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Cheers
C

What a wonderful weekend

Hi everyone

I am just back from an awesome retreat at LSBS (Little Scrapbook Shop) and what a weekend it was..........The awesome Cath and Nic treated us so well with kits to die for, gorgeous kits and lovely classes.... give aways too - and I won the layout prize for 17 LOs on the weekend..... special mention to Gill (Owl) though who definitely did more than me this time at 21!

I also chatted to many of the girls I have known now for years at the retreat and made new friends too ..... you are all lovely and so much a part of my life.

I was invited (well I actually volunteered) to teach a mixed media course at the retreat - and I did. 44 ladies created gorgeous fridge magnets and had a ball - many are going to try this again they loved it so much. I love the way people make their creations their own, they were all different and all lovely - so many people really loved them.....awesome work girls.

Here is my sample (now I can show you!!)

Her love has wings

Thanks to the other teachers too - Kerryn, Belle and Sherry for awesome classes too.... I had a lovely time!

I travelled to Berrima to my fave Antique Shop on the way there to the LSBS Retreat, with the lovely Kristin, and picked up gorgeous goodies for my vintage scrapping kits - so much stuff (buttons, mags, flannel, ribbon, braid, tickets....yummmmmm) and so much fun...... I cannot wait to create over the weeks ahead ..... and I have a stash now of gorgeous glimmermists to be extremely jealous of...... superb for antiquing flowers and laces

Several girls picked up my kits at the retreat from orders on the net..... they were delighted with them - and there were lots (and lots) of very positive comments. People also loved the packaging..... brown paper packaging tied up with string - and a heart! Reminds me of the old days.

The hat pins are definitely a hit too and many people wanted me to make more......

Thanks also to Scrap Therapy for taking 5 of my Hat Pin kits to try in the store at Babinda...... I will be interested to see how they go!

I have a day of work today to regroup and a short week - the sun is shining and I have watched the birds feed on the feeders outside my bedroom window at 10am - life is good.

Have a beautiful day everyone...

Love
C

Grandma Ellen's Sewing Box - Vintage Kits

They are now up in Etsy and I am so pleased with them.... Already one has been sold - well it didn't even get up there actually..... it was ordered off the pic in the previous post!

Here are the better pics and an explanation.... I do hope you enjy them - Grandma Ellen's Sewing Box - Vintage Scrapbooking Kits



This lovely vintage kit takes you back down memory lane when things were a little slower and women like my Great Grandma Ellen spent time sewing for herself and her family.

This kit is in memory of my Great Grandma Ellen who, before she married my Great Grandfather, was a tailoress for Queen Victoria (probably my family's one claim to any sort of fame!)


This kit contains a wonderful collection of tea and hand dyed lace and hand crafted flowers of broidery anglaise lace, a hand crafted doiley, hat pins, buttons and printed button cards and keys from that era.


All you need to add is your cardstock, photos and your title and journalling - how easy is that!! Perhaps a little lace? Perhaps glimmermist the background? The layout can be as simple or as complex as you wish.....


Many of the items are vintage and are listed below with a *

So what does this vintage kit contain?

1 x Hand crafted and dyed doileys*
1 x 35cm piece of tea dyed broidery anglaise lace
2 x Hand crafted flowers tea dyed and then glimmermisted with handcrafted vintage doileys as their centres*
2 x vintage buttons a pink palain button and a gorgeous mother of pearl button*
1 x hand dyed sprinke flower*/shape*
2 x hancrafted hat pins (by me) in beautiful muted tones
4 x prints of carded buttons* and an advertisement*
1 x print of brass keys*
1 x brass 'sewing scissors' brass charm
1 x backing sheet



So your next heritage layout is almost done - all you need it is the photo!! This would also look fabulous as a feminine layout of any aged lady or girl...... even that lovely photo of you as a baby you always meant to scrap but never got around to it!

