What am I thinking starting a blog right before the holidays?  Well, that's just the way it goes.  Today I wanted to share my pincushion creation, hopefully the first of many.  I need to state that I LOVE velvet, it is the most sensual of all the fabrics to me.  So I have been scouting the thrift stores for velvet shoes in decent shape and found 2 pairs.  Now because this is a pincushion I have also restricted the size to a 6, for practical reasons.

So I had a plain black velvet shoe and first I covered it with black venise lace.  Loving it even more now.  Then I picked a vintage piece of red velvet for the pincushion part.  But it needed something more, a little bling!  I also love bling.  So dark and bright red rhinestones here we come.  My end result is this:

I just love it!  The pictures just don't do my little creation justice.  I am going to get a little crazy with the next one and have ordered purple lace and am using a piece of hand dyed velvet I bought from a friend.  So check back again to see my next one.