Spring Fever - Shop Update

Oh.  My.  Goodness.

This is one of my favorite pieces.  Its so pretty I can't even stand it.  For the love of all things pastel, vintage-inspired and girly!  Among the fabulous details are four handmade flowers, a vintage button, czech glass beads, a budding branch, ribbons, and a pair of embroidered eco-felt leaves on an elastic headband.  If I can bear to part with it, you will be able to find it in the shop later today.

Shop Update - coming soon!

This ADORABLE dotted tulle mini veil is just one of the new pieces you can find in the shop very soon!  I hope to photograph it in a model in the next few days and then it will be posted in the shop.  This is my first exploration working with a blusher-type veil.  It can be worn in the front/side like a traditional blusher, or perched upon your updo.

I am feeling very springy, in spite of the winter storm we are experiencing.  I am also working on a headband in pastel colors (no photos yet, you'll have to check back later to see that cutie-pie).  I also have a few pairs of earrings I completed over the weekend.  Perhaps I'll photographs them this afternoon...  if the light is good.  Meanwhile, scoot over to the shop and see the cute new headbands I posted last week!

Its a wrap!

When I ship something, I love to make the packaging (you know, boxes, bubble mailers, etc...). I always try to challenge myself to see what I can come up with using recycled/repurposed materials.   I made these bubble mailers out of brown paper grocery bags, an old lighting catalog and some bits of a beautiful sheet of art paper.  I also added some ink and rubber stamping, as well as using contrasting thread to sew them up.  The bubble wrap I used for the inside was 'trash' my Mom and I saved from the landfill.  She works in industrial food services and great big pieces of it were used for lining boxes... used just once and then chucked in the trash!  Well, we fixed that!

This stack of twelve mailers was a custom order for a girl who wanted to send out her graduation announcements with a CD of pictures.  She was looking for a cool, unique way to package/present the CD and the envelope.  I chose the paper from the lighting catalog because she had a background in theater.  I provided the manila shipping tags for addressing the envelopes.

Wouldn't you just be so excited to find one of these in your mailbox?  It could happen, skip on over to the shop and pick out something pretty for yourself.  I guarantee it will arrive wrapped in eco-conscious style!  In fact, I have as much fun packaging items and I do making them!

Subject: Feedback

I like getting feedback from my Etsy customers.  Its especially fun to hear if they have done something cool with my stuff.  A while back, (okay it was last June, I KNOW I have been a wretched blogger, puh-leeze forgive me?)... so ahem, last June a customer purchased a set of my handmade cards and this is what she said about them.  "Loved them! So pretty- I'm actually using them to decorate my room and they work perfectly- thanks!"  I think this is a perfectly lovely idea.  These are the cards she was speaking of:

I wish I had a picture of her room!  I'm imagining an adorable cottage style with lots lots of vintage things.  Cards as framed art - LOVE it!

For the love of patchwork

What does one do with a pile of teensy tiny fabric scraps?  Why, make patchwork, of course!  I LOVE working with colors...

I've decided to whip up a batch of patchwork baby bibs from sweet booties! (its actually called the 'too too fun bib' in the book).  I meant to make one for my niece, but once I started playing with the fabric scraps, I was having WAY too much fun and I couldn't decide which color combination I liked best.  So, I am making a little stash of them.  After all, you never know when you'll need to give an (adorable) baby gift.