Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Workbasket Wednesday!


Wednesday is hump day here in America. A day right in the middle, easily the dullest day in the work week. Not early enough in the week to feel ambitious, and not late enough in the week to start looking forward to the weekend. Its the hump you have to get over. So in celebration of hump day, I am starting a new weekly post called Work Basket Wednesday. Each Wednesday I will feature a different tool from my work basket, why I like it, how I use and and where I got it. I think every embroiderer has their tried and true tools that they just can't live without, and I thought I would share mine. Maybe you will see something you don't have, and need, or maybe you have something that does the job even better. Feel free to post any and all comments!

I have decided to start this off with the workbasket itself. This is the little sewing box that I use every day. It is a fabric covered box that I made myself, from one of those oval shaped paper mache boxes you can buy at the craft store. I covered it with a pretty green floral fabric that I like, and made a matching pin cushion. What I like about this box is that I can turn the lid upside down and it acts as sort of a handy little tray that I put all of my tools, threads and pincushion on. No more losing scissors or needles. I am a many-needled-embroiderer! Meaning that I like to have a needle threaded in each color I am working with, so this little tray-pincushion combination works great for me.

I have left my pincushion messy so you can see how I work-all of those needles are for a single project. When I am done for the day, everything on the tray goes inside the box and I pop the lid on and everything is safe and sound until the next stitching session!

Sunday, September 2, 2007

What city do you belong in?




You Belong in Paris



Stylish and expressive, you were meant for Paris.

The art, the fashion, the wine!

Whether you're enjoying the cafe life or a beautiful park...

You'll love living in the most chic place on earth.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Colonial Home~my second offering!

Here is my second chart~Colonial Home! This is finished as a sewing box, but you could frame it in an oval frame as well. The initials are my husband's and mine and the year we were married! NOT! OK the year we were married give or take a couple of centuries!

Just click on the picture to get a really great close-up view of the box.

Edited to say: patterns are available to order at my website on the Stitchery page
www.anniebeezfolkart.com

Monday, August 27, 2007

A little more AOS!



I didn't have much time to stitch on Angel of Spring this weekend-football has started and Isabel had her first game as a cheerleader. She is so good at it. I'm not sure how I feel about that-she comes from a long line of uncoordinated females and geeks!-not sure where this talent came from! LOL! But she sure looked cute and did a great job, especially with the pom-pon portion.

Friday, August 24, 2007

Introducing Annie Beez Samplings


Here is my very first commercial design! It is called Cottage Sweet Cottage. It will be available early next week on my website and at a few select shops that have been kind enough to agree to carry it! I am so excited about this! Yippee!!

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Mirabilia stashing!



I went to my LNS today to pick up my first original design all framed and ready for a photo shoot! I'm so excited! I promise a sneak peek tomorrow!

But while I was there I had to pick up a couple of Mirabilia charts(which I will be stitching in my sleep, obviously)! I have been looking for a mermaid chart to stitch for Chelsea and I found one! I took the advice of others and checked out Deepest Love and I fell madly for it! It's gorgeous! I also picked up Cinderella to someday stitch for Isabel.