*HANDMADE BAUBLE – SHOP UPDATE*
Afternoon to you! Swooping in with a quick post, just to let you now that I had four baubles left after my Christmas craft market, and a few people have asked about them so I have listed them over in the shop now! x
TURQUOISE AND GOLD PAPER AND SOAP
I have shared this shop before, but you may not have caught the posts, and as I just adore everything over in Brittany Campbell’s world – The Homeground, I am sharing the love again. Each of Brittany’s beautiful gemstones is carefully chosen for its colour and patina and I will always treasure the earrings I [...]
TINY GLASS AND GLITTER WORLDS FOR THE TREE
Old photographs I have been collecting for years have found new homes, inside these tiny glitter and twig decorated glass worlds. I have been meaning to make something like this for so long and this year I have been lucky enough to find time to get a few creative projects finished. I love imagining stories [...]
CHRISTMAS MERMAIDS AND RUSSIAN BAUBLES
Hello and happy Monday to you. We had a lovely weekend, in Rye on Saturday and Hastings Old Town on Sunday, soaking up some December sunshine and spoiling ourselves by eating breakfast out two days in a row. We scoured all the antique and junk shops for bedside tables, I found a bargain £7.50 number that [...]
PARIS INSPIRED MINIATURE LACE ARCHIVES
Happy Monday to you, I hope you had a beautiful weekend? We had a festive Saturday, a DIY Sunday and unpacked a few more boxes! Every day I open a new box and find more of the things I have made, yesterday I happily stumbled upon this little collection of miniature lace archives that I [...]
JUNK SHOP RESCUE FAIRY TREE TOPPER
I found this little lady in a junk shop, wearing a ridiculous hat and a threadbare embroidered dress. All pinks and creams with german metal braid, she immediately caught my eye and I snapped her up for £2 knowing she would be the perfect angel to sit on the top of our Christmas tree this [...]
STARTING EARLY WITH HANDMADE GIFTS
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of meeting the author of Junk Genius the lovely Juliette Goggin. It was a sunny Saturday and as we made our way through the twisting lanes out past Battle and into Ashburnham, we were welcomed by a smiling Juliette at her garden gate. Not being able to drive [...]
AN ICY COLD WIND AND WINTER FAIRIES
I hope you have had an enjoyable weekend? It’s already over a week since I last posted about these little peeps! An icy cold wind has been slowly gathering pace outside today, so I have stayed safely indoors adding the finishing touches to their boxes. The long awaited glittering tissue paper finally arrived last week (I [...]
SATURDAY SPARKLES AND WINTER FAIRIES
In amongst all the chaos of decorating, other projects, having no storage and still no work room, a little sparkling magic is happening, first started last Autumn I have finally gotten around to finishing my Winter Fairies. Now I just need to package them and they will appear on the almost bare shelves of my [...]
WIN A £100 ETSY GIFT CARD!
Hey happy Thursday! Today I have a lovely treat for you, to help launch Etsy Gift Cards in the UK I have been given a £100 Etsy Gift Card to giveaway to one of my readers. Keep reading and enter below and you could win the Gift Card to spend in your favourite Etsy shops. You can [...]
AUTUMN CRAFTS – KNITTING
Nothing conjures up a vision of cosy like knitting by an autumn fire, this is exactly how my mum (a master knitter) spends many evenings relaxing. Unfortunately I have not inherited her skills, I just can’t get my head or hands around the needles. But someone else who can is Stephanie Dosen of Tiny Owl Knits, [...]
SIX THINGS ETSY – OCTOBER 2013
I have found six lovely things from Etsy to share with you this morning, hand made and delivered from all over the globe straight to your nest. 1. Stay Wild – limited edition giclee print – Helen Dardik, 2. Bay armchair – winter – Name Design Studio, 3. Blackbird singing - Vintage tin artwork – Hens Teeth, 4. Bohemian [...]
