Mum, avert your eyes

Seriously, if you go past this point you will ruin your birthday surprise!

The rest of you please carry on!

……

This is my new invention…

Can it be called an invention if it doesn’t actually ‘do’ anything? Well, I’m calling it that anyway. I’ve been looking at this Etsy shop for ages, wishing I could have one of the beautiful little terrariums, sadly they’re from the US and shipping costs an arm and a leg to Australia.

So I decided to make my own (actually this one is for my Darling Mother for her birthday coming up). I ordered the little globe from a wedding supply company (they’re meant for tea candles) and soldered together a fork, a spoon and a plate stand left over from a jewellery tree.

The cute little air plant came from this ebay store they have a huge range of air plants- some beautiful colours! You can buy a clump and break it up into smaller sections if you want more plants. They were also really helpful on how to look after them.

I’m so pleased with how this little idea turned out! Hopefully my Mum likes her birthday present too!

 

Look at this!!

Oh the adorableness is sickening!

It’s a birds house doll house! All the work of this lovely talented lady!

Ohhhhhhh… the detail!

You should definitely go and have a look at Amanda’s blog Bijourgirl etc…

She also has a facebook page where you can see her beautiful jewellery like this:

And this:

I’m in Lurve!

 

Just something I whipped up

With Christmas and then everything that took place after, I never got a chance to post about these designs

This one is a fave, the little copper ring hooks on to the heart to act as the clasp. It has little balls hanging on the bottom that jingle very lightly as you walk

And this has gone to Denmark with a dear friend who came back to Australia for a visit and got caught up in the floods. She still had a great time and got to see Australia like not many do - sandbagging and desperately trying to save houses.

More tiny little balls that jingle when you walk, this time in ring form. It’s so simple yet so much fun to play with.

And this is so delightful and vintage{esque}

I’ll admit that it took a little while to make and solder all those teeny tiny bits together (without melting other bits). But I really live how it turned out!

Anyone who has any thoughts on these designs, please share, they are very welcome!

 

They say the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem…

So here goes…

Hi, my name is Kris and I have an addiction to *Stationary*.

What’s in these photos is not even a pimple on the ginormous behind that is my addiction…

I know I have an addiction, I have all the symptoms:

- Every nook and cranny in my house has some form of writing/drawing implements stashed for easy access.

- I can’t walk past the stationary isle in the supermarket, I have to stand there and stare lovingly at every pen/pencil/texta until I decide which will come home with me {this time}

- I almost need to wear a bib in Smiggle to soak up all my drool.

- Stationary gets me more excited than going to any form of party/wedding.

It’s an addiction, I know, I should kick the habit.

But I kinda wanna stick to it, seeing as how it makes me deliriously happy!

 

Empty frame wall art *eye candy*

I had a look around to see what other people have created with empty painted frames

First up this is mine

This one is from Classically Amber the frames are beautiful and ornate

This one is from Two Girls… Being Crafty, I like the way they have frames inside frames

And another one from I am Momma hear me roar, this has a hidden window, how cute!

And lastly how cute is this? Bulletin board frames! From Shannon Makes Stuff

Ahhh… Eye Candy!

If you’ve done something cute with empty frames let me know, I’d love to see!

While we’re on the subject

I have been meaning to blog this since before Christmas. Remember this box I got at a garage sale? I was going to do it up for my brother’s 21st birthday…

Here it is all done up to the nines’. 

I painted it a slate grey and attached new handles.

The outlines of the letters were lightly printed on to old pages of Shakespeare plays, then I cut them out and modge-podged them on to the box. I did several layers over top of the letters to make sure they wont come off.

I managed to get it to him only 6 months late… a record for me!

Who knows what he will put in it, boy stuff no doubt.

Headbands galore…

I gave in. Having all these flowers sit around idly just got to me :)

To market to market!!