Baby Bell

I made this gift for a baby in my family for a Christening.

I got the grid from Sylvie Castellano book: Toute Une Vie a Broder
Antique Ribbon: When Our Grandmothers Sewed
Baby Monogram: Etsy - Yebisu Shop
Antique Baby Rattle I bought on Ebay.

Shadow Box

I finally finished my shadow box. I stained the unpainted wood with a dark stain then painted it white and roughed it up with sandpaper. I put in little antique items like old buttons 2 of them from the 1800's, old spools of thread. I found a metal spool which I thought was cool. Vintage scissors and a thimble and even some old hooks and eyes and a package of needles. I also cross stitched a little handbag and a picture that I saw in the french book Petites Vetrines and cross stitched little spools. I found an old darning in a sewing box with a yellow fabric measuring tape and the skeleton keys I hung with a safety pin and attached really big old hooks and eyes and a pendant that has Queen Elizabeth II on it. The little pin cushion scissor fob has vintage shell buttons from the early 1900's. I do a lot of these when I have really small pieces of fabrics left over.

Vintage Themed Shadow Box

I am in the middle of constructing a show box filled with some of my various vintage haberdasheries and also cross stitched items. I cross stitched a little tote bag and a little sewing themed heart on 28 Count Monaco linen with DMC 815. I used the patterns for the small spools from the french book Dentelles and Rubans and the little tote and heart photo came from the french book Petites Vetrines which is a book on making small dollhouse shadow box themes. I am not fully done. I think I want to use my big shadow box which I am in the middle of staining.