New Creations in My Etsy Shop!!

Unique collaged Cup Cozies to protect your fingers from your favorite hot beverage are the latest products in my Etsy Shop. I have used some of my fabric/paper to stitch up these fun holders that would make great little gifts for your holiday giving.

I have several more styles to add soon and you can see them all here.

This Cozy is made from painted canvas and the phrase reads: 'A woman is like a teabag, you don't know how strong she is till you put her in hot water"! This si one of my favortie sayings and I can think of many women who this might apply to!!

The Cozies fit standard disposable coffee cups and will slide onto many "Green" reusable cups, as well.

You will find several styles of my Shabby Chic Painted Linen Rose Brooches. You can see them all here.

This particular brooch is called Raindrops on Roses. Ther are several others that are not sprinkled with rain drop crystals. As the fabric to create these posies is hand painted ,no two are alike.

I have also listed my Sea Treasures Collage Necklace and will be adding more jewelry in different styles on=ver the next several days. You can see all the details regarding this piece here.

I have finally gotten my act together and taken pictures, done write ups and found time to reload my Etsy Shop!!! I have many new offerings and I hope that you might pop on by to check things out!!

One Can Never Have Too Many Roses!!!

Two things have jsut occured to me. First, it has been a long time since my last post, my apologies! Secondly I will be only three posts away from the Big 500th post when I complete this post!!!! I feel a Give Away and Thank You to all of you for reading, coming on!!! Stay tuned!! We have had a very busy week getting our eldestr son off to his first year of college! This has been a very large change for all of us, but so far so good!!! We ahve also been feeling chnages in the weather with shorter evenings and cooler night time temps. My Belinda's Dream rose bush is loving the change and showering us with lovely fragrant blooms.

This is also the first fall season that my Gertrude Jekyll Rose has put on a second show. The blooms are much smaller than Belinda's but the fragrance is almost twice as intense. Simply delightful!!!

Since my fabulous class playing with Soy Wax Batik, I have had the itch to dye and paint fabric. To that end I have taken scissors to a stained damask linen tablecloth. I cut strips roughly 1-1.1/2 inches wide and painted each one with Setacolor paints in a very mottled and haphazard fashion.

I was hoping to enhance the damask weave patterns in the cloth and give a very natural graduated effect to the coloration of each strip.

After I had dried and set the paint on each strip, I stitched a twisted each strip into a rose. It is quite hard to see in the pictures but in person, one can see the damask patterns and the varigated painting gives each bloom a very natural look.

I created individual leaves by stitching green painted linen complete with veining in Free Motion Embroidery. After stitching a double outline I cut out each leaf and stitched several blooms together to form brooches. After the construction was done , I covered up the messy bits with some beautiful vintage deep green velvet.

I delivered several brooches to Liberty Town and soon I will be adding some to my Etsy Shop!!!

It is amazing how many blooms one can get out of one large linen tablecloth.