Mystery Christmas quilt

A couple of years ago I found these pictures on the web and just felt in love with this project.
The problem is that I don't know where I found it. If someone out there owns the pictures, or if you are on the pictures, I apologize in advance for using them without previous permission.

I would love to see the finished quilt, that looks like a wall hanging to me. It must be gorgeous. I am not really a quilter, but if I can find out who the designer is, I will get this pattern and try it out. I don't think is that hard.

So, please quilters, if you know who is the designer, I would like to know.

Please leave a comment.
The ladies on the picture did a great job! Nice to see their choices of fabric.

I would love to hear from you. Maybe I can make this in time for Christmas!
Thanks.

Christmas elf

Happy Halloween!
With Halloween almost over, is time for Thanksgiving  decor .
I started to stitch  Lizzie Kate's pair of pilgrims but it will not be done by Thanksgiving.

Well, Friday I went to Michael's to get this little guy.
I had seen him before, but since at the time I did not had a coupon, I had to come back to get him.
Even dear husband that is very hard to please on this things likes him.

Look his little face...just adorable!
They have other kinds, like a baker and a toy maker, all very sweet.

Now, I just have to think where to display him when the time comes.

Thanks for reading my blog!

Beautiful pictures on Flickr

Some time ago I found  some beautiful pictures on flickr.
Flickr has lots of cool talented people, and this lady from Craft and Creativity is just amazing.
Lovely little girls, lovely crafts, lovely everything.
Take a look here and you will agree with me.

Flower Fairies birthday party

I am  finally posting about my daughter's birthday.
It was on a Saturday in June.
Because we all love fairies, the beautiful Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies were the theme.
I tried  to stick with the theme as much is possible, with some variations.
I saw a cute fairy ring cake and toadstool cupcakes at Cathy Gaubert's blog.
Also, I loved the idea of girls sitting on toadstools that I saw on flickr.
So, I had to mix Flower Fairies with toadstools.
We got the Flower Fairies Postcard book at Amazon. It is a cute little book with 30 postcards that you can tear off. They are so cute that I had a hard time picking the ones to send to the guest as invitations. I had some left that I used on frames and on plants - Lavender fairy on a lavender plant, Rose fairy on a rose plant and so on.

I made a Flower Fairy costume for my birthday girl... and she was so cute!

We live in an apartment, but I was able to use a little bit of space outside.

I made almost everything for the party. I love to make things for my sweetie and we had a small budget .
I think this cake was not only a very cute idea but also great for someone like me with no talents on cake decorating.
The fairy is an ornament from San Francisco music box that I already had.
My friend Jodie made the wooden mushrooms.

I made a Fairy Garden using a bowl, a silk plant, Spanish moss, two big mushrooms from World's Market, more of Jodie's mushrooms and another Flower Fairy ornament from San Francisco Music box.

The fairy wand cookies were made by my friend Anniece. I gave one to each girl as they left .
I made a little bag with their name on  for each girl . They put the prizes they got after each game in it. They also took home their felt "toadstool".

The party favors were fabric yo-yo hair clips, bead bracelets, crayons and gummy candies.
I hanged some paper tag ornaments (freebie from a card making magazine) on silk flowers and twigs that I put on a pitcher.
I got the Flower Fairies mobile online. It is decorating my girl's  room now.

We had a hard time choosing the games.
The birthday girl has some limitations because of her condition. We needed fun games with no running or jumping.
We decided  to have Packing for Fairy Land, Spin the fairy wand and Fairy freeze. We planned two crafts but had time only for one.
The food was finger food ... fairy food. Strawberries, grapes, melon, veggies and cheese sandwiches in a flower shape.

The girls had a great time and I had so much fun planning and making my cutie's special day.

Halloween Fabric Bunting

Hi! Yesterday I made a fabric bunting. Very fast and easy. I got the fabrics at Joann.
I am really trying to make more fall projects this year.
I like the fall holidays, but not as much as Christmas. Because of that I have the tendency to make lots of Christmas stuff. Until end of fall I plan to squeeze a couple more fall projects while making Christmas gifts.

One more Cross Stitch Finish

Hi!
This is French Country Pumpkin from JBW designs.  I really enjoyed stitching it.

