distressed little notecards

yes, that's right, i've been making more cards....but to my credit i've managed to send most of them off to people now so it's not like i have a back log or anything! anyways, here are some of the little ones i made using stamps and old book pages and stuff:

emerald glitter heels!

i've been eyeing up youtube videos on how to glitter your shoes at home and now i've finally done it!

i love them so much! and they're so easy to do - i just sanded all the gumpf off a pair of old shoes (for 'gumpf' see 'glue gun glue and bubble wrap'....these shoes have had many fancy dress reincarnations), then i applied pva with a brush and sprinkled on glitter with a spoon. i mixed the standard green with a little black so they're not too bright, and finished with another layer of glue so i'll not shed glitter with every step.

oooooooooo! i want to wear these all the time!

shoes- £3 in the primark sale, a year and a half ago, glitter- about £4 (though i didn't need the medium, had loads left over), glue £1.50.

yay!


getting lovely things in the post : )

today i received a very pretty letter from my mother, in it were these wonderful crochet flowers of her own making:

i didn't want to just have them somewhere in my room.....so i turned them into jewellery! i hope mummy doesn't mind:

: )

macrame charm bracelet

just a little post. i used cord as opposed to leather thong this time- making it much easier to tuck things in and have a neater finish. then i added feather charms to every third bottom loop:

tits!

hehehehe, not that kind, this kind:

the one on the left is a blue tit, and the one on the right is a coal tit. i made them out of felt and glue - so easy! there was a robin too but i sewed that one in a patchworky manner, and it just didn't look like what i had had in mind, so it got binned- hence the glue. the only thing is that now i have many sheets of felt left over (these fellows are quite small....they're NOT christmas decorations, honest, the fact that they're winter birds signifies nothing!!) so yes, anyway, lots of felt, may have to make finger puppets. 

button, button, who's got the button...me!

so i've been wearing the same £5-from-a-charity-shop blue velvet jacket for 3 years worth of springs and autumns...it needed a little bit of TLC. so i replaced the buttons with missmaching gold and pearly ones:

there's a combination of beads, earrings (the bars of which i attacked with pliers to make them button-like), metal card toppers and 1 actual button. it's all rather neat though with pearls and cameos, fleur de lis ans what not : )

christmas docraft demo-day prep.

: D

i get to have a go at being the awesome demo lady at work on saturday!!!! i'm so excited, i mean originally i was like 'it's way to early to be making christmas cards', but now i'm totally planning christmas 6 months early.... anyways, here are some examples i put together to get me started and make my demo table look nice on saturday:

 the docraft stuff i was given to play with is quite traditional - gold, cream, green, red, santa etc. so i tried a few things, there's a couple of mini ones (right), a little gift box, the on on its back is a bit distressed and has a rosette, and for the one at the back i tried to bring in some blues and silver for those who might not fancy the more traditional stuff.

oh i really am quite psyched about this!