Friday 20 December 2013

Where is the snow?

I´ve been having a look at a lot of fellow bloggers´ posts, full of photos of their lovely last minute Christmas crafts, of decorations in the snow, fairy lights in the snow and more snow.  Where´s mine then?  I wouldn´t mind a sprinkling of the white substance either!  It´s the right time of year and Christmas is always portrayed as being white.

Inland we have a lot of snow and the ski slopes were in full swing weeks ago, but I live on the North coast of Spain at sea level and we are lucky to have a few pinhead sized flakes float downwards once or twice a decade, and if you are not actually in the streets or looking out of a window, the phenomenon would probably be missed entirely. The weatherman has forecast rain for the next week, so we will have to content ourselves with this other form of H2O. However with or without snow, I have made a snowman.


In fact I´ve made two.
  

These two placemats were made with the itzy bitzy pieces of fabric I bought a couple of weeks ago at our local patchwork shop.


I didn´t use two of the chosen pieces because in my stash I found the perfect white fabric with tiny silver stars, ideal for the snowman´s body although not very appreciable in the photos. However, I may well buy more of the red fabric which is a lovely rich colour with a tiny print, very handy to have in one´s stash.



I added a fringe to his scarf.


I hadn´t planned on making any more Christmas items but I got a last minute request.......
  


  
As my next post will be after the 25th of December, I´d like to wish you all a Very Merry Christmas.

 


3 comments:

  1. I love your snowmen placemats Sheryl. The snowman is adorable - love the scarf with the cute fringe.
    Looking forward to seeing Barbie's new outfit :)
    Margaret

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  2. HOLA SHERYL: LA ELECCION DE LOS COLORES ES PERFECTA, LOS ROJOS SOBRE VERDE SIN QUEDAR SOBRECARGADO.....IDEAL PARA ESTAS FECHAS EN LAS QUE ESTAMOS.
    SALUDOS
    UNA SEGUIDORA

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  3. hola sherryl , vuelvo a empezar, pues me puse a borrar una palabra y borre todo el texto, jajaja . bueno , a lo que iba, me encanta los colores que escogiste para el muñeco de nieve, incluiste el rojo y verde, y asi quedo muy fino. espero que despues de pasar el dia de navidad con los tuyos te hayan dejado un huequin para poder vestir a la muñeca,sino estas muy cansada, pues estamos intrigados con que nos vas a deleitar, porque el ver tus trabajos es como un buen mangar que hasta se saborea. un saludo y un beso.

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