March Gifted Gorgeousness

Hello there again! It is Gifted Gorgeousness time again.
Jo of Serendipitous Stitching organizes this so you can go to her blog and visit all blogs that take part in it. It is things we have stitched and gifted or things that were gifted to us.
First of all this is a photo I have shown in a previous blog post. It is a photo filled with freebies from magazines I have collected for years and freebies from magazines that were gifted to me or small kits gifted to me. I decided to stitch them this year all or most of them and usually then I gift the patterns and left over threads.

This month I only stitched this beaded violet vase kit from a very old cross stitch magazine.

 And the leftover threads, pattern and card went to an Adopt a WIP member.

This month I managed to make some sea glass felted stones for some friends to whom I should have sent one some months (or maybe years) ago. I had received a gift from them and would like to thank them for their gifts. Some of them have received their stone, some haven't so I won't mention any names. I made four blue ones.

 And two pink ones. I have decided to use up my beads so I will not buy more new beads. I have so many so I will be making my stones from now on only in the colours I have beads for.

 I also made a very special stone I am keeping.

 It is special because it is made with....

 ...with Barca's shedding hair! Ok maybe some people find this strange but I must say dogs' hair can be used to make lots of things even knitted clothes. You can read some info here.

 Of course in March I made a March bracelet (the one with the glass beads).

The mail brought some more things. This birthday card came earlier but I think I didn't show it in my previous blog post.It is from my Israeli pen friend Ruth.

 I got a super gift from my dear friend Cathy in England.

 And another super gift from Gaby in Scotland. She made the heart  earrings herself!

 It has been a month of snow and cold but Spring has sprung so we try to walk at the sea front a bit. Here I am with a vintage Indian block printed silk scarf gifted to me by my dear cousin and was brought from France. As Green is the colour of hope it makes me smile in the sunshine and hope for the best in future. Thank you dear!

 I will finish this blogpost with some Spring photos from my city!

 

 

December Gifted Gorgeousness

So this is the last Gifted Gorgeousness of the year and I am so happy for managing to do a complete 2018 GG. This was my first year and I must say it made me stitch more in order to have a proper blog post every month. Thank you Jo of Serendipitous Stitching for making this possible. You can find the linking party here and see all the posts from other stitchers too.

So from November 15th to December 15th I stitched the following!
First this little dragon pin cushion. The pattern is December 2015 Holiday Treat from J.L. Aikman-Smith of Dragon Dreams Inc. on facebook. You can find lots of free dragon patterns there. This travelled to a dragon loving stitching friend but has not been received yet so I can't say who it is.

 At another occasion I stitched three little beautiful trees to give to charity. We gathered at our friend Anna's of In my closet kitchen and made the trees for Dromoi Zois, a charity in Athens. I managed to make three. Their bazaar was this weekend 15th and 16th December in Athens.

We made really many here are some of them.

 I stitched this for an expecting friend too. I gave it during her baby shower therefore had to delay this GG post so that she doesn't see it!LOL! Pattern by CREATIVITa found on Pinterest.

 This sea glass felted stone and the cactus pin cushion in a pot I made for the secret crafter exchange Anna of In my Closet organized.

 The cactus pin cushion is based on this post by a crafty composition.

 I also started making felt ornaments for my tree but they are not ready yet. I was going to give some of these as gifts but never managed to finish them in time for the mail.

I also made some other felt tree ornaments with sequins using the materials I was sent at the secrecrafter exchange as well as things I had.

I am decorating my Christmas tree with these this year.

I received my secret crafter exchange parcel from Poppy of Poppysstuff. There were lovely things inside.

 I especially liked these vintage stitched pieces that belonged to a relative of the sender.

She sent me all that!

She knows how much I love blue and sea glass.

 Using the material she sent me I made some brooches for pet friendly people.

 And I also made this sea glass felted stone for a friend's new offices.

 I also received a parcel from Mia of Craftartista which I had won in her birthday giveaway.

 She sent me lots of stitchy things. I loved the stamped angel and all the DMC.

I also sent the January birthstone 

 and the All dolled up pattern to Diane of Lavender dreams who won it in my last giveaway.

I also sent Clare of Aimetu's Stitching what she won in my giveaway,too, in the previous GG.

I made and sent lots of 3d paper cards this Christmas too. Like this one.

 Here's the lot.

 And added some embellishments to some IKEA cards to send too.

And something else I received.

From dear Rania a stitched card and handmade bookmarks. Thank you so much Rania.

Finally I would like to show you some stitched pieces I saw at Art Thessaloniki this year. Unfortunately I didn't write down the artists' names.

So that was all.

Hope to see you in the next GG in the middle of January in the New Year. Enjoy the holidays and have a merry Christmas!