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Hello again and many apologies for not posting in a while. tut tut lazy girl!
I've been fiddling about at a few bits n pieces - photos of which i shall be uploading soon - including a cute little horse/donkey i made for my new nephew Tommy!

rock on Tommy!

I'm also trying to organise myself for the vintage and craft fair in december. I'll be running a stall selling vintage clothes and accessories and some of my own vintage-inspired makes and Christmas cards, aided by my lovely mate Jo.
It's in the fab new vintage-lovers destination The Nichols Building on Sunday the 4th of December - if you're in the area PLEASE come along and support all the budding crafters and vintagers (is that a word? it is now!)

The thrill of the drill

I've decided I want to combine power tools with chintz, and have researched how to make my own cake stands.
It will involve drilling and goggles and I can't wait to get started. The only problem being that my jaunt to the local charity shops the other day was FRUITLESS (which is pretty-much unheard of for me)- not an interesting dinner or tea plate to be found, never mind saucer or dinky bowl.
I intend to forage further afield and get making as soon as possible as I already have the fittings, and plan to furnish the finished article with all kinds of fancies and perhaps a savoury treat or two.
Promise to get a photo on here as soon as i have sourced plates to my satisfaction!

my vision once said stand is complete

more lovely free clipart like this

It's been a while!

..But i've not been entirely idle, but not stitching and sticking as furiously as i'd like.
Anyway, here are a couple of my latest makes - both of which were for my lovely friend Jo's birthday -


A card featuring a swan atop a Japanese mountain




A brooch



A lovely pear...

So, on flipping through a friend's issue of 'Handmade Living' last night I came upon a pattern for a pear pincushion - it looked pretty easy so i rustled it up whilst watching History Cold Case and some programme about an unknown mummy on the History channel (oh yeah - ROCK n ROLL people!).
 It's not exactly the slender conference style pear shown in the magazine, i didn't follow the exact measurements, but hey - i'm pretty happy with it. A nice big juicy pear is better anyway...
Ooh Matron!

bored with your hair?

..then simply try a different era!

I put in some rollers to get evening curly hair, for the wedding do of my lovely newly-wed mates, but i needed to cover the rollers - so, what 'do' did i do for the morning ceremony?

A 50's style head-scarf and makeup combo!

Sadly, i wasn't able to appear in black & white all day

This lady is AMAZING at this kind of thing: http://www.lisafremontpages.blogspot.com/
check out her YouTube tutorials.

dear little deer

at some point i'll upload a picture or two of my odditorium (odditorium:A collection of curiosities), but here are a couple of beauties i got in a charity shop, sat atop a lovely plate and silk scarf which i added to a couple of my other collections (plates and scarves, naturally).. 
They're probably meant as Christmas decorations, but they look great next to my mushroom money box and large blue gnome!

wish you were here..

I'm always picking up old post cards, they're a lovely thing to have for inspiration;  I especially like the ones with the hand-tinted photos, and even better if they've actually been sent and have someone's message on the back.
I made some greetings cards using a few from my collection, but instead of cutting and sticking them I made some corner incisions in some blank cards and slid the postcard in so that it could be kept, framed or re-used by the recipient. To finish it off i sewed a little silk bow on to the corner of the card.