Wednesday, August 10, 2011

A Lost Cinderella

Years and years and years ago I was given a prophetic word as to my likeness to Cinderella. I was living a fairy tale life - from rags to riches. Rags being my past sin and the life I had made for myself and my riches being all of the new things I had in God and all they offered.

That afternoon I went out and bought myself a cross-stitch of Cinderella to do. I quickly realised that it was going to take me foreverrrr to complete and I set a long term goal - to have it finished before I had a baby girl. That would give me plenty of years.

Well, years passed and I picked it up every 6 months or so and completed a new section.

Here is the last photo I had of my progress. Although, since taking this I had completed much much more of it. I had finished her hair and most of her blue dress.


Then, last year I had to make a quick present for a little girls birthday. I had little money that week and decided a handmade gift was the best! I downloaded a free pattern of her favourite animal and used embroidery thread I already had.

The problem was, I didn't have any more cross stitch fabric. I made the quick decision to cut off a piece (!!!) from Cindy's lower half (!!!) and reasoned that I didn't need very much, and that we wouldn't be having a girl for another couple of years. I still had time.

Well. Now I don't. Cindy is still missing fabric from her lower half - Probably too much fabric to bother continuing. And Baby Girl is due in 3.5 weeks (exactly 1 year since that gift was made).

*sigh*

Fail.


4 comments:

  1. improvise, frame cinderella in a gold oval frame, then you only need shoulders up. - katy

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  2. Thanks for the idea Katy

    Cindys original design had a gold frame embroidered into it. I might assess this tomorrow and see if there's anyway I can skip out that part and use it as the real framing... If you catch my drift...

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  3. OH new to the blog, hello!! Love the idea of adjusting the embroidery, make it look like a story book mirror for the frame & give yourself a break from doing a FULL Cinderella, Cindy will understand, love Posie

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  4. Ok I'm actually so relieved other people do things like this too! I'm always mistankling ruining craft/ art projects ! Argh!! (though I'm sure you'll be able to save her). Special

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