Fancy Hat - Day 9

Sydney's concept on paper.

My square.

Day 8

Flea Markets Are So Great!

Timi knows how to throw a party! This definitely was the place to be Friday and Saturday. Wonderful vendors, and lots of great stuff. It was fun!! I'm pretty excited about the few things I bought. My first purchase - these fabulous pictures!
While shopping, I was immediately drawn to them, as I was pretty sure I have other prints by the same artist. The dealer must have noticed my interest, because she made me an offer I couldn't refuse! The prints now hang proudly in our tiny master bathroom.

Since finding the prints, I changed the direction I was headed with the embossart. I hung the two I have in the bathroom too, (and love them) but there's no need to get all crazy searching for more. Well, until the next flea that is..... Ha!

Squares 6 & 7

I'm having fun stitching a square each day. Both girls are having fun coming up with ideas for the squares too. I think Sydney has drawn enough ideas to fill up 20 of these samplers.

Their choice for day 6 - a mint chocolate chip ice cream cone. I'm bummed how it turned out. I think I should have started over since it turned out kind of wonky. We'll just say it's melting...

Day 7 - the ever cute sea turtle. Could you even tell what it was? Hmph - I think his head looks weird, but oh well.

Coming up next, sunshine!

I'm Stitching Along - 39 Stitches

Amy Powers stitch-along looks like to much fun to pass up! She has invited anyone to join her by stitching a square a day from March 1st to April 8th. To sign up, or just follow along, check out her 39 Squares blog HERE.

I'm playing catch-up since I found out about the stitch-along yesterday. I'm happy to say, I'm all caught up and on track. Whoohoo!

I chose a very springy pastel palette for my sampler. This will be a fun challenge for me, since I've never really done embroidery stitching. I'm already thinking I don't like doing a satin stitch - gosh, it's hard to keep those stitches straight and neat. Ugh!

Here is a breakdown of my squares so far:

Day one: a piece of vintage green variegated tatting

Day two: lavender daisy

Day three: cross stitch stars, tiny ric rac, and pastel beads

Day four: cherries

Day five: bunny

Time for me to check out the day 5 squares from other stitch-along girls - you should too!

1940's "Embossart"

Uh-oh, I kind of have another collection brewing...

Quite awhile ago, I saved the above picture from a pile my parents had headed to the Goodwill. What I loved about the picture (besides being from the 40's) is how the image is raised - kind of three dimensional like.

I have the picture hanging in our master bathroom now, awaiting something more to go with it. A couple weeks ago, I picked up the below picture at a thrift store. It's the same embossed type picture and for three bucks, I had to have it!

Now, I want to cover one wall in our tiny master bathroom with these kinds of pictures. I've been inspired by my mom's collection of very old pictures she has covering some of the walls at the beach house and her house in town.

I have a long ways to go to fill our small wallspace, but at least it's a start.

I'd have an even better start if somehow I could find a way to sneak this embossed picture off her kitchen wall...

Winter Daphne

Grandma's Winter daphne is blooming, and it smells so good!

Daphne loves sharing her name with a flower, so we took her picture with it today.

You know, when we named her, I don't think either hubby or I had ever heard of the Daphne odora plant.

I actually chose her name while watching a movie when I was pregnant. I loved the character named Daphne.

And no... it wasn't a Scooby Doo movie. Ha!