Snowflakes!

Golden snowflakes!

Here is yesterday's part (the gold backstitching), as well as today's (the crystal beads):



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More Greenery

The part for yesterday was another color green. So far, I am liking this one. Today's part will have gold backstitched snowflakes across the top.



I have not purchased anything for this design, as of yet. There were a couple of color changes, but they were pretty close matches for the recommended threads. I used Crescent Colours Grasshopper for the first part of the greenery and Anchor 278 for the second. The design calls for quite a few crystals (no regular beads). I think I will use the crystals I have on hand, since I really did not want to invest any money into this particular design. Besides, I have soooo much stash, I am sure that I will find something appropriate.

Advent

...here's a little more...I am all up to date with this one! WooHoo!!



I just wanted to say a quick 'thank you' to everyone for all your nice comments and for stopping by!

Emerging from the Pile

is my Woodland Fairy. She has been a WIP for a very long time. Since sorting all my stash, I had set her aside to work on again. She is such a pretty fairy and I want to see my WIP pile come down a little bit....

(I am probably going to redo those backstitch lines on her arm, or add a lot of little quarter stitches to fill everything in....I really just do not like all those empty spaces that show. I need to backstitch her lips, too...just did not have DMC 915 to finish them.)

~ What's This? ~

It's the beginning of Chatelaine Designs Advent Calendar pieces for 2008! This picture shows Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 (not quite completed ;), but getting there!) Those little red Rhodes stitches with the gold are supposed to be candles. The new part for today is a row of gold right next to the inner green rectangle that will frame the entire piece.

Mini 03

I worked on this little mandala again last night.

You can see where I had completed the second row of black (the night before), the rust areas, a few Rhodes stitches and just barely a start with another village. Oh, and yep, another scanned picture.

Mini Mandala III

Martina released the last part for this little mandala a day early. I worked on one of the corners with the little buildings:\\


(This picture is from my scanner, so the colors are a little off.)