Need A Needle Minder?

Something new in my Decorative Sewing Pins & More shop on Etsy.  Needle minders are great for all your stitching projects whether it be cross stitch, embroidery, or hand quilting. There is a very strong lightweight Rare Earth magnet attached to the decorative minder, which you put on the front of your fabric. A second external magnet is placed behind your fabric to hold the minder in place. 

Using my stash of vintage Mary Engelbreit fabric, I have created a pair of Floral magnetic needle minders. My needle minders are each individually handmade, therefore each one will be slightly different from photos shown here.
 

These needle minders provide a place for you to store your needle when it is not in use. No more wondering where that needle went to until your foot finds it in the carpet. Not too big and not too small, this 3/4 inch needle minder is perfect for large and small projects, or get one for each of your projects.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look! :-)

New larger pincushions with decorative pins

I've recently created a few new pincushion designs that are a little larger than my original collection using my Mary Engelbreit fabric stash.

The new designs measure 4.25 inches wide by 3 inches high (not including the pins in the height).  Each one comes with 6 of my decorative flower pins.

You'll find them available in my Etsy shop here.  Thanks for stopping by.

Crocheted Cuff Bracelets

Something totally new! This time I've designed a few crocheted cuff bracelet.  Bright colors, beads and whimsy...what more could you want?  These are truly one of a kind, whimsical, statement bracelets. Lots of hours involved in creating these beaded pieces of fiber art. 

Little cherries, scalloped and picot beaded edges all made by hand.  I started out with some mercerized cotton thread, slipped on some beads, sewed on a few buttons and this is what I ended up with.  Cheeky Cherry Red bracelet here 

I'm calling this cuff bracelet "Urban Aqua Blue & Red".  My "hand model" shows you how one of these crocheted cuff bracelets would look on your wrist.  I'm loving this color combination and all the little dangle bits!  This design can be found here.
As always, thanks for stopping by...

Shopping & Creating

I'm not much of an after the Holidays bargain shopper but when Lucy mentioned on Facebook last week that Mary Engelbreit had some cute stuff available at Michaels Crafts for Valentine's Day that was all the inspiration I needed to get out and go see. 

What do these remind you of??  I found these little Cherries (at least to me they are) in the Christmas stuff mark down from $1.29 a bunch to a quarter each.

Cute little ME Valentine take out containers are available for .99.  The pink decorated clothes pins were marked down to .60 for the package.

Lots of cute stuff in the $1.50 bins like the Mary Engelbreit stamps in the first photo, several designs of cross stitch kits, and the mini scrapbook paper packages.

I picked up a couple of the little wooden bird houses for $1.50 and was inspired by the ME paper.
 

 

First I painted all the edges with some white acrylic paint.

Then it was cut...cut...cut...and glue...glue...glue.  Did you see the little window boxes on the sides of bird house?
Once all the glue dried I put a couple of coats of Mod Podge over all of the paper.  I still need to add a cute ribbon to hang the bird house with.  I forgot in my rush to get photos for my blog post.
I'm happy with how it turned out.  Next I'll work on making something with the mini Mary E. cross stitch kit.

Thanks for stopping by.  I'm linking up with Sue at It's A Very Cherry World.  Stop over and visit to see all the red that everyone has shared for "Rednesday" at Sue's blog.

Rednesday

I'm happy to have something RED to share with Sue & everyone for Rednesday this week.  Pop over to Sue's blog "It's A Very Cherry World" to see what else is being shared for Rednesday.

Last Thursday I was coming back from a job interview and I stopped to see a former customer. She wasn't in, yet, so I popped into the Lifepath Hospice Thrift Store next door to kill some time.

Look what I spied on my quick circle around the store...Cherries!  I bet you think I paid $4.49 for this little treasure.



Well...you would be wrong my dear friend.  That little yellow line through the price sticker meant that it was 75% off which made it $1.12 + tax=$1.24.  Such a deal...ehh??

I even found these three little glass cherries in the bottom of the jar when I got it home and looked at the contents. Score!

I found PicMonkey...

As a blogger I know it's all about the photos. Nobody cares about the words I write. They want to see what I have to share.

I've been trying to catch up on my favorite blogs today when I buzzed over to Sweet Bee Cottage. Janelle has shared a cool site called PicMonkey. She told me that I had to drop everything and go check it out. So I did and the creation above is what became of my playing around for just a few minutes.  It's like having your own photo editing software online. It seems some of the peeps from the old Picnik website, that recently closed up shop, have created this new dynamic website www.PicMonkey.com They have an awesome sense of humor, too.

This is what the photo started out looking like. I finally got around to photographing the Cherry keyring that my friend, Heather, from Dragonfly Lampworks designed a bead for. It's the cutest little thing with Cherries on both sides. Now I just need to "get around to" placing it in my Artfire.com shop for sale. So many things...so little time...
Do go by and monkey around at the PicMonkey photo editing site. You'll have fun.

