You had me at... craft room {random freebie}

Another random printable already! I got the bug a little bit :)

Just click the image, right click to save and print at own leisure!

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!

 

Gumboots

More fun to wear if you wear nothing else!

 

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!

 

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.

When you can’t just sit

Even when I watch TV I need something to be working on. Since I was away from my metal working over Christmas, I took my sketch book to do some designs. These first few are hair combs, the type one could use for a wedding or ball.

And then I did a lot of pendants. The last one is my fave and the one I will be working on first, when my supplies arrive!