More Purses

I mentioned in my last blog that a few of us had gone a little purse crazy and here are a few more of our creations ....
This is Sharon's sampler bag. She has put the initials of the motorcycle club she and her husband belong to on the back. She will donate it to the club and they will raffle it off for a kids charity the club suppots.

These two bags are Marie Paule's . I love the handles she chose to complement the bags.

Yesterday I packed up the shop in anticipation of going to the huge Canadian Embroidery Guild Seminar this week in Kingston. Today I am getting my clothes and food ready. Tomorrow Dan and I will pack the RV and Tuesday we will head down the road to St Lawrence College where I hope to have a very busy week. Beatrice has generously offered to help us set up on Tuesday and I know I will welcome the assistance. I will stay in the RV all week and Dan will come back next Sunday to drive the RV home. I am really looking forward to meeting and getting to know many of the avid needleworkers who will be there honing their skills and learning new techniques.

There are only 4 or 5 shops which will be boutiques at Seminar and I am hoping that Knowledge and Needles will have many of items that the participants at Seminar "can't live without".

Where has the time gone?

I haven't blogged in ages, so to make up for it..here are a whole bunch of pictures...there are some stitchy ones further down

We had the family for Easter and here are our friend Bruce and grandson Nicholas making ice cream.

Daughter-in-law Erin, Bruce , Nicholas and Michael all helped.

Of course the best part was the eating... grandson MichaelThe dogs did not get any ice cream..Paddy

and Mollie....

A few of us have been purse mad for the last few weeks. These purses are from Rosewood Manor and called Ye Olde Sampler Purse. This is Marie Paule's first one, front...


and back! She has made a couple of others also but I don't have pictures of them yet.

This is my green bag done on 18 count aida with white thread and beads...same pattern as above and as the one I featured here awhile back..

I am currently working on another one also from Rosewood Manor called Elegance,a Wedding bag. The one I am doing is white #12 perle cotton on 28 ct white linen and it is beautiful and vintage looking..all lacy and pretty. Unfortunately the picture just comes out white...