Some clearance items on TDIPT

 

These handmade items are reduced 50%!

Have a look here.

Thanks for looking!

XX
~Annie

For Sale at the Merc!

For sale this month at TDIPT Mercantile:

All Hearts Come Home for Christmas.

My sample is for sale.

Sold! Thank you!

The free chart for this is about to expire Dec.10th, so if you are interested you need to print it out now. Here is the link.

Sajou Merry Christmas with vintage and antique button border.

This has a ribbon hanger(not shown).

Hope you are having fun decorating for the holidays! I just got my tree up last night. I like a real tree but my hubby doesn't. So we bought a pre-lit tree a couple of years ago and now the lights wont light. So we had to buy lights and restring it! Ah well! such is life!

ha! Ha!

I'm working on some dolls as well. One is for Prims magazine. I have to have her sent out on Friday, and my hubs in on vacation all this week, yikes! I will post a few teaser pics later this week!

Merry Christmas!

xx

~Annie

New offerings at TDIPT! And more!

For those of you hoping for a new doll, I DO apologize! 
I just couldn't get one done this month
with all of the unrelenting sports(Isabel) and being so sick.

But I do have some lovely snowmen up for adoption.

So click on over to 

TDIPT Mercantile

and snatch these right up!

I am READY for the Christmas season, are you?

I LOVE to decorate for Christmas.

And this year with most of the kids out of the house I am going to really cull through all of my accumulated Christmas decorations and purge everything that is broken or that just doesn't sing to me.

I want to do a vintage white and sparkle theme this year. 

Yes, that what I'm going to call it...

Vintage White and Sparkle!

I just made that up right now! Ha!

Picture little glitter houses with bottle brush trees, 

lots of white sparkly garland, a beautiful feather tree,

 german blown glass ornaments...yes!

And of course, a sampler tree!

Filled with all of the needlework ornaments I have made over the years!

Add to all of this lots of beautiful silver vintage looking mercury glass-LOVE it!

Won't it be pretty! 
Are your Chritmas decorating juices flowing yet??

xx
~Annie

Ruby going "live" on TDIPT tonight!

Ruby and her favorite setting hen will be up for sale on TDIPT Mercantile tonight at 10PM.

Don't miss it, for details

click here!

Ester on TDIPT Mercantile!

Ester is ready and currently up for adoption on TDIPT Mercantile!

 She has such a folksy style, in her regency gown and smartly trimmed bonnet!

 Her sweet face would look sogreat peeking out amongst antiques and cherished treasures!

 Her gown and pantaloons have been carefully created with grow tucks and lace for that old fashioned look!

I have made a little bluebird for her to hold!

Ester will come signed and dated with free shipping!

Click here to see more details on the Merc!
Ester is on her way to her new home! Thank you!

On TDIPT this month

 

Ophelia and her daisies!

Click here to go to TDIPT Mercantile for more photos!

1808 Colonial Pinkeepers for sale

These are the actual models for the cover of my cross stitch chart by the same name. Once their modeling session was over they have been languishing in my model drawer, hoping I would remember them and put them up for adoption to a good home! 

Prices are ridiculously reasonable, bordering on outrageous!

They are available at TDIPT Mercantile this month.

xx

~Annie

Zentangle Easter eggs and long time gone

Hey everybody!!

Check out these awesome Easter eggs I made for TDIPT Mercantile this month!

I know I have been really absent this month, but what a month its been! My family was hit with a horrible virus that we all passed around to each other, and now I think I have it again for the 2nd time! I have been in the doctors office literally every week either for myself or someone in the family for the last 4 weeks.

 

Then on top of that my oldest son got really sick at college, throwing up for about 12 hours. We went and picked him up, thinking it was a bad flu or something, but he never stopped throwing up all night and the next morning. I ended up taking him to the emergency room and he ended up in the hospital for almost a week!