I wanted to make some new fall stitching this year and this is my first one. I am working on other projects but I don't think I will finish on time, since I have to start on Christmas stitching very soon.

Some Cross Stitch Finishes

Some new cross stitch .
I finished these 2 blocks using the directions from the Twisted Stitcher.
She has a great tutorial blog with very easy to follow instructions.
First, The Chocolate Covered Cherries freebie from Casey Buonaugurio. Very cute design.
I just love how it came out.

Then, Teaching is a work of love from Lizzie Kate. I made this one for my girl's last year's teacher. She is great and was so helpful and understanding about Brenda's Neurofibromatosis. She has so much love. This design is really for her.

Thanks for stopping by!

Ana Paula.

Doll Quilt

I made a special project for my girl last Christmas.
I know, it was a long time ago, but only now I took pictures.
I was inspired by a doll quilt from the magazine Handmade from Australia. The quilt is on the cover.

I changed the size to fit the bed Santa was bringing. Of course, I changed the color and made it pink.  I used scraps from Brenda's quilt. I just love the words on the border.

I did a lot less squares and quilted along the seams.  On Christmas morning, the bed with  mattress, pillow, quilt and a cute dolly were under the tree. My sweetie loved it!

Sara is her favorite doll, and she plays with her every day.
Due to her Neurofibromatosis, Brenda is limited in her playing and activities. She can not jump, run, go on slides, monkey bars, ride bicycles and so on. She wears a brace to protect her leg affected by pseudoarthosis. Her leg is very fragile and even wearing a brace and taking it very easy she recently developed a crack on her bone.
Because of all this we encourage her to play with quiet toys, like dolls, board games, dress up, and tea party stuff that she loves. She also loves books and movies... and fairies.
She is a brave loving little girl.  She is a blessing.

I love to make things for her. She is always so sweet. At the and of the school year she volunteered to sing a song for her Mommy at her school's talent show. It was all her idea. She is a social butterfly, but I was very surprised when she told me about the "surprise".
She sung "The song of the double daisy fairy" from the Flower Fairies Alphabet.
After the talent show she asked me if  I  have liked her performance. I said: Yes sweetie, it was beautiful!  And them she said : I did that "surprise"  because of all the nice things you do for me... and looked at Daddy too and said : both you guys!

Christmas in July

I finished 2 new cross stitch ornaments for my tree.

The first one is from an old Brazilian magazine with American patterns. I have no idea who the designer is. I changed some of the colors and finished as a round ornament . I think it came out pretty cute, being such a simple design. I always liked this.

The second ornament is  Renne de Noel, a freebie from a french blog.  An easy and cute design that I finished as a pillow ornament.
We had a 4 feet fake tree since we got married, then last January we got a taller one at Wallmart. I am very excited planning to make lots of ornaments for the new tree.
When I lived in Brazil I had several cross stich ornaments. Here I had none on the old tree. It was crowded with ornaments of all kinds, but no cross stitch. These are my first ones. I don't know why, but I never made even one. I guess was because the tree was too small.

2nd Annual Los Angeles Race Day Party

2nd Annual Los Angeles Race Day Party

Support the Racing4research effort

Our little Brenda has Neurofibromatosis and we try to support the events organized by The Children's Tumor Foundation. They are a great non profit  that does a lot for all that live with this condition.

Following #14 Children's Tumor Foundation/Autometrics Motorsports Porsche GT3 Porsche
Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona 2010

Thanks to Kelly and California chapter that lined up the party at BJ's Brewery in Torrance. BJ's staff was awsome!

The event became standing room only shortly after start time.
Great food and great people there.

 

(L to R) Mark Kelly's Financé, Kelly, NF Hero Brenda

The Raffle Crew

 

Stand room only at the Patio of BJ's Brewery Torrance

NF Hero Brenda Paola McCool with her race day medal 

NF Heroes Raymond and Brenda / NF Heroes Brenda and Rob Schafer

 

Brenda with mom and dad

For more details on the Neurofibromatosis and Racing4research please see the following sites

http://www.ctf.org - Children's Tumor Foundation

http://www.racing4research.org - Racing 4 research