ornament in the mail from the Ties That Bind exchange. My partner was Leeanne . It reminds of a vintage Christmas post card. The fabric is sort of a salmon colored pink which adds to the vintage look.Very nicely done Leeanne!

I got my tree in the kitchen set up. I mainly decorated it with things that you'd find in a kitchen. I used gingerbread men cookie cutters, little tiny candy canes that my sister made me, the cookie and s'more man ornaments that I made, along with other things that would compliment the tree. Yesterday I felt that the tree needed a little something else so ...

... I made this little gingerbread man. I just adore him! You can't see it in the picture very well because of the flash, but his nose is pink and not white like the rest of the 'icing'. I didn't have any garland for the tree but I did have some ribbon with candy on it that I thought would be perfect for it. I also had some Christmas candy fabric that I used as the tree skirt. You can kind of see it in the picture above.

I've been working on ornaments for our own tree in the living room inbetween the stitching for exchanges. This first one is one I'm sure a lot of you recognize from Blackbird Designs. I used a 'B' initial as that is what our last name starts with. The stitching was faster than putting it together!




This next one is a freebie pattern from The Drawn Thread titled 'Home for the Holidays'. I just love how it turned out. I wish I had gotten a closer shot of the beadwork...maybe tomorrow.

This last one is from Little House Needleworks that was in last years JCS ornament issue. I'm usually not keen on religious designs because so many of them seemed to be on the tacky side.Shouldn't something like that be more on the elegant side? I think so anyway and I find very very few I like. I think Diane did a great job with this one.

Well that's it for today. I hope you are able to fit some stitching or other crafting into your life today.It makes the day so much brighter! Thank you all for all your wonderful comments. Keep 'em comin' !

'til next time,

happy stitching!

Sharlotte