My Mother came by for the Holidays and dropped off a few things. It was mostly full of lace and thick hard cheapy walmart 1.00 fabrics. I have packed most of it up and sent it off to Goodwill. I have kept a few items set aside to sell/trade. I was able to find a few vintage keepers for myself. Here is what I am keeping.





There are a bunch of those vintage ribbon and lace keepers in that box I am keeping. I am going to repurpose them. hehe.

Oh My looky! My friend sent me this. It was hers. Now its mine. I am so excited. I will keep this in my personal collection of favorite collectibles. I have already begun sorting fabric and getting a vintage vibe going. I so love the process of making something so retro and fun. Thank you Debbie! XOXO I so love it. Beyond Love and adore, is that even healthy to love some *thing* so much? (giggle)

My Dear friend Sheila gave these to me as gifts. I adore them so much. They are so tiny. You have no idea how tiny do you? About 4" tall. I am going to attempt to make them clothing. I want to dress them purty. I have not given them names. I do adore each one so much. Thank you Sheila for spoiling me! I adore them so.

The blonde gal came with dish sets. They are white with pea green color B on each piece. The Orange gal came with oodles of clothing and aprons and these adorable glasses she is wearing. She also came with her own stand. (I have to find more of those stands.) She is a Halloween doll. But she does not have to dress in Halloween clothing. I love how she has an orange star on her left cheek. I will have to show more of them and their goodies very soon. I so can't wait to play.

I want to take this time to wish you a Very Happy Holidays!


XOXOXO

Sherry

God Bless you all.
2008

Oh my. I got a surprise gift package in the mail yesterday from my Friend Vicki. Everything was all nice and wrapped up pretty. I have to wait till Dec. 25th to open. OH MY! However one was labeled OPEN NOW. Inside were these adorable like WAY adorable handmade cupcake ornies. I totally love them. They are so sparkly and pretty. They look AWESOME on my tree. I cant wait to see what else I got. Oh my. The wait! hehe THANK YOU VICKI! So super sweet to me she is. She totally surprised me. I had no idea. XOXOXOXOXOXO

1. I listen to a favorite song 2 times in a row.

2. I can look at anything handsewn and figure out how to make it in my head in seconds. The pieces just dance around in my head.

3. I never forget anything, yet I forget things all the time.

4. I miss my older sister and my younger sister. (hope they are ok)

5. Sometimes I play with dolls.

6. I never match my socks, unless going out.

7. I can't keep my hair one color for very long.

8. I have more friends online than in my hometown. (giggle)

9. Sometimes I need to learn a lesson twice.

10. I wander into the closet and play dress up.

Next time I will use my own binding instead of store bought premade binding. With Barbie everything has to be small. I am ready to make another one. This could be addicting. I would like to see a few outfits for the year tho. Making Barbie clothing is pretty annoying. Yet, I find it so interesting and addicting. Everything is so small so you are pretty much hand sewing. I found a couple of tricks tho. I will share them with you in a future post. I will even make my own Barbie doll outfit and pass that on to you as a freebie. I have looked around for a free Barbie pattern and no one seems to have one unless your a knitter. I am trying to make something easy and something universal so you can play with the style. Hopefully I shall have something for you soon. Work in progress.

My dear friend Mickey sent these to me. They are so cute. Thank you again Mickey! XOXO

I have purchased these cute prints for Christmas wrapping this year. I used my bird from my Wall Hanging Pattern Keeper to make the presents all mod. I love it.

I finished making Sleepy Jane Raggedy ANN Pattern today. I am now working on another pattern. Oh my CHRISTMAS is so around the corner. Are you ready? Have you done everything you need to do? I certainly have been busy. I have finished everything. I just need to wrap and make cookies. I haven't decided what cookies to make. What are you making? I just love holiday treats!

I am working on pattern for her. Isn't she darling? I love her little baby doll.

You can watch the whole movie on youtube. I adore this film. Robert Downey jr. is so cute.

I made this dress today. Its actually the second one made. The first one ended up in the trash. (curses my clunky sewing machine!) It so hard sewing small pieces when the speed of your sewing machine is set to one speed. Like HURRY up and go speed. How many days until Christmas? I really adore how the dress came out. I am making her a coat at the moment. I hope this one is easier with less cursing. (giggle)

and clean. After 3 scrubs and a dab of bleach, we got all the stains out. COMPLETELY! Yipee!

