Lillie and Lulu Dryson

Well, my very precious week off from work has come to an end....what happended there then? Where did a week go? The days seem to speed by at an alarming rate!

I have so thoroughly enjoyed all the commotion over Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross, apologies to USA readers, but the news has been full of the goings on of these two. I am an avid Radio 2 listener and to have all the skeletons come out of the cupboard has been very interesting and made a really great change from the usual 'recession' news we have to endure.

But anyway, I wanted to show you what I have been doing in the week, here is 'Miss Lillie Dryson'. No idea how this was going to turn out, when I initially purchased the two envelopes last Wednesday. I placed the two ...one on top of the other and realised that attaching the two together with lace would look lovely. Wanted to use some of my own art work, so out came the tracing paper and liberty. The tracing paper being stitched is very fragile but strong enough to hold and I am very fond of the technique. The snippet of embroidered table cloth picked out the colour of the stamps and I finished with free machine embroidery. I Keep looking at it and smiling, as I am really pleased with it (smug so and so)!

Full of ferver, I moved onto an envelope from Portugal, opened it up and played at pretty much the same thing, this being Lillie's twin sister 'Lulu'. Dog called 'Lottie'! Try saying that after a glass of sherry.

Etsy here they come.

I have also made a couple of Huglies for the Christmas Craft Exhibition, I was telling you about. The one is made from chamois leather/chammy leather/shammy leather...ugh??? It was an absolute so and so to stitch, really thick and ungiving.

I also managed to pick up these beauties....the box was 30p, and I was so pleased to pick up a few more pieces of paper ephemera.

German.....

Unused.... both above and below are embossed and both extremely beautiful cards.

Talking of cards, I have also made quite a few greetings cards with free machine embroidery. Using some of my old card designs, I drew these with the machine. I find free m/c embroidery really hard going on the neck and shoulders. I don't know how jackie gets on doing all her beautiful work, which must take her hours, without some sort of crippling neck and shoulder pain! AGONY!!!!! I always find my shoulders are up by my ears, when I have done!

Got to attach these now to a blank card.

And carrying on from my post where I had crocheted a necklace......... well I'm hooked! I'm crocheting all of my precious beads and buttons into necklaces!

Thought I would try these next. Being an avid button collector, I have hundreds of 'brown' buttons of every shape and size , which are difficult to incorporate into the kind of thing I do, so maybe I could use them in necklaces.

Well, I have lurched from one item to another for long enough and I thank you very much for taking the time to visit. x