
The weather is getting colder here in South Carolina...
the trees are bare...
Wait...
Let me clarify the actual picture...
When I say colder...
I really mean high of 55-60 degrees...
which in South Carolina...
is like a serious artic freeze of magnitude proportions!
Just keepin' it real!
Because the Christmas Holiday is moving quickly towards us...
I decided that my Hot Cocoa Bar needed it's own little official SIGN!
Let's get started...
I found this sweet Hot Cocoa Mug Applique, complete with a whipped cream topping
and added this Cute text to the side of it...
merging it in my Embrillance Essentials Software.
I ventured out and Coffee/Tea Dyed a piece of Jobelan Evenweave Cross Stitch fabric...
and layered it, using my usual Christmas Ornament process of Warm and White Cotton batting...
before loading it onto my frame and then into the machine.
As you can see here...
I like to add a few Flat Head Flower Pins to securely attach my prepped piece to the
"Sticky Stabilizer" that is on my actual Fast Frame.

Don't you just LOVE the mottled look I got when I Coffee/Tea Dyed the Jobelan?
Not to mention the coffee smell that permiates the room...
YUM!
Gracious BE...it's stitching out just PERFECT...

YES...in the above picture you can see that I slapped a piece of WSS on top after all the Applique pieces
were placed and trimmed around...
because...
that's how I ROLL!
After I finished stitching this fabulous design I mounted it first on a piece of Sticky Board...
and then mounted that onto a slightly larger second Sticky Board that I covered with a fabulous Christmas Plaid Fabric
that had all the same colors in it as the threads I used for the stitch out!
I then mounted the whole thing onto this super cute Easel Chalkboard Stand that I got at my local Michaels Store...
and it is FABULOUS!
YEP...I used a Red Mirror Glitter Vinyl for the Cup and a White Mirror Glitter Vinyl for the Whipped Cream on top!
Then...
I added a cute simple Metallic Ribbon Bow with a Glittery Wooden Snowflake glued onto the center of it!
It was the PERFECT amount of BLING!

And when a serious PLAN comes together...
it looks like this...

And just because I can...
Here's a Close Up on the Counter of my Hot Cocoa Bar...
Kathleen

TOOLS OF THE TRADE...
-Hot Cocoa Applique (https://www.embroidery-boutique.com/products/hot-chocolate-applique?_pos=1&_sid=c4c9768c2&_ss=r)
-Words "Hot Cocoa Bar" (https://www.theitch2stitch.com/Cutie-Patootie-Embroidery-Font.html)
-Jobelan Cross Stitch Fabric (that I Coffee/Tea Dyed)
-Glitter Mirror Vinyl for the Cup and for the Whipped Cream (www.mikriworld.com)
-100% Warm and White Cotton Batting (available at Fat Quarter Shop-Joann's-Hobby Lobby)
-Red Metallic Wire Ribbon (Hobby Lobby)
-White Glittery Wooden Snowflake (Hobby Lobby)
-Sticky Board (https://www.fatquartershop.com/16-inch-x-20-inch-pres-on-mounting-board)
-Stitchery Tape (https://www.fatquartershop.com/double-sided-stitchery-tape-60-foot-roll)
-Wooden Chalkboard Easel (Michaels Craft Store)
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