Buying Handmade/Buying from Lynn!

Look at this gorgeous ornament!

I love love love it!

It is made with the softest, sweetest yarn ever and the stitches are perfection. 

I wish you could see it up close. 

 (Please right click to see the details!  It is worth that extra step.)

It is soooo stunning.

When I saw that she had one on her recent post, I HAD to have one.  She had designed a hat, doll dress and booties for me this summer

so I knew how detailed her beauties are.

 I took the last dollars in my PayPal account and ordered it immediately. 

Each pearl is nestled in the most devine posy. 

Not only did she make one for me,

she made it in MY colors and in the size I really wanted. 

It was a little bit more expensive because of the yarn and

the extra work in the larger size but it is so worth it!

It has the softest sweetest antique cream base

with a beautiful soft rose bow and tassel. 

I am sorry, Lynn, I don't remember the kind of yarn that you used but in the back of my head I think it is Alpaca?

Isn't it just delicious to the senses?

This will be one of those ornaments that I will cherish to the day I die.  Then I will pass it on to my Grand Daughters to admire.

Thank you, Lynn, for making this masterpiece for me. 
I truly truly love it!!!

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I would like to introduce you to Donna the owner of

 On The Rocks!

Melissa and I were in there spending money (that we didn't have) and Melissa talked her into letting me do the store front for her. 

 (I used to do this sort of thing a long long time ago in my home town.)

I buy alot of my beads from her delightful store and I know her well enough to know she would not want alot of fuss and fru-fru.  ( So out of my vintage element)

I made a snow scene for her out of core board and LOTS of glitter!  I made a dozen or so stars, some three D and some flat.  I made a grouping of homes on the left side and a large church on the right. 

Of course I had to make trees!  Lots of trees.

Here are a couple of groupings of beads that she handles.   There is just something about the gorgeous colors and textures that I loose all sense of time and reason when I enter a beading store.Look at this wall of textures,colors and lots of money!  Some of the beads are $2.75 up to $18.50 each for those small tubes.  It takes alot of beads to make one project and one never has just the right color or the right size.  Beading is my relaxation and passion.  To take one little bead and add another, then another, and before you know it you have a work of art.  If you have never been to a bead store, you need to go just once to see what all

the fuss is about.  Beware, It is addicting! 

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Okay, this is going to be a long post but I will show you one more thing.

 I was inspired by so many of you that make snow scenes inside of a glass domes.

I wanted to make one.  I had the dome but didn't want to buy all of the goodies.  So I put it off.  Last week my sweet daughter gave me a bag of Christmas minatures that she bought at Goodwill for $1.85!  Inside was this cute little bear with moveable arms and legs, his top hat, a sled, an angel and lots of tiny bows.  I made the packages out of a piece of thick foam that held stick pins at one time.

 (Ya' just can't throw anything away!) 

I set it on my Mothers' cake pedestal then used double stick tape

 all the way around to hold it secure.

  Walla' there you are!  No money, no dust, no cleanup. 

You can't beat that for a freebie, can you?

Well, I have chatted enough for tonight.

Blessings to you all,

Please don't forget to stop by Lynn's Lovelies then on to her shop!

Thank you, Lynn, so much for the prettiest Christmas ball 

made by the prettiest lady in Georgia!

Sharon

Domestic Underground Ornament Exchange

Tia

of  DomesticUnderground

became my partner in an ornament swap.

Look at the lovely ornaments that she sent to me!

When my hubby brought the package to me,

I ripped into the package like a women gone mad! 

When I saw all of the wonders in my package,

I burst into tears...

Don said"Now what is that all about?"

"I am so blessed, is all..."

When I was notified of who my partner was, I, of course, went to see who she is.

Tia makes the most wonderful creations! 

I knew she loved crosses and in my secret hearts wishes

I was so hoping she would send me a small cross. 

It was to be "an" ornament swap

but Tia sent me so many gorgeous ornaments.

I am just in awe of the Lords' abundant bounty towards me.

  I can not tell you how wonderfully blessed I am. 

Not only did she send me one of her

beautiful pieces of artwork but she sent me

TWO crosses!

 Now how wonderful is that?

 When I opened the box there on the very top was this stunning

Victorian metal cone filled with lovely old

music sheets line the inside and more music sheets shredded,

lace trimmed and a cameo as the center piece.

She had me pegged from the very start.

PLUS inside of that was another gift! 

(A metal bookmark with the scripture

John 15:5-

"I am the vine, you are the branches.  He who abides in me,

and I in him, bears much fruit.")

Then I saw "them", 

the two gorgeous crosses!

They are so very beautiful that words can not express how much I love

all of the devine details, sheet music background and

the jewelry pieces added to the top. 

They are truly a work of the finest art!

They are made of wood then covered with Tia's touch. 

There was an advent calendar

(that I have already hung for my smallest grandchildren.) 

Last but definately not the least

enclosed was this gorgeous lace card with a love note from Tia!

Tia,

 I can not fully explain how

 wonderful, sweet, and kind your loving gifts have meant to me!  

Thank you, thank you, thank you! 

YOU have "made" my Christmas already!

Blessings to you,

Sharon

p.s. Please go over to see Tia at

http://domesticunderground.blogspot.com/

Tell her I said "Hi".