DOES YOUR CANDLE NEED A RUG???

 

This is one of my hooked penny candle rugs.

 

I used several blacks for the background to make it look really olde. At least that was my intention if I achieved it or not I guess is in the eye of the beholder.

 

I know,I know I've posted a lot of pictures of it,but I just couln't decide which one to post,so I chose all of them LOL!!!!

 

See the thing is,that at the size, which is 8 1/2" X 8 1/2" there's just so many places that you can display it. Even hang it,like in the 1st picture.

 

I know, I call it a candle mat,but doesn't it look neat on this chair????

 

 

And finally with a candle,not a great one,but anyhoo a candle!!!!

 

If you NEED this candle mat at your house, It's $57.00 which includes shipping  SOLD

jstoff@windstream.net

 

Now I've got to get back to work on the next one that's almost finished!!! It's in squares of textured neutrals or maybe it's just best to say "dirty" whites.

 

Thanks For Stopping By!!!

 

Sherry....OUT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOT OFF THE HOOKING FRAME!!!

 

Good Morning!!! My newest Hit or Miss rug. I love doing these rugs all kinds of ways.

 

BUT as many as I make I NEVER seem to make a dent in all the boxes and baskets of worms!!! In fact I swear they start multipling soon as I stop hooking and go to bed at nite!!!

 

This one's a great size at 9" X 23" cause you can display it in so many places,like an antique bench,hanging on an olde cupboaed or shelf or a a table runner,etc.,etc.     SOLD

Time to get back to hooking the candle mat that I'm working on as my worms continue to multiply LOL!!!

 

Sherry.....OUT

PRIMITIVE HANDMADES MERCANTILE UPDATE!!

 

 

GOOD MORNING!!!

It's the 3rd Friday of the month,so that means it's update day on PRIMITIVE HANDMADES MERCANTILE!!!

I hope you'll take a break and go peruse all the FANTASTIC handmades from all the Artists!!!!

 

 

Now about my offerings this month. I've done something really different that I hope you'll like!!! See that little Rabbit and Tulip X stitched Pillow Tuck above that I made,well that's a pattern by, Shelly Auen of Primitive Stitchin.

The pattern is available on Pattern Mart CLICK HERE

 

So what's different about my new items??? Well I asked Shelly if I could have her permission to use her pattern to design a hooked rug and she very kindly gave me her permission. Shelly does FANTASTIC X Stitch patterns and she has a boat load of them that I love,so I hope you'll click on the Pattern Mart link to see them.

 

So anyhoo,I hooked the white rabbit 1st and I liked it so much that I immediately started hookin' the brown rabbit!!!

I hope that you like them too!!!

Please click on the Primitive Handmades Mercantile banner over there on the right. THANK YOU!!

 

Sherry.....OUT

FOREVER IN MY HEART

 

My Mom, Dad and Sister. I'm the little one, left alone.

My Husband John

 

  He was my best friend since I was 12. Left alone again. And alsoTubby who I rescued as a puppy from the APL as a Sweetest Day gift for John a few years before this picture was taken.

NEW HOOKED RUG FOR SALE

 

Well Thank You Blogger!!!! I was almost finished and I had written all this interesting stuff & THEN blogger made everything disappear and I'm not gonna do all that one finger typing again!!!! So all my words of wisdom are out floating in space somewhere!!!

 

So I'll just tell ya about my newest design. Often I just put the backing on my frame, pick up my Sharpie & start drawing. I dreww the heart first & hooked it with many different reds as I thought about what else i was going to add. I knew I wanted it to be a sampler type rug. I decided, drew & hooked as I went along. I'm really disappointed that the center block wool around the heart looks so white cause it's definately NOT white. It's beige with very thin green stripes or a VERY dirty white. I think the contrast from the red heart & the brown is what's making it look so white in the pictures. If anyone would like I could send a picture of the wool I used around the heart so you could maybe see what it really looks like. 

 

My Hooked Sampler Rug is approx. 14" X 15". $145 with FREE Shipping

jstoff@windstream.net   SOLD

 

Thanks for visiting!!! Come Back Soon!!!

 

Sherry....OUT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EARLY WORK MERCANTILE UPDATE DAY!!!

Good Morning!!

Even though I'm still wounded from Sunday's broiler burn and Monday's fall, time waits for no one lol!!!
It's Febuary 1st and that means that it's EARLY WORK MERCANTILE update day!!!! I of course was late, remember I'm wounded, but it's updated now so I hope you'll go and take a look at all the cool stuff the Artists have to offer.
Thank You!!!
http://earlywork-fromsherrysheart.blogspot.com/

Sherry.....OUT

MONDAY??????

I know that a lot of people dread Mondays. It's always been that way, cuz for most people it means back to the work week and things tend to happen on Monday. Mostly because they're dreading going back to the grind after being off for 2 days. Most people get over it,usually by Wed. For me there's no Monday to dread because I work 7 days a week and seldom get out unless I have a Dr.'s appt.

Well for me this Monday started out bad. Even though I don't go out to work, nobody wants to start the week with bad stuff,including me!!!

So it was the wee hours of this morning,don't know what time,I did look at the clock but can't remember what it said. Whatever time it was,it was still dark out and I had no intention of getting up for the day,but I did have to pee. No biggie,I have a neurogenic bladder,like a lot of MS people do so I get up often for bathroom trips. BUT today was different!!!! I've come very close tons of times and made it,this time I didn't, I fell. Twisted my right knee. Now there's an unwritten rule,that whatever is hurt or damaged on your  body, that's the part that you always hurt again. Like the majority of people do,I have 2 knees, 1 bad & the other worse. The worse is my right one,which many years ago they operated on to remove a torn meniscus,that's the part that cushions your knee,so it stands to reason that the right knee would be the one that twisted when I fell. Right??? I also hit my arm on the nite stand. My right one. I right handed. No problem though it's ok. Now my left foot,well that's awhole other story. My toe,the one next big one that went to market, got bent backwards. Now that hurts. I do believe it's broken. Which once again follows that unwritten rule,because this toe is on the left foot that gotten broken 3 weeks after John died and still has the purplish mark on it,just below the said injured toe. The ortho Dr. had told me that this break would never totally heal because of my MS. Well he was right,it hasn't. After the fall, I peed & went back to bed.

My routine when I get up in the morning is to go hit the button on the coffee pot so it gets started brewing while I go pee,yes again and then go back & pour a cup of coffee,I have pause & pour. Well it was makin' all kinds of spurting noises & there was no coffee to pause & pour!!! Apparently for some reason I had not prepared the coffee like I ALWAYS do the nite before.
Maybe it's because my Monday actually started Sunday nite when I decided to broil a couple of shrimp cakes to eat. When I went to turn them over I guess I just didn't pull the rack out far enough and my right index finger now has the brand of the red hot broiler coil on it!!!!! Maybe that's why i forgot to make the coffee!!!

As far as the broken toe goes,there's really not much you can do about that. I'll just have to stay hurtin',swollin' & purple till it decides not to be,which in my case could be awhile.

So in closing I do hope that your Monday started better than mine and stay tuned in & maybe I'll tell you what happened last Monday!!

Broken Toed Sherry.....OUT