"I Love You, MOM!!!" Grateful Necklace!

Getting a little ahead of the Mother's Day deal, I guess. As I was putting this necklace together, laying things out, knowing I wanted the "I Love Mom" charm, a word came to me....the word "grateful". So I went to my old paper books, a small old dictionary and found this to put in an old frosted optical lense. The necklace chain is 24 inches long. I hope you like it. I am selling it in my etsy....DebsAtoE shop. I also sell in my physical shop in our small town everything that I list on etsy. Let me know what you think.....thank you!!!

Bracelets and Hatpins....

A "bracelet" and "hatpin" fashion show......

~deb

For the bride....

Jewelry for the bride!

What a privilege it was to get to create this for her! See, there is a little blue in the bracelet in the form of an enameled cross. The drop earrings are made with antique silver posts.

It was so neat to get to do this!

Congrats to Dan and Susan!!!

deb

Valentines Day coming up!!!!

It has been sooo long since sharing anything here. Hard to believe it is February and it has been a cold one!!! Interesting how so much of the nation has been swept up in this cold! We have lots to be thankful for in just being warm! Created some things for the upcoming holiday. I call them my Handmade Vintage Valentines. The backdrop is the reflectors for the old Christmas lights. I was putting things away earlier this week and found these reflectors in my hand and the wheels just started spinning! It is so fun when that happens. So, I have been busy with these and a few other things that I will share later. Have went off-line at home so am figuring out how to download from one of those memory sticks to get pictures here. Always learning.

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Hope this finds everyone fine. Been doing a lot of reading as of late! Anyone read any of Ted Dekker's books? Great stories...mystery, intrigue with a spiritual underlining and thankfully, no swearing and unnecessary sex! Finish a book and feel well-fed...this is a good thing!!!

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Take care and blessings this day.....deb

Angel Song Ornaments....wishing you a Merry Christmas!

Angels watching over me......

Wishing you a blessed "Merry Christmas!"

~debbie

Plantes, Teacups, Vases......no, Pincushions!

One of my favorites.....this is a violin planter and I had so much fun and am so pleased at how it turned out to be turned into a pincushion. What do you think?

I call them "Keepsake Pincushions" as each one has a little locket that opens up.

To think that maybe, at some time, this beauty had DIRT in it!!!

Isn't the detail beautiful??!!

A cup of tea anyone?




This is a shell planter. The fabric is from a stretchy type shirt...the texture was so cool!



A neat little vase highlighted with gold. Again, the fabric was from a ladies' top....nice and stretchy with flakes of gold!

A silver sugar bowl....saved the lid for something else. The patina shows that this divine sugar bowl has some stories to tell. The handles have a character of their own! The fabric is blue velvet from a dress or blouse....

Almost saved this little coffee cup to put in my own cupboard. The fabric comes from scraps from who knows where as I have been saving over the long years. The doily just seemed so right for this one.....

This cup is from Czechoslovakia. There was a small chip on the rim so adhered this gold leaf pin to it and it added so much to this piece...really made it special.

This clog type shoe was made in Boys Town...says so on the bottom. The velvet fabric came from a jacket...it was so hard to make that first cut!

Another sugar bowl....I collected quite a few over the years. The fabric is from a child's dress. It is very hard to cut up clothing items but I know that I would never be able to afford this fabric by itself and where in the world would one find it? Again, a doily for the top. Someone worked awhile on this one....a beautiful rose flower....

A baby bootie with the same fabric from above. My oldest is 23 and I did use cloth diapers back then. I learned the hard way about not having so much cholorine in the bucket as it really eats away at the cotton fabric! This would be a great place to put the diaper pins....

Another great planter with SO much personality.....this looks like a "Daisy" to me and she seems ever so pleasant!

Another pincushion for a precious little one!

I used this fabric alot....gives the pincushions such a vintage look.

Almost done....Mary's little lamb looking quite perplexed leaning against this

baby book. I could easily bring this little one home.

Sweets for the Sweet....didn't know how this would turn out. The fabric is from a skirt that would definitely need a slip underneath! Blue glass....love it!

Well, the PINCUSHION FASHION SHOW is done! Have many more, but not enough time. I want to put these in my etsy shop. Do have some of my Angel Song Ornament Angels in the shop along with a Journal. Please e-mail me if anyone is interested in anything shown here as I do not know if my intentions will get done....you know how it is! Blessings! Remember, God loves you so much....He sent His Son and would have done it just for YOU if YOU were the only one! Busy with work, singing, teaching and enjoying the fellowship at one of our local nursing homes.....planning a craft for next Monday that we can hang on all of the doors.....open to any ideas....yes, yes, yes!!! Our Thanksgivings are spent helping at the local Senior Citizens Center where we serve a Thanksgiving meal on Thanksgiving Day so everyone has someone to share with.

We are greatly blessed beyond measure!

Eggs in a carton...No, bookmarks!!!

I love books! And over the years, I have created various forms of bookmarks. Recently, I created these or a gal who needed a lot to share as gifts. Here are some of them....

And then I packaged them in envelopes folded from magazine pages...all that will need to be done is to put the "to" and the "from" names. What will be fun is matching the bookmarks to the person!

Hope everyone has a blessed Thanksgiving. We have so much to be thankful for.....

~debbie