Some Creative Time

It is such a beautiful morning here in Tampa today. I'm sitting on my front porch enjoying a cup of tea while listening to the birds sing. Life is Good! We had a mini "cold front" come through after a little rain on Thursday and the temperature is just perfect outside. There is just the nicest breeze out to make it all that much better.

A few weeks ago I pulled out the ole Cricut Expressions to try my hand at a card that I have seen pinned on  Pinterest. There is a wonderful video tutorial here if you are interested in seeing exactly how the original was created. You can see that I made it my own using totally different paper and accents.
I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend.

WANT!!

Source: unamorecustomshoppe.com via Cherry on Pinterest

I've been poking around the Pinterest website, again. I came across this fabulous custom Kitchenaid mixer. Sure beats my boring white one. Such envy I now have!

Polyvore Cherry Favorites

I've been playing around this afternoon over at Polyvore.com where I created this collage of photos. It's been fun but I'm still in the learning phase with this being my first creation. You can bring together photos from all over the web to create your own Design boards. Check it out and let me know what you think.
It's not as easy as "pinning" on Pinterest but it is fun.
I hope you have a fabulous week of creativity.

Things I Love Thursday ~ Cherries

1. Hand Appliqued Cherries, 2. bowl-of-cherries-apron, 3. Ice Cream Cookies, 4. Marc Jacobs - Cherry Watch, 5. Checked Cherry, 6. Little Cherries Vintage Baby Blanket - Personalzied Baby Blanket

I participate in a group on Flickr where we share mosaic pictures on Thursday of Things We Love. This week I have made a collage of cherry photos from a number of members. Check out the group TILT on Flickr.com to see the collections of other members.

Red Kitchen for Rednesday......

Ms. Cristina's kitchen continues around the corner to this very RED wall.(see Monday's blog)                

This display of RED is on top of her refrigerator just to the right of the RED wall.

One time when Ms. Christina was up for a visit with me, we went "junking" in a cute little town called Dade City. We found this plain little birdhouse in a store. Ms. Christina looked at me at said "Make it Mary Engelbreit" for me. Soooo....I did. I painted it, decoupaged some giftwrap on it, and bought some little minitures to add to the side porch.

Then I made a little "bowl of cherries" out of polymer clay to place on the porch bench. What I failed to do is dust it off before I took this picture so don't enlarge it and look too closely...lol.

Here's a close up of the wall view shared yesterday. Still more RED.

Here are the ME "Cherries" place setting for eight that I picked up from my friend on my trip to Ft. Myers. Also, some of my enamel ware Cherry mugs and my Cherry glasses. They fit right at home in my kitchen...right?

Please join all the wonderful bloggers at SueLovesCherries to share in Rednesday.

Things I Love Thursday Mosaic....

It's time for sharing a mosaic of pictures from Flickr.com...Cookies this Thursday! Yum!

1. Spring 2010 Wedding Dress Cookie Collection, 2. Easter Bonnet Cookie Pops, 3. Petit Four cookies, 4. Rose fondant cookie lollys, 5. Easter Flower Basket Cookie Pops, 6. Painted butterfly cookie 1, 7. simple valentine cookies, 8. Embossed cookies, 9. Cherry Onesie Cookies, 10. Jack O Lantern Cookies, 11. Jack Skellington cookie lollies, 12. Flower cookie collection 3, 13. Ice Cream Cookies

Make sure you enlarge the photo so that you can see all of the wonderful detail in these little pieces of art. I think that they're too pretty to eat.

Sharing of the Red on Rednesday.....

I'm linking up with Sue & the ladies over at It's A Very Cherry World today to share my Red with everyone. I'm going with Sue's theme of sharing how I "express" myself with Red in my daily life. Below you will find screen shots of the various pages were I have presence on the web. Now that I've gathered it all together it makes me realize how much time I spend on this computer. Yikes! Fortunately, it's from the comfort of my couch...lol.

#1 Would be my blog page here....obviously it meets the Red criteria..... 

#2 Is my Google account Home Page....love those cherries from Betsy Johnson....

#3 Is my Twitter Page...yep, got Red there.....

#4 Is my Yahoo home page...it's got that bordello Red look to it I think.

#5 Is my Shutterfly.com page....

#6 Is my Cherry Chick Jewelry.com website....

#7 Is my original website Cherry Chick.biz.....

#8 Is my Artfire.com shop.....

#9 Is my Etsy.com Shop.....

#10 and last is my computer desktop...if I knew how to get a background on my Photobucket and Flickr accounts I would have 12 but I think 10 will do just fine...someone might think I was obsessive if I had that many. :-)

Please make sure you jump over to see all the other blogs linked at www.Suelovescherries.blogspot.com  where everyone is sharing their Red for Rednesday.