A room full of gifts {loads of lovely pics}

This was the show I went to on Saturday. It is called "Kamersvol Gesenke" which is Afrikaans for "A room full of gifts".

Set at the beautiful DeMorgenzon Wine Estate in the Stellenbosch winelands.
DeMorgenzon means "the morning sun". It has been around since 1699.

It is a beautiful wine estate and the wine is divine! They actaully play Baroque music 24/7 through out the vineyard as they believe it enhances the growth of the vines! It is really interesting their reasoning behind this and you can read about it here.
I bought a bottle of DZM shiraz 2008. If you can grab a bottle-it is heavenly. Here is a site
in which you can see the distributors for America.


















Such amazing beautiful hand crafted things!! A feast for the eyes and soul and so inspiring!

I also wanted to share good news for fellow South Africans. I have set up my Setcom page now in Rands, so if you want to buy anything from me, it is all in local currency! (yay!)
See here. Be sure to check out the "arts and crafts"section for paper goods.

Paper posies

I have been busy making paper posies for my Etsy shop and have a few there now...

They are made with flowers, scrap paper, vintage paper, vintage sheet music, buttons, paper roses, glitter brads or jewel brads and lots of time and attention! Perfect for scrap booking, tags, cards or to use on a gift you wrap!







I am also excited as this weekend I am going to the Kamersvol expo.
It is an event that features on gifts, decor, clothing, food, handmade goods.
Take a look at these gorgeous photos here.

Mysteries of Me album completed! {picures}

I just took Liz Kartchner's
class "Mysteries of me" Fabulous class, I so enjoyed it! She took us step by step through this great project, altering a vintage book into a secret compartment to house a mini album all about yourself! Little secrets to journal about! I so loved making this and did not feel at all rushed, just did a bit each day or when I had time.

Here are my photos of my finished project!
This is the front of the little mini album that slots into the book.

A close up of all the pages together, I love my color scheme and all the ribbons showing.
Close up of the front, love the velvet floral ribbon and vintage lace.
One of the back pages that I added some bird detail, I drew the bird and leaves onto card stock and stuck in on and then went around it with pen.
I choose a picture of buttons for How do I nurture my soul, as one my reasons listed on my tag, because to me it symbolizes creating. And creating is one way I nurture my soul.
We also added felt pages in, love this idea as it really adds that extra touch of texture and warmth! Added some vintage lace and a little vintage birdie picture I found to the next tag. With some vintage sheet music I have.
I have so many quirks, its ridiculous! All my journaling was done on the back of the tags.
I also left some extra tickets and tags in for a later stage if I feel like adding more journaling.
This is the back cover, I added a piece of card stock to the back sheet music because it has a felt pattern on it, which just feel divine!
Anyway I just really wanted to share that today, will be back tomorrow with some nice pictures of my weekend, as we went away. TTFN (ta ta for now as Tigger from Pooh-bear says) {you tell I have kids?!!}

For purchases here on the blog

Just a quick note to let you know if you make any purchases between the 23-25th October, I will only get to the download links on the 26th October, will be unavailable this weekend.

Thanks!

Guinea Fowls and flowers

I took my kids to our local nature reserve. It was quite hot, but very windy. We spread a blanket under the shade of a big old oak tree and painted with water colors! It was so relaxing. We each painted guinea fowl that we saw walking around and then got some oak leaves, painted those and pressed them onto the paper.
Here is mine...hee hee, had fun doing this.
my daughters

My sonsSome guinea fowl with their chicks
You know it's spring when you see this happening everywhere!! Ha ha. My kids wanted to know what they were doing... *blush* the sounds emanating from the male were hilarious. My daughter thought it was "cute" and started coping the sounds!! I was almost in hysterics with the questions and remarks my kids were making! It was all just too much!!





So a lovely day spent outside...alas I had bad hay fever the rest of the day from all the wind and grasses!

Mysteries of Me

I am taking a online class with Liz.
It is brilliant and I am enjoying it so much! It is called Mysteries of me. basically you alter a vintage book-cut out the middle and it is your secret place for your mini album!
I wanted to share my book.



It's a beautiful day and I will be out with the kids today! Have a good day wherever you are!

The long-lost photos!

I had some photos that didn't come out on my discs when I got back from England in June this year, and finally about two weeks I got them from my friend. I wanted to share some of them because these two places where two of the best places (besides Paris!) I visited during my trip in May/June earlier this year.

The first one is Ashby Castle.










Isn't it beautiful? The other place we went to was
Coton Manor English Country Garden





I hope you enjoyed that! Don't forget that there is only 4 days left to get the ATC pre-made up pack if you want to sign up for the ATC class. If you don't want the pack, you still have until the 2 November to purchase the class.