more embroidery talk

Yes, as I've mentioned I started to embroider. I started out with a patterns from the Wee Wonderfuls site. The bunny and the bear is just so cute! But I don't know any small children so I needed patterns that were more for grown-ups. So I started to make up my own:

Cherries

A fantasy heart

And here's some I'm still trying out. I thought the parcel would be great one a card. this was so much fun, I couldn't stop. My biggest problem now, on what should I put the embroidery?

I have some Christmas motifs to show you tomorrow!

Before & after

A before and after picture of the chest that I found in my mothers basement. I has been my fathers from when he first moved away from home. It's so much nicer in black, don't you think?


You can see on the light of these picture that it's getting darker here even in daytime. Fall is definitely here now. This week we are going to have a fall theme at work. We are going out to look at different trees and we are painting leafs and are going to see films about Swedish trees. Talk about getting fall from every angle! maybe I can show you the paintings here later. have a good week!

Inspiring embroidery

Inspiring embroidery
Originally uploaded by Nifty loves crafting

Blogging on a Saturday, that doesn't happen very often...
I have been working a lot this week and won't have my free day on Tuesday so I'm stopping by today. Just to tell you that I have started to embroider...
Yes, as if I don't have projects enough! But I love it, it's like drawing with an needle and you can do it in front off the TV!!!

Here are the picture that made me start and I have some more in my flickr favourites!! It started with I found this free on-line pattern and now I hooked!

Inspiring interior decorating

Inspiring interior decorating
Originally uploaded by Nifty loves crafting

As I've talked about before, we are not finished with the whole apartment just yet. We started in December 2007 and are just now finished with the painting in every room. We still have almost all the interior decorating left. And as usual flickr is a great way to get the inspiration going! Here are some of my current favourites. I can see that I mostly go for the neural colour palette but I also need a little colour here and there!

Click on the photo to see more form these lovely homes!

ATC's in the making

Hopefully these are going to be ready sometime this weekend. I have talked about them but somehow I have had a lot to do the last couple of weeks.... This weekend will be it! For the rest of the weekend will consist of meeting up with friends, going to the local fall market (and take pictures) and sleeping in (my favourite)! Now I'm waiting for Mr J to come home so that I can open a bottle of wine:-) Have a nice one!