I am off to a retreat Thursday with a few packages of goodies because lots of people have ordered stuff.... thanks everyone! See you when I return!

Love
Carol

Grandmas Ellens Sewing Box

I am being very naughty but I love these so much.... I had to share

That I have taken a quick scan to upload this - no DSLR, no setting up - and its in the celophane package.... I have made 8 of these for my store


My Greatgrandmother Ellen was Queen Victoria's Tailoress before she married my Great Grandfather.... so this vintage kit is named after her. It is very likely that Queen Vic had an entourage of tailoresses but it is my claim to fame..... so I am baskign a little in the glory with this kit.

I will pop them up on my Etsy Shop when I can take a decent pic and they are full of goodies including tea stained and dyed lace, very old buttons, some pics of old button cards and keys and handmade flowers - the kits are gorgeous and worth the wait I think!

Will load them into my Etsy shop as soon as I can..... they will be $7.50 US

I hope you enjoy and more (better) pics soon I promise

Love
C

PS - 4 out of my 7 vintage kits have sold already - that is pretty awesome I thinnk - thanks girls!!

PSS - And I have just ordered some gorgeous cameos for some more sets....... they are beautiful too!!

Uploaded so many photos today.....

I was not happy with my Etsy shop and the way some of my hat pins looked - so I uploaded many photos and I am happy with it now!!!


I was not happy with my Etsy shop and the way some of my hat pins looked - so I uploaded many photos and I am happy with it now!!!

These gorgeous hat pins are large and beautiful. Made on the largest pearl pin I can source, these are stunning, colourful and will enhance your craft projects such as scrpbooking, card making, or off the page projects.


They are also wearble art!

Wear them on a flower or a hat


Wear them as an accessory on a lapel

Tuck them behind a corsage

The Coronet Hat Pin measures 3 inches or 7.5cm.... they all contain a faux pearl head and large bead (either faux pearl or faceted plastic), a coronet of silver metal and glass faceted beads and multi faceted glass rondel bead with a small bead at the base



The look wonderful tucked under flowers on a scrapbook page and happily mix and match with eachother... I have shown a sample of a scrapbook page I did recently with these little beauties (please feel free to copy my page idea if you wish)



Orders are welcome and bridal orders a speciality for invitations, place settings, accessories and arrangements

At only $2.00 each they must be the buy of the month!

Onto cabochons....... now I have finished the photo thing!

Love
C

Coming tomorrow

I have made 22 single Coronet Hat Pins - large, beautiful and delicious

I will load some onto my Etsy store ...... I have no photos as yet but they look great with a pearl hat pin (large), bead, coronet with stones, a large faceted glass bead and a small bead at the base.

These Coronet Hat Pins go with my sets too but are available singly at $2 US each and I am thinking that these will be very popular at that price

I have used all my glass faceted beads now (72!!) and have ordered 4 more lots because they are so beautiful!

So I will pop up photos tomorrow and I will also tell you a secret - tomorrow is cabochon making day...... wish me luck.......

Cheers
C

Vintage Kits for Scrapbooking

Here we go --- gorgeous kits for heritage pages .... I have 7 but I have only had time to load one! I will load the others tonight..... I am really pleased how they turned out

This lovely vintage kit takes the worry out of finding the right embellishments to do those heritage layouts.

A gorgeous collection of dyed hand crafted doileys, paper doileys, hat pins, flowers, buttons and some advertisements from on old 1934 magazine. All are slightly different and unique



All you need to add is your cardstock, photos and your title and journalling - how easy is that!! Perhaps a little lace? Perhaps glimmermist the background? The layout can be aas simple or as complex as you wish.....

Many of the items are vintage and are listed below with a *

So what does this vintage kit contain?

1 x Glimmermisted doiley - green
1 x Glimmermisted doiley - stenciled burgundy
1 x Hand crafted and dyed doileys* x 2
1 x Hand crafted flower
3 x vintage buttons*
3 x hand dyed sprinke flowers*/shapes*
2 hancrafted hat pins (by me) with glass faceted beads
3 pieces of 1934 magazine ads*
1 x brass 'love heart' charm

These are all bundled up in a brown paper package tied up with string just like the old days!

