Birthday Present Completed

I've made a wall hanging for my

granddaughter's 7th birthday.

This is Miss Maude

the house mouse -

I hope she likes her!!!

(all little girls love pretty things - right?)

She's embroidered in backstitch

then coloured lightly with

watercolour pencils -

all on calico and finished with

a pretty pink cord for hanging!

An exciting parcel arrived this week

from my blogfriend Pam in Australia.

Pam is making these exquisite soaps

by hand and selling them on her

etsy here.

I simply couldn't resist them and I

was overwhelmed when I opened

the parcel - the perfume was divine!

There were six individually wrapped

bars of lavender soap in the

sweet bark cloth bag which

is also hand made by Pam.

Pam also included a large bar of this

deliciously fragranced Patchouli soap.

I can tell you I'm sending one of the

lavender soaps in the birthday

parcel to France!!

Do pop into Pams blog, where she

writes about her passion for roses,

bark cloth fabrics, her hand made soaps

and her

beautiful Queensland house!

I love supporting cottage industries like Pam's!

GET A LOAD OF THESE.....

Coté Provence
is having a giveaway

here

and you won't want to miss out!

These beautiful earrings are hand made

by this very talented blogger.

What's more you can choose the

ones in the picture above

or the turquoise pair on her blog!!

Giveaway ends 31st October.

This beautiful banner is a tutorial from Lilla.

I'm sure most of you already follow Lilla

and are familiar with the beautiful

art works she creates - many with

a French flavour.

Lilla is such a generous person who

often shares her knowledge and talent

in the way of free tutorials on her blog.

The Noel Christmas Banner can

be found here.

Thank you Lilla for encouraging others

to have a go!!

I hope you're all enjoying your

week so far

take care

hugs

Shane

Simple Pleasures - the tooth fairy card

I've made this card for my granddaughter

She is only 6yrs and she is going

into hospital to have six of her baby teeth

removed to make room for her new

permanent ones to come through

poor darling.....

I won't be there at the time for her

so I made this little

Tooth Fairy card

there's a special tooth fairy pocket

so I'll pop some coins in there for her

on this page I made another pocket

where she can store her own

little treasures


I hope it cheers her up

knowing that the Tooth Fairy

is thinking of her!!

I'm linked to Dayle's Simple Pleasures

please visit and see the beauty all

around us.

Thank you my dear friends for visiting

I love all your comments and

visiting your blogs too.

Be kind to one another

Shane xox

GIVEAWAY WIN & MUCH MORE

Hello everyone and apologies for being so late with my blog post.
Life has been very topsy turvy in our house over the last couple
of months for several reasons, however things are more or less
back to normality now - thank goodness.
My thank yous to three wonderful blog friends are well
overdue - I'm sorry.

Firstly, above is pictured my first and only

Giveaway WIN!!!

This beautiful French pouch is from Marilyn of

Willow & Figs and you can visit her beautiful

blog here where you will be enthralled by her

lovely creations.

These two very sweet cards handmade by Marilyn

were popped inside the French pouch.

I'm going to frame the top one and it will go

on the wall in our guest room.

Thank you Marilyn for your very generous gift!

I LOVE paper napkins and this beautiful

selection was given to me by my Aussie friend Pam!

Pam visited New Zealand recently as she has family

here and wanted to attend our Vintage Textile Fair.

We met for a cup of coffee - there was an instant

repore as we were already aware of what each other

were "in to" so we both "got it" (you know what I mean)..

You must visit Pams blog Bayside Moments here.

Thank you Pam - there will be a little something

in your letterbox very soon!!

Well last but definitely not least is this packet which

arrived all the way from Mary Anne in Canada.
Mary Anne's blog is Magpie's Munblings and you must

visit her here

and read about her life and all the lovely things she makes

One day she posted about felted slippers, as I've always

wanted to make a pair of these for each of my

granddaughters I asked how she went about it.

No sooner said and the instructions arrived!!

Look what Mary Anne also slipped in the envelope

some gorgeous pieces of fabric from her stash!

Mostly silk apart from the one below which
is a beautiful richly coloured paisley.

I'm disappointed as this photo doesn't do it justice.

Mary Anne I was overwhelmed - thank you.

This confirms for me that bloggers are

the nicest most generous friends one could find.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone

whichever hemisphere you're in and

take care of one another. xox