I departed from my ornament schedule and whipped up a couple of quick ones for my kids over the weekend. As teenagers, they communicate primarily through text and they are quite fond of emojis. I've noticed two, in particular, that I receive on a regular basis: the laughing-with-tears face and the poop. Very nice. The laughing-with-tears seems to be their response to everything. If you judged this family solely by their texts, you'd think we live in a constant state of hilarity. I'm funny, but I can assure you that no one is sitting around this house crying in hysteria.
I did a quick Google search for the emojis and whipped up a pattern. I'm including the patterns here and you can stitch them to your heart's content! They're very quick and would make a great gift. The tears on the laughing face are stitched separately and then glued on. Same thing for the eyes and mouth on the poop. I must confess, looking at that poop makes me want to stitch a soft-serve ice cream cone with a cute face!
On Pinterest, I found a wonderful site called Downeast Thunder Farms. She offers beautiful patterns of all your favorite birds and wildlife and they are TOTALLY FREE!!! They are nicely done with color photos and you can just print them right out. Cool, right?? My husband loves the birdfeeder outside his office window, so I wanted to make him some birds. They were pretty quick and I love the detailed stitching you can add. Get yourself right over to that site and download some patterns! I'm placing the direct link to the specific patterns under each picture.
I've been a little quiet lately, but I've been here stitching! I've done several that I've done before and I didn't think you needed to see a third mermaid that looks exactly like the others I've done. I made the mermaid for our oldest, Caleb, who was the musical director for his district's version of "The Little Mermaid" back in the winter. Caleb also requested a pirate, so it was back to the drawing board for that one. How is it that Carolyn DeAngelis never got around to designing one of those??
Of course, I headed straight to Etsy where I found this clipart from a site called Cutesiness. I had asked Caleb to pick two features so as not to over-accessorize our pirate friend. His choices were: eye patch, hook hand, peg leg, parrot, earring, and facial hair. He chose eye patch, peg leg, and parrot. This one turned out GREAT and I'm such a fan of that parrot that I may have to turn that into its own ornament! See what you think . . .
The hat has a strip of gold across the top. You couldn't see it in the first photo. Might have to make that a bit wider the next time.
DISCLAIMERS:
In case anyone happens by and thinks I've stolen someone else's work or thinks I'm profiting from it:
- I purchased the clip-art. I did not do a "right click/save as."
- I am not selling a pattern made from this clip-art. I'm not even giving away a pattern made from this clip-art.
- I am not selling ornaments made from this clip-art.
