I always feel a little bit tacky blogging about gifts I’m sending out
but I can’t help it…the blog needs fodder. It must be fed! And I think (hope) the recipients
can dig that. This little scene is for this month’s birthday girl, angry chicken Amy. A couple of embroideries glued into little tin frames that I found at a garage sale. As soon as I saw them I knew I had to incorporate them into her present – scallops!
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Sweet! I think she’ll be beside herself, or already is?
Too cute! I love her pose.
I’m loving your embroidery!
love the chicken’s expression! a wonderful gift.
i predict amy is going to fall out of her chair when she sees this post…
Oh wow, these are the most precious, wonderful little treasures. What a lovely gift, I love them…the frames go with them perfectly and the lace is gorgeous! (and the embroidery of course! lol) 🙂
MissMeshell xx
Lovely! And how sweet of you to send them, I would be tempted to keep them all to myself. 😉
Those are gorgeous!
Thank you for sharing with us!!! Those are so super sweet and cute!
oh they rock.
OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!!
Those are the cutest things EVER! What a lucky lady Amy is!!!!!!!!!
those are so darling. hillary, i am completely behind on our “project” that i was going to send you. it’ll have to wait until after i get back from maine next week…hope that’s okay. so busy, and i presume you are too!
lisa
um, hi, yes, I just saw this on flikr (I am one step behind as usual) and crap my pants and here it is in all it’s glory.
thank you so much, these are amazing and I can’t even use exclamation points now, because it can’t sum up how amazing you are and how much I love these. A hand written note is one the way. sniff. sniff. you are the best, a true crafty genius and a dear friend. ox.
that is such an awesome idea!! so adorable.
Very sweet!
Love the embroidery! What a keepsake for Amy! When’s her birthday, anyway? Is it past?
wow, really amazing and beautiful–this is some of the best work i have seen in a long time.
Those are adorable. Amy will love them!
So cute!Thank you for free patterns.
Constance in France
i always feel like a bit of a dork when i do the same. but it would be a shame though if you didn’t share your work with the rest of us.
love the leg and dancing braids!
so great…and what a lucky girl!
Adorable! And I am so jealous of everyone’s thrift/yard sale finds. There is never anything that cool around here!
Thanks so much for sharing. These are absolutely adorable! The frames add that special touch. 🙂
Holy freakin’ frijole! That is so cute!!!!
amazing work and a wonderful idea. thank you once again for such inspiration.
These are truly beautiful! Lovely delicate artwork!
so cute!!!
what a lucky angry chicken!
oops…i think i just fell off my chair! brilliant and charming. can i be your friend?
these are adorable and judging from her blog I am sure she will love them. They seem like something she would have made for herself.
Oh my, those are just the absolute cutest things I have ever seen!! Wow! So wishing I was Amy…
Gorgeous
o yea!
(my birthday=7/6)
So beautiful Hillary!
What a sweet gift! The frames are perfect for the embroidered design you created! Your designs are so great. Someone suggested a coloring book or your drawings, and I second that!
That is SO cute.. the embroidery itself is adorable, and then the lace and the little frame.. it’s all put together so nicely! My favorite part is definitely the little chick and the feedsack in the basket.. 😀
These are amazing and the frames are the perfect touch!
It’s lovely Hillary! What a lucky recipient! = )
You are a genius!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOW WOW WOW. Amy, look away now! Hills, my birthday is January 7. I’m just sayin. Just thought I’d say. I don’t know why. No reason.
Super toot! Dainty and sweet. Bravo!
What absolutely beautiful embroidery! I’ve admired your blog for some time and I just wanted to say how much I love all of your little projects! Thanks for sharing!
Those are so adorable!!
Well, now I’m a jealous hen.
Look at those pigtails swinging in the breeze! Lovely, as always. (Oh, and I was amused to see on Flickr today that it is officially GAMMA now!!! Ha ha).
so amazing hillary, so very, very amazing!!!
I can not tell you how much I love this embroidery !! Just wonderful!! Clarice
you make the cutest, sweetest, original things! I love these, she is a lucky girl…and thanks for letting us see!
Here’s a sentence I thought I’d never utter: I want to learn how to embroider! You have inspired me — your embroidery is so darling! Now, since both of my grandmothers are long since moved on to their great reward, where does a gal go to learn such a craft?