wishful thinking

 

Vintage tag made using a Lunagirl image (resized in CAP2) , paper from Fairy Belle Collection, scrap from a doily, Santoro roses, Debbi Moore Designs paper butterflies and a piece of lace from stash.

entering into: lunagirl moonbeams blog - fascinating faces
                       digitally sweet - anything goes

Dad's 70th (2)

This time my card for Dad

A5 tentfold white

Backing card KanBan

image from The Graphic's Fairy

(coloured over by promarkers)

Creata mirror card

sentiment done in Craft Artist

Dad's 70th

card made for my dad's 70th, from my Uncle.

 

Topper decoupaged by Judith Ann Pounder (cardexhange uk)

A5 white card blank

old map

sentiment done with Craft Artist

Creata mirror card

random backing paper

oooooooooh shiny!

Went to Heanor Antiques Centre today, on the look out for Christmas presents..... didn't find any but did come across some more vintage christmas ball-balls - £2 a bag, there were some other colour combo's but none had the white pictorial ones in, which match my ball-balls from last year ; )

 

I thought the cone shaped one was made of wood, but once I had a closer look I realised it was tightly tied cotton, same as the two small ball-balls.

vintage ball balls

Found these in my local Oxfam shop - baragin at 49p.

 

 

Love the quaint spelling of baubles by the shop assistant, have strung them with different coloured ribbon and put them on the tree.

Who ate all the cake's?

What better way to display yummy homemade cupcakes than on a brightly decorated cake stand. I wanted a 'proper' tiered cake stand fro yonks, but all I kept finding were single tier glass one's. Then I spotted this in an antique shop and it had got my name on!!  Well, maybe not..... but it was fate and therefore I just HAD to buy it.
And now of course, I have to keep baking cakes to use it becasue its too pretty to just sit and gather dust.

I saw this unmarked Egg Tree at the antiques fair at Kedleston Hall about 4 years ago, it was a case of 'going back before we leave' which we never did. One and a half years of moaning later ..... we went into Alfreton Antique's and there it was, sitting there looking very righteous for the princely sum of £12. Needless to say the Monks now sit on top of my microwave, I did use it, the eggs looking like the monks bald heads, they were devilishly hard to get out......but once our chickens started laying, I had to buy something bigger - an egg helter skelter, so now the Monks just sit and watch the comings and goings in the kitchen, turning a blind eye to the amount of alcohol I er...cook with.

I love this cheese dish, the mouse is so cute, I don't think you'd get much cheese in that dish though! Can't quite make out the makers mark, it says Great Britain and has a duck as its mark, have googled and googled to the point of finger ache. Spotted one on Ebay but again the mark was unreadable.

This is one of my favourite finds, from a shop in Chesterfield where I work, I just love this watercolour on silk, the photo doen't do the artwork justice, its so fine almost translucent but vivid clolurs. Its backed by what looks like satin effect paper and then framed in a wooden gilded bamboo frame, all together it makes it look very pretty and delicate.

On the back it has an old label on it from CLive Jones, Picture Framer, The Stables, South Street, Ashby de la Zouch, ref 7850.

I googled this but got no results for this actual address, although I did hit 'Hamptons Gallery and Framers' on South Street, so maybe they took over the business.