I went to Joann Fabrics yesterday just to pick up plastic snaps to sew on some barbie clothing I am making. As I was wondering around the store looking at all the pretty fabric, and dazing into a Oh I wonder what I shall make next thoughts, I saw this gripper. I have several of their products. They are a really good quality product. I have yet to experience bad with any of my purchases. Yet I was really nervous about buying this. Will it actually hold the fabric in place? Will it? My answer is YES it will. The gripper cost $29.99 However if you bring in your coupon for 40% that is always in the flyer and you can always find it online too. You can save 12.00 like I did. Now they did have an entire needle punch set. You can see it here. That is also in the store and is also $29.99. (use that coupon). I am not sure how this is. I will let you know tho. hehe I plan on getting it as a back up. It comes with 4 needles. 1 more than my Cameo Needle came with. It also comes with the holder. I am wondering if I can fit a whole spool of thread on there? I have spools of wool thread. I would rather use the spool than have to fill up the bobbins. You don't have to use the bobbins. You can just use DMC thread fresh from the little black wrappers. There is a tool you can purchase to wind up your dmc threads on to the bobbins. You can see it here. I can't say I would actually take the time out to roll each color up. Yet the design and the idea is very cleaver for you neat freaks. I totally love how the needle punch set comes in its own zipper case. I also like the feature of how everything has a place. My cameo is getting tossed around in my sewing basket in a baggie. This bugs me so.

Oh and its purple. (gush)

I found this doll nekky, dirty and alone. I quickly cleaned her up and dug into some vintage doll wear and pulled this outfit together for her. I dressed her in a handmade skirt that was made just for her. A vintage Aqua and white stripe bodysuit and a vintage night gown top. (fab-U-Lous DarLing)I did take off her skirt and give it a cleaning tho. You can notice the spots. I tried soaking it twice with mild detergent. But the stains were still there. Just lighter. So then I just applied a tad bit of bleach and they quickly started to get even lighter and most faded. Its now drying in the shower. I will update you with photos later.

Today I found these while thrifting. I was so excited. I have been looking for them. Lately I have been seeing them locally but most are charging PER ornie, which gets expensive. Depending on size and shape the price gets to be insane. I found all these and 2 more that didn't fit (the gold star sunken in ones) I have them set aside. I paid $5.00 for all. They are currently still on that table next to my bed. I am thinking of leaving them there so I can fall asleep and wake up to them. They are just so pretty. Oh memories!!

I picked up three sets of these wood stacking blank dolls at Michael's Craft Store. I now have four complete sets. I had already purchased one at the beginning of the holiday season when I saw them in September. I squealed actually when I first saw them. I have been looking all over for them. I never knew where to get them. I guess its just a holiday thing. Cause they were clearing them out for $4.99 and I scooped up the last of them. I am going to try and make them into pretty little mod, prim and repro nesting dolls.

Oh and those magazines are worth a peek and keep. They have some really yummy recipes in them and some great ideas and a few patterns for ornies for your tree. I adore the colors they are using. Maybe I can scan a few pages for ya? Maybe.


Matryoshka dolls are Russian dolls. Read more about where they came from here.

This is my personal favorite ornie that I have created for 2008 Holiday Season. I just adore it. I have a few of them I am working on for my smaller tree. I am offering you the pattern here for free so you can make one or some too. Enjoy!

Christmas Freebie pattern from me! Free Felt Ornie. You too can make this felt ornie. The pdf printable pattern is here. Its really easy and fun. I have been using them for package ties, ornies and gift giving! Enjoy!

I adore this Retro Holiday Table runner creation I made. I have already stained it up too with a little bit of Thanksgiving gravy. (giggle) I have the free pattern here to offer you. It's in pdf format. I have been wanting to use my vintage feedsacks for something creative and finally I found a use. I love how it looks when you turn it over. If the feedsack had a cute photo or saying I would have used that in the front of table runner. But I didn't find anything "Christmas" on the feedsacks I had. Have fun and enjoy!