He threw up for 4 days straight! Nothing that gave him for the nauseau worked. He went through numerous tests that were mostly inconclusive. Finally he got better and they released him. He went back to school without a definitive answer as to what was wrong. When all the test results came back, it looks like it is his gallbladder, and he has some follow up consultations.

 

So whew! 

Not a lot of art getting done!

 

But, I did do a LOT of art journaling 

while sitting around the hospital and that was GOOD!

So hopefully I will be able to get back in the swing of things! Hope you all had a much better month!

LOL!

xx

~Annie

Sneak peek for TDIPT Mercantile tonight!

 

This is Rose. 

I have worked very hard on her for over a month, 

but I think now she is ready to make her debut!

She is 16 1/2 inches and adapted from a pattern by Deanne Hogan. 

It will be hard to part with her.

She goes up for adoption tonight at 

TDIPT Mercantile.

Thanks for looking!

xx

~Annie

On TDIPT tonight!

 Ophelia the harvest gatherer!

And Happy Jack!

A tabletop pumpkin!

AND, during the month of OCTOBER, my pattern 

DOROTHY and TOTO is 

ON SALE 

at my website and my Etsy Shoppe!

How to be a quilter on the go (and TDIPT!)

Do you love to decorate your house with little seasonal displays the way I do? Well, if you do you cannot have too many little candle mats and table runners. I have quite a collection of table runners, and I love to change them out a lot. It really gets me motivated to do the housekeeping, when I can decorate a table or counter top with a pretty little handmade runner or mat. PLUS, they are super fun to make!

I really had fun with this little charmer. I call it the Prairie Table Mat.Blue and red were such popular colors in the 19th century-I think because they were dyes that actually stayed vivid for a long time, instead of fading. Anyhow, it is just 13 inches square-the perfect size to tuck into a little corner, or with your dolls or bears. I started this on Tuesday-cut and sewed all of the little half square triangles. Then Isabel and I headed to the pool to meet some friends and my BFF's and I sat around the pool chatting and tearing off the paper backs. Thanks girls! We are the queens of multi-tasking!

Then I came home, made dinner, and sewed up this cute little quilt!

On Wednesday I put the layers together and got busy hand quilting it with over dyed perle cotton(from Valdani-love that stuff!), using the "big stitch method! Really big running stitches intended to show!

All I had left was the binding, so I sewed that on and finished up the handwork at Isabel's basketball open gym! I loved this sweet and simple project! And if you love it too, hop on over to TDIPT for more details!

Also this month is the finished wool felt Bee Hive Candle Mat that I sneak peeked a few days ago. I'm telling you, if you enjoy handwork, wool is the way to go. It is so quick, easy and portable, and always turns out GREAT! 

A great place to get started is Primitive Gatherings website-they have so many kits, all the wool included and great instructions. Give it a try, you will love it!

xx
~Annie

Sneak peek for July 1st

.

I just finished this awesome wool felt candle mat from a kit by Bare roots. Super fun! If you haven't tried wool applique yet, you are in for a treat! It is so simple and quick! Almost instant gratification! I know we all love that!

This little knock-out will be available for purchase on TDIPT Thursday night, along with another piece I am quickly trying to finish up!

xx

Annie

New dolls on TDIPT this month!

Meet Adaline!

 

This pretty girl is special to me; her hair was inspired by my own dd Isabel, who wears her hair with a side ponytail quite often. She also has naturally curly hair, something her sister and I are highly jealous of!!  AND, we just put in a raised bed of strawberries this year, so I made these little cotton and wool berries in anticipation of our future strawberries!! LOL! See all the details of sweet little Adaline here, at TDIPT!

After the long cold and snowy winter a lot of us have had here in the US, this little ladybug is here to remind us of the warm and wonderful summer days ahead of us!(we haven't seen much yet as we seem to be experiencing the "rainy season" here in the midwest). So think picnics and grilling and lemonade!! LOL! I think this little gal would look so awesome adorning a screen door this summer! Details and close-ups can be seen here at TDIPT.

