At Last ...

Hello my dear friends,

I have been keeping a little secret from all of you and I am so excited that I can share it with you today at last!  It has almost been like just before Christmas ~ there is a present waiting for you but you are not allowed to open until a certain day.

Several months ago I received an e-mail from the editor of the magazine 'Stitch, Craft, Create' ~ which is a newer magazine ~ asking me if I was interested in designing something including the how~to for their Christmas issue.

I was published once many years ago in the magazine 'Country Marketplace' which was one of the best crafting magazines in the States in those days. I never after that thought really about being published again so of course I was over the moon that I had been asked and after a short thinking period I said yes (the thinking period was me being worried if I could come up with a creation good enough and on time and so forth ... I am a born worrier you know!)


Looking through my studio with all it's bits and piece I found something that caught my eye and it gave me the idea for my creation.

 

 

This is what I picked to work with ... the larger matchbox of the two.

 

I wanted to create something that was fairly easy and wouldn't cost too much money for anybody to recreate and it should look very pretty ~ I think pretty was my main aim since it is for Christmas. Looking at it I think I succeeded with my creation. Shannon Miller, the editor of  'Stitch,Craft, Create' was very happy with it as well and that's why it is now published!!

And here it is my published creation ...

'One The First Day Of Christmas'

 

 

 

 

 

These were two of the photos I sent in to Shannon, the editor.

  

 

 

  

The newest cover of the Christmas issue of Stitch,Craft, Create.

The magazine will be on the stands now in October!!

 

 And this is how my creation has been published ...

I hope you have enjoyed my Christmas creation. I am so very happy with it.

And last but not least ...

 I would like to thank all of you lovely bloggers out there for all of your kind and sweet words about my creations. You have all touched my heart since day one and it means so very much to me. Dear Dawn from The Feathered Nest and Lisa from Tarnished and Tattered, dear friends, thank you for your advice when I needed it and believing in me and my work ~ you are two very special ladies and I am so happy that you are in my life.

 

Whenever you have a moment why not stop by here at Todolwen again some time.

 

 

I hope you are well and life is treating you kind dear friends,

 

Have a peaceful and creative day,

 

 

Karen B.