Hand Bag made to go with Love Vest

This is the hand bag I made to go with the Love vest. It has handles I made that have decorative
stitches in gold metallic thread. You can not see the handles because I put then inside the bag. If I had left them outside (the way they are ) it would get in the way of seeing the decorative stitches on each side of the bag. The first picture is the side that has Amanda's head on it..
It also has a lot of decorative stitching in both gold and silver thread. Embroidery roses also.
The next picture is the other side of just embroidery roses and decorative stitching.

The hand bag is setting on my work table. I iron on that, I cut on that table. In general, I do everything there except sew there.

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Please come again soon. I'll be looking for you. Love, Fern

First Collar & First Quilt

Hello! This is the first collar that I made. It is embroidery on the Viking sewing machine. All done by machine. It is tricky to do, because the placement of everything has to be just right.

The picture below is my very first quilt I ever did. The group that I belonged to made baby quilts for the local hospital. This was made for them. It is not very good but, they took it happily. I have a real problem with straight as you can see. I was doing a lot better last June with the baby quilt I pieced in June, that I don't have quilted yet, because of the fall, on July First. I thank-you for coming to see my blog. I really appreciate your friendship and your following along with my life. Please come again soon and if you are not a follower, please push my follow button. Thank-you! See you again soon.

Cat Quilt, and Happy

This picture of the Cat Quilt was quilted by a women in my sit and stitch group, back in the day I belonged to one . When I lost Amanda, I joined a sit and stitch group to stay away from the house. It was so painful to be home, because, I could see her everywhere I looked! I needed something to help me get over her being gone. When I joined the first thing I made was a hand bag. Then I started on my Love Vest. I had , had to give up my roses and then in just months later, Amanda died! It was just too much! Making that vest got me though it all.....

Below, our sweet Happy is resting on the patio. She goes through spells, of sleeping one place, then another place, will be her spot. Those spots last weeks. Then she finds another spot she sleeps in for weeks. That is our Happy.

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Love you all, Happy, Bambi and Fern

The day I turned seven

Hi everybody!! We are back to work and our normal duties. Hope you all had a very good week-end. We did not go anywhere away from home. We were in our beds every night, We did take day trips tho, and I am sorry, I did not take the camera. Don't tell Tom, but the camera he got for me is too heavy to carry around. It is a wonderful camera, it does everything, but too heavy for me.
Do you remember when I told you about the Christmas we got to Florida? My Grandmother sent me a red satin dress? Here you see the red satin dress... The year she sent it , it was too large! I couldn't wear it for almost 2 years. This picture was taken on my 7 birthday. I wore that dress out!! I wore it to school, to the club where Dad worked, and to a dance hall that my Mother when on Sunday nights to dance with the men in uniform. I did love that dress!!!
The picture below is of my Mother and me and my pretty red dress!
I am going blog hopping now and see what my friends did for the holiday. See you soon I hope.
Love you all, Fern


P. S. The dog in the picture is a poodle that belonged to a neighbor that I walked down to the end of the park everyday. I also walked Tippie down there at least once aday.
See Ya,

Labor Day Week-end

I want to tell you all that Tom and I are going to take a few days for ourselves. I don't know if we are going anywhere or just stay home. Often when we do that we really do not go away from home. We just vacation at home!! Anyway I want to wish you all a very happy Labor Day Week-end!! I hope you have a safe and fun time. I don't know what we will do but I can tell you it will be fun!!! See you all again September 8 th.
Lots of Love, Bambi, Happy, and Fern

More questions answered

6- Four words to describe yourself. I am a lover! I love my husband very much and I love the animals very much!! I am a Mother of two grown sons. With male children you do not keep as close as you would if they were girls. Both of my sons do not live close to me, so I do not hear from them real often. I am a grandmother of one grand-daughter! The last time I saw my Grand-daughter was last Christmas. I do talk to her pretty often tho by phone. I am a loner!!!!
When I was a little girl I was alone all the time. I was alone at night! I was alone most all day!
I had no family except Mom and Dad, and they were away or sleeping . So I learned to be alone!
7- What was your highlight or your low light of 2008? Pain!!!!!!!
8-Favorite film? That is very hard... just one? The only one I own on D V D is Dirty Dancing so I guess that is my favorite.
9- Tell me something I don't know about you? I am dyslexic!!! Words are very hard for me!!!
Tom bought an Franklin Ace speller and that helps a lot and the computer helps a lot and writing you all has helped a lot!! It still takes me three times longer for me to leave a comment
on your blog than it would take you.
10- If you were a comic strip who would be ? I would be Super Man!!
Well you have learned a lot today about me!!
I do thank-you for coming to see me !!!!!!!!! Please come again soon and if you are not a follower please push that follow button, please!!
Love you all, Fern