So that is some of what I have been working on.

Thanks for looking!

TDIPT update and Easter pictures

This month on TDIPT I have some more wool pinkeeps for you. These are stuffed with crushed walnuts, which makes a weighty little pin cushion-I love them, they stay right where you put them, and they are so soft!! (Keep away from the pooch though!)

Well as usual during the months of April and May life is extremely busy! And with my 3rd kid graduating from high school this year we have all of the extra festivities around that too. Littlest daughter is still in basketball and her track season has kicked up with 3 meets this week! But in a few weeks everything will be done and we will be able to slip into the easier life of summer, ahhhh!!! I can't wait!

So just to catch you all up, we had a lovely Easter, how about you? Chelsea and I decided to get busy and make 2 Easter cakes, a sacrificial lamb cake (red velvet with cream cheese frosting! LOL!) and a lemon peep cake! LOL! We also made peep-tinis(martinis with peeps in them) and we molded some beautiful pascal lamb ornaments with our repro antique cookie mold that we got from House on the Hill. Super fun! So here are some pictures, a little late but still worth seeing I think!

Our lamb cake!

Our lemon peep cake-yum!

Beautiful ornament we made from repro antique german cookie mold from House on the hill. We molded it out of paper clay and then antiqued it. It is the pascal lamb laying his head down on the book of life in a gesture of perfect sacrifice! So kewl!! We gave these to our family and friends tied with a pretty spring ribbon!

Relaxing after all of our efforts with a Peep-tini! (this was really too sweet for me, but Chelsea and Gary loved them!) Sorry the picture is so fuzzy, we were trying out a new camera.

Ooh La La! Wool is so fun!!!

House on Strawberry Hill

I adapted this from a design by Lyn Hosford, which is found in the Need'l Love book: Strawberry Threads

I love just about every project in that book and I'm so happy to have finally made something out of it! Hee hee, it is no longer considered Stash!

This will be released for sale tonight at 10PM on the TDIPT Mercantile website. Hope to see you there!

Brand New Wares available on the Merc Tonight!

Fancy Peacocks by Stacy Nash

DMC on 32ct. antique white linen hand dyed by me

Check it out at the Merc!

Blizzard Warning

We are expecting a blizzard here in Chicagoland. They are saying it will begin at 3PM today, but it has been snowing since I got up this morning at 6:30! So there you go-the weather reporting in Chicago continues to be, well...ridiculous!
 I am so happy and honored to say that both of my offerings on TDIPT Mercantile this morning have been sold! Thank you so kindly to my lovely customers-you continue to astound me with your generosity and encouragement!

Here is another picture of the lovely Felicity Ann:

Felicity Ann 26" folk doll

So . it is a good day to stay in and stitch, don't you think? I have all the episodes of John Adams at my disposal, so I plan to put them in the DVD player and work on a little design from LHN that I am stitching for the LOVE QUILTS project-a very worthy cause! Here is the state of my desk, so I will be doing a little bit of cleaning first! LOL! Have a great day!

Good Deeds by Little House Needleworks

New Cross Stitch Chart sneak peek!(and TDIPT offerings!)

Here is a sneak peek of my newest chart called Angels Among Us. It will be released early next week,(or maybe later this week if things go well!) I am loving the way these turned out and I especially love them on the Vintage Examplar-they just look so good! They come with the full alphabet and numbers charted so you can personalize them if you want to.

And here is a sneak peek at one of the items I have for sale on TDIPT this month. They will go live on the site at 10PM tonight. Hop on over to the mercantile for some awesome prim decor for your Christmas decorating!

And my little Carmel puppy is doing great! She is growing fast and learning to be housebroken(slowly). She has the sweetest disposition-we all just love her so much!

Have a great week!

~Annie

TDIPT dolls!!

 New Dolls available on TDIPT Mercantile!

Click here to go to the Merc!