Nothing for days, and then way too much for one post!

All of a sudden I have lots of things to post about. There was the jumble sale on Saturday, the boot fair on Sunday, and my package from Alexandra today, wooohoooooooooo!!! And, I have also finished my tree topper from the Romantic White Christmas workshop!

Well, lets see now. I haven't photographed the weekend finds yet, so I don't need to worry about that right now, that will be ok for later in the week. And my beautiful, gorgeous, amazingly generous swap gifts from Alexandra, well, they deserve a whole post to themselves. Actually, I need TWO posts for those, and you are so going to love the pics. Well, not the pics so much as the amazing gifts shown in the pics. The pics are pretty poor, the weather is so appalling at the mo, there is not much light and I was way too excited to arrange those lovely gifts properly.

So, I'll show you my latest project from the Romantic White Christmas workshop today, and you will have to wait for Alexandra's parcel until tomorrow. It will be so worth it though.

I loved the idea of the tree topper, I was really excited about using lots of glitter on the gorgeous snowflake, folding lots of music paper etc, so here it is, without further ado -


I used proper sheet music so that it would look nice from the back as well, and I used that fabulous silver ink pen on the darling little cherub. I am pleased with the way it turned out, and I am almost tempted now to put the drawing room Christmas tree up.

Tomorrow is Alexandra Day, lol, so stay tuned!

Toodlepip xxx

Romantic White Christmas WIP

I am way way way behind with my projects from the fabulous Romantic White Christmas workshop, sigh. At the moment, my doggies are demanding most of my time. They have become so used to being with my husband all day long, since he retired almost a year ago. My poor DH is on jury duty for a couple of weeks, and away all day, and my doggies are feeling all lonely and neglected, so I am spending lots of time with them, playing with them, cuddling them. Not that I mind that at all, but I want to make things!!!

One of the projects was a little bejewelled Christmas tree ornament. I liked it so much that I decided to make a garland with those dear little trees for the drawing room fireplace. I still have 3 more trees to get ready, but at least you can sort of see, with a bit of imagination, lol, what the garland will look like. I used old music scores for the trees, painted a couple of coats of a metallic paint over them, which makes them shine like silver when the light catches them, and then decorated them with narrow laces and pearls from a vintage necklace, vintage French sparklies and German glass glitter . I also altered the Noel piece slightly, made it a lot lighter, and traced the letters with the most fabulous silver ink pen Karla had recommended. It is quite a subtle effect in normal light, but under artificial light, wow, it sparkles beautifully.



Sparkle is so difficult to photograph, especially when the days are as grey and horrid as they have been here lately. If you click on the pics and enlarge them, you might just see the daylight shimmer, and the artificial light sparkle ( last one ) -

Eventually, when I finish the other trees and Noels, they should make a lovely garland, strung onto a narrow lace probably, or perhaps a silk ribbon, not sure yet. Can you kinda picture it in your imagination?


Fingers crossed, perhaps I'll get some peace and quiet tomorrow to finish it off.

On a more serious note. I turned my word verification off a little while ago, after reading something Anne said on her blog. Since then, I have had a few very annoying Anonymous posts. So I will have to go back to word verification again, sorry, friends, and if that won't stop it, then I'll have to go the "approval" route.

Toodlepip, xxx