Only one sleep to go

Well all the presents are wrapped the christmas cooking is done ready for tomorrow's lunch now I just have to get the kids to sleep, then santa can visit!  I hope you all have a beautiful Chrismtas! And get lots of presents.

  Merrry Christmas from me to you Lisa

Update on my little Elephant

Well today I added some crackle medium, as it is the first time I have used it.  It was a little tid and miss some parts have crackle! I have also aged him,  I am so happy with the way he has turned out!  So I will be adding some to the website next year! His head is made from paper clay the block is wooden and handmade by me using scrap booking paper aged and sanded he has been finished off with a ribbon. He will be for sale sometime this week on my website! so check back if you are interested.

Have a beautiful Monday Lisa



playing with paper clay

I should have done a before and after of the little elephant



I have been having fun for the last couple of weeks working with paper clay next hopefully will be a doll.  I wanted to show you what i have been working on this little elephant sitting on a vintage block.  I thought I should also share some Christmas photos.



this is the little snowman that I made for the tree this year.

have a beautiful day Lisa

Busy weekend crafting

So this is what I have been up to on the weekend! Saturday making lots of little snowmen for the Christmas tree I also made some gingerbread men for the kids to eat, I have never made gingerbread men before they where just beautiful! and yummy to!

  So after breakfast this morning I started to work on the snowmen and this is the first one of 10 I have finished and I love it so much I had to share with you all!  this is the first time I have worked with clay since being in school! I am addicted to it already. 

in the above photo are the little snowmen waiting to be dressed sitting on my vintage sheet music book and on the left are some beautiful handmade hearts made by my beautiful daughter made from wire finished with pearl beads! and also some of my roses from the garden that the kids bought me for mothers day!

 Yesterday I went hunted in second hand book shops looking for some sheet music for another Christmas craft I am working on and look what I found!  I am going to have problems using this one I think!

  Have a beautiful Sunday Lisa

Pre - Christmas Sale

I have just updated the website I am having a sale all this week. Monday22/11/2010 till Friday 26/11/2010

e-patterns $6.00 paper patterns $9.50 Cloth Dolls $30.00 each and primitive finds all reduced! pop over and check it out.

have a beautiful day Lisa

Playing with Clay

As we all know it is getting closer to christmas and each year we have a tradition to handmade our decorations.  This years we are making snowmen from clay!  We had lots of fun today with them they are not finished they need to be painted and glittered.  I just wanted to show you what we did.  Mine are the two on the left and my wonderful 10 year old made the ones on the right he did an amazing job!  I wanted to use the paperclay but as I live in australia I have not been able to find it so I just used a white air drying clay. Hopefully by the end of the week we should have them finsihed! We need to let them dry for 48 hours.  Have a beautiful saturday Lisa

Wesite updated with Cotton Bobbins

the new cotton bobbins have arrived and have been added to the website.

  I had lots of customers ask about the bobbins with cotton wrapped around them I have more coming with the cotton.

Have a beautiful day Lisa