Our annual horse torturing picture day happened on Sunday. The horses behaved beautifully and enjoyed the extra attention.
Merry Christmas from the Bionic Cowgirl, Washoe, Alloy, and Reba!
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Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Thursday, December 25, 2025
Merry Christmas
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Now That Christmas Is Over
I can *finally* share my bestest Christmas present ever.
Not for me, one I made for Beel.
Back in September, Rachel did a post/give-away from Atticus and Cole. I loved looking through the embroidered pictures and a plan began to form in my head, so I dragged Jay along to the fabric store and I bought all the stuff I would need. If Atticus and Cole could do a piece based in Itty Bit's art, certainly I could figure out how to do some of my favorite of Bill's "fine art".
It has literally been twenty years or so since I've attempted any embroidery and I had to buy all new stuff. I didn't even think to ask Mom, who has drawers full of floss and hoops and needles and stuff. I am such an idiot sometimes.
I went through and picked three of my favorites and got started. I'm hardly an artist, and getting Bill's art from the computer was a problem. Luckily, I'm married to an artist, who did a great job of forging Bill's work onto the cloth.
Along the way, I sent pictures to Rachel, since she was the one who gave me the idea. It's a good thing I did, too, because she was thinking along the same lines. I owe her a big apology for stealing her Christmas idea for Bill. Oops. Sorry, Rach.
I started on this one:
Finished:
Lucky for me, Mom and Beel went on vacation and my favorite story ever occurred. As Mom was telling me about Ranger jumping into Beel's arms, I could picture this:
I told Mom that Bill had to illustrate his post so that I could do this:
By this time, I was pretty much over embroidery, but I still had one more bar towel to do, so I took a couple of Ranger faces as a start and morphed it into Ranger's favorite thing:
Not for me, one I made for Beel.
Back in September, Rachel did a post/give-away from Atticus and Cole. I loved looking through the embroidered pictures and a plan began to form in my head, so I dragged Jay along to the fabric store and I bought all the stuff I would need. If Atticus and Cole could do a piece based in Itty Bit's art, certainly I could figure out how to do some of my favorite of Bill's "fine art".
It has literally been twenty years or so since I've attempted any embroidery and I had to buy all new stuff. I didn't even think to ask Mom, who has drawers full of floss and hoops and needles and stuff. I am such an idiot sometimes.
I went through and picked three of my favorites and got started. I'm hardly an artist, and getting Bill's art from the computer was a problem. Luckily, I'm married to an artist, who did a great job of forging Bill's work onto the cloth.
Along the way, I sent pictures to Rachel, since she was the one who gave me the idea. It's a good thing I did, too, because she was thinking along the same lines. I owe her a big apology for stealing her Christmas idea for Bill. Oops. Sorry, Rach.
I started on this one:
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| Bill while trying to take pictures. |
Lucky for me, Mom and Beel went on vacation and my favorite story ever occurred. As Mom was telling me about Ranger jumping into Beel's arms, I could picture this:
I told Mom that Bill had to illustrate his post so that I could do this:
By this time, I was pretty much over embroidery, but I still had one more bar towel to do, so I took a couple of Ranger faces as a start and morphed it into Ranger's favorite thing:
There is a video somewhere of Beel opening his present. Jay and I couldn't be there because we were being quarantied for influenza A over Christmas. Mr Nebalee took the video, but Facebook isn't being very nice and I can't see it. If I can't see it, I can't steal it to post. Which is a bummer, because I've been told it was good.
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