Creative You

Saturday, January 21, 2017

Pop up SAL - Squirrel!

Here is as far as I got on this tonight. A bit more on the second bunny's white fur

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Pop Up WIP - Winnie The Pooh

Here is my progress for this one day pop up WIP.

Before

After

Not too much done. But as the saying goes every stitch is one stitch closer to a finish.

Have a great one.

Toni

Saturday, January 14, 2017

Current WIPS - Lots going on

Here are the projects I have been working on so far this year.

Rocking Horse Merry Christmas

1997 Leisure Arts Magazine

This one is finished. Yay. First finish of 2017.

Next up is my offering for the January Challenge in StitchWhat's from the Facebook group, Cross Stitch It's Fun.

Autumn in Vermont

Kustom Krafts

Making some good progress so far.

Then the other day I felt the need to start a new full coverage piece. This is going to be the year of full coverage for me.

Blue Dragon Fairy

Kustom Krafts

Last week I made some good progress on a new start during the first week of January.

At The Beach

JanLynn kit

I also started Rabbits and Cabbages this year from a Bunnies Galore booklet. This is just a fun piece. There are a lot of patterns I want to do out of this booklet.

Rabbits and Cabbages

Bunnies Galore Leisure Arts booklet

And that is about all for me thus far. I plan on starting some more new things like Espresso Yourself and Toronto city from Tiny Modernist, Pretty Little Toronto from Satsuma Street and Happy Halloween by Joan Elliott.

Have a happy stitching day.

Blessings.

Sunday, December 11, 2016

WIP update - Gingerbread Santa.

Making good progress. Over 2000 stitches on this new start. Yay

Thursday, December 08, 2016

Colored pencil sketches

Here is a cartoonish horse and a more realistic cactus.

WIP update - Gingerbread Santa

Here is my progress thus far on my Gingerbread Santa by Sue Hillis

Wednesday, December 07, 2016

Watercolor Unicorn

Here is a cute unicorn. I haven't drawn a unicorn since 5th grade

Watercolor Gnome

Here is a gnome I watercolored. It made me wonder if the Santa Claus mythology came from gnomes. Mine has quite a resemblance to Jolly Ole St Nick.

Watercolor Snowman

Watching some Christmas Advent drawings in watercolor and decided to create my own.

Tuesday, December 06, 2016

Oh Me Of Little Faith

Oh Me Of Little Faith (video)

by Susan Ashton, Margret Becker and Christine Dente

We are in a bit of a crisis at our church. Our worship leader left for another position at a different church and that leaves us with limited resources musically, but where we fail is in our faith. Many are falling apart in their worship life because they no longer feel fulfilled musically. We are limited in what we can do and so we have been doing basically the basics. Maybe that is our messages: we need to get back to the basics.

What is basic worship: (these are coming off the top of my head and may not be true basics)

A capella

Hymns

Instrumentals

Feeling led to sing a particular song

Songs rooted in scripture

Our purpose is to glorify God and not ourselves. Do I want more contemporary worship? Of course. But is that what is best for our church? I don’t know. God seems to keep breaking it down so it makes me wonder.

Do I think we can do this? Maybe. I feel like the entire team is on this precarious edge of a cliff and we are threatening to tip over. If one more thing gets pushed out of place… all the structure will fall and we will be left with nothing.

And do we want that?

I don’t think so. I don’t.

I have been praying that we be led in the direction we need to go and things keep falling apart as a result. It seems a huge restructuring is in order. I wonder what will be left when all the pieces fall together.