I´m finally Back and with a GiveAway

 I´m finally back.

My internet connection is up and running again

You just can´t image how hard these last 11 days

have been or maybe you can.

Not been able to connect with anyone.

Not being able to visit you all.

I feel so out of the loop

It´s amazing how lost you can been

with no internet - what did we do before....

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In the meantime I have reached 500+ followers

isn´t that amazing.

I still can´t believe this

and I´m so truly honoured

that so many wants to pop in here

and visit me and my humble little studio.

I want to show my gratitude

to you all and have been working

on a giveaway to celebrate this.



A sweet little altered project
using an old music sheet



a little bit of vintage lace

and a wonderful vintage glove

 used as a pocket

If you´re a follower of mine

and if you would like to win this,

all you have to do is

leave a comment on this post

and I´ll draw a winner on

February 1th

Thank you so much everyone

for visiting over here.

Sending you all lots of hugs and love

and wishing you all a wonderful day

Tina

♥♥♥

No Connection

Hi All

Just wanted to pop in and let you know

I´m still here.

Our cabel broke down due to meltwater

so I have been without connection since

last saturday, and it´s going to last

another week to be fixed.

The cable company have provided me with a

very very slow wireless connection

until everything is solved.
This will allow me to keep up with
emails and my shops
but it won´t load blogs and pages with
lots of photos...

Thank you SO much for all your comments

on my last posts and

welcome to all my new followers.

I so appreaciate all of you.

I´ll do my best to keep up

with all of you when I get my

normal (faster) connection back.

So

If I haven´t visit you lately

you now know why...sign.

I really hope this will get fixed soon

and in the meantime

I´m working on the promised

500 followers giveaway.

Wishing you all a lovely day

Tina ♥♥♥

Heart Creations

I bought in some burlap

and decided to create a few hearts

now that Valentines Day is approaching

then searched for some

pretty images.

These are printed on the burlap

and decorated with a little bit of silver glitter 

more pretty images

printed on muslin.

A little bit of lace

and a string as hanger.

I really like how they turned out.

Wishing you all a very pretty day.

Tina ♥♥♥

Exciting News

I have wanted to share some exciting news

with you for quite some time now.

I´m so very proud to tell you that

my decorated wooden spools and cloths pins

is featured in the latest issue of

Somerset Life

This is such a great honour for me.

I´m so proud to be in this issue

among so many wonderful artist.

My sweet friend Sandy of Quill Cottage is featured too

and so is Lisa from Tarnished and Tattered.

Now I´m off to have a closed look

at all the beautiful stuff in

this wonderful mag.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend.

Tina ♥♥♥

A Beautiful Swap

In december Sweet Ann and I decided
to do a privat swap.

I have been a long time admirer of Anns creations

so I was beyond trilled that she wanted

to do a swap with me.

I love everything she does and her style

is just amazing.

This is how the package looked like

when I opened the box.

oooohhhhh... drooling..

so beautifully packed

with lovely seambinding, lace and

yummi silver tinsel.

I love those old books so pretty with

an old christmas decoration

and a beautiful bottlebrush tree.

We can´t get anything like that over here, so I´m so

happy for my little tree.

I saved all the silver tinsel in a tiny bag too.

Here´s a wonderful vintage pincushion.

The buttom is silver and inside little sewing notions.

Together with a beautiful old tin

decorated with lace and seambinding

and with a cabinet card on top.

This is the inside of the box.

I haven´t seen anything that pretty.

A tiny brooken mirror with an old photo in the lid

and there´s more....

when I removed the lace, this is what I saw.

All filled with the most yummi stuff.

Beautiful bling, vintage buttons, teeny tiny vintage

tags, old keys, tiny shoes...

the sweet little round box on the side

with the lady on top, is an old measuring tape

and

this....

One of Anns famous suitcase

pocket creations.

This is SO beautiful, filled with lace and trim.

It has the most wonderful pale blue color

underneath the lace.

Inside is tucket wonderful emphemera.

and if this wasn´t enough

Ann also gifted me with one of her

beautiful amazing cones.

