Good Intentions Gone Right............

For my Anne Tea I had cut out over 30 little silky mice. I was going to give them to the ladies as their take home gift. Probably serving it on the plate with their plum pudding. :)

Good intentions.

Well, I did not get very far with that idea.......after the tea, I got 5 done and put a little bit of lavender in them to give to the girls who helped me serve.
So, since I have so many little silky funnels sitting here needing stuffed and crafted into something, I looked at them and came up with this........

Added little pearly beads and velvet ribbon and made them into Christmas ornaments.....

They hang in pairs from velvet ribbon attached with beads......

I am also working on these star ornaments.....

Calico on felt with calico on the back and a

blanket stitch.....in three patterns.....

All for the Christmas Boutique at my

Nutcracker Tea!!!

Take Joy.....

Yesterday, our Sewing Circle met at another ladies house and it is her birthday next week!! I made her this little hanging pillow.......with what I think is a very appropriate message for the times in which we live......

Little beads and velvet ribbon........

Another Year Older..........

The end of last month was my birthday. I had our Sewing Circle over to my house for our meeting that month and served them a Birthday Lunch!! The month before we had gone to another gals house for her birthday and had cheesecake.

I made pumpkin stew that you serve in the pumpkin, pumpkin rolls, pumpkin cheesecake, that glorius salad you saw back a ways with the butternut squash and spinach.....yep, I love pumpkin, and it was my day!!

One gift was this table runner, which I love drapped over my trunk that sits in front of my couch. This lady is affectionatley known as the "quilting machine", we are amazed at the quilts she can put out. She has something new to share with us every month.

This fun little tea ball was on the package of this next gift. I love it because it reminds me of tin punch.....so it hangs on a knob so

I can see it all the time. :)

This was inside........it matches my couch perfectly and has found a home perched on

the back of my couch!!

About the same time, my husband finished a cupboard for me that he had started years ago and had set aside. One day he brought home extra glass shelves from work. Another time he brought home plywood that had quarter sawn oak on one side.....seemed like a match to me! All he had to buy was the front face frame wood.......
Now I can get my tea cups out of boxes and onto shelves.....it will get a door some day with glass, but we must wait as
glass is not a priority at this moment....

Lovely tea cups all in a row......

When I began doing tea parties.....about 7 years ago....a friend had a "tea cup shower" for my birthday!! How fun is that!!!!