Beautiful Black Women and Water Jars Tea Cozy

Rejoice in the grace and beauty of these women, their stature, grace, strength, vitality, balancing the water jars while chatting, carrying a small child, going about daily life. This fabric sings!

“Beautiful Black Women and Water Jars Tea Cozy” features 4 exterior fabrics, all wonderfully contrasting and enhancing. The back of the cozy is cotton vibrating with magenta and apricot orange. The lining fabric is cotton/poly, swirls of earthen sands and sparkles. The cozy is interlined with 2 layers of batting to keep your tea quite warm while you visit with friends and family. I’ve sewn buttons near the bottom of the cozy, front and inside, to add another touch of decoration to the cozy.

A braided golden loop at the top of the cozy, with a bright, shiny orange wooden bead makes it easy to lift the cozy off your teapot. Cozy measures a total width of 29 ½” around by 11” tall.

The cozy comes with a matching hot pad to rest your teapot on while enjoying your tea.This cozy would also be perfect as a small appliance cover and conversation piece in your kitchen!

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New - Elegant Burgundy Chartreuse Tea Cozy

My first 2011 tea cozy, now available for sale in my online shop at www.abercot.etsy.com. I'm thrilled to share it with you and I'm quite proud of it - it's my unique design and I used 4 fabrics to create this cozy - some photos and a description follow.

I love to create collages and a contemporary-art style look

to my photos -

Delight in any season throughout the year with this “Elegant Burgundy Chartreuse Tapestry Contemporary Tea Cozy and Matching Hot Pad”. This cozy features 4 exterior fabrics. The front side of the cozy combines 3 beautiful fabrics – a stunning rayon tapestry with deep wine background and golden wheat-colored leaves and buds. On one side of this tapestry is a panel of a pale olive rayon/poly with raised machine-embroidered scrolls and fuzzy ivory and olive flower buds. The other panel is a cotton fabric print, pale gray background and rows of leaves in maroon, rose, burgundy and chartreuse. The back of the cozy is a contrasting chartreuse ultra-suede-like fabric. The lining fabric is a rayon/poly weave, cream background and pale mauve paisley pattern. The cozy is lined with 2 layers of batting to keep your tea quite warm while you visit with friends and family.

A rayon corded ribbon loops at the top of the cozy to make it easy to lift the cozy off your teapot.

Cozy measures a total width of 29 ½” around by 11” tall. I’ve added two matching decorative buttons, too – one to the top of the cozy and one to the top of the hot pad.

Thanks for looking and
many Happy New Year smiles!

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Happy New Year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR AND BLESSINGS TO ALL!

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Fun Zazzle Products By Me

Happy almost 2011! I'm posting some new products I just designed in my Zazzle shop - large canvas tote bags (perfect for shopping!) and women's long-sleeved t-shirts. The photos on the totes and shirts are photos I've taken and especially love. Please visit my shop for some truly unique gift ideas, www.zazzle.com/abercot. Thanks!

www.zazzle.com/abercot

"Buds of Orange Large Tote Bag"

"Moon Full Before Eclipse Large Tote Bag"

"English Rose Tea Cozy T-Shirt"

"Western Fence Raglan Sleeve T-Shirt"

Happy New Year Smiles!

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Christmas Peace to All

A very Merry Christmas to all and

God Bless Us, Everyone!

Moon Full Before Eclipse

A photo I took a few hours before the lunar eclipse last night, full of mystery!

Violet Bouquet Tea Cozy and Matching Hot Pad

For those who love tea, china teacups and saucers, tea parties, scones, and flowers, here's a delightful photo for you. Think spring!

And, a close-up photo of the tea cozy and matching hot pad I newly designed and stitched. I offer my handmade gift items in my online shop, www.abercot.etsy.com. Please do visit - I'd love to see you!

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Violet Bouquet Tea Cozy and Matching Hot Pad

A photo I did featuring the beautiful china teacup and saucer
and the Violet Bouquet Tea Cozy and Matching Hot Pad
in the background.

English Rose Tea Cozy

These are photos of two new tea cozies I just designed and stitched - English Rose Tea Cozy and Matching Hot Pad and Violet Bouquet Tea Cozy and Matching Hot Pad. This new design has openings on each side of the cozy for the teapot spout and handle. I'll be offering these and others soon in my online shop, www.abercot.etsy.com. Please do visit and thanks!

English Rose Tea Cozy and Matching Hot Pad
www.abercot.etsy.com

Violet Bouquet Tea Cozy and Matching Hot Pad
www.abercot.etsy.com

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Christmas Morning Rainbows

A wondrous holiday season to you!

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Tea and Coffee Mugs

Merry Holiday and Merry Smiles!

I've just created some tea and coffee mugs in my Zazzle shop, using photos I took while visiting New Zealand. This amazing country is so breathtakingly beautiful and I'm hoping to share it, beginning with these lovely tea and coffee mugs.

To visit my shop on Zazzle, please go to www.zazzle.com/abercot and you're there! So easy to order using PayPal. I've purchased many of the items I've created, and I am so pleased with the colors and quality of merchandise!

These would be wonderful Christmas and Hanukkah gifts, please order soon, the delivery time is about 7-10 days.

Please do visit my Zazzle shop, I'd love to see you! Here are photos of my most recent New Zealand tea and coffee mugs -

www.zazzle.com/abercot

"Blue in Bloom Mug"

"Black Tree Fern and Lilies Collage Mug"




And, for the train lover in your family, here's a fun gift -

"Freight Train in New Zealand and Cook Strait"




Thanks so much for visiting!

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My Perch

Seagulls in Wellington, perfect perch!

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Black on Tan Handbag and . . .

I love to sew, and my newest creation is "Black on Tan Handbag", photos below. Please do visit my online shop, www.abercot.etsy.com where many of my handmade gifts are available. Celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah seasons!

www.abercot.etsy.com

And, a few more New Zealand photos sprinkled in to sparkle your day . . .

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Christmas Spirit

Sharing a bit of Christmas Cheer with you,
this is a photo from our 2009 Christmas day . . .

smiles

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Dusk

A lovely sunset on
Wellington, New Zealand Harbour

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Lily

Botanic Gardens
Wellington, New Zealand

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Tui birds

A photo of Tui birds from New Zealand, photographed in the bush at the
Wellington Botanic Gardens . . .

New Zealand

My husband and I just returned from a wonder-filled work/vacation trip to New Zealand. Its beauty of landscape and people is beyond words, simply stunning! Here are a few photos to share with you.

Wellington Cable Car (Wellington is the capital, on the southern tip of the North Island, and very hilly and windy and GORGEOUS!)



Lampton Quay, Wellington



more photos later . . .

More Abercot Creations

Our son and his girlfriend have a pug, Hailey, and we love her! I've designed and sewed a couple of "pug ponchos" for her. Here are a few photos (Hailey graciously modeling her Halloween, poncho):

Please meet "Firehouse Dog Figaro" modeling a cloak that easily fits around a small-sized doggie, and under her/his belly with tabs, and the velcro stitched to the tabs lets you adjust to doggie’s size. (The doggie model here, Stripe, is one of my son’s little stuffed play dogs from his childhood, made by his Grandmother, and lovingly filled many hours of imagination and play over the years.)

And, a delightful Jingle Joy pooch cloak for Christmas (a flannel print with smiley, pudgy penguins in Christmas décor, jingle bells, yule wreaths, candy cane striped scarves, and snowflake sweaters)

many smiles

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Leaf Shine

by Gretchen



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