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 ♥♥♥

Show Update

Time is approaching for this years last show

The Teddies Worldwide Online Show

The show starts on Saturday Nov. 20th
at 9am NewYork time

and ends sunday Nov. 22th. at 4 pm.

I have 4 little ones available at this show

one of them is this little sweet Christmas Bear.

She is named Joy and are 4 inch 

sitting in a vintage mold

with her own teeny tiny Chrismas Tree.

This show is having its debut this year

with participation of lots of wellknown bear artists.

The sneak peek is open

so pop over here to have a look at all the amazing

bears for this show.

Check out what time the show opens
in your part of the world here.

I´m really looking forward to this

and I hope you´ll drop by and enjoy the show.

Wishing you all a very merry....

lovely day

Tina ♥♥♥

A New Canvas Creation and the first sign of Christmas

I´ve been having fun with the lace again

and created a new collage.

This one is sewn onto a canvas

You can just see a bit of the canvas underneath

the layers on this photo

I think the canvas gives a great
dimension to the collage.

So I used different layers of lace

and an old doily

added a bit of creamy silk

some vintage buttons

and a sweet image on muslin in the middle 

quite pretty I think

and all ready to hang

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The first sign of Christmas is here

I bought a few hyacinths today

removed the soil on one of them

and hope it will grow in this old jar

the rest of them were planted
in a little zinc bowl

and are now the first to see

when entering my frontdoor.

Thank you so much for visiting

and I hope you all will have a beautiful day

Tina ♥♥♥

Time is running fast

Sorry it´s been a while since I posted

Time is running so fast for me these days.

Have finished a few project though, so next

weeks is going to be much better.

All the advent presents are bought.

Only need to finish the last homemade one.

and yes - sweet children, if you read this,

one of you is going to have homemade gifts this year :-)

I´ve also finished this little Christmas Collage

the background is the cover of an old book.

Layers of fabric, lace, ribbon, trims

and an old watch.

It´s now in the shop

The weather have been cloudy and rainy over here

so I had some trouble taking photos of

the next project.

I´ve been working on a privat swap

for a very sweet German friend

and I´m only going to show a little sneak peek

as the package will go in the mail

tomorrow and I´m not going to spoil

the surprise for Sweet 'J'.

Please bear with these dark photos

I promise it all looks so much better in real

The bears for the next online show

Teddies Worldwide

next weekend is finished

and I have finished my show page today too.

So everything is ready - set - go

A little sneak peek of that later this week.

Also signed up for the

Vintage Stocking Swap

over at Joli Paquet

This is going to be fun.

I´m really excited to see who´s

gonna be my swap partner.

Today is the last day for sign ups

so if you haven´t already hurry over then.

Wishing you all a wonderful sunday

Tina ♥♥♥