Welcome to the Family.....

Above we have another very special stocking for the Bride....I have been doing stockings for a couple of years for this family ..this is my third ....... with every stocking we get more and more carried away with the composition and embellishments....but after all stockings should be fun and make you cry, if the subject matter is dear to your heart...Custom stocking are...the Goyard  tote is the girls favorite, and the big joke is that  it was a gift from a former boyfriend....now this groom is very secure !...she is a nurse that loves spinning and wears Christian Labootie red sole shoes , they scuba with her family...met at college and simply adore their two Schnauzers.... the cuff celebrates their wedding in Tuscany CA wine country....sometimes when you get a list of everything that is important to include in the stocking , you just have to let yourself go crazy and have fun...and try to make it as tasteful as possible...but this is a Christmas stocking...so fun is the operative word!!!! This was the mother of the grooms wedding gift to the couple...what a nice way to start your family life with your new daughter-in-law...a real love gift...and of course mother will work it and have it finished ...I get a big kick out of being part of such a great occasion...I inherited this family from  my great friend Judy Harper that died in March 2011. What a character...she wanted to make sure that I carried on the family tradition of custom needlepoint. Hows that for deep background...makes me get all choked-up and that is not easy ...
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love,
 Squiggee