TIA aka The Irish Apple

Monday 9 July 2012

VIEW TO DECK AND BACK PATIO.

Mercy calls this our "outdoor living room".

OUR SOUTH SIDE GARDEN

Do you remember the SOFT SHOULDER signs at side of highways|?

YELLOW ROSES on back shed.

NIOBE CLEMATIS

FRENCH LAVENDER aka BUTTERFLY LAVENDER

I saw this in England in 2005 and found it this year at Superstore Ridley.

Thursday 31 May 2012

A beautiful day...

Not only did I have my favourite garden slave, Denis,at my side

but our eldest granddaughter, Brenna, came to have lunch and help me with my blog.

Shown here, with her lover Jesse.

Mulching, transplanting, weeding, hanging up bird houses and signage, there's actually space between my plants!
We lost our favourite clematis over the winter and our 25 year old Sand Cherry, too.

I wanted to replace the Sand Cherry with a Kousa Dogwood- China Girl and after many phone calls, located one and our beloved Purpurea Plena Elegans clematis at Vineland Nurseries, Martin Road, Beamsville.
http://www.vinelandnurseries.com

photo of our old Purpurea Plena Elegans...bought 2 this time...just in case...

Their motto is "Special Plants for Special Places"- our gardens of course.

Brenna sits typing beside me, too many memories to recall of her and I together.
This is another good one. More to come.

Monday 7 May 2012

Esme's feet

There's something about a child's foot.
Shoes or no shoes.
Esme's feet still carry sweet babyfat and have a delicious mole.

Perfect.

Declan wanted 'flames'

BONUS JACKET...had imprints of 2 scary super heroes.

Snapped it up at Salvation Army Thrift Store.

Smiles n' Chuckles t-shirt yielded the orange dragon.

Unseen here is a Celtic dragon from a donated shirt of PaPa's that I attached to the right sleeve then used red embroidery floss to hand 'stitch'.

See 'other jean jacket' back band...

I used it to draw in the bottom as it was a boxy cut.

Lots of 'messy' stitching in red .

Stitch then REVERSE stitch over and over in slashing design.

I used 3 strands of embroidery floss wound around sewing machine bobbin, put the jacket under my sewing machine needle with right side down.This gave me the embroidery floss on the 'right side' of the jacket. I skill I learned in Grade 8 Home Ec.Mrs Hansen Ryerson Public School.London,ON.

I can't find my car keys but ...

I stitched the flames in 3 colours - red orange and yellow.

I think he likes it !

His trademark smile.

'Rock' on left sleeve.

ELEMENTS

up cycled-vintage-jean jacket

pockets and back band from another jean jacket

embroidery floss

contrasting thread

pictorials from shirts and t's

iron on adhesive

seam ripper to 'mess up' edges of collar and cuffs

scary skull stuff

have fun

Jingles thinks clothing is boring

Jingles thinks clothing is b o-o-o-o-ring.

He prefers natural fur.

I think the self-cleaning element appeals to him.

Cute girl's jacket scored at Salvation Army Thrift Store.The red accent ribbon was already in place-bonus!

http://www.thriftstore.ca/central-ontario/locations

Mercy is the cute girl wearing it.

I admit to being a label snob.
The Gap,Donna Karan,Tristan and Isolde,Club Monaco,etc.
They're all there.

Don't get in my way on 50% off clothing day.

CUFF DETAIL

Sewing 'messy' makes errors into design elements.

ELEMENTS
used aka vintage jean jacket
sewing thread-contrasting colours
sewing machine
upcycled lace and doilies-washable
pictoral elements from shirts or t's-washable
imagination
cat critic

have fun