It's so prickly!

Despite the cooler weather moving in, I was feeling a bit springish! I found this little fellow on a sugar dish I own and decided to embroider his likeness. Presenting my hedgehog:

Some close-ups:

Back shot:

He just came out so cute!

Squirrels!!!!

I have been embroidering away lately and having fun with it. This quote actually came from Harry Potter. I just think it's funny so I embroidered it:

I love the way the squirrel came out:

Words Close-up:

Back view:

So whatcha think? I like it!

Feeling Foxy!

I was messing around with some yarn and wound up creating this little guy:

He doesn't have a name yet but he's so squishy:

Back view:

I love him!

Hometown Love

I've seen version of this embroidery all over the web. I love my hometown, RVA! So what better way than to embroidery it?

Here's a close up view:

This was a cute and simple embroidery. I googled an outline of Virginia and sketched it out. It hangs on my Hoopla wall representing hometown pride!

The Riva'

Our family trip to the river was awesome! We walked around and explored and played and climbed and ran and just had general fun!

Watching the river flow...

Posing in front of some ruins

Found some slate and iron scraps (don't worry we don't take anything home)

I have such a great looking bunch!

Upcylced Earrings

I found a ton of great old jewelery at an antiques/ thrift store this past weekend. All of this was mine for a mere $2:

There is just way too much to do with this amazing junk jewelry! The first thing I did was pop the backs off of the big screw on earrings:

Then I sanded them a bit so paint would stick to them. I painted them a beautiful pepto-bismal pink and let it dry. Then I painted a small carton of milk on one and a cookie on the other. After those had dried I coated it a few times with Mod Podge and let that dry. Then I glued on silver post backs and viola'