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Saturday, August 22, 2020

Crocheted Snowmen

Happy Saturday!

I haven’t posted my crochet projects the last few years so I thought I would show you my Snowmen I crocheted for family and friends. It’s a free pattern from Repeat Crafter Me.

I think I crocheted about 30 plus of these two years ago.

A friend suggested I crochet one with earmuffs so I did.

And my cousin suggested I do a pumpkin one.

What do you think of my little Snowmen? I still haven’t crocheted any for myself. But I will one of these days.

Friday, June 8, 2018

Hand Embroidery Time

I know it’s been quite awhile since I posted.

My life has changed dramatically and it’s too hard for me to talk about it now.

So, instead I will share with you some hand embroidery pieces.

I never thought I would enjoy hand embroidery (mainly because I have a sewing/embroidery machine) but it is soothing to do in the evening while watching TV.

This is a Bird Brain design before it is free motion quilted and with the binding.

My cousin is my teacher and thanks to her my checked border was perfect.

More will come later.

Thanks for visiting.

Monday, December 31, 2012

My Little Frosty Snowman

I had fun crocheting this cute, little snowman !

Meet Frosty the Snowman!

I thought Frosty's hat looked lonely so I crocheted a teeny, tiny flower for it.

Here's Teresa's "Crochet Geek" wonderful Frosty Snowman pattern (here) along with a video tutorial.

I didn't see her video until I was working on the head.

Duh!

I recommend watching it first.

She makes the best videos.

Not too badly done for my first one.

LOL!

Let me know if you crochet one too!

Saturday, January 14, 2012

I Love My Pandora Bracelet!

Of course I have a Teddy Bear and Snowman charm!

I've never been crazy about jewelry...that is...until I discovered Pandora!

Pandora has a wonderful website where you can join the Pandora Club. Once you are a member you can go to "My Jewelry" and list all of the charms you have purchased. It's a nice way to keep track of your charms.

And you can enter the charms you would like to have under "My Wish List". That's a nice feature for your loved ones to access for those special occasions like your birthday and anniversary. There's even an Pandora app for the iPhone too!

The red heart charm and Topaz bead (my birthstone) were the first ones my Hubby bought for me for Valentines!

It's hard for me to say which charm is my favorite.

I love them all!

Most of them have been gifts from my Hubby.

Thanks so much sweetie!

I call the coach charm "Cinderella's Coach"!

Both the Sea Shell charm and Cinderella's Coach charm represent my love of Walt Disney World!

So far I don't buy the gold ones because they are way too expensive.

But you can find less expensive charms in silver.

I "need" to add some more color...some pinks, yellows and oranges.

Beautiful!

I have a Teapot charm to represent my blog, "Teacup Lane"!

I love to wear my Pandora bracelet!

Maybe it's time to start another bracelet. LOL!

I have purchased a red leather bracelet that I will probably use for all of my Christmas silver charms. I'm lacking Christmas colors so I've been drooling over all the red and green glass charms.

What do you think?

Do you like Pandora?

This photo was taken with my Hubby's Canon Rebel EOS XSi with Macro Lens 100 mm

(the other photos shot with my Canon PowerShot S80 macro setting)

Friday, December 2, 2011

Cheap & Cute - Mr. Rainbow Snowman

Introducing Mr. Rainbow Snowman!

My new Christmas front door decoration.

I was inspired by all of the beautiful Snowman Door Wreaths shown on Pinterest such as these two...

Source: s22.photobucket.com via Teacup Lane on Pinterest

First I thought I would do the Snowman out of green wreaths which I thought would look smashing on the my red paper wrapped front door.

Source: sewmanyways.blogspot.com via Teacup Lane on Pinterest

But then I decided that white wreaths would POP even more with the red paper background.

So off to Michaels I went to hunt for the wreaths. Well, there were no white wreaths at all and there weren't green wreaths in the three sizes I needed.

Instead Hubby and I found some white styrofoam circles in the three sizes that would fit on our front door. I didn't want to spend a lot of money and I wanted something that would store easily out of season so home we came with the styrofoam circles.

Now to dress my Snowman.

The red and white hat is mine as are the cute Christmas gloves. And my crocheting bloggers may recognize my Rainbow Ruffle Scarf that I recently made.

Sorry I wasn't able to take photos as I worked on Mr. Snowman. First I tried to glue large magnets on the back of the styrofoam circles with styrofoam glue but that didn't work. So I got my Hubby's duct tape and duct taped the magnets to the back of the styrofoam circles. I also stuck some sewing pins in the duct tape and styrofoam to help hold the duct tape more firmly.

I cut out circles in black felt for the buttons, eyes and mouth and added an orange felt nose...glued down with styrofoam glue.

For the arms I used some small 4th of July flags sticking the ends into the styrofoam and rolling up the flag and putting the flag ends into the gloves.

I used several large magnets to hold the hat, gloves and scarf in place.

In the end the only supplies I had to buy was the styrofoam circles and glue... everything else I used were items we had on hand already.

In case you are wondering the red paper background is attached to the front door by magnets too. I hang it in our basement to the ductwork with the magnets when stored out of season.