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Button Floozies Christmas Ornament Swap
On the Button Floozies blogI recently took part in this swap with the festive season approaching - we had to make 3 button ornaments which could either be hung from a Christmas tree or accent a table...
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Some New Cards in the Shop
Hope everyone had a good Christmas. So far, in between the festivities and visiting family, I have had one day playing and felt like making some cards. These are luxury blank cards and are now...
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Tag Tuesday - New Challenge
I have been a great fan of the uber talented Carolyn aka Love Stitching Red for a long time and was so pleased to read about her Tag Tuesday Challenge. I have only just heard about it so rushed like...
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Tag Tuesday - Snow Sports & Games
I struggled a bit with this week's theme but am quite happy with the finished result. The tag is made from a piece of distressed looking scrapbook paper and has a vintage image of skaters with brown...
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Tag Tuesday - White
I wanted to show white in texture and made a tag from scraps lying around on my desk: bits of paper, vellum, card, trim etc., which I then painted with a couple of coats of white acrylic paint. Lace...
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Tag Tuesday - Vintage
This week's theme is Vintage - my favourite! I used a recycled Next clothing tag which looked old and battered to start with and had some black printing showing through. I already had printed off a...
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New Supplies For All You Lace Lovers!
I have just listed some new supplies in my shop, some of which are vintage and ideal for so many projects.If you love lace or crochet trim, pop over and have a look.
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Tag Tuesday - Lace
This week's theme is Lace and as you know I love lace and use it most of the time in my projects. I wanted to do something a little bit different this time and so went for a more sombre Victorian...
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A New Project ........
Gathering ........... Interesting pieces of white fabric, preferably with cutwork or other pretty or distinctive features.Pieced .......... My selected pieces pinned together to form one...
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Tag Tuesday - Hearts
I love hearts as any regular readers of my blog will know and with the month in mind, my theme this week is romantic. I made my tag in the shape of a heart, backed with card for strength and with a...
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Tag Tuesday - Birds
A lovely subject this week, I think, and so nice with spring around the corner hopefully. Here's my little birdie on a nest with eggs. The heart shaped tag is covered with scraps of text and sheet...
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Thank you Laurie!
My sweet cyber friend Laurie from Indulge Your Shelf sent me this lovely collection of goodies:-Sweet tiny tart tins, tickets, vintage label and other little art trinkets. Thank you so much Laurie, you...
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Taking A Little Break
No posts for weeks and then 3 in one day - what's going on?! Well, we are going away for a few days on a little break and I thought I better post a few things before I go.See you soon!
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Can anyone let me know if there is a simple way that I can get my Followers gadget back again? I understand that Google have changed this from 1st March but although on my Dashboard I still have all...
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Holiday Memories
There's just enough time to post a few holiday piccies of our recent break in Devon, which was absolutely lovely, before we dash off to Brussels on the Eurostar on Thursday for a last minute long...
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A Big Catch Up
No, I haven't left the country - well, only briefly. This might be a longish post so you might want to get yourself a cuppa and see what I have been up to. First of all, we had a long weekend in...
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What's Out In The Garden Today
I popped out to have a walk around the garden this morning and saw so many lovely flowers out that I had to go back in and get the camera so that I could capture them before the wind blows them to...
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A New Class
I started a new online learning class a couple of weeks ago, run by the very talented Karen Ruane. As you know I love embroidery and have in the past dabbled a bit with watercolours, so the idea of...
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More Work On The Ledger Pages
I have been very fraught this week, trying to make several different ledger pages using different techniques. Some of them haven't worked out right and I have been quite frustrated but think I have...
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Free Motion Stitching Experiment
As part of the online course I'm doing at the moment, we had to do some free motion stitching. These are a few of my experimental pieces from yesterday:-The small piece at the bottom is 5 pieces of...
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