Let us not forget

Memories of Mother

This is a "hangie" I made for Carol a couple of years ago. It is our Mother's picture with other items on it that belonged to her.


The buttons and black braid were from some of her sewing supplies.


The spoon is from her collection of travel spoons she bought from different places in Europe, when they lived in Germany. The dangle is one of her silver earrings.


The paper is her handwriting from a journal page of hers. Her picture is in an extra large bottle cap (hammered open) and covered with diamond glaze.

Elizabeth

Memory Jar

This is a memory jar that I made for Carol several years ago. It is an antique mason jar filled with tags. I made our family members into fairies on these tags. They all have beads on the yarn ties so that they can be hung over the top of the jar from the inside or outside. They can then be removed easily from the inside of the jar.

Carol - Great grandmother -Father - Grandmother

Both of these are our mother

Mother and Father

Mother and fraternal grandparents

Father and Carol

Elizabeth and Carol

this is Carol and one of my favorite pictures. She was so cute!

The backs all had a quote on them.

Thanks for letting me share them with you.

Elizabeth

Boys at the Zoo

Here they are ready to head out the door.

The Butterfly House is one of Brady's favorites

Mine too!

This little guy loves the animals.

Boys always love the water.

And you just can't beat a beautiful carousel !

They love to climb on all the stone animals.

Last Friday, the weather was cool and the zoo was empty. My daughter brought a picnic lunch and we were home by nap time. Great Time!

Elizabeth

Filling Time

After finishing other projects, one always has leftover pieces of felt, the trims are all spread out, the yarns and threads are right there on top. Why not just make something else with what's there?
As for filling time, well, I really should have been working on swaps for Silver Bella, but until the idea becomes clear for me for my last swap, I end up procrastinating.
A wee scissors case--in the same felted sweater pieces, but covered with embroidered cotton, lots of seed beads, baguettes, bits of lace, and sequins.
I just drew a pencil line around the scissors, enlarged it a bit, and cut it out.

The next one will be tweaked a bit--the little top part will be enlarged enough to fold over and fasten on the button--which will have to be moved up. That will keep the scissors from falling out in the sewing box.

Carol

Bookshelves

I was looking around my house the other day. There are a LOT of bookcases. Lots of shelves. Places everywhere for books. And I love books. But the shelves certainly aren't loaded with books.
They seem to have everything else.....
Memories for me from all over the world, but not a book here....Oh, wait, there's one acting like a little shelf.
More treasures in book spaces.
Lots of room for cubbies...... but no, not a book here either.....

A few here for this and that.....

Really packed, could use a cleaning out, you say? But, each item holds a little memory for me--a history, a story of its own.

I'm just not ready to clean out, to put decorating style over life's moments.

Yet, I'm still looking for those books.......

Found buttons, hmmmm, lots of those--

And albums, pictures,

Oh, wait, here they are......

And a whole pile of vintage books,

And some classics....

I'm glad they have a good home.

We'll think about cleaning out for another day.

Carol

Block Party

Elizabeth of Creative Breathing hosted a Block Party Swap a few weeks ago. It was a "one on one"--she made one for each of us who signed up, and we each created one for her.

What a sweet and precious treasure she did.

This is the front--personalized for our blog!!!

This is the back--although how can one tell the front from the back? Both are delightful.

Be sure to click on her blog to see the others that were sent during this swap; also, how she displayed them in her room.

---And the one I made to send, to her, ....this is the front side,

and this is the back-- of the piece I made for Creative Breathing.

posted by Carol.