Help/inspiration please

Hi Cheryl, Not being able to actually see it makes it hard for me to visualise.

The only thing I can suggest is to look in your beads or embroidery floss and try colours against it. Something may shout at you. For a scissors fob you could thread it on some leather thong or rat tail cord, that comes in nice colours. What colour are the eyes? maybe you can match them up. Sorry I cannot help you more. Hugs Shirley

In message , Cheryl Isaak writes

Hi Shirley, First - the link didn't work. Even thoughts on bead shape would help - I am that lost...

But, I hadn't thought of using rat tail - a pearl gray would be nice and I could do a lariat type chatelaine with a lobster claw to hold those owl scissors she got for her birthday last year. A few accent beads in black or a topaz for the eyes would work.

Thanks so much.

Cheryl

Link didn't work for me either - so I just went to the site and searched for him and he came up. He's a cutie.

How about combining him with some leaves in a dark green to make an "environment" for him?

Ohh - there's a thought. I found some light grey silk cord in stash that looks good, the right shade of green of leaf would be stunning.

Since this is a special friend, I might do a brown bag for storage and quilt it with more leaves....

Your friend is very lucky indeed to have you for a friend! ;-)

Thank you...

Only certain friends get beaded or stitched gifts. The ones who appreciate them.

I'll never give my sister anything beaded again. She'd be bitching about how her work scissors would walk away - so I made a long beaded leash that would clip to her desk drawer and the scissors. I think it is still sitting in her bedroom because it was too nice for the office (she works at the transfer station). It was plastic beads for a reason....

I was going to trade my sister for yours.....but I wouldn't do that to you. Mine has more money than Bill Gates, yet buys all of our Xmas gifts at thrift shops, dollar stores and discount outlets.........in other words, anywhere she can save a buck. It doesn't matter to her that the item is too small, too ugly, wrong colour or wrong style.....and I have no clue why she is so thoughtless.

Picture a slightly overweight woman with 3 chins trying on this gift......a tight spandex turtleneck in what could only be called sh*t brindle brown. Said woman tossed it back to her and told her to take it back......of course she couldn't cuz discount store sales are final. LOL.

OTOH, she got mad at me when I went to the dollar store the next year and bought all of her stuff there and wrapped it in newspaper.....ROFL!! Yelled at me, in fact. Heh heh......I loved it. But she still didn't get the hint.

Sisters.......take mine please!!

HF (of course, I don't know the overweight woman..cough....but we all get a good giggle out of that Xmas)

OMG! My sister does/did the same thing.

I have 4 other brothers and sisters, so buying xmas for all of them and their families would be too much a burden on all of us when we were first starting out - so we put all names in a hat and drew names. I don't know why, but my sister ALWAYS got my name. For 4 years, I asked for Isotoner gloves, and what did I get from her?

#1 - knitted Mittens #2 - cheap imitation bulky gloves #3 - knitted Mitten gloves (each finger was a different color, with a covering that went over the fingers to form mittens) #4 - Cheap imitation bulky gloves that were so stiff, I couldn't make a fist

I finally got my isotoners from my hubby the year after.

My sister always bought people crap, from crap stores, for crap prices too. She still might... but after the 5th or 6th xmas where we (hubby and I) got nothing but crap from my sister and hubby, I said I wasn't doing it any longer and I was only buying for the kids!!

Are all sisters alike?

Sterling

LOL! I think yours and mine came from the same weird planet!! Forgot she gave me your #2. And I have another one you don't want to know about....ROFL!! Hubby considers himself very lucky that he is an only child!!

Cheers....Heather

Ah - sisters, they are a pip sometimes. But I'll keep mine, I know her bad habits already.

and we still laugh about the year I received a green pepper and salt from a cousin's wife (now ex). Inside the box was the tag from the year before - it was from my sister to the cousin.

Geeezzzz, if they were handing out prizes for really crappy presents, you won hands down! A single green pepper and salt... omg!

Sterling