Creative things

Hey, Hey, It's Friday! *whew*.
So this is how I am dressed today...Sort of a mustard girl today, all knitted out and cozy.



I am off to see a good friend of mine, to drink coffee, catch up on things and admire her new stylish craft room. I go bearing gifts for her *cos that's how I roll*.

Some crochet bunting for her new studio aka craft room...



Three bunting pieces which is adding to some she and her mom have made....



I have to just mention that my dear sweet hubby came home with a gift I have been hinting at for ages!! He bought me a white Orchid!!! A real one!! I LOVE them....It has two beautiful blooms on and two more waiting to open! I was so happy! I will have to post a photo of it soon!

Have a GREAT weekend, whatever you do, do it with heart and soul and find time to do something creative, it's good for the soul!!!

Another Vintage image for you...(see previous posts for more).

{right click and save as, for personal use}

Etsy shop update: packery set for Friendship

Last night I stayed up waaaaay longer than I should have, but I got so engrossed with a Gift I am busy with for a friend of mine, that I decided to make some goodies based on what I was doing for my Etsy shop.

It is a Friendship set. The idea is that you have all the packagery (that SHOULD be a word!) you would need to make a little gift for a friend. There is fabric, paper, vintage music paper(one of the best finds!) tags, brown paper bags, trim etc etc. You could make a card, another tag and some pretty fabric embellishments to give to her. Or you could just use all the supplies as the pretty packaging you wrap her gift in. Either way....

One of the already made ideas is a little brown paper bag with a paper doily and butterfly negative sewn onto it, with a ticket stamped with "to and From" slotted into the negative. The sides of the envelope then stitched by machine.
another already done thing are two sweet, tiny tags with butterflies stitched on.
And an already made friendship tag complete with stamped "Cherished Friend", fabric ribbon, and stringed button.

Another idea is simply to use it for card making or scrap booking. There really are a lot of possibilities.

Here I made a tag from the goodies in the set and pasted it onto a card.

The paper is made from the 6x6 paper included in the set, and ribbon trim. I used the fabric to made a little embellishment and paper flower with a button center.By the way did you see my new easy-to-locate pages at the top of my blog? This is to make things a bit easier when searching for my digital kits, craft and tutorials which I will be continuously adding to. Is there a particular stand-alone page you would like to see listed at the top?

Anyhooo....here are two more vintage postcards from you.
You can see more of them here and here.
Isn't this baby so sweet??

Please check back tomorrow and next week, I still have about 9 postcards.

It's Here!!! Winners of Giveaways announced!!

It's the big Ta-Da moment!

The announcement of the giveaways!
This was no easy task people!! I had to get the names of my 94 Followers, plus the 155 subscribers to my newsletter plus all the enterants on the blog. Then it was duplicating the followers and subscribers for each giveaway (cos they each got one free givaway entry without having to do anything!) And then it was putting them into two groups. One group for giveaway 1 and one group for giveaway 2. And then duplicating the blog enteries accordingly, and sorting out of those that only wanted to enter EITHER giveaway one or two....

So plus/minus 270 entrants for EACH giveaway...and lots of cutting later....we have our winners!!

Giveaway One-the hamper pack of luscious embellies (hee hee) goes to.....

sticking all the itty-bitty printed out names in a tin. (blurred it a bit cos there are some email addy's on them and don't want to publicize them!)


The hand goes in...
The hand picks one...

*drum roll*



Congrats to you, if your email address starts with "ttimes33" !!!! (sorry don't know your name!) I will email you to get your postal address!
This person is a newsletter subscriber!
(PS For any reason, should the chosen winner not want the prize, I have chosen a back up for each giveaway!)

Giveaway 2....

Again...cutting out the printed entrants...

mixing it up...
And the winner of Giveaway two goes to.....



*Big drum roll*



*wait for it*.....



Congrats to Terry!! Terry entered on the blog. I will email you Terry!!

Thanks again to everyone that entered!! It was fun!


Before I go, I wanted to show you these lovely vintage finds I found...
A beautiful little side plate...It was a bit worn and faded but I just LOVED the color (matches my kitchen!) and the pretty little edging detail. And some crocheted dollies!! (****squeal!!!!****)
Sigh...so pretty...the rose pattern in the center must of been beautiful "back in its day" when it shone in all its glory!


And of course....now I MUST go and eat a muffin as all that cutting and then trying to take photographs with one hand while mixing papers and trying to focus on such a tiny piece of paper, has made me hungry...




I will leave you with some more of the lovely Vintage postcards I picked up at a flea market in Paris...right click and save as to use in your personal art projects. The first installment in this set is in this post!


Now Excuse me while I go and eat my blueberry muffin!

Vintage Postcards from Paris

When I went to Paris in March I went to the flea market and picked up some lovely vintage postcards. What a find!

I am sharing them with you here. Unfortunately my scanner is broken, so I had to photograph them as straight as I could, but I hope you will be able to use them in your personal projects.
Right click and save as to your PC.


Enjoy!Will be back with more throughout the week.

*Today is the LAST day to enter my giveaway! Winner announced on the 1st June!*

Birds on my wall

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When a creative idea hits you, just go with it. Don't stop to think about it, don't wonder if you can do it, don't think "what if it looks terrible", Just do it.
This is how I am when I create. I can be inspired by a word, a photo, a phrase, a quote, a sound...and an idea will wash over me and in that moment I can already see the final result before it's even created.
And it's these moments that normally bring me the best results.

So when I had an idea this weekend for my blocks...I just went with it. Inspired by birds as always*I love birds* and remembering beautiful spring days that hubby and I shared in March while in Paris...I created these 6 watercolors to go onto the blocks that are on my wall.


(the photos were taken a bit skew, but on the wall they are straight!)












*I had forgotten to mention when I asked for suggestions that the blocks are not removable*

So I cut out 6 of my favorite birds from vintage images supplied by Karen of the Graphics Fairy.
Firstly, I prepared my card, by painting each in a background watercolor and setting them aside to dry. Then pasted on my cut out birds and did the watercolors around them. I wanted something fresh, inspired of nature and spring. I did some stamping too.

I finished them all and hung them up over the blocks and left a slight "border" of the block on each one to make it look like they are framed.

I think me likes...
What thinks you?

*Oh yes, don't forget my little giveaway ends 31st March!!Enter HERE*

The last of the cushions

So I finished up the last of the cushions for my lounge...






And that completes my sewing for the lounge for now!

Next project: Dining Room wall
I have 6 of 25x25cm wooden blocks screaming at me to "embellish" them somehow.


A friend of mine made them for me and I don't want to take them down, I like the idea but after close to 5 years now, I need a change...
The following ideas have popped into my head...


-a scrap page on each
-a photo on each
-cover with pretty contrast fabrics.

Then I go blank...


Can you offer any suggestions?