GNOME SWEET GNOME...

Greetings, dear readers!

As promised, here are a few of the projects I've been working on...but be sure to read to the end of the post...there is something AMAZING I want to share with you...

 

 

 

And now, as promised, the piesta resistance...a dear friend of mine gave me this delightful treasure for Christmas...she found it in a library sale...for a QUARTER! (Which makes me love it even more)

 

The book is FULL of beautiful color pictures of gnomies and their "homies"...

 

Adorable projects...look at this sweet little mouse inside a gnome hat!

 

And this beautiful picture frame...

 

And just look at this wonderful little pillow...I just LOVE the pattern the gnome hand to hand gnomes make !

 

The colorful illustrations are frame worthy...

 

And all the colors are the vibrant, bright colors of dutch art. Just look at this adorable puppet cabinet...

 

 

And here's the best part...patterns! All the patterns are still intact in the book! Patterns for embroidery,

 

Patterns for wooden signs...

 

Paint by number patterns...

 

Aprons...for mom and daughter...and the patterns for the embroidered pocket motifs...

And patterns for felt gnomes that can be strung as garlands...or used on quilts...

 

 

Even patterns for quilt blocks...I may choose to make them out of paper...and have a dutch gnome block party!

I am in the process of checking copyrights, but I think the book is old enough that I can share the patterns with you as long as I give due credit to the authors/creators...isn't this EXCITING?!?!

I hope you'll stay with me as we travel this woodland path together!

Hugs,

Paula Clare

IT'S ALIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!

Well, mostly.

Greetings dear reader! Paula Clare LIVE to you from the grave (WINK, I DO have a flair for the dramatic, don't I?) to report on some of the FABulous goodies I've acquired in my absence:

I finally bit the bullet and bought this set for my Ash Wednesday services and for other services where I preside:

Isn't it completely amazing? It is hand thrown by the good folks at Ocepek Pottery in Ohio. I can't tell you how much I love this particular set...I think it looks like something that might have been on our Lord's table at the Last Supper, don't you? (I never "got" the idea of a golden chalice or all the finery often used in church services...I don't think Jesus would have been so pretentious...but then, that's just one Franciscan's view on things!) Every year I scramble for some kind of vessel to use in the Ash Wednesday service, and every year I think, "Oh, if ONLY I had that hand thrown set..." so this year I purchased it. It is one of my greatest and most treasured possessions.

Now in a completely superfluous vein, I have finally discovered the monthly kit club I can afford, AND love:

It's a "Button of the Month" club. Are these not delish? AND a 3 month subscription is only 19.99! I am so excited to get these little goodies in the mail. They are like precious little works of art...definitely EYE CANDY that come to me direct from the artist's hands to my mailbox! Tessa Ann is an Etsy discovery...her shop is full of colorful goodness. The above collection is winging it's way to me as I type! WOOT! Some of the buttons are so gorgeous I'm sure I'll just back them with some fabulous paper and frame them! AND (and this is something I LOVE) the buttons are washable...so I can use them on sewing projects...can you say PILLOWS? Behold the pillow hand stitched while on my "death bed":



This is from a kit purchased at Elsie Flannigan's Red Velvet Art Studio, in Springfield, MO. Adorable, is it not?

More soon!

XOXOXOX



Paula Clare!