Dia de los Muertos...a day to pay tribute to our deceased relatives and ancestors by playing their favorite music...
and feasting on favorite foods and drink.
Sugar Skulls...
and altars surrounded by photographs, flowers, lighted candles, bread, bowls of water and other symbolic offerings dedicated to departed loved ones.
This altar is in honor and remembrance of my mom, Pat.
(The Sugar Skull pictured above is from the cover of Mexican Folk Art coloring book; and the two embroidered pieces in this post were stitched using patterns from Sublime Stitching.)
Thank you very much for coming by and celebrating Day of the Dead with me! To visit other Dia de Bloglandia posts, you can find them listed here.
I'm excited! I want to see all of them!
Marilyn
19 comments:
I love Day of the Dead stuff, too!!! I can't remember when I heard, but it was many years ago. I just love the fabric with this theme. It just cracks me up. I always say I'd love to make a baby quilt and back it in one of these fabrics! Don't tell anyone I said that!!
Visiting for Dia de bloglandia
great embroidery,Hugs Juliet
Marilyn,
Looooooooove all you do!
Especially BONKERS over those stitcheries...
OO la la!
HAPPY am I this day,
full heart, full mind...
ready to CREATE more!
xo, Monica
As i go around admiring all that people have lovingly constructed for this day, I am just filled up with admiration and emotion.
I enjoyed what you've shared here, Marilyn. I like the music as well!
LOVE the fabric!! Thanks!!
What a beautiful alter to your Mom. I love your stitcheries....I have Sublime Stitching and never thought about looking in it for patterns to honor this day. I may have to do some and add them later.
I really like your embroidered pieces and I think I'll attempt to make them next year. And that is a nice ofrenda for your mother. It's interesting to see the little pieces like the perfume bottle and the dog and parrot that you have added to her ofrenda.
wow! the altar for your mom is wonderful and I adore those FANTASTIC embroidery pieces. :)
Happy Dia de los Muertos!
Very nice ofrenda to your mom and the embroidery is just great. Thx for sharing.
Thanks for turning me on to Sublime Stitching! It's a great post.
I love the cross stitch! LOVE IT!
Marilyn,
Great stuff here! I love your shrine and the coloring book cover...scrumptious!!
Thank you for being part of Dia de Bloglandia!!
x...x
steph
Thank you for sharing and for such a lovely post! It is amazing to be able to step into other people's lives like this.
This has been such a wonderful party. Your images are charming and the altar lovely. Thank you sharing!
-- JeriAnn
Great tribute to your mother. I like your altar. Thanks for sharing.
Really beautiful imagery...thanks for sharing in dia de bloglandia! I really loved this blog event :)
I really like the embroidered pieces they are so delicate. This is a lovely offering to Dia de los Muertos. It has been so interesting to see all the different ideas and the effort that everyone has gone to.
best wishes amanda
What a different & fantastic post today. I saw some skeleton fabric at my lqs - I may need to go buy it now for next year!
What a great "artsorted " display you have here, Marilyn!!
I, too ,love the embroidered piece. So delicate.
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