Well, it really is pouring here. I’m sure we need the rain but seriously there’s a crazy amount of rain coming down. So glad we went to the beach this weekend with Sandy Arthur! Everyone had a great time stitching the girls. They have such personalities. The girl next door, the flirt, the fashionista. Carol […]
Archives for 2012
Egyptian Falcon God comes to Bedecked and Beadazzled
News Flash! Horus, Egyptian Falcon God is in the shop, and he’s amazing! Horus is recorded in Egyptian hieroglyphs as ḥr.w; the pronunciation has been reconstructed as *Ḥāru, meaning “falcon”. Additional meanings are thought to have been “the distant one” or “one who is above, over”. Gale Washington has designed this great new intermediate […]
Bubbles, Bubbles, Bubbles
Today’s class (lesson number 2 in the Pear Collage) was all about bubbles. In my head it was all about bubbles, stitches inside bubbles and stitches outside bubbles. I’m not sure what the ladies in class thought it was about. Maybe a lesson in frustration :-) No worries, it isn’t that bad. The pattern in […]
Hippity Hop
Did the Easter Bunny visit you today? Here’s my own personal Easter Bunny. I finished him this morning. He is sooo darn cute. This is the Michael Stoebner Spring Bunny canvas from my line. Brenda Hart selected some of the stitches and my Mom stitched him between a few other projects. She’s about as amused […]
Our Bee
I love my bee from the logo. It’s cute and funky and looks even cuter embroidered on snap trays and project bags. Love these! Snap trays are available in pink, purple or green. Project trays are also available in pink, purple or green and in both 11 x 14 and 9 x 12. Here’s the […]
5 Years!!!!
Wow, it seems like yesterday that we opened Bedecked and Beadazzled and here it is 5 years and 2 locations later. Where does the time go? What will be next? You know I am always thinking and planning and trying my hardest to develop fun adventures for us. There are so many in my head […]
Let’s all go to Candyland!
Won’t you join me in Candyland? It’s a wonderful magical place full of color and sparkle. You know how much I love color and sparkle so you can imagine how much fun I had stitching this canvas. It has just returned from the finisher and I love it. Exactly as I envisioned it. This was […]
Fruit Salad for Spring!
Well, technically pear salad if there is such a thing. Today was the first class in our new Pear Collage Mystery Class at Bedecked and Beadazzled. Thank you to everyone who came to class. I truly appreciate your support. To all of you ladies and gentlemen who are out-patients, your packages will be in […]
Hugs & Stitches to you!
What do you get your stitching friend as a gift? There’s the go to accessories, scissors, needles, pretty laying tools etc. but why not something that will always remind her of you. Hugs and Stitches! Snap trays are available in assorted colors and prints. They hold your threads and accessories neatly at hand while […]
Another red carpet attendee
Just when you think the party is over, another girl arrives. Here’s our third girl from the Row of Ladies Mystery with a Twist at Bedecked and Beadazzled. To all the ladies in this class, I am so sorry she took so long but I hope you will think she is worth the wait. She […]
Oriental Reflections
Photos just don’t do it justice. We’ve had the models for Anna-Marie Winter’s Oriental Reflections in the shop for awhile now as we planned this class. Let me say they are show stoppers!!!! Anna-Marie has graciously agreed to teach this design for us as a cyber class! Wherever your stitching chair is you can […]
Flowers are blooming!
Today was the final class of the Poinsettia Lady Mystery at Bedecked and Beadazzled. Our Poinsettia Lady is now finished! She has come to the party dressed in her finest with a gift for the hostess. I saved the big wow stuff for the last class. This is all the dimensional stuff that I love […]
An Angel for your collection
Look at the fun we get to have at Bedecked and Beadazzled. A customer calls and says they want to stitch a canvas from our collection and we get to pull the threads and the stitches! How fun is that? Underneath this yummy pile of threads and the big sparkly swarovski star is one of […]
Too much detail!
So what do you do when you fall in love with a canvas and you have just the perfect spot picked out to display it, but it’s got sooooooo many details and shades that you just can’t possibly stitch it and do it justice? Brenda Hart has this oh-so-cool idea that works like a charm. […]
No rules, no way
Today’s class on the Poinsettia Lady was and easy one. No rules allowed! Our mission du jour was to stitch the background. So, what to do? We want the shading to show through and there’s those funky stripes that are all different sizes to contend with. The game plan was to stitch small flowers scattered […]
What’s in a Mystery?
I love a good mystery. Delve into the characters and the plot… Wonder what twists and turns each page will bring…. It’s all an adventure until the mystery is solved. No, I’m not talking James Patterson, or Dan Brown. I’m talking about the Mystery Classes that I teach. A couple of years ago I started […]
We Challenge you to step outside and be creative!
How about a needlepoint challenge? One of our creative friends over on Stitcherie.com came up with the idea of having a needlepoint challenge. The first one was so much fun that we decided to keep it going. You can read all about it here. The canvas for the March – June Challenge is Sammy the […]
Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
Ok, so that isn’t the traditional President’s Day slogan but it is perfect for the unveiling of the finished Halloween Tree! This was our Fall Mystery class at Bedecked and Beadazzled. We had so much fun! The tree itself is finished as a traditional standup but then mounted to a glittered pumpkin base, and adorned […]
Valentine Fashions
We meet again! Today was the second class of the Poinsettia Lady mystery. Just two days before Valentine’s Day and our slightly curvy Poinsettia Lady needs an oh-so-fashionable red and white ensemble. The challenge is, of course, finding stitches and threads that are fun for her clothes, remind us of the patterns originally painted, but […]
Let’s Have a Super Bowl Party!
Since our home team didn’t make it to the SuperBowl we decided to throw our own party at Bedecked and Beadazzled! Join us this Sunday February 5th from 12-4 for a stitch in! To further add to the fun, you can score your own personal touchdown by catching the canvas you’ve had your eye on […]
Box Pillow puzzles outside of the box
How’s that for a headline? So what am I talking about? Zecca, the wonderful creative spirit that she is has done it again. She had the vision to dream up something so big, so creative that I am once again blown away. Do you remember flip books from when you were a kid? The top […]
It’s All Magic
Wow, time sure does fly when you are having fun stitching with friends. Today was our first class stitching the Poinsettia Lady from Maggie. The original art to this piece is by Corrina Luyken. You can visit her site here. There are so many of these canvases I want to stitch. The charm of these […]
I’m such a flirt
I love the flirty girl series. They started out as a group canvas of 60’s girls having fun. Then they morphed into inserts for leather goods, small squares and now these fun collages. It was hard to pick a favorite to stitch, but I settled on this one. I sent the canvas […]
I Mustache you a Question
Have you caught the latest trend? It’s all over the internet. Everything’s got a mustache on it. Check out etsy. 10,914 options from temporary tattoos, to mugs with staches, to tee shirts, to cookie cutters to baby binkies. Put a mustache on it and suddenly its hot. Not wanting to miss the next big thing, […]
