The snow is finally here! After teasing us yesterday we woke up to a winter wonderland (a dusting anyway)!
Last weekend I was in Nashville doing the Cross Stitch Market. After a few years of Alma (Blackbird Designs) encouraging me to make some cross stitch patterns, I finally followed through and had a wonderful time. My first attempts with cross stitch weren't too fun, but after I got the hang of it I was addicted. I took six patterns to market and I think it went very well. It is such a fun market, set up in an Embassy Suites. The bedroom is in the back and we turned the front room into a show room of sorts. Shops went from room to room doing their shopping. I shared the room with Bonnie and my Mom came along to help and visit relatives in the area. The day before the show opened we decided we needed some "texture" with branches, so we set off behind the local strip mall to shed some trees of their limbs. Mom had the job of carrying them into the Embassy Suites, she's such a good sport!
I wanted to add snowflakes to my branches so my kind hearted mom cut out about 4 dozen of them for me! They really added that special something to my winter scene.We had a few hours on the last day before out flight so we headed out to Franklin to explore the local antique shops. We had one suitcase that was a little "light" and we felt compelled to fill it to the maximum 50 pounds.
I've been busy adding the cross stitch patterns to my Etsy site so hope on over and check them out!
I'm giving away 1 of each of the cross stitch patterns to the first person who can guess what my mom made the snowflakes out of! Be specific and think outside of the box!
CYN GUESSED IT! Paper coffee filters! They worked great!
14 comments:
Toilet paper? ;-)
What a sport your mom was - being the brave one to haul the branches from outside to your room! Did your mom make snowflakes out of the scratchy tissues you usually find at a hotel? (Of course my mind was being silly and I almost guessed she made them out of the bed sheets, after all, she is a brave one!)
Sound like a productive trip - Congrats! Did she use tissues?
My guess is paper serviettes or cotton balls
I bet she made them out of tissues.
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or perhaps out of a plastic milk carton
Did she use those paper cupcake liner looking things that they put under the glasses in bathroom?
I think I am going to guess a glue gun - run a strip and let it harden?? Maybe maybe not - I am grasping at straws here!!!
I'm thinking paper towels...
Do we get to see a photo of the finished tree with snowflakes after all the guessing has been done?!
I'm glad you had a good trip!
I think she used batting.
I'm gonna guess your lovely mom made her snowflakes out of Q-tips? Please show us a pic of her finished product! and thanks for a chance to win - Laurie
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I'm thinking your Mom made the snowflakes out of the paper coffee filters.
Cynthia
I was over to your Etsy site and loved the cross stitch patterns but I'm going make the 'seasons'
out of 22 ct linen and the Nesting will work out of the same..Right?
Great idea using Coffee filters and the biggest size will look great hanging on string from the ceiling next winter..Beth
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