What I've been up to in the craftavan

I should have known that it would rain on a Sunday, sigh. No vide greniers to go to, so I spent a few hours in the craftavan instead. I needed to catch up on my inchies for the Every Inchie Monday challenge. I hadn't posted last week's, and the new one was due today. So let me show you those first. 


Last week's inchie challenge was MOUNTAIN. No idea why I went with fabrics, maybe because I had just unpacked  my craft suitcase and been fondling laces and fabrics, lol. I made the mountain out of a scrap of scrunched up grey sari ribbon, hoping that the scrunched bits would look like mountain ridges and crevices. For the snowy top I used a piece of very fine net and a few dabs from a white pen. The forest at the bottom of the mountain is a tiny scrap of a lovely green vintage French lace. Oh, and I stuck a bit of cotton wool in the sky for white and grey clouds -

This week's challenge is BLACK. Arrgghh, now photographing anything black really is a challenge. I used a scrap of very old watered silk ribbon for the background, a lovely old French button and a teeny bit of a black veil from an old hat -

I am also joining Kimberly's monthly ATC swap again. The theme this time round for July was A LOVELY DAY AT THE BEACH -

I also managed to take photographs of the few things I had bought at a vide greniers last week, as we had a beautifully sunny day today. Still not as warm as it should be this time of the year and the wind is very chilly, but hey, I take this over rain any day. I'll try and post the pics on the vintageland blog tomorrow.


Until then, toodlepip xxx