HOOKED CANDLE MAT PART DEUX

 

GOOD MORNING!!!

 

So here's another Candle mat/rug that I still would call hit or miss, but a more structured hit or miss.

 

 

I've only used 4 colors for this one but mixed them up as I hooked. It's more neutral looking.

 

 

The 4 wools that I used are all textured and kinda "dirty white"

 

 

This one measures 9" X 9" with still endless ways to display it.

If you need to display it in your house, you can for $59.00 with shipping included.

jstoff@windstream.net

 

 

 

 

I have another one finished that has the antiquey looking black background, but it's still on the frame because there was a little more room left to hook something else and I don't waste nuttin'!!!

That other piece isn't finished yet though,because I really didn't work on it till last nite. That's unusual for me cause I work on my things to sell 7days a week. I have to. But I've had a bit of a problem the last couple days. My friend Marcia was going to Florida,so she picked up 2 of my perscriptions before she left. They were my vitamin D & Cymbalta. Well I freaked when she told me that they cost $40.00 this time!!!  I was charged 3 X's the amount for the Cymbalta that I had been paying!!! I called the drugstore thinking that they didn't send it to my inurance,cause I'm already paying well over $60 a month that Police & Fire Pension Board is deducting. The lady at the drugstore said no it was paid because Cymbalta costs almost $400 a month. That's just WRONG!!! There's no reason that the drug company should be able to get away with charging that much!!! So I thought, well that's it,I can't be paying that much every month along with all my other drugs,I have to get off it. So a week ago today I called my Dr.'s office & told the nurse that I couldn't afford it and that I needed to ween off of it and how do I do it. She called back this past Monday and said that the Dr. said to take 1 a day instead of 2 and see how I felt in 3 weeks. Well I didn't make it!!! 3 weeks??? I was goin' downhill as fast as an Olympic skier & it wasn't pretty. Marcia kept saying please take your pill I'll pay the extra $20 a month,oh no she won't,BUT I do have a lot of common sense,apparently more than my Dr. so I took my full dose. I'm better today,just a little more tired than usual. The consensus with everybody is that I need to find a new Dr. This isn't the 1st time she's messed me up in theshort 1 1/2 years since I started going to her. I've been there 3 x's & she's never touched me. Never listened to my heart,lungs,checked my stomach,not even so much as shake my hand. Oh well might as well eat worms!!!!

 

Thanks For Stopping By!!!

 

Sherry.....OUT

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