Another little bootlebrush tree inside together

with a wonderful father christmas, a little

baby shoe, silver tinsel, lots of lace and

a sweet little lamb too.

I have been in love with Anns suitcase pockets

and her cones ever since I saw them on flickr

a long time ago

I feel so fortunate

to owe one of each now.

I LOVE everything Ann

Thank you SO much for creating

these amazing beauties for me. 

Make sure to pop over and visit Ann at

The Tin Rabbit

and see her wonderful creations.

I can´t wait for her to list them in

her new Etsy Shop.

Wishing you all a beautiful day

Tina  ♥♥♥ 

I´ve been A Good Girl

Just a quick post to show you

how the new year have started over at my place.

On this the first day in the new year

which also happens to be my birthday

we have had the most amazing beautiful weather

*of course*

Hubby and I went for a walk at our favorite beach

and this is how it looks like right now.

With lots of snow and lots of sun

so you see....

I have been a very good girl :-)

Since this is going to be my birthday month

and because I have some very exciting news to share

(more about this soon)

and because I´m heading for 500 followers

I thought it would be appropriate with a giveaway soon.

Wouldn´t that be fun...

I have soo many plans for this new Year.

How about you...

so - of to start my list

and to work on the giveaway.

Wishing you all a wonderful day.

Tina ♥♥♥

Christmas Stocking Swap and Happy New Year

On this the last day of the year

I wanted to show you my Vintage Christmas Stocking swap

from Joli paquet.

I was so lucky to have Cerri from

The Little Pink Studio

as my swap partner

and here´s what she made for me:

everything in white, cream and neutral colors

my favorite as you probably know already.

Inside the stocking were vintage sewing notions,

a little glass jar with pearls and a teeny tiny

frozen Charlotte all wrapped up in tulle.

the most pretty stocking

created with lots of beautiful lace pieces

an old wooden bobbin

wrapped up with the most georgeous lace

yummii...

this wonderful lace-covered cuff.

My first cuff ever and I so love it Cerri

and this beautiful ornament necklace.

Oh - she really knew how to spoil me.

I´m so in love with everything

and you should almost think she knew how

much I love lace..*smiles*

Thank you so much Cerri

for making this wonderful swap with me.

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I want to wish

all you wonderful blog friends

A Very Happy New Year.

May your 2011 be an amazing year.

I´m looking forward to share another

wonderful year with all of you.

Know that you all means SO much to me.

Have a wonderful evening

and stay safe out there....

Tina ♥♥♥

Fabric Covered Journals

I hope you all have had a wonderful Christmas

We had a very lovely White Christmas.

Everything is covered with show

and it´s so beautiful

I did have a little bit of studio time

during Christmas and what would be more

appropriate to start a new year with...

Sweet little fabric covered Notebooks

this one is with a heart on the front cover.

Created with fabric, lace and muslin

a little heart on the back too

The covers on these are removeable

so the notebook can be replaced when written out

how cool is that.

another little one covered with fabric and lace

and the back of the second one.

These little books are now

available in the shop.

The year is almost over.

I wish you all a

Happy New Year

and are looking forward to a new

amazing one with all of you.

Wishing you all

a wonderful day

Tina ♥♥♥

Merry Christmas

It´s almost time

Thank you so much to all of you

who visited my blog during 2010.

It´s been a wonderful year

and it wouldn´t have been the same without

all of you, my sweet friends.

I wish you all

a wonderful

and peaceful Christmas

Tina ♥♥♥

Little signs of Christmas

Things have started to settle down over here

Almost done with the Christmas Shopping

and the decorations are up

this is my table in my living room.

It has a big drawer diveded into 4 separate spaces. 

Added a little christmas decoration in each of them

I love how you can decorate the table

and still be able to put stuff on top 

two red hearts in a dome

and my wonderful Christmas Piece from Cheryl.

The snow is almost gone

It´s very cold over here

and today the sun makes this day a

wonderful and bright day.

