Happy New year!

Hi! Hope everybody had a wonderful Christmas! Happy New year to all!
I really need to catch up on my blogging.
Anyways, here are some stuff I made recently.

I used a wood box I found at Salvation Army to make this Christmas Shadow Box (?)

I really don't know how to call this. But we love it!

It was fun to plan and gather all the little things for the scenes. I had some help from Brenda. Some stuff I had on hand, but we had to go "hunt" for just the right things to complete the little scenes.

I made the pompom snowman and the little girl on red felt cape. The mini water globe is there because I could not find a perfect size Santa. Brenda's picture is from about four years ago, and is one of my favorites.

I wanted to make this shadow box  for some time now, and I am so happy I finally did! I jumped for joy when I found just the perfect little box at Salvation Army!

Another project I wanted to make for a couple of years and was able to acomplish this year.

I had this space by The Christmas tree. I have Cross Stitch Samples I hang on this spot for all three other seasons, but not winter :(   Every year I had to hang something too small for the space.
This Christmas I decided to take action and do something about it.

I got the Holly Jolly Christmas fabric from Robert Kaufman and fussy cuted the pictures.The red and green fabrics are batik.

I just love the fabrics and was a good experience "designing" this wall hanging.

I am not a quilter (yet), and I  don't have a fancy sewing machine.  It is always a bit challenging for me to piece and machine quilt even a small simple quilt like this one.

But I keep trying, and I am very happy with the results.

Now, I have just the right thing on the wall!

And since I am talking about fished projects, we also finished the white shelf behind the tree.
It is a hand me down that was looking so bad! Even with the bad weather, (we are having frost many nights now) we finished painting  just in time to hang the stockings. That's our pretend fireplace mantel :)
I still have to make burlap boxes to fit on the shelves to hide my old VHS movies. That's a never ending list of projects!
I have some more things to show, but I really need to do laundry.
Have a wonderful day!
Ana Paula.

Christmas Rag Quilt

Hello! Very busy around here, but here is my last project.

It was made using cotton and corduroy for the top and flannel for the back, and it has a smaller
piece of cotton batting inside each square.

This kind of quilt is  very easy  to make, since unmatched corners will not show so much :) Perfect for me!

This is after 3 washes. Corduroy makes a LOT of lint. But the quilt is very soft and fluffy.
I love the paper doll fabric, and I think this little quilt looks great with my Christmas decor.

Thanks for stopping by!

Ana Paula.

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.