My great grandparents!!
She was Queen Victoria's tailoress

So your next heritage layout is almost done - all you need it is the photo!! A sample layout is in the pictures - please feel free to copy my idea!

The paper doileys crinkle slightly when glimmermisted - if you don't like this look ...iron carefully between hankerchiefs on a wool setting - they will straighten out for you

Hope you like them

Love
C

Petite Hat Pins have arrived

With such names as Queen of Hearts, Kiss me Quick and Baby's got Blue Eyes..... lots of choice

I am featuring in the showcase on Etsy on Friday.... I hope it goes well!!

Lots more coming - need more time!

Love
C

They have arrived and I am excited

I know ... small things amuse me

But my cabachon moulds have finally arrived.... so I will be creating these lovely items for scrap pages

cab·o·chonkab-uh-shon

1. a convex hemispherical or oval form, polished but not cut into facets.

2. an ornamental motif resembling this, either concave or convex and often surrounded by ornately carved leaf patterns, used on furniture of the 18th century.

Keep popping back - I will be creating with these soon!

Love
C

Hat Pins up on Etsy Shop

Hi everyone

My hat pins are up on Etsy again........ easy to use and very different - add something special to your scrapbook layout, a card, a bow or a hat or lapel

Passionate (sold)

Wattle in the Sun

Cool Elegance (sold)

Lots of uses! And they are selling quickly

I do hope you enjoy them ($4.00 US pack of 5 hat pins plus postage)

Cheers
C

More Hat Pins soon

Well I have had a number of Hat Pins sold on Etsy and there will be more up there available very soon

I have finsihed another 12 sets ..... and there are pinks (Kissing Sweetly) and burgundys (Passionate) as well as neutrals, blues, greens and lemons....something for everyone

Thanks for your support - orders are also taken - just let me know what you would like .... I will then place them in the Etsy shop as a special order - reserved and it will have you first name next to it

Now to move the parents - huge lot of work but it is great to be with my brother and doing it together

Cheers
Carol

Hat Pins for Creative Crafts

I have been trying to source hat pins for my own scrapping projects and card making and they have been very (very) elusive!

The ones that are available are totally boring - all the same, difficult to get and the same size.

So I made my own!!!!

Here is Yuletide Celebrations

They are available too on my Etsy if you want to look at more - and yes they do look very cool on layouts, cards, hats and lapels......

Another set - love these colours

I really enjoy making these - could be another addiction!!

And here are two pics of how they look on creative type crafts like scrapbooking and card making

The Card

Close up detail of a layout

So there you have it..... they are sweet and affordable - I hope you like them (I already have a say from California - pretty cool hey?)

I have quite a bit of vintage goodness appearing on my Etsy soon - so pop in now nad then to have a look

Cheers
Carol

Creating Hat Pins

I will be showing you very soon but I have been creating hat pins for scrapping and card making

I love them .... all the colours of the rainbow and they look awesome on a page tucked into a flower or ribbon

Happy happy!!!

Will also be on Etsy soon......

Love
C

Two new pieces - 'Fly' and 'Secrets'

Hi there everyone

I sat down last night and instead of drinking a couple of glasses of wine I had a great time creating instead.....

So here they are.... inspired from Brian Andreas wonderful lines - they make me smile so much.

Fly

Secrets

I have really enjoyed creating them and I do hope you enjoy looking at them too!!!

Will be on Etsy soon.... when I get to it this weekend

Love
Carol

Created last night

I had the best time last night and finished two mixed media pieces 'Fly' and 'Secrets' for my Brian Andreas inspired series of paitings

I will pop them up tonight but I am enjoying these vintage ladies which I use and Brian Andreas quirky phrases !!

Til tonight

C