Birthdays and Friends

Someone has a birthday coming up.    She's someone I've known for 20 years and I wanted to make a gift for her that showed her just how special she really is.   Margie and her husband moved from Florida a few years ago to their cabin in North Carolina to pursue their dream of living in the mountains.   They have a gorgeous cabin with fantastic long range views of Virginia and Tennessee.  They've planted trees, started a garden, fished a local pond, and buzzed around the top of their mountain on an ATV.

I came up with the idea of making Margie a tassle for inside their beautiful home.   Tassles can be hung from a doorknob, or a drawer pull.   They help to bring some personality into a room.  Margie and her husband have decorated their cabin with greens and reds to reflect the warmth of the log walls..   She loves the outdoors, so I decided to bring some of the outdoors to the inside by combining the colors of her decor with a nest and tiny eggs.   I think she'll like it!

 

The tassle is hung with large black ric-rac which extends from the nest holding three tiny speckled eggs.   Below the nest is gold, then green, then more gold plush fringe that overlaps black and tan 3" bullion fringe.   Striped grosgrain ribbon is looped and fancy gold ribbon decorates the 6" black bullion fringe to finish off the lower edge.  Voila!



Just hangin' around,
Debbie