Gingerbread Ornaments - Great Ideas!!

We just got through a blistering 3 days of hot and humid weather. For those of you that live with hot and humid on a regular basis...God Bless You! Here in the northeast...we do a lot of whining with that kind of weather. We love hot...we hate humid. That said, I wanted to show you what I do to keep cool... working on all these little gingerbread guys! Yeah...'cuz stuffing in 90+ degree weather somehow seemed like a plan to me.

These little guys are approx. 8" high. The pile is a bunch of gingerbread ornaments. All of them have been aged with Design Master glossy wood tone. This stuff is terrific for aging felt projects. We use it to give our wool felt projects depth. (note to self...put the glossy wood tone on the website) Now I have to 'ice' them up, add the details and they will be ready to go! Fortunately the weather is wonderfully warm and dry today. The paint will dry nicely. I do love New England!

I'd Rather Be Crafting...

Ok, so today I am sitting here trying to get my wesite straightened out and it occured to me that I would much rather be crafting! I am almost finished with 2 projects I chose from this issue of Create & Decorate. (note to self...something else to get up on the website!) One is a wonderful applique project of a light house (Backyard Friends) that I am doing in wool felt. It was on the front cover. It stitched up pretty fast. My husband just brought up the frame he made for it and I am dying to frame it up, take a picture and...oh yeah...put it on the website. But I can't...I have to blog and get the rest of my pictures up. The other project is the House on a Hill Sampler (Backyard Friends). This took a lot longer but I love it! I just have to add the backing on it and it's ready to be...yes, you guessed it...put on my website. So, now I have to get back to the mission of the day. Hopefully these projects will be up before to long...all in good time I guess.Happy crafting!~Nita