Some Great News and Some Great Finds

I promised I would show you my finds

from my latest visit at my all time favorite flea market

but first I want to share some great news with you.

I now have a sales representative in the US.

Sweet Felicia at The Bear Scout

is going to represent me and my bears at her

shows across the US and in Japan too.

I´m so happy to start working with Felicia and a little

bunch of bears are already on their way across the ocean

to make their debut over there.

Among is this sweet little black fellow above.

He is only 4.2 inch - his name is Pierre

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And now to my lucky finds.

let´s have a closer look

a few beautiful table runners

one is hand crochet

some pieces of torn pillowcases with lace

and pieces with beautiful crochet flowers

sweet little pillow cases

some tattered silverware

and a few teeny tiny french chocolate molds

a huge bunch of wonderful lace and ribbon.

another sweet pillowcase with embroidery - F.H.

more crochet lace pieces

old handkerchiefs and some doilies too.

this awesome glass jar - you can´t really see it, but

the shape is very cool.

More wonderful french chocolate molds

an old book filled with music sheets - some of the

pages with beautiful graphic

and an old photo album - no cabinet cards inside

but that doesn´t matter at all - these are so rare over here. 

and this very cool old

measuring tape - I don´t know how old

this is - I have never seen any like that over here before.

Here´s a closeup of some of the lace pieces

How beautiful are they.

I can´t wait to use everything

in my creations.

just

better go work on some bears first.

Thank you so much for visiting today

my sweet friends.

Wishing every one of you

a beautiful and wonderful weekend.

Tina ♥♥♥

Art and Finds

Every year at Whitsun

we spend the weekend with very good friends

visiting Open Art Studios

This event happens to be in the same area as my all time

favorite flea market.

So this year we started out at the flea.

There were so many vendos this time due to the awesome

weather and I got some really great finds.

I´m going to show you those in the next post.

Here´s a few peeks from the market

The rest of the weekend was spend visiting

a lot of Open Art Studioa.

Most of them is situated in some very beuatiful places too

I hope these mood pictures

will give you an idea of my weekend.

The weather was perfect.

I couldn´t have asked for more.

I´m going to show you

my awesome finds in the next post

so stay tuned :-)

Wishing you all a wonderful day

Tina ♥♥♥

Making something to Wear

I´ve finally had some time to create

something to wear.

I do have a shop for that too you know.

Knitting and crocheting is what I do in the evenings

while watching news on the tv.

I do watch a lot of news.

That´s almost the only thing I watch on the tv.

 

these last evenings I have been working on cuffs

this is how they look when finished.

For a long time I have been wanting to

make some fabric cuffs too.

I started gathering suppliers long time before Christmas

and it was planned to be my christmas months

cosy crafting project, but life happened

and I didn´t get time to make any.

Now was the time

and I´ve finally managed to make a few.

These are my first attemps, so bear with me :-)

A little closeup

I´ve used some of my vintage lace - of course

a little bling

and vintage buttons

more closeup

with a pretty rose colored velvet ribbon.

The rhinestones on this one

is actually inherited from my mother

so they are pretty old.

Here they are

5 different romantic cuffs

I think they turned out quite pretty

as a first attemp to be.

Both the knitted/crochet ones

and the fabric ones

are destined for

the Wear Shop

Wishing you all a very pretty day today

Tina ♥♥♥

From Worktable to Finished Project

I´ve finished my project on my worktable

the project from last post

A new journal

 

here´s a look at the spine.

It´s a Full Tilt Boogies Journal.

I love how these journals are bound

this time I covered my book covers completely

using on of my vintage table cloths and some bits and snippets

a little closeup of the strap in the spine

lots of different pages inside.

A lot of white ones this time

but also some made of scrapbook paper, ledger paper

and covers from old records

a little texting on the front

here´s another look at the pages

and how the back of the journal looks like.

Now - If I only dared to start journaling

in some of these homemade journals

Those fresh pages - blank and ready...

seems I don´t have the courage yet.

Have a wonderful day my friends

and thank you for peeking in today

Tina ♥♥♥