do not try this at home

Y'all are so funny.  Your general consensus is that fortifications are definitely in order when dealing with the flowers.  With that in mind, last night I opened the wine and got comfortable with scissors and darning needle. 

After 1 1/2 hours and 2 glasses of wine,  I was done.  I more ways than one.  Sewing down the flowers, adding stems, weaving in ends, left me thinking very unpink thoughts.  Once the last flower was on I breathed a big sigh of relief and set them down for the night.  At that point I needed a break before adding the beads.  Yes, beads. 

This morning I picked up the mitts again and started searching for beads.  I found some little iridescent seed beads that worked.  First thing I did was make sure my needle would fit through the hole in the bead.  Checked and yes, no problem.   So I began stringing and sewing each little bead, one at a time.  While the first bead I tried slipped right over the needle, that was not true for all of the beads.  Some holes were bigger than others and each bead that worked was preceded by several that did not.  Talk about unpink thoughts.

But they are finished and Oldest Daughter loves them.

The beads really do add a nice touch.

I hope that when Youngest Daughter sees them she does not request a pair, because there is no way I am doing that again.

Comments

[Julia]

Pink AND beads? Now that's love. Cheers!

[Julie]

Those are amazing! (Do you have a bead reamer? That's supposed to help with those little holes. I have one but I'm too lazy and just toss the ones that don't fit back into the container ;) )

[kate]

Now you know you've just made sure she'll want a pair :)

That looks like an amazing amount of work. I think I'll go lie down.