All about my passion and love for making beautiful things and sharing them with all of you.
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Wire Fairy Timelapse
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Toadstools or Mushrooms or Championnekes
What's a mushroom? "They describe a variety of gilled fungi, with or without stems, therefore the term is used to describe the fleshy fruiting bodies of some Ascomycota. These gills produce microscopic spores that help the fungus spread across the ground or its occupant surface".
Mushrooms or toadstools have always caught my interest (see needle felted toadstools earrings I used to make or the baby shoes with needle felted toadstool designs I've created in the past) but never to the point to go foraging for them. I'm too scared to end up picking a poisonous one.
While taking these pictures I started thinking about "Toast Champignon" my mom used to make and while I'm not crazy about eating mushrooms that did make my mouth water! I found a recipe on a Flemish site: https://dagelijksekost.een.be/gerechten/toast-champignon. My mom used to make it with some kind of Alfredo sauce which toned down the flavor of the mushrooms a bit.
The reason I'm talking about mushrooms is because I found these beauties in my yard a couple of days ago after storm Isaiah came by. The ones in the backyard I had to get rid of because I have two dogs that love to nibble on grass. I wouldn't want them accidentally eat one of these since I know some of these are poisonous!
Sunday, August 9, 2020
Always in my heart
Since I missed a couple of years out of this blog I thought I'd share some of the things that happened in between then and now. It might not always be in chronological order. Things that pop into my head will be popping up as they come to me.
Today I was thinking about the floral heart arrangement I made for my honey to put on his grave. Looking at the pictures I want to make another one soon. This next time I'll share how I go about making it with step by step instructions. But for now, here are pictures of what the one I made looked like.
They are all real flowers, greenery and moss. The base is a grapevine heart shaped wreath that I took apart and used only a few of the grapevines which I then wrapped with chicken wire to get the elongated shape of the heart. I used oasis inside the chicken wire. I used rosemary from our garden since that was one of the plants we always had to have in our yard wherever we lived ... it was his favorite herb so I made sure it was part of the arrangement.
Saturday, August 8, 2020
Life Goes On
I know it’s been a long time since I posted, but here I am. So much has happened since my last post. My dear husband ended up passing away December 31, 2017. 54 is just too young to die. He put up a long hard fight with his kidney cancer but finally lost his battle. I miss him dearly but I’m ready to move on and look forward to make the best of the next chapter of my life. Kinda strange to think it will basically be my last chapter. I don’t have any plans to leave this earth any time soon. I’m hoping for at least another 20 years!
I started working part time a couple of years back but I’m happy to say I’m planning on retiring come January 2021. I must say I’m really looking forward to doing so. Ready to work in my garden, ready to bring all those art projects to fruition, ready to keep the cat toy business going, ready to relax a bit and ready to catch your interest with the things I’ll be posting.
Friday, February 3, 2017
Wow, time flies
As far as my husband is concerned, he's one strong man! I've lost track of the amount of radiations he's now had done for the spread of the RCC (renal cell carcinoma). We also discovered (while I was in Belgium and he stayed here in Virginia) he has a big tumor in his humerus (also a met from the RCC). He had surgery where they inserted a rod through the humerus and through the darn tumor so his upper arm will stop falling apart since the tumor has eaten away a lot of the bone. I hate cancer! Did I tell you yet how much I hate cancer! Anyways, besides that he's had more radiation for two mets in his brain and also on the arm before they did the arm surgery. Another radiation for a met on his T11 and we just found out he has more mets on his T8 and his femur! But the good news today was that all the tumors he's had radiation for are either stable or getting smaller. We know it's not going to go away but his life is being extended which we are thankful for. Can you believe he's still going to work! The cancer meds he's taking causing issues with a bad cough which is also enhanced by having pneumonitis which is an inflammation inside his lung around the tumor due to the radiation. He's been on prednisone for that for weeks now and we're hoping him coming off the prednisone might make a few other side effects go away. I took him to the hospital a couple weekends ago when he was having severe stomach pains and a blood pressure of 237/135!!! I don't know how his body and heart can withstand all of this but he's a trooper and presses on that's for sure. Watching a loved one having to go through this sucks but together we try to make the best of what we got and we'll fight till we have nothing left to fight for.
Enough about sad stuff! I finished a couple of sock dolls these past couple of weeks. These are so much fun to make. Both of them are listed in my BitsOfFiber shop on Etsy so if you like what you see don't wait to get them since I usually make things without a pattern they are all unique and OOAK.
Here are the links and some pictures of them.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/496377908/sleepy-bunny-doll-soft-sock-doll-plushie?ref=shop_home_active_1
Sunday, July 24, 2016
Live goes on!
Anyways, I keep myself busy with making stuff for my Bits Of Fiber shop as well as our MauveMoose shop on Etsy. I've decided to try a different site for my Bits Of Fiber shop called TicTail.com. If you haven't checked it out yet do so now! Here is the link to my shop on Tictail.com: http://bitsoffiber.tictail.com/ I don't have lots of things listed yet but will be adding more of them as time moves on I'll be moving things from my Etsy shop into this one. I'll be keeping my shop on Etsy as well but will be focusing on adding different kind of stuff in that shop.
These are the two items I just listed this past week:
Alright, time to do some laundry. Thanks for stopping by and I'll try to post more often again.
Cheers,