Coss Stitch: Celtic deer

I made this deer from a design I found on the internet I believe.  I love the rustic frame around it. (You can see a reflection of me in the bottom taking the picture)  This project was done on large evenweave fabric, over two, to make big crosses.  My friend and I went to a cross stitch festival down at Valley Forge one year and bought fabric from the vendors that were odds and ends on sale.  So we picked up some unusual colors and weave sizes.

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Cross Stitch: Canvaswork box

This represents the first and only canvaswork project I have done.  I have two more I believe sitting on the craft shelf to do.  This project is special because my friend put this project together as a kit for me to make and gave it to me as a present.  She picked out all of the colors and beads for the project.  I don't know how she could pick out such a perfect project for me.  I found a box for it and took it to the framer to be framed and matted in the lid. 

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Cross Stitch: Celtic Horse

This horse was sewn onto some thick kind of cloth -evenweave.  It is sewn over two to make large crosses.  This horse an be made different ways.  I made the easy outline version.  There is a filled version also.  I used the buttonhole stitch around the outside to keep it from fraying.  Then I hand sewed it to the bag with a matching thread.

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Stained Glass: Confetti glass trees

I made these trees using that cool confetti glass.  I planned making them for quite a while and finally made them in a bipolar fit of energy (hypomania).  I used the diamond saw to cut the sketched shape.  Four shapes per tree.  I had a hard time soldering them together and was never happy with how they fit together.  Unfortunately they did not last long as I smashed them in a bipolar fit of mania same time I threw the sea horses to the ground.  Not to worry I can live without them.  I can always make more if I want.  Although I have a tendency not to make projects twice.  I get bored to easily.

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Stained Glass: Sea bird

This bird was designed from a logo of a South Carolina community.  I made this design twice, once for a boyfriend's parents and once for my step brother.  It is fun and easy to make being only eight pieces.

This is the first mosaic piece I made.  My friend designed the lizard.  We each made one of these.  We used a terra cotta bowl as the base.  This thing is really durable.  I have been using it for years.  It is more likely to break something than break itself.
I can't remember the process we used to make this.  It is possible that she drew the lizard directly onto the bowl and we glued the glass to the bowl.  After the glue dries add the grout and after the grout dries clean the glaze off of the glass.

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Stained Glass: Sea Horses

My friend and I made two of these seahorses.  My friend designed them from a cross stitch design.  I am constantly amazed at how she is able to do that.  She is also really good with color picking.  I am hopeless.  This design is delicate and airy.  But very strong.  In one of my rampages of mania (bipolar) I threw it to the ground edgewise and there is not a crack in it.  Thank goodness.  It is one of my favorites.  For some reason I have both of them,  my friend did not take hers home.  Between the two of us we set up a stained glass workshop in my basement.  She could come here any time she wanted to work.  And some how we never got in each other's way.  Two years ago or there abouts she moved up to Maine.  And I had to "buy" her out of the workshop.  So I sent a workshop care package up to her that was enough to get her going.  I made out on the deal because I sent her the old grinder and bought a new one for myself.  Now she's all set up in her basement.

Don't drop anything!

Stained Glass: dragon

I made the dragon for a boyfriend's son.  The crescents are a panel I made/designed for my kitchen.  Here it is installed in the bottom of one of the doors.  I was supposed to make four of these but never completed the project.  Bipolar and depression intervened.  So I took the panel out and put a solid pieces of green colored glass into the doors.  Another depressing thing that happened when I was working on these crescent panels.  I had a second panel for the most part cut out and sitting on a board.  I was cleaning the basement and I dumped the board and the glass fell and broke.

I made these two candle holders one for me and one for my friend's parents.  I kept the orange one.

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