The Project Is Perked

Really, it was hardly complicated enough to call it a project but I did finish it up last night.  If you follow my blog then you know I love sewing notions and accumulate a lot of pins and needles from the poke sacks I buy.  I do actually use the pins to secure things in my inspiration kits and sewing trims I sell on Etsy so there is always an assortment of pincushions sitting on my desk.
I had set the broze baby shoes on my desk and one of my tomatoe pincushions wandered its way on to the ashtray spot, as things sometime do.  Ash tray and baby shoe in the same sentence.  Whoa, that was a different era! 
At first I was thinking I would just stuff the little shoes but the openings are very small so they made tiny pincushions.  Instead, I decided to go with "muffin top" shoes and simply hot glued the velvet cushions on top.  I pulled the SugarCushion off my Etsy because the color worked perfectly.  It is not attached so I can lift that one off when I need the pins on one of the other worktables.
I think my mother would be happy to know these little shoes are still loved and used a half century later!

Good Karma

Cathy over at ma vie trouvee pointed out that it must be Karma at work - I gave away a SugarCushion and I was gifted a tin of buttons.  She might just be right...

because tonight I finished up this little pink SugarCushion that I am planning to gift to the sweet co-worker {another Kathy!}who gifted ME that amazing tin of buttons.

First Ever Giveaway and a Big Thank You!

I feel so blessed to have found blogging and a way to connect with so many wonderful people out there in blog-land.  I dearly love following each others blogs and have made some sweet new friends along the way.  I thank you ALL for sharing your world with me!

To celebrate the 50 Followers milestone I am giving away this little SugarCushion to one lucky reader.  I wish I had one for each of you!  Just leave a comment on this post to be entered to win.  I will draw the random winner next Sunday.

SugarCushion

I found this sweet little sugar bowl at the local thrift.  The lid was broken and it was  sitting there pouting like a pretty girl who lost her hat in the wind.  I just had to bring it home and give it a second life as a "sugarcushion". 
The cushion is made from tightly stuffed fiber-fill enclosed in heavy pink cotton and covered again with lace net.  It is embellished with vintage tatting hand-sewn around the edge.  I have added a pink corsage pin and several vintage straight pins to pick up the vivid colors on the vintage bowl.
I am hooking up with the "No Tomatoes Pincushion Contest" at Arrow Sewing Cabinets.  Please click PoshGirlFriday, to check out the next entry in the hop.  In case you get lost, you arrived here from HongKongChic.  Thanks to the folks at Arrow for hosting and Rebecca for linking everything up and answering my questions!
For all my followers...  stay tuned because I have some plans for this little sugar cushion!