YELLOW OCTOBER – BEDSIDE MAKEOVER
October is rolling in with a heavy and dark sky, so I set out to create a sunny indoor spot to last throughout the Winter months. An old chest of drawers, some Farrow and Ball and Little Greene tester pots, a tray of white trade emulsion, a hammer, some patience, new drawer handles, a lot [...]
WEEKEND READING – MAKE IT YOUR OWN
This chilly September weekend read is the book Make It Your Own by Anna Alicia, the designer-maker behind eco-ethical home-ware and jewellery label A Alicia. Arriving just in time to inspire idle hands to get busy when trapped indoors with all that Autumn rain rolling down the windows. My favourite projects include a Plaited Floor [...]
THE ROSE KEEPER
My roses second flush of blooms are better than the first, which I have to admit, makes me feel very proud, I have kept them alive! When I discovered them in the garden I was so afraid that they would be hard to look after. The first aphid attack nearly sent me over the edge. [...]
SOMEWHERE TO KEEP SEEDS
Hello! Today I wanted to share with you this seed packaging I made a few weeks ago, I put together a collection of these decorated vintage matchboxes (you can see some of my other matchbox creations here) all containing different types of seeds, this is the last one left now. I do hope to make [...]
THINGS TO TRY AND DIY’S – AUGUST EDITION
Yesterday I was on kitty lockdown in the lounge, while the builders tore out our old front door and replaced it with a new one that a mouse can’t just crawl under with all it’s worldly possessions, while the north wind whistles through without apology. So I spent the afternoon in my sofa camp, looking [...]
LIBERTY FABRIC SCRAP SALVAGING
Happy Monday beautiful people, how was your weekend? Mine was quite inspired. I had a great time at the Summertime Curiosity Bazaar, met some lovely people, got shy, ate many cakes and sold nearly all my Liberty Lavender bags and hand made cards. I have also been colouring my world with vintage french postcards and [...]
STYLING THREE WAYS – MINI MILK BOTTLES #3
Happy Saturday to you, here is my final DIY idea for these sweet Mini Glass Milk bottles for DotcomGiftShop. Used as pretty individual place settings or a centre piece for guests to help them selves to, at a tea party or celebration.
BEST OF ETSY-JUNE ROUND UP
Found some lovely shops and things on Etsy lately, here are the ones that make my heart sing! 1-Grey cat with embroidered face-Eszter Dobó. 2-Linen Tote-Linea Carta. 3-Embroidered beaded edge oval necklace-By Lina Studio. 4-Dog art print poster-Aardvark On Sea. 5-Espresso pour quatre/ Espresso for four-Art et Manufacture. 6-Linen flower hairpins – set of 3-Namolio. [...]
SUMMER CONFETTI
Just finished, this Summer Fiesta Confetti Wreath is for my Etsy shop, it’s a little sunshine for another grey day, and my first update in a while. I am slowly sorting and getting my online life back on track, my poor neglected shop has been brightened up and there will be lots of pretty supplies and packs [...]
CRAFT BOOK GIVEAWAY RUNNERS UP PRIZES
As promised, here are my two runners up prizes for my Bank Holiday craft giveaway last week. There are two packs that contain, a note book for jotting down inspiration when you are out and about, a piece of lace, a vintage reel of cotton, a packet of beads and sequins, a hand painted lace [...]
THINGS TO TRY AND DIY’S – WEEKEND FUN
Today I have been on a bus catching, parcel posting, chocolate gathering (yep I’m all out) mission, now safely back at the lodge I have been looking for interesting things around the blog world. So here are five fun friday finds for the weekend. 1. FIORDILATTE LAVENDER ICE CREAM AND HONEY BRITTLE from The Red [...]
LAVENDER BAGS AND GARDEN FLOWERS
After a weekend of May day sunshine fun in Hastings and Brighton, including too many gin’s and Daiquiri’s with friends, I have spent today at home with my four legged pals. Making piles of lavender bags out of lovely Liberty Fabrics, for the upcoming Summer Time Curiosity Bazaar at the Printworks in Hastings (see the [...]
