There's nothing better than receiving a hand-made gift for a birthday or Christmas or what-not, isn't there? Really, present-giving isn't about spending as much or as little money as you possibly can but getting the person something they'd actually like or use. Well, I've made several presents and here's one. My brother's wife loves Winnie the Pooh.. and is also a huge Harry Potter fan. You know, I think the next thing I make for her will be off the Harry Potter line of things. Maybe a Gryffindor scarf? I don't know... Anyway, I made her a Winnie the Pooh bookmark as a present. I found this Winnie the Pooh bookmark cross stitch kit somewhere and just had to do it for her. However, they didn't have any backing for it. I did the bookmark and personalized it, so she could always look at it and know who sent it to her. I also changed the text at the bottom because what they had in the pattern really wasn't Pooh-ish or book-ish. Luckily, they had the whole alphabet in the script used (Pooh's chicken-scratchings) and I didn't have to guess. Next, I got out my deer skin leather (that stuff is sooooo soft... dreamily soft...) and cut it to the size the bookmark would be, then folded the edges of the aida to the back of the work and hand-sewed the leather to the back so all the ugly stuff wouldn't show. I'm pretty sure half of my fingers fell off from trying to sew through the leather but it had to have the hand-stitched look. She has the nicest bookmark anyone could ask for, really. I almost wanted it and I'm not a huge fan of Pooh. I'm pretty sure she was happy with it, though...
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