Bird & flower design

Wow...Friday already?  I am not ready for Friday.  Everytime I turn around...it is Friday.  I love this bird and flower design from an old magazine I have.  I have lots of Magazines....I am a hoarder when it comes to cool magazines. I also love this old scissors ad.  Look at the daughters grown up face on a small body...he he. 

My poor husband has more kidney stones...he is home and trying to rest.  My daughter is feeling sick too.... so I am nurse today!

Have a good labor day weekend!

Sweet Harvest

Hi Everyone!  It's a beautiful day in The Northwest. 

I am excited to show you the first pattern in a line of patterns I am creating....quick, simple, & easy embroidery designs..... and very inexpensive as well.

This is Sweet Harvest stitchery embroidery pattern.

Only $2.99.  All my little patterns in this line will be $2.99....yay!

I will have Halloween designs, dogs (I love dogs), cats (I also love cats!), Christmas, French themed designs, sweet girls, all the holidays (eventually)....and more!

Halloween goodies

I put on a few Halloween goodies on my Mrstiddlemouse ETSY site.

This WITCH is a sweetie!

She is half paper and half fabric!

Her face comes from my vintage photo collection...she is a sweetie. Her hat is paper and comes off if you want. She has vintage paper body that is hand painted. Her arms are tied on. She has buttons on her front and a fabric body that stands well. She also has a broom made from a twig and cheesecloth. She is signed and dated.
She measures: 11 /12" high. 3 1/2" wide.

Sweet 2 sided hanging decoration...swaying in the breeze

This is a fun Halloween hanging decoration...made by me ...and made to look vintage and old. There are two sides to this cool decoration....one is a witch that says "Black Hat society" and the other side is"Ghouls night out". It is made entirely out of papers ...construction, party streamers, and my own artwork that I designed. There is a little glitter as well. It has a string to hang.
Looks great hanging in a doorway, amongst your decor, and makes a great unusual gift.
This measures: 12" long ...not including string hanger.

The other side!

Needle felted Pumpkin 

Isn't he cute!

This is my Needle felted wool pumpkin- Jack. He is a OOAK! He is hand needle felted...with bright color and whimsy. He has purple eyes, nose and mouth. He has green wool leaves and a great stick stem. He measures: 5 1/2" wide...7 1/2" tall(including stem). Jack looks great all around home and also makes a great unique gift.

Halloween mouse pin cushion

This pretty mouse pin cushion will keep all your pins and needles close by. This is great for yourself, a friend, and as a gift. Mouse measures: 2 1/8" x 3 1/2" not including tail. This mouse has cool Halloween fabric...dark purple with jack-o-lanterns on it. It has a seam binding tail and glitter eyes & nose. This mouse looks great amongst your decor, tucked in a Halloween tree, on a shelf, or on your desk!
You know Halloween is popping up in stores...makes you think about fall!

I am ready!

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TricK or TReat Candy & SWeets

Gotta another new pattern out....she is a cutie!!

 This is a simply sweet lil witch....trick or treating with her bat friend who is giving her a candy corn for her pumpkin candy holder. This is quick to whip up, frames nicely in an 8" hoop, and super easy. This is a great design that is for Halloween, but isn't scary. She reminds me of a young Elizabeth Montgomery from Bewitched. 

I added a sweet glittery orange trim yarn around the frame...so pretty. Framed is ends up" 8 1/2" x 9". 

This new pattern is on my ETSY

and also on my PATTERNMART

It seems like fall just might be coming now...it has cooled off alittle.

We cooked hotdogs and marshmellows on our firepit last night...so much fun!

Enjoy the last days of summer!

Come to the friday flair at.....Whipperberry

Back to School freebie

Yay!  It's Freebie Friday!  It's time for Back to school....new clothes, new supplies, and new friends.  My daughter is entering high school...ninth grade...yikes!  She is really excited and has already got her class schedule which she loves!

This design would look soooo cute stitched up on black fabric and using white floss.  It would look like a chalk board!  You could use the old marking paper we used to use in Home Ec. to mark the design. 

It would also be sweet for a teacher gift.... as a pin. 

It is finally cooling off around here which is so exciting...too many days above 90...for me!!!

I have a new computer...since I was always fighting my old one.  It is great but I have to learn more things.  I threatened my old computer and now it is trying to be nice....ha!  I think my old computer put up with alot from me...he he he.

Have a good one!!!

Come to the coolest party at ....Whipperberry friday flair

Keep Calm and Wait for Halloween

This is how I feel....Keep calm and wait for Halloween

This a great Etsy Treasury.....full of Halloween goodies.....I love the vintage flair.

What a cool cat!

Yes...I would like treats in these babies!

Boo!

Yummy goodness!

I love crepe paper...so old fashioned!

Love this hat!

This sign would look so good in my kitchen!

Check out the Halloween items on etsy.....so many ....so awesome!

Take the good with the bad

 You've got to take the good with the bad, smile with the sad, love what you've got, and remember what you had. Always forgive, but never forget. Learn from mistakes, but never regret.