Wishing you all a wonderful

and bright day too.

Tina ♥♥♥

Swap Sneak Peeks

The back is much better and

thank you so much to all of you

who asked and send good wishes

I´m currently working on this years last swaps

Here´s a little sneak peek of the

Christmas Stocking swap

over at Joli Paquet

I hope my swap partner will like it.

I had lots of fun with this and it´s all ready
to go in the mail on monday.

I´m also working a very speciel private swap

This is with the very talented Miss Ann

She is just the sweetest ever person

and such a great inspiration for me.

I´m so honoured to do this swap

Here´s a tiny sneak peek of
what I´m working on for sweet Ann.

More about that later.

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We are having the most beautiful

snowy weather over here these days

and today everything is covered in

white - the most wonderful Winter Wonderland

It´s also 2. sunday in Advent

and I have decided to celebrate the sunday

with a sale in my Artfire Shop.

All items reduced 20 %

only today

Sunday dec. 5th.

Wishing you all
a wonderful and beautiful Sunday

Tina ♥♥♥

Too Late for Christmas

Could I please ask for the time to stop
for a little while

just a few days or so...

oh - I´m so late for Christmas this year.

I didn´t manage to get our advents wreath
finished in time

and this has never ever happened for me before

you see - I thought I had plenty of time last week

and when friday arrived I still hadn´t done it and

I needed to finish a few things for the craft fair

starting on saturday

so I when in the studio instead thinking

I still had saturday evening to

make the wreath....

I went happily ahead for the craft fair saturday morning

Hubby was driving me, there were so much snow and we

had to drive really carefully all the way.

Arriving safely I just had to carry

my bags inside while Hubby parked the car -

watching my stepps in the depp snow bending

down to grab the bags
and got this nasty pain the bag

so, spending time at a craft fair on pain killers

are NOT all that funny I tell ya`

Do I need to say, I didn´t get that wreath finished

when we got home saturday evening....

This can teach me to do my exercises right

Painkillers and craft fair on sunday again.

The fair went very well though

I did have a great time despite

The advents wreath?

I finished it today.

We´ll light the first candle this evening.

(still on pain killers

but doing a little bit better)

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A big thank you to those of you who took

advantage of my Thanksgiving Blog Offer.

Wishing you all a wonderful day

Tina ♥♥♥

Thanksgiving Offer for my Blog readers

Happy Thanksgiving to All of you.

We don´t celebrate Thanksgiving over her

but I have decided to do a little celebrating anyway

so

to celebrate all of you my dear blog readers

I´m having a Thanksgiving offer in my shop

from now through Cyber Monday

20 % off on all items

if you use coupon code

Thanksgiving10

at checkout

I´m going to a craft show this weekend

so a few items will be taken out for this on friday evening (my time)

so if you have had your eyes on something special

now is the time to check it out.

Everything that don´t sell at the craft Show will go back in the

shop sunday afternoon (my time) before the offer ends on monday.

Wishing you all a wonderful

Thanksgiving weekend

Tina ♥♥♥

A Wonderful Swap

I´ve been working on a privat swap with

sweet Julia

We decided the theme should be Christmas

and this is what I received from Julia

two wonderful ornaments created in fabric and lace

a christmas tree and a star

awesome lace and trim

wonder where she got that idea

vintage stencils

with MY initials - how cool is that

a beautiful doily and an old german book

 y

a bunch of paper Christmas trees

ready to unfold and put up as decoration

vintage buttons

an old rusty hinges

beautiful keys

and what about this

This is the lid of a wonderful tin

and here´s the rest

This tin is so so pretty

I love how it´s decorated

and THE most beautiful Christmas Wallhanger

you cold ever imagine

see

I told ya`

Thank you SO much sweet Julia

for making this for me.

I can´t wait to decorate for christmas

and I will treasure all your creations forever.

If you haven´t visited Julis blog already

make sure to pop over and have a look at her wonderful creations

Tell her I send you.

Wishing you all a wonderful day

Tina ♥♥♥