The winner is?

Hi Everyone,
Thankyou all for entrying my little competition, I really appreciate you finding the time to stop by and leaving your captions. There were soooooooh many entries I had a hard time choosing a winner. I must be a glutton for punishment because I have picked not one but two winners and they are

The Crafty Den (Denise) with
"Well you did say you wanted a thick pile carpet!!!"

and

Rose Petal (Sandra) with
"Its a hard life you know, I need my beauty sleep"

Congratulations ladies. Please get in touch via the email at top of page leaving me your colour preference and address and your little bags will be with you a.s.a.p.

Thankyou to all my new followers I will be visiting your blogs shortly.

Blue Boy Caption.(Now Closed)

Time for another competition.

This was Blue Boy always doing what he loved best , well when he wasn't eating that is.
Now can anyone come up with a suitable caption please to fit the photo. The one/ones I like the best will win one of my little Japanese hand made bags made in their favourite colours.




So if you want to be in it to win it just be/become a follower and leave your caption on this posting which will stay open until Thursday 26th Aug.

July 1876.

Iv'e had it in my mind for sometime to do a project using pages from an old book that are discoloured with age. Not having anything suitable at home I took myself of to the local charity shop to see it they had any.

They had this lying on a shelf at the back of the shop as not good enough for sale but let me have it for £1.

Well when I got it back home I discovered what a gem I had in my hands. Namely the Poetical works of 'Sir Walter Scott' published in December 1867 price 7s. 6d.

The book had evidently been used frequently. Several pages had the corners turned down to maybe mark a special point of interest and throughout the book pansy petals had been pressed between the sheets.

But the best find of all was the name plaques one on the inside of the front cover and one on the back cover. Eliza Evans June 1876.


Oh Eliza, who were you, is this your maiden name or your married name.( Not your D.O.B as you would have only been 9 yrs old when printed) and how did your book turn up all these years later in a charity shop. How I do so wish you could talk to me.

My dilema is do I go ahead and cut the pages up as planned and make something from them or keep in my own little library which in years to come will probably end up yet again in another charity shop. You my followers you decide.

Dancing Girl.

Sherry has now received her prezzie in the post so I can now do a reveal. On her blog every month she show cases the most amazing little dresses that she makes for the 'Dress up challenge' so I knew exactly which little bag to make her from my Japanese book of hand made gifts.

As I had already done a swap with Sherry earlier in the year I new her likes and dislikes so could choose the right colours. The ivory silk is left over from 'The tablecloth challenge' and the skirt panels are from original silk japanese kimonos soucred from Japan.

This is the front.

And the back. There is an inside pocket lined with felt which is deep enough to hold a special item of jewelry or a little bottle of cologne.

Hope you will enjoy Sherry.

Choklit Cup Cakes. Not one but two.

Now who do we know that likes choklit!!!
The wailing started again last week which translated was ' Can you do me a Choklit cupcake with pink icing and hundreds and thousands on top a.s.a.p. Um can you make that two please?' Oh well I didn't want to go to bed anyway.

Cupcake No 1.

Cupcake No 2.

Secret ingredients included!!!.

I am entering these into the following challenge.

Crazy 4 Challenges who just happen to be asking for Cupcakes.

Bead Swap 2.

My Second bead swap partner has now received her stash so I can now reveal.

Marcy's choice of colours were Green,Copper,Sepia, and Ivory. I decided to have Copper and Sepia as the bead colours and use Ivory and Green for the box.



The bead collection came together really easily and for the box I decided to make a collapsing one that is loosely based on a design from my Japanese book of small gifts to make.

I had seen a tutorial for making the silk flower and decided to have a go using some of the ivory material I had left over from the Table Cloth challenge. Having made the flower 1st, the box just sort of evolved and I had enough material to make a pouch for the beads which sits inside when the box sides are folded up into the lid.

I am entering this into the following challenges.

Craft Your Days Away are asking for your favourite things. My favouirite pastime is creating boxes.

Rosie D's challenge are asking for More than one fold. The box folds up and each petal of the flower on top is a circle folded several times.

Just Scraps are having an Open House so anything goes.

Creatalicious are sayng Show some 3D.

Craftalicious are saying Make your own flowers and are asking for at least one flower on your project.

Bead Afternoon.

Well I think I can safely say that fun was had by us all. When we got to the workshop I got told 'Now mummy you always have pink so you can't this time' and then Faye went and nabbed the pink ones for herself!!! This is the result. Pretty fab hey.

If Faye can have pink so can I. I made my necklace as a choker so had enough beads to do earings too. I do so love to have everything matching.

And The Doc and Sweet Cheeks? Both sleeping like a baby after an afternoon of non stop playing!!