The above picture is my mom when she was a teen...she is on the left. She grew up in LaGrande Oregon.  She is gone now, but in her place I got my daughter...my mom died 20 days after my daughter was born. Sometimes you have to take the good with the bad :(

On the shelf with my mom is this cute lil skunk my daughter bought at a thrift store....she couldn't pass it by.  All these pics are of my shelf area in my livingroom....gonna take them down and redecorate.

Here is my mom with another pal...I made the memory heart from fabric she left me.... I added a yo-yo she made and some buttons and such.

My daughter gave me this....cute huh!

This is a huge kitty planter from goodwill.....this time it was me who couldn't pass it up.

Corny....but I love corny!

This baby is sweet....a little kitty pitcher with strawberries my friends Sue and Renee made.

I want to decorate for fall really badly....but it is so darned hot still....98 today...yikes!

Later in the week the weather man says we will get 82 degrees...I say ...yeah right!  I will believe it when I see it or when I feel it!

Meow!

It's Freebie Friday!!!!

I love kitty cats.  They give so much love!

I am going to practice drawing dogs....I love them too...miss my dog Linus.  He had a great full life. 

Right now we have three cats.....Lucky, Trix, and Froy.

Today is a great day to go to an ortho/dentist appointment for my daughter....yeah! Maybe the mall too!



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The day is young....

This cracks me up!  This would be so funny framed by your desk at work....lol. 

This sign is on my Etsy.  I also have this in blue.  They are digital signs...u print.

I love a good saying that is a different take on another saying.....I hope I didn't confuse you....I have a headache and it is making me wacky.

So funny huh....available Here!

One of my sisters lives in Salem....Oregon that is.  She loves the wicked witch on the Wizard of Oz.  I wanted to be the good fairy who looked like bubblegum.  My other sister got gum in her hair all the time....she would fall asleep with gum in her mouth and then wake up to find it stuck to her bangs....lol.  That was back when gum was like cement glue....ha ha.  So she was always having strange bangs....cause mom had to cut it out of her hair.  Poor mom....she had alot to do with five of us.

Here is where to find Salem. 

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True love lasts- hoop art



I have another sweet hoop art pattern completed...this one is a set of three!

Two inspirational quotes and a lovely girl with bouquet....she has beads on her flowers ...so pretty!

True love lasts stitchery hoop pattern on my ETSY.

She is a real sweetie! 3 beautiful designs to inspire a life well lived. The simplicity of the embroidery looks great framed in hoops. The set of designs are quick, easy, and fun to stitch up!  This is also on my Patternmart

come to the party...at whipperberry!

Back to School?

It is almost time for BACK TO SCHOOL. Can that be possible?  When it is 96 degrees...it seems crazy.
My daughter can't wait...she will be in high school.  Woot Woot!

My Cat quilt has a funny stitchery design....depicting kids going back to school.

This is a single design and also a design in a Big quilt.

Mini flash cards....so fun!
My preemie cards are on my ETSY

This is fun for teachers.

I got an old annual from the sixties at a thrift store....so fun to look at the pics and read the messages.

These are cute in scrapbooks....the first day of school pics we all take of our kids.
School in Washington doesn't start until Sept 5th....but I know others around the country are starting...so enjoy the rest of the summertime if ya can!

Halloween Owl & Pumpkins swag pattern

Halloween Boo Owl & Pumpkin ornaments swag pattern # 287

Bring back those old trick or treating days with this vintage inspired Halloween swag. Create these characters with muslin and easy painting & aging techniques. It is fun, fast, and simple.  Swag measures: 34" x 16".  Owl measures: 7 3/4" x 5 1/4".  Pumpkin measures: 5" x 7".

This is on my ETSY

 

These Pumpkin ornaments & Owl would also be great to hang around your home, great for party decorating, made up for craft shows, and Sweet on your door. This is also on my Patternmart

There are Cute burlap stems on the pumpkins and a burlap banner on the owl.

I love Halloween!!!

Spooky!   but cool!

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Transform TINS into pretty organizers!

Aren't these so pretty!!!

Believe it or not...these are ordinary tins you probably have around the house.  The kind that once had animal crackers, cookies, or pretzels in them....not too cute as well.

 You can also get these at garage sales and thrift stores for hardly anything.  I used a varitey of sizes...in the above organizer....I took off the top and bottom lids of the tins and set them aside.  The middle tin has a top still attached.  I glued them together with E6000...what a great glue!

Here are the lids from the other organzier and the center is a veggie can.  Glued them together too.  Let dry overnight atleast.

Paint.....yay!  I love this color from Krylon.

I sprayed both of them....many coats.

I added Fabric ribbon I have made (check out my Tutorial)...and a fabric rose.

Here is the spool from my tutorial.  Easy to make as well.

I decorated them up with trims, beads, and yarn....just gluing them in place with a hot glue gun.

I added my sewing goodies to the organizers.

This is the first organizer....with a secret hiding spot....the tin I left in tact with a top and bottom.

Come to the party...At Whipperberry Friday Flair!

Fun, Fun, Fun!

I bet you will want to make some now!