Help! I need ideas!

I want to do a design with the words "The road to Hell is paved with
good intentions." The wording itself won't be a problem. Anyone got
any ideas for something to surround this saying? It's for a
college-aged male--someone to whom I gave a really hard time this summer
so I told him I'd stitch him something to make up for me being such a
pest! So???
--
Joan

See my first-ever design he
http://www.HeritageShoppe.com/heritage/temp/joan1.jpg

"Stitch when you are young and poor, frame when you are old and rich."
- Elizabeth's (rctn'r) sister's MIL (Barbara Marr)

I immediately thought of things like: piles of thick improving-looking
books; garden tools leaning on a wall (shovel, hoe, rake, etc.); maybe
something about cleaning? and cobwebs connecting them all.

Alison

On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 17:28:49 -0500, Joan Erickson
wrote:

I want to do a design with the words "The road to Hell is paved with
good intentions." The wording itself won't be a problem. Anyone got
any ideas for something to surround this saying? It's for a
college-aged male--someone to whom I gave a really hard time this summer
so I told him I'd stitch him something to make up for me being such a
pest! So???

Alison's idea sounds good. How about a winding cobble-stoned path going
into the distance with weeds growing from it to go with the tools.
"Alison" wrote in message
...
I immediately thought of things like: piles of thick improving-looking
books; garden tools leaning on a wall (shovel, hoe, rake, etc.); maybe
something about cleaning? and cobwebs connecting them all.

Alison

On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 17:28:49 -0500, Joan Erickson
wrote:

I want to do a design with the words "The road to Hell is paved with
good intentions." The wording itself won't be a problem. Anyone got
any ideas for something to surround this saying? It's for a
college-aged male--someone to whom I gave a really hard time this summer
so I told him I'd stitch him something to make up for me being such a
pest! So???

Thanks! These all have some definite possiblities. Keep 'em coming!

--
Joan

See my first-ever design he
http://www.HeritageShoppe.com/heritage/temp/joan1.jpg

"Stitch when you are young and poor, frame when you are old and rich."
- Elizabeth's (rctn'r) sister's MIL (Barbara Marr)