soldathon

ery much looking forward to the soldathon that will take place this weekend! Di Foster's beautiful dobbers can never be recreated but I have a vision of what some of my family'd old photos could look like trapped forever behind glass....
Found the work of an amazing artist called Tabitha Moses,(bottom image) which reminded me of my medal phase, but I really love the way the photos have been immortalised by giving them a surround, hopefully I can crop into our famil pictures to make into dobbers of my own...Yippee!y

anyone bored of bracelets yet?

our more bracelets to put into the etsy shop...getting quicker which is great as they take ages to make and the domestics are really getting in the way at the moment! I'm very pleased with the liberty fabric one as it looks different from anything I've seen before....but there again that could be because its just odd!!!

roses on black

nother spoonflower attempt, scanned nature objects is the competition this week. I have scanned in all the late produce from my very neglected garden and tried to assemble the foliage into a traditional style flower arrangement....not perfect but it will have to do otherwise I shall miss the deadline!

more bracelets

ave been busy making more bracelets for the etsy shop, and here they are.... I'm very pleased with the little velvet acorns and have been slicing into the liberty fabric stash to make more of the fabric bangles....

felted necklace and acorns

ittle tiny acorns made with some tiny scarps of the most beautifully expensive silk velvet from the cloth house in Soho, are my latest fad! I have crocheted the 1cm diameter cups from different miserable coloured embroidery threads and then wrapped a plastic bead with a small round of velvet and sewn together....they will all be strung on a double loop of velvet ribbon for a bracelet for the etsy shop! The very plain for me felt ball necklace will be uploaded to the shop later...

beautiful photographs

t my parents this weekend we were looking at some of the wonderful photos that she has of when she was living in Tangiers in the 40s and 50s. The photo on the beach is of (clockwise from bottom left) Tio Manolo, Tia Maria, my mum, my uncle Pepin, my grandmother and my beautiful aunty Fita who sadly died earlier this year, the little boy that she is holding onto very tightly is a little street urchin they adopted. The other photo is of my mum and my auntie Fita with a friend.

I'm so excited

'm sooo excited, after watching the etsy site like a maniac for the past couple of days a very kind person called Kcompliment has included one of my braceletes in her treasury! which is a members curated shopping gallery! I think I might be getting obsessed...