Oh, how I love traveling... visiting new places, meeting people from different countries, getting acquainted, even if only briefly, with their culture...
Unfortunately we don't get to travel as much as we wish, even though our wishes are not (always) unrealistic. So, I travel virtually, wherever my embroideries might take me, by keeping track of where they "fly". One of my eyeglass cases, for instance, flew to New Zealand,  a place I can only dream of ever visiting, so I spent  days at that time admiring photos of New Zealand. And that is what I do every time an item leaves my studio, taking a piece of my heart wherever it goes. I have "visited" quite a few places this way and I feel so very lucky to have been able to do so.

My next virtual travel takes me to a place that is "within my reach" and hope to really visit it in a couple of years: Paris...

A pocket mirror and a pendant are taking me there:





I hope Paris will like them, too :)

Wishing you all a wonderful day,

It all started at the very beginning of my pendant making madness, when I made a monogram pendant for my very special friend, Lee Albrecht. At the time I created patterns for the whole alphabet, but then moved on to other designs and forgot all about the letters.

Then an acquaintance of  Lee's saw her pendant and ordered a similar one, so another L pendant was created.


While working on it, I thought I might as well make some more and wondering which letter I should start with, I remembered that my father asked me the other day if I have ever made a pendant for myself. Well, I haven't... Correction: now I have :)


And after my A was done, it seemed only natural to embroider an M as a Mother's Day present for my Mother whose initials are MM-M.


I really, really hope that she will like it enough to wear it, too.

Have a wonderful week, Everyone!

Just roses, more roses than words...








Happy Sunday, dear Friends!

(Robin McKinley, Sunshine)

I am happy to announce that, thanks to the kind assistance of my dear friend Lee Albrecht, some of my silk ribbon embroidery pendants, along with many other gorgeous finished embroideries and embroidery kits with Lee's beautiful designs, will be available for purchase at the 7th Brazil Patchwork Show, at Shoping Frei Caneca in São Paulo, April 08 - 11.

It is still cold and the sun is playing hide and seek a lot, but the calendar says it's time, so, dear Spring, whenever you are ready, I am here!

For the last week, while waiting for spring to come, I have been busy creating pendants for "Martisor", a lovely Romanian custom for the 1st of March. These are only a couple of them:





Now I can't wait for spring to finally do its magic!

Wishing everyone a happy weekend,

Now I would like to get back to my sheep what this blog of mine is really about, embroidery. And share with you the pendants I have been working on for the last few days.

Passionate reds, roses and tulips.



Sweet pastels:


Off to the studio now to get my needles humming again :)

Wishing everyone a happy day,

"Old" designs, new colors and experimenting different backgrounds.






And since I mentioned her, here she is, "helping" me out in the studio last week, during school break:

Happy ones: roses on a navy blue silk foundation.