Oh heck, another week gone by

First, I would like to thank you all for your wonderful comments and well wishes on the birth of our little granddaughter Emily. I was so touched by your  kind words. she really is a little darling and ever such a good and happy little sweetiepie. I got to cuddle her again a couple of days ago when we visited, and tomorrow they are coming for dinner with us so I can sit there snuggled up with Emily and a big stupid grin on my face. Mustn't forget to take some photos this time, I totally forgot when we last saw her.

What else apart from baby huggling have I  been up to? Errmmm, well, dog walking every day, preparing listings for Etsy, sending out orders, and only a little bit of crafting. Oh, I did make another collage a couple of weeks ago and I don't think I have shown you that one yet. Similar in style to the one I had made previously. But here, have a look for yourselves -

I also managed the tag for this week's Tag Tuesday challenge. I have to admit, I have oodles of fun with the alphabet challenge.  I love searching through all my images, postcards, magazines etc for the right vintage image. This is what I came up with for H, HATS -

Still have to do this week's inchie, which has me slightly stumped, its Street Sweeper! YIKES!

I am busy busy trying to get things listed in my Etsy shop, gosh, it all takes such a long time, photographing, measuring, packaging, weighing, writing..... still, it is so rewarding when you meet lovely customers and read their wonderful happy comments. I will get round to doing a Vintageland post tonight, promise, to show you some of the stuff going in. Oh heck, another looooong evening, lol, I hope there is something entertaining on the telly to keep me company.

Right, enough chatting, I am off to be a good girl and get back to doing what I am supposed to be doing.

Have a wonderful Sunday tomorrow, my dear friends.

Toodlepip xxx

Update, yay, done it, I did a Vintageland post showing you some of the things I have listed in the last couple of days. Have a peek HERE. 

The Longing

My muse decided to pay a short visit yesterday to help me make the tag for the Tag Tuesday challenge. She must have been fairly happy with it, because she decided to stay a little longer and she talked me into making a collage. Well thank you, muse, it turned out quite nicely, I think -

The Longing -

I am linking this post to Becky's wonderful Blissful Whites Wednesday.

Toodlepip xxx

Companion piece and other stuff

While I had all the crafting supplies on my desk, I thought I might as well make a companion piece to the collage I showed you the other day, on this post, another one in a series of small religious collages -

And the other stuff? Errm, well, there isn't all that much actually, lol, a few tags I made for customers and friends, thats all really. Here are a couple of them ( a couple because I forgot to photograph the others, lol ) -

Toodlepip xxx

Madonna and Child collage

I have been been making religious tags this week to go with customers' purchases, and while I was at it, I also started making a series of wall hangings. This is the first one I have finished. I used a small canvas board and added a beautiful image of the Madonna and Child and surrounded it with lovely vintage French lace. the hanger is a piece of vintage chain, and I added a vintage French religious medal at the bottom of the collage -

Mermaids Collage

You remember the mermaid tags I made a little while ago? I loved the graphic so much, I made half a dozen or so tags with it. In the end, tag size just wasn't good enough, and I decided to make something larger with it. Like an embellished cushion. So I printed the image onto fabric, laid it out on the table with different bits and pieces......... and there it stayed for ages. Somehow the cushion idea just didn't do it for me. And then I remembered that I had an old battered and dilapidated Victorian photo album, and one of those pages would make a great frame for the graphic! Once I had cut the page out of the album, my muse cut her holiday short and came home, and things came together quite nicely. It was so much fun going through all my stashes for the embellishments to use on this collage. I used lots of shells which I had collected many years ago when the boys were still little, some funky seaweed, a beautiful deep blue earring, a gorgeous little pendant with crystals, vintage seam binding, netting from an old hat, stickles to simulate sand, faux pearls from a vintage necklace and a very historic piece of wood found on the beach - a small fragment of our beautiful pier which was burned down last year by some braindead morons.

Work in progress -


adding a few more things to the top of the collage -


Embellishing the bottom of the collage -


And here it is, the finished collage -



I am happy with it.

I also made a good start on the Birdsong Tag Book swap. Perhaps I'll post some of the tags I have completed so far, tomorrow.

Until then, toodlepip xxx