It’s that time of year – wedding season!
I love this stamp from Lili of the Valley – the two children remind me of my daughter and her best friend.
I coloured the image with promarkers, and drew faux stitching around the edges. I couldn’t resist adding the paper doily as a lacy background. The bunting is also stamped and hand coloured.
The words are hand stamped, and I love these tiny wooden heart buttons.
Filed under cardmaking, paper, wedding
It’s been a long time since I posted.
Sorry.
I have been making things, but nothing which I thought I would blog about.
Anyway, Christmas is over – time for Valentine’s day!!
I love zombies so when I found this freebie digi over at http://www.whimsiedoodles.com/valentine.html I just had to download it.
I coloured it with my promarkers, and made a simple background of shiny card, embossed with hearts and a small piece of black and white spotty paper.
Do you like it? Or perhaps you prefer a little more romantic…?
(30 days of creativity is spending 30 minutes doing something creative for 30 days, the days do not have to be consecutive. Why not join me? There is a facebook group here if you’d like to join.)
Filed under cardmaking, digi stamp
This is something I made a few months ago, for a friend who was renewing her wedding vows after ten years of marriage. The re-wedding was today, so I can finally show off my applique version of a sampler.
The large heart has the two wedding dates embroidered around it, while the two small ones feature the names and birthdates of the couple’s two children.
It is mounted onto canvas, and embellished with little buttons and ric rac. Because everyone loves little buttons and ric rac!!
I really loved making this, it felt like a real honour to be trusted with such a special piece of memory keeping. I’d like to wish Holly and Mark many more years of happiness and love.
My husband and I have been pondering the question, “How many items of mis-matched furniture do you need before your style is eclectic?”
This follows a few happy shopping expeditions in a couple of local charity shops.
First, a bookshelf for the boy’s room, dark wood, not all fashionable. Standing next to their pine bunkbeds.
And some 70’s salt and pepper pots, just because we liked them. 
And then some Nathan furniture – a dresser and a telephone seat – an outdated, defunct piece of furniture in the age of the cordless phone!
So, are we eclectic? Probably not yet. I think it’s more than having a bunch of things which don’t match. I think it’s about having a bunch of things which you love and you have chosen. And you don’t care that they don’t match.
It’s about having a home with personality, one where you love to live. We have antlers in our hallway…
(I don’t like those, but my husband does. I suppose an eclectic house can’t just be influenced by one personality!)
And there is also character and personality in the special handmade things.
This is my new mirror made by a friend. (You should really check out his website http://www.ammoniteoak.co.uk/ ) And there are also things I’ve made myself.
Like my patchwork quilt, and my canvasses.
And so, we have decided to be eclectic, to make a conscious effort to fill our home with things we love, regardless of whether they match. To look for interesting thing, old things, new things, handmade things and homemade things. Selecting what we think is the best. To stop wasting money on flat pack rubbish and things that are bland.
We want to have what we love, and love what we have.
(This still means I can shop at Ikea, right?)
shazronnie 