Getting Festive

I felt the need to get festive this past weekend. My creative time has re-appeared thanks to no more classes. So I spent a short amount of time pulling out my fabric to sort through and I got inspired. I found my red and green scraps left over from this project last year. I whipped up one little tree and then quickly made a few more. So fun and festive and they used up the scraps.
Over the last few weeks I have been working on this bunting. I could have finished it in a few hours if I wanted, but embroidery is such fun I stretched it out. The green background and yellow stars are made of wool felt I originally purchased to make a really awesome wool felt advent calender. See, it's really cool, just beyond my felting skill these days. So I repurposed and used the squares with stars to make this bunting. The squares are say 3X4 inches and the stars you could draw out and then use fusible interfacing to stick them on. I used my cursive to write on the words and then used a chain stitch. I sewed on some red ric rac and voila - I hung it in the window.

Have a great day!

Found it

My mission is complete. I should do this more often-what a perfect way to change a mood. (Give it a try if you haven't- it really opened my eyes to how blessed my life is). My camera spent a good half of the day in the trunk of my car, but rest assured there was plenty of merriment that could have been captured. It was not a day of photographic skill, but quickly snapping pictures of things that made me happy generated a contented mood which was just the shift I needed.

Thank you all for your kind words on a day I felt I needed to be authentic!

Searching for Merriment

That's Grammie fixing my sweater. Clearly merriment.

The grey weather has got me down. Rain instead of snow and not much sun. Transitions always get me. I'm not such a fan of the unsettledness of the in-between stage I am in. There has been a loss this past week that really hit me hard and made me call people to tell them I loved them. And give extra hugs, too. I guess I am just feeling a bit grey. I need a shift in my perspective.

So today I am on a mission: I am searching for merriment. My camera will travel with me and I will report back later. There are great and wonderful things all around us and so many times the good is not what we see.

Care to join in, too?

Today

coffee with a friend, fireplace on, fresh coffee and snow
honey nutters, black & whites, cinnamon sugar cookies, and chocolate bisccotti
sunshine and new growth, warm, beginnings
lunch, quesadillas, fresh salsa, avocados, and laughter
a passing grade, a 4.0, a celebratory dance

Last night

Last night I spent my last night studying (for now...you never know). I poured myself a glass of wine and read over notes. I was surprisingly melancholy about the whole thing. So much of who I have been for the past three-six-twenty years has been a student. Then again, now I get the chance to try new and different things and start this next phase.

Things are going to be good, very good.

Have a great day!