Stockholm to Japan

I did this at the weekend too. (I do interact with the family and push the vacuum around occasionally!) I have had this envelope for ages and wondered what I could do with it ~ the printed image is so beautiful and the usual stuff I do on envelopes would not have worked. In a flash ....a flash I tell you, of inspiration I sorted out an old Deightons Embroidery transfer and ironed it on, rather hesitantly and then spent the weekend embroidering it ~ not so easy, infact a real fiddle faddle as vintage paper does not do embroidery! I'm quite pleased with the result as the embroidery does'nt overpower the printing too much. Added to Etsy SOLD

Primitive inspiration

Friday on Flickr I came across http://www.flickr.com/photos/oldworldprimitives/ OMG I love them....the dolls etc are made from Netty LaCroix patterns and Stephanie Baker has made them up....beautifully and are for sale on her Etsy. Anyway inspired by the sheer simplicity of the shapes, textures and colour pallette, I started to have a little doodle. My husband again 'does'nt get it' but hey.....I think I will try and keep these going and see how thing develope.

It's the little things in life........

Took myself and Holly to Shrewsbury, Shropshire today. Such a lovely, interesting town. One of a few towns left in the area that has individual shops, boutiques, antique shops. All the other local towns seems to consist of Opticians, High Street Stores and Building Societies. Anyway, less of the moaning........ we wandered around an antique shop and I managed to pick this beatiful old box advertising Showboat Kunzel Cakes. I though maybe it was American but on closer inspection the Bakery was in Granville, Birmingham. Who would have thought. I am going to use it to house greetings cards when I do a Craft Fair. On the same stand I purchased this card of beautiful glass buttons for only £2.50. Finds like these make the world go around!

My latest soldered collaged pendant ~ Nice little shirt button added to this one and a beautiful Viking Ship vintage stamp ~ lovely orangey red. Again for sale on Etsy.

Holly and I visited Westhope College, Craven Arms, Shropshire yesterday, end of year show. http://www.westhope.org.uk/ We had a lovely afternoon. The show consisted mainly of City and Guilds work which was, of course, very interesting....embroidery, glass, book binding etc. The College itself is an old Dower House, so very pretty. Lovely coloured spools of wool.
My favourite bit of the afternoon ;-)

This was the view from the Village Hall, which hosted a craft fair in conjunction with the College show. I know you can't see from this pic very well but the view reminded me of Bavaria ~ the cows were a lovely ginger colour.
This was at the back of the village hall. Ancient apple orchard with sheep. What would you keep if you owned a Orchard. Sheep ~ Pigs ~ Geese ~ Hens ~ Goat ???? ~ Holl's suggestion was a Donkey!

This little fella waved goodbye as we left the college.

Thanks for visiting x

Brewery Ledger

Hey...I'm on a roll now, you will all be sick to death of me at this rate!
I want to thank everyone for your great comments, very kind and makes me very happy.
I'ts amazing what you can get done early in the morning. I have managed to do the best part of these two before the rest of the household appears, except for two dogs and 4 chickens of course and they are very demanding, particularly the chickens...anyway I digress. I purchased this old brewery ledger a little while ago and it has been the best few quid I have ever spent. Half of it went to Lu Summers and I must have included some part of it in everything I have done just lately. I have been using it as the background paper for the two pieces below. It dates back to the very early 1900s and goes up to 1930s. A really good find.
I have added these two to Etsy. Thanks for stopping by.

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New stuff

I know, I've been away for ages.....is there anyone there?
I had really lost my get up and go over the last few weeks at work, but hey.....a couple of months off now and here is what I have been working on over the last week. I am really pleased with the results, although I say it myself :-)
I have been looking for a way of combining my embroidered envelope type work and making something to wear, and I'm really pleased with the solution. You know when you get an excited buzz about trying something new and that's me at the mo!
Soldering for the first time has been an experience and although it's a bit of a fiddle faddle it does the job nicely. I only worry that folks might find the soldering a bit rough and ready but that's the nature of the beast.
I am hoping to offer to personalise the back of the pendants too. Leaving me to do the front collaging, of course, but I can type any kind of wording for the back....
I've listed these six onto Etsy.
I would appreciate your feedback x





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