Pixie Magic

This little cutie arrived in my letter box this week. This sweet little pixie has travelled all the way from Mexico from my creative friend Ale. I was lucky enough to win this hand painted bookmark.Thanks so much Ale, i am going to laminate her to protect her from page wear and tear. So pretty. You can check our all of Ale's wonderful creations over at with blueberry heart Happy New Year Ale :)

Five Festive Trees

So how organised do i feel. Five Christmas cards finished and we're not even at the end of January. These cards were inspired by a craft leaflet at Hobbycraft for these teabag folded tree's. Thought I'd give it a go and gosh they work so well for using odd bits and pieces of paper that's piling up, you know how you hang on to all sorts. So I'm ahead of the game and was also able to enter these into January's challenge over at Christmas Cards all Year Round, the challenge was anything goes so voila :)

A Very Merry Christmas :)

Re-cycle...

on it goes. It's stuck with me all year round and it's so rewarding. So for this project i took two jar lids. Sprayed them with traditional gold spray on both sides. This took several coats and in between i painted some red acrylic paint and then sprayed over the top again with the gold, i intended to distress but the only sand paper in the house was stripping back more than i wanted so i left them with the odd hint of red showing through. On the inside i rustled up two hama bead pattern kinda snowflakes and glued them on either side. I added some red rik rak (is that what you call it?) to hang it with and then glued it together. I added some rik rak round the frame of both lids just to finish off. So what do you think? I see scope for more but this late in the day i might be pushing my luck lol alongside my other unfinished, or not yet started festive projects. Happy December :)

Excerpts of 'Thanksgiving' UK

So with thanks to my lovely friends across the pond my friend Jo and i adopted Thanksgiving this year and celebrated in our own creative ways. I made a Thanksgiving cone which I'm not mad about but have had a few compliments about and incorporated some glittered cones that i did last year. I brought out my ikea wire tree and having printed of some lovely Thanksgiving freebies gave my hubby, mum, dad and son a tag with their name on and everyone wrote a little word of thanksgiving on it and attached it to my tree so thanks to them for joining with me in giving thanks. We enjoyed a lovely roast dinner which mum helped with, homemade bread sauce and some lovely chocolate sauce which we had with cream and waffles for pudding. My biggest dilemma this meal was making sure that nothing came near the meat for my dad, bless him. It was a juggling act, more so than normal when my roasties normally go in with the meat, our cooker is small enough as it is. Still i thoroughly enjoyed it and then we headed into town to see the Christmas lights go on the best of which was the fireworks. Full of greatness :)