Still lost in feltland!

I am STILL playing with felted wool sweaters and the designs of this designer.

Anyone who is celebrating anything in my family is getting something made from felted wool sweaters until I run out! The colors and textures are so much fun. I am keeping the economy going buying up all the sweaters.  I think some pillows are in my future too. Cashmere on a pillow....it doesn't get much better than that!

This stack of squares cut from felted wool sweaters is going to be a baby blanket for my new great nephew. I looked for argyle, stripes, and tweeds for this project. I think it will be really cute for a sweet new baby boy.

Pink Saturday

Welcome to another Pink Saturday hosted by Beverly.

Go to her blog to check out all the participants for this week. This week I am concentrating on my crafting pink. These are some of my pink trims waiting to be set free and turned into something sweet like.....

this confection collage I made to honor those delicious homemade cakes and cupcakes. I made one for a friend's birthday and liked it so much, I made one for my etsy shop too. It is so sweet with a handwritten recipe that looks like grandma's handwriting plucked from her recipe box. 
Have a super sweet Saturday and a piece of cake if you can get it!

Glitter and Sparkle and Lights, Oh My!

Wow, we just got back from the Christmas tree festival. Individuals or companies decorate and donate trees, wreaths, or vignettes to the festival to be sold. The profits benefit The Akron Children's Hospital Medical Center.  There were over 150 trees , rows and rows that looked like this in the convention center.

This little guy was so cute, I have a thing for flocked or plastic deer. Yep, anything tacky pulls at my heartstrings!
This beauty won a prize ribbon but I can't remember which one as they had so many categories to win in.
Some pretty pink ornaments that caught my eye.
This was a smaller tree decorated by a girl scout troop in a princess theme. Why do all the pink ones end up in my pictures? He-he!
Elegant is how to describe this lavendar and lilac beauty. Not my color but gorgeously done.
Do you see the cupcakes on this one!?  They should have done the whole thing in cupcakes in my opinion. They were so stinkin cute!
This was a heavily flocked all white tree . It was so peaceful and calm

Ok, can you tell this is the cotton candy tree!?  Yeah, those puffs are pink cotton candy, not real of course or it wouldn't have lasted the show!! I know you are saying "again with the pink and food themes!" I must have been hungry.
Ok, there should be a drum roll here.....this was my absolute favorite tree titled "O Holy Night". I couldn't capture it's icy blueness. It was so sparkly and I wanted to get close enough to see the lighted manger at the bottom so you can't see that there was a white trellis with white lights surrounding the table. It was already sold. I wouldn't have bought it anyways because as much as I like looking at designer and theme trees, I have to have mine with all the construction paper, pipe cleaner, tissue paper, ornaments that my kids have made over the years.  I buy the kids an ornament every year so that when they have to leave they will have a small collection and maybe they will keep their hands off the handmade ones they have given me. 

New York - part 2

In New York City, my family was gracious enough to indulge me in a visit to Tinsel
Trading Co., famous for miles of vintage trims, buttons, and millinery flowers.

Here is a portion of the flowers wall, organized by color. You really could spend a day a

day in there but it was near closing so I got a mere 30 minutes.

This is the ceiling in a gorgeous restaurant named Serenditpity 3 where we ate this

And that is the small, or "coward" size as they call it. They also served frozen hot

chocolate in soup bowls.

You would think most of our time was spent eating and you'd be right. My daughter knew some

great neighborhood spots like this Indian restaurant where we could hardly stand up without

getting tangled in the lights, and sparkly do-dads hanging from the ceiling. What a fun spot.

Now this is something you would only see in New York! Cupcakes from a bakery ( which we sampled of course) being delivered by bike courier. Isn't that cute?

We sure packed alot into our 3 days as we also visited MOMA, Museum of Modern Art and the Botanical Gardens. Thanks for sharing my little trip.