June Cottage progress..

Going full speed ahead with a lot of color changes...more progress to come!

June Cottage floss toss

Here is the floss toss for June Cottage, which came in the mail last week. This took a lot of deliberating as I didn't care for the white color of the house. The green window frames and the red to me made it look more like Christmas. I decided to change the house colors almost totally. I'm happy with what I think it'll look like but it might be too drastic! I want to change the house to red with a black roof in addition to changing the window frames. I'll race through this one to get started on the July Cottage. It has just been posted on the Country Cottage Needleworks blog and that one is just adorable. I was really hoping that there would be fireworks and seeing the design I immediatly ordered some blending filaments to make them sparkle. I'm also excited because I'll soon have a giveaway to announce next week. Stay tuned for more on that!

Original colors of the floss toss, DMC 434, 436, 726, 3031, 3033, white, Sampler Baby Spinach and Cresent Colors Ladybug.

Colors I'm using, DMC 436, 726, white, 3371, Sampler Baby Spinach and Crescent Colors Ruby Slippers.

The top red is Ruby Slippers as compared to Ladybug, I much preferred the deeper red, Ladybug had too much pink. I chose 3371 because it was near black instead of 3031 which is more chocolate.



May Cottage Finish!

This one was a blast to do I had so much fun. I loved the little details like the bees and the bee hive. I added satin stitches to the bee hive, and blending filaments to the bees wings to make them sparkle. Other than a few tiny changes this one is pretty much as charted. I can't wait to get June, it's on it's way in the mail this week. Hopefully I can get started on it by Friday.

Some May Cottage progress

Well I made some progress but not going at my usual pace for sure. I have been on a "making fobs" kick and have 12 made so far, 14 if you count the two I am keeping for myself! They are fun to make and I love mixing and matching for different color combinations.
I am not sure where I will end up selling these..either online or possibly at a couple of my local needle shops if they are interested.

May Cottage floss toss and pretties..

First let me apologize for the not so great pictures, I went to use my good camera and the battery was flat. I have that charging now and hopefully will replace these pics tomorrow with some if the sun comes out. I put together my floss toss for the May Cottage and with NO SUBSTITUTIONS..can you believe it? The only changes I'll make on this one is flipping the clouds again and adding some Rainbow Gallery blending thread to the wings of the bees. It's the same thread I used in January Cottage's snowflakes.

What I'm really excited about is my new scissor fobs I've made. Over the last few months I've slowly gathered up some beads in peacock colors to match my scissors. Today I got them together..

Spring, Easter and May is here...

At least May Cottage arrived today along with a bunch of goodies I snagged online. I will post my May floss toss tomorrow along with a few pics of a side project that I've been gathering supplies for. Stay tuned for eye candy and till then here are some spring flowers blooming in our tiny "yardlet"..lol

Best Friends are Awesome!

My best friend is also an avid crafter only she has mad skills on the sewing machine. She whips up the coolest stuff both in whole quilts or smaller projects she finds to do. This weekend she made the coolest scissor keeps and made one for me too.

To thank her for making me such a nifty thing, I thought I'd put something together for her that would go on her new embroidery scissors (see above) that she recently got from her husband for her birthday. I put together this celestial themed scissor fob to go with the scissor keep she made. (Notice the little matching needle book too, so so awesome. I am very lucky to have such cool friend, I just had to share...