merry christmas and a happily crafty new year!

sizzix dictionary snowflakes

we had a lovely Christmas break - i hope you all did too - just posting a few festive photo's today - my computer has come back from the brink of doom i thought i was going to lose it and everything on it - scary - there are still some things i can't get back to normal including FLICKR which is driving me crazy as i have christmas money to go "pro" and stacks of photo's to upload.

do you see these gorgeous vintage glass baubles?

i begged my mum to lend them to me

i lovingly hung them on my tree

they look beautiful .

do you see my mum's other lovely vintage glass baubles?

my loving partner decided i was taking too long putting up the christmas decorations

he decided to put them away

at the same time as he was carrying lots of other things

we have a tiled hallway

guess what?

they don't bounce

GRRRRRR

lucky for him i was looking after pre-schoolers that day

but i nearly cried

and i haven't told my mum yet

yep - i live with DR WHO

i spent the time left between cooking dinner, eating sweets and unwrapping presents

making this adipose felt brooch for my Mum

here's me and DR WHO out for a walk on christmas day walking off our HUGE dinner!

******third prize******

thank-you to everyone who voted for my christmas tree

i came third which i am really proud of :0)

the cute angels won - they were very sweet - i voted for them myself!

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=17778320

still available to buy on etsy!!!

vote vote vote!!!

ooohhh look my vintage button christmas tree got featured on Shirley at BeadBag's blog

http://beadbag.blogspot.com/

Shirley's blog is really interesting and full of colour and inspiration

it's well worth a look

i entered my christmas tree in the craftjuice christmas competition and it is doing really well

BUT i need more votes!

so if you love it please vote for it !

http://www.craftjuice.com/story.php?title=vintage_haberdashery_christmas_trees-2

the competition runs intil the 19th of December

but look here

there are loads of other really great entries in the competition

here are my favourites - in no particular order!

pennydog's glittery fawn

http://www.craftjuice.com/story.php?title=Snowy_Reindeer_resin_pendant

claire p's fat robin!

http://www.craftjuice.com/story.php?title=Rolley_Robin

majito's cute angels

http://www.craftjuice.com/story.php?title=Etsy

_o1keeshagirls gorgeous porcelain angels

http://www.craftjuice.com/story.php?title=Etsy__keeshagirl4__German_porcelian_doll_ornament

leah's winning stockings from the crafter...oo competition

http://www.craftjuice.com/story.php?title=Christmas_Wall_Hanging__Stockings

and Jezzabell's soft and snuggly mittens

http://www.craftjuice.com/story.php?title=Etsy__jezzabell13__Frosted_Crochet_Mitten

so get voting people!


please!

crafter..oo

have you all checked out the crafter..oo forum yet?

it's a great place to

- make friends - get advice - get inspired - show off your crafting -

you can also add your shops and blogs to your signature so it's free advertising as well

i've made loads of great new friends over there

hope to see you over there soon!

http://www.crafteroo.co.uk/

buy handmade!

i was just mooching about on flickr minding my own business when i found this gorgeous and totally appropriate doll made by imagingermonkey http://www.imagingermonkey.blogspot.com/
i say totally appropriate because it was my bestest friends baby daughters first birthday a couple of days later and her extremely cute little girl is called "Holly" as was said dolly!
and it has no buttons or bits baby Holly will chew off - yeah!! Well i HAD to buy her, didn't i?


i think she got here just in time - you can see in these photo's she arrived to beautiful sunshine - yeah it's cold but if you look on her creators blog they had SNOW i'm pretty jealous actually we don't get snow maybe 'cause of the salt air?


it was lovely to see one of gingermonkeys creations in the flesh/fabric!
the whole family loved her
especially my son who said "oooohh she is really coot if you bought me one of dem it would sleep in my bed"
hmmmmm d'ya think that's a subtle hint?
anyhow i'd highly recommend one of these cute dollies
BUY HANDMADE
it feels good!

we make folksy angels christmas competition

*EDITED*

i entered the folksy angels christmas decoration competition - the brief was to make a decoration from recycled items or items from your craft stash - no buying new supplies!

here's my entry - as usual i worked right up to the deadline and submitted my entry only to find the deadline had been extended! So my photo ain't great as i had to photograph in artificial light - bah!

i choose this photo as my entry as a especially liked the view of the chaos which is my craft table behind her!!!

i made my angel with help from my sizzix machine - she is made of totally recycled papers - her body is from a dried dog food bag - her wings from a foil crisp packet,newspaper and vintage sheet music - her dress is from vintage sheet music and her hair is from a page from a vintage bible - her halo is made of copper wire rescued from my jewellery making stash, oh and some glitter an inevitable store cupboard need with toddler crafts!

please go and check out the other twenty-four entries and vote for you favourite here http://blog.folksy.com/2008/12/2/vote-for-t-angels now!

voting ends tomorrow - i think!

*****VOTING FINISHED - IF ANYONE DID READ THIS AND VOTED FOR ME THANK-YOU!

I DID QUITE WELL REALLY - I ONLY GOT 15 VOTES BUT BY MY WORKING OUT THAT MEANS I CAME 5th WITH ABOUT 6% OF THE VOTES!

THE WINNER - NIFTY KNITS WON BY A MILE - WELL DONE NIFTY KNITS!!! *****

i especially love these