Jewells of Thought

Lately I have been assuaging a lot of energy into creating some of my own charts. There are times when I have had to get creative and make my own designs. I understand the copyrights for owners of images, but it can be frustrating trying to fully comprehend the ins and outs of the copyright laws.

That is the very reason why I just have fun and do so for gifts or myself. I did some research a couple of weeks ago about copyright laws and so forth and it almost seems like creating books and images for a price is a blood sport for designers. More so it seems than the fun and camaraderie that the hobby community should live towards. A lot of the books I have are older that were handed down to me from Aunt Mary, or Aunt Carol, Denise, Irene or even my supervisor from college. So I have a very large and expanded collection of books of all sizes. Plus my newer books of planes, fairies and angels and of course 4 books of Precious Moments.

Some of those pieces when I look at them seem really dull. When I first saw the photo for this castle I couldn’t take the forlorn colors it was draggy. Especially for a little girl I thought this might be something for my niece eventually… I think it’s mine though. Although recently she saw this castle and said I couldn’t get rid of it. I agreed it’s not going anywhere, but I might have it turned into a pillow.

Yes I am in the middle of a pillow fetish and until I figure out to do that myself my Mom’s classmate is an awesome seamstress. She has been a lifesaver in many instances over the last few years.

This weekend we also gave big sister a gift as well. I already had a hand towel that was pink and had a baby deer started on it so I thought that would be perfect to start with. Then I added her name and some fun leaves.

These gifts are a first time in a long while that I have personalized since Mom had their names. Sarah’s name came out beautifully I thought, I was thrilled. Then there was something about her baby brothers personalized towel that I couldn’t stop admiring. I had to change some colors and no matter how many times I counted to make sure I had the spacing right I wasn’t sure if it would be in the center or not. Yet… all of my worrying for nothing. I almost hated to give it to them even though it did have his name on it.

Have you ever made something you wished you could keep for yourself even though it has someone else’s name on it?