Saturday 29 November 2008

nice cup of tea?


last night i made this felt brooch for my Auntie Jane's birthday - she is a tea addict!
i was completely inspired by cute designs
who makes super cute felt brooches and crochet creatures.
photo in natural light

photo in artificial light

look at these nice buttons - i found them in the ELC for 80p !!


some new girls

this set is little, she stands at just under 3"

unusual colouring and pattern too.

They will live in my new cabinet.


don't know what's up with blogger but it has refused to let me tidy up this post - grrrr

Sunday 23 November 2008

"bUtToN wEeK"

it been declared "button week" over on button floozies were i also blog - here's my latest post
featuring some gorgeous handmade buttons like these!


go take a look!

Friday 21 November 2008

- GIVEAWAY - GIVEAWAY - GIVEAWAY -
Suzanne over at CHICKADEE CARDS is having a giveaway on her blog - she makes really gorgeous intricately beaded jewellery , beautiful cards and jewellery rolls - please go and check out her lovely blog and enter the draw to win a gorgeous prize!

here is my favourite piece - hands off!





Thursday 13 November 2008

etsy treasury

oooohhh look the lovely pennydog put me in her etsy treasury!!! thank you so much pennydog http://pennydog.wordpress.com/ xxxxxxx



://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=20893



and then incywincy featured my button tree on her blog here

http://incywincytogs.blogspot.com/2008/11/treasury-and-more-buttons.html

i feel famous today ! thanks girls.


Wednesday 12 November 2008

christmas button tree


Last week i made this button tree - i'm sooooooooo pleased with it!
and just in case you didn't know - you can click on any of my photo's to see them BIGGER!!!


vintage button tree in mother-of-pearl button snow

vintage button tree - wooden spool tree - thimble tree & knitting nancy!







as it has many of my favourite buttons on i have only pinned them on with pearl-headed pins - so it can be dismantled after christmas.

{Incywincy says they look like fairy lights!}


It is made with a styrofoam cone shape re-cycled from a previous decoration i made years ago, i wrapped a piece of black felt{which was being thrown out by a friend of MIL's} around it and pinned this in place , then i covered the shape with a layer of green buttons with a few red ones and then started layering it up with lots of floral buttons and the three bakelite swallows and four gorgeous "bambi" buttons - i mainly stuck to green, red & black buttons but i can see me repeating this idea in candy colours for easter and i think it would look great as a hallow'een tree in purple, orange, green & black colourway too.

{This project is made with completely re-cycled supples the only thing i bought new were the pins and i'd bought them to go in the cupcake pincushion and had only used a few.}

unfortunately the photo's aren't as good as i'd of liked because the light quality has been awfull lately it's either been grey and overcast or the sunshine has been pouring through the window bleaching all the colours out!! I'm thinking about going on a basic photography course as i'd love to improve my photo's , i really need to force myself out of the house in the winter though as it's so nice and cosy indoors.


i went shopping today and went to the shop i used to work at {for sixteen years} http://www.bluegallery.co.uk/ and bought more styrofoam shapes - i might actually run out of suitable coloured buttons - i feel eBay calling!!! I was supposed to be making a start on christmas shopping today but was pretty much unsuccessful - if i only had to buy for little kids i'd do fine there are so many nice toys and books and clothes - grown ups are really hard to buy for especially MEN.

right i'm off to put more photo's on flickr, then an early-ish night as i'm working tomorrow - that's two days this week - i'm out of practice and will be exhausted by tea-time!!

Sunday 9 November 2008

time flies . . . . .


i find it very hard to resist these vintage floral buttons - the violet daisy has to be my new favourite!


i'm afraid i haven't got anything crafty to show you this week - i have made something very gorgeous BUT it is a secret for now! oh. . . . . i just can't resist showing a little glimpse of it . . . .




i have however been buying "STUFF" as my partner would call it {that's when he's being polite} so i will share my thrifty goodies with you instead!



what a sweet little face this "heidi" has, i found this lovely but battered book in the most bargain of bargain bins along with a copy of "lolita" and "good wives" and another book i'd never heard of and bought purely because it was in large print - these books are destined for re-cycling in my altered art but i'm going to have to keep the loose cover of "heidi" .



found this little stack of vintage dishes and couldn't resist them i thought they'd be great for displaying/photographing buttons in - isn't it strange how our{maybe it's just me!}tastes change with age - ten years ago i wouldn't have given these a second glance - now i may even use them to eat from!





below are two vintage aprons - one looks almost perfect and it's twin is rather worn and much more "vintage-y" lovely soft fabric.



and i also bought a couple of vintage embroidered cushion cases - i actually "know" what i'll do with these!


Saturday 1 November 2008

cupcake swap goodies!



ooh - look at all my goodies!
this is what i received from Alex - a lovely cupcake applique picture - a ceramic cupcake - a cute drawstring bag in cupcake fabric and an applique cupcake card - all very lovely - thanks Alex :0)




and pictured below is what i sent {late} to Alex - sorry about the photo's in this post - can you believe it was too sunny? The colours are so wrong in them but what can you do!

i love the little chimp in this picture so i had to use it - kinda an apology for my lateness in posting!

this little cabinet below has been beckoning to me every single time i walked past the shop window - i'd managed to resist it because it was just so damn expensive - the shop is closing down and everything was 30% off but everytime i walked past the shop was closed so i couldn't buy it - so when i walked past today the owner was packing up the shop into a van and the frame was sitting on the counter i walked past still resisting but on my way back past i could bear it no longer so i went to the door and asked if i could buy it - i got it for less than half the original price - i didn't even have to haggle!! yeah ! I'm going to keep all my creepy little dollies in it and they won't get dusty cause they'll be locked in behind glass -ha ha ha!

see how creepy they are - they are MOVING in this one - eeekkkKK.

{click on the photo}

maybe they didn't like my shining a torch in their faces!