Oh Baby!

In one week I have had two friends ask me to make three baby gifts! I'm still stitching them up but here are pics of a few of the baby items I have made in the past few months.

I don't think we will be having any babies in our family any time soon so I am glad that my friends are needing baby gifts. They are so much fun to make!

Collecting

How many of you out there are collectors? I love collecting things. My biggest collections come out for Christmas...Snow Village-Ornaments-Possible Dreams Santas-Paper Village-Byer's Choice...
The collections I have out year round are kinda small but are starting to grow and I am having to find new places to display them.
Here are pictures of a few of the collections I have :

Collection of Wine Bottle Stoppers...really we don't drink that much wine...just like to collect these!

 I have always been drawn to these adorable Hummel figurines. Don't know if it's the color, or cute little faces. I just ordered another pieces and can't wait to get it!!

Another of my favorite collections...Limoges boxes. Love these especially because they were all gifts from my husband!

Love Cloisonne pieces also. So pretty and colorful. Had to crowd these together to take this picture. I also have a collection of Beanie Baby Teddy Bears-Pins-Dishes with Blackberries and Hull Pottery (just started this collection and I only have one...so far!)
So what about you? Any collectors out there? Tell me about your collections...I may just have to start another one!!

Stitchin Up Some Gifts

I always have a few things put aside in a "gift closet" (really just an area of the closet--not the whole closet) just in case I need a birthday gift at the last minute or we're invited over to dinner at a friends house and I need a hostess gift. Since I started making machine embroidery I have been adding lots of embroidered towels to my "closet" . Here are a few (actually--allot) of the towels I have right now:

Wouldn't it be nice to show up with the lemon towel along with a lemony dessert to a dinner at a friends house. Or the apple towel with an apple pie...strawberry towel with a strawberry dessert...grape towel with a bottle of wine!! I love giving my friends something I made. They really like it too! They must like it...we keep getting invited back!

Here are a few more towels in my "closet":

This next towel I had stitched in yellow. I brought it over to a friends house for the 4th of July. We were invited over for dinner at the last minute. I knew she liked to drink tea so I thought it would be a great gift for her. After I gave it to her she showed me her teapot and tea cup collections! That towel was meant for her!!

And last but not least...since I am from south Louisiana...

Everyone around here loves crawfish and they love Fleur de Lis designs...put the two together and this is a popular design!!!
I am so glad my friends like my towels because I love stitching them!