Pretty Upcycling

Here are the finished gifted writing sets for our three little friends. They are now in the post on their way to a new home. I do hope they like them. See what I did with the lonely puzzle pieces. I think they look rather cute with each child's initial on the front. It was super quick and easy to do, just cut out the paper you want to use, glue it to the front of the piece and when dry, lightly sand around the edges to give it a lovely finish. The letters are just alphabet stickers, of which I have a huge collection of in all shapes, sizes and colours. The little parcels are bound in pretty ribbon or you can use a length of cardstock. With double sided tape put it all together.

Thank you for stopping by my place today, I so love your comments and ideas and to see what you have been up to as well.

Have a lovely evening and keep warm. I plan on more crochet tonight at my place, another scarf is on the hook and more squares for Mrs Twins.

Our Creative Space

It's school holidays here still, so instead of 'My' creative space, I thought I should share 'Our' creative space this week.

Do you remember the old magic painting books, just need paintbrush and water - how wonderful, my brother visited yesterday and gifted the boys with a book each.

I have never been able to find these books, they love them.

Don't have a big enough police truck to catch the baddie cars?, then improvise!! Colour a regular pattie case in red, top with a silver one to make a perfect siren to hunt down those naughty speeding cars and lock them up.

We have puzzles being made today as well, I love how they love to do a few pieces now and then as they walk past. These two puzzles are done, we are working on a map of the world now. Oh and these puzzles glow in the dark - too cool!

The above is from the stamping day I had the other week, and this is end result. Some lovely notepaper to gift our lovely little friends that have moved town. This will ensure they can keep in touch with their little friends. All I did was slice A4 paper in half then stamped along the bottom and on some envelopes. I am in the process of finishing off the writing packs and will share when done. I am going to stamp some more papers as we have a few birthdays coming up and I think it would make a very pretty gift.

While the boys were painting, I decided to do some crafting. Don't stress, these puzzle pieces are not from the earlier puzzles. lol. These are from old puzzles that have lost pieces, so no good to anyone at all, however, Joycie don't like throwing things away, so has found a good use for them. More to be revealed soon.

While on hold earlier today (darn those phone companies), I managed to hang washing on the line, and finish this scarf. This is the first scarf to be donated to our local Cancer ward.

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The Envelope Project

Here above are my 8 items for The Envelope Project.

Pattern for a lovely hat, beaded bookmark, sparkly purple organza ribbon, altered piece of jigsaw puzzle, pale pink crochet flower friendship ring, crochet rainbow coloured envelope and a little cloud (cause sometimes we need rain), and a little umbrella (sometimes we need a little shelter)

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Closeup of all the goodies, into the envelope.

Ready to be posted to Pip.

As for the vencho and ponst - *sigh* it's not happening, well it's not happening with this lot of granny squares in any case. It's not sitting just right, it's not looking good. Back to the original idea of the snuggle rug for me. That's ok though, because I had lots of fun, and I am still going, so promise to share when completed. All is not lost, that is the beauty of creating, step, by step, it comes together, whatever it ends up being.

Back in the Scrapping Seat.

I so badly need to get a move on with my scrapping. I am currently up to March 2007. YIKES!! However, in saying that, I am totally loving the journey. Sitting on the floor of my studio, surrounded by photos of my family, places we visited, moments we shared.

These photos I fluffed around with for a while before settling on just going simple, as simple as can be. Sometimes it's nice to just let the photos tell the story.

What did you make today?