Every Inchie Monday Challenge - COSMIC

It is Tuesday, but only early afternoon, so it is almost still Monday, right? So, I am not very late really. The theme for this week is COSMIC, and my first thought took my straight back to my Hippie Days and friends in long flowing robes, long hair and flowers painted on their faces saying " Hey man, thats cosmic. Yeah ". Hmmm. I put that out of my mind very quickly, lol. And then of course, being a Sci Fi nut, my thoughts turned to spaceships and galaxies and alien life out there in the great Cosmos. And thats what I went with -


A couple of weeks ago, I saved a picture of a galaxy for a Tag Tuesday challenge project, and I used a tiny part of it as the background for my COSMIC inchie. I inked it slightly with an Opalite Glacier Blue, which added fabulous little sparkly planets throughout the universe. A few larger ones were added with a silver Gelly Roll pen -



And then I had oodles of fun finding images of spaceships and aliens. Geez, cutting out these tiny little bits really does require a very steady hand!

And now I want to go space travelling myself. The wonderful, amazing, fabulously strange worlds which just have to be out there somewhere..........


I am really pleased with my growing Inchie collection. I have to start thinking about putting them somehwere more permanently, but for now they are snuggled up in this little heart box -


Tomorrow and the day after, I'll have some gorgeous things for you to look at, one is another OWOH win, the other a fabulous giveaway win. You are so going to drool over them!

Toodlepip, xxx

Yippee, the second one!

This morning, the postman delivered a second wonderful little package. Another door prize from one of the blogs I had visited during the OWOH event. I was really looking forward to this one, as I had always wanted to see one of these in real life. What? A tiny little matchbox, altered into something really exquisite.

One of these days I will remember to be patient and take pictures before I open things. I will try, I really will, but unfortunately today was not yet that day. This gift was also wrapped in such pretty paper, look at these gorgeous birds! -


Exquisite small treasure -


I loved the teeny weeny little knob on the drawer -


Every side of the little box was decorated -


The top of the box is decorated with an altered puzzle piece, I wish I knew how that was done, it is gorgeous -


The altered matchbox was filled with tiny little treasures -


And even the inside of the box was so beautifully decorated! -


The creator of this beautiful piece is the very talented Jan. Have a look at her blog here.

Thank you so much, Jan, I adore this altered matchbox. It has inspired me to have a go myself one of these days. As soon as I have worked my way through my must-do list.

That is all for today, back tomorrow with a few little finds from an indoor boot fair this Sunday.
Toodlepip xxx

Woohoo, the first one!

I did say yesterday that I had a gorgeous little package arrive, and that it deserved its very own post. And when you see the pictures, I am sure you will agree. I was so lucky this year to win some wonderful door prizes in the OWOH event and this one was the first to arrive.

Now you will have to use your imagination a little bit here, because I was too quick with my unpacking, lol, I had the paper off before I even thought of the camera! This is such pretty paper, I think it might find its way onto some tags -

I do so love vintage style, and the beautiful old photographs, so you can understand why I was so chuffed with this. First, there was this gorgeous card -


And then, this oh so pretty heart, so beautifully embellished -


Just look at the lovely details, this sweet little MOP heart button -


and pretty beads -


Lucky girl, indeed, wouldn't you say?


And who was the very talended lady who picked me as her winner? It was Lynne, who has a gorgeous blog called Adorn. You can visit her here and drool over all her beautiful creations. A girl after my own heart!

I posted all my gifts on Friday, I hope that they won't take too long to get to their destinations all over the world. Fingers crossed.

Enjoy whats left of your weekend ( or the start of the new week, depending on where you are ).
Toodlepip, xxx

All tagged out

Nah, never, I love tags. After all the excitement of the OWOH event, I really needed to sit down and make something, and making tags was the obvious thing to do. I don't need to get the sewing machine out for that, I don't need too many supplies, and although it takes me quite a while to make a tag ( because I am a fardledardler ), it is not too time consuming. And of course, I still had to make the TAG TUESDAY challenge tag!

Let me show you that one first. The theme for this week was " Friends ".





With all the bloggy love flying around this week wtih the OWOH event, it had to be about Blogger friends of course!

Another tag I made -



And this one -


I quite enjoyed tearing strips off the music sheet, so I made some more -


Dang, paper tearing is fun! So I made even more, lol -


But then I decided that 6 were quite enough, so before I got too carried away, I put the paper away.

See, almost tagged out! The next couple of days I really really got to try and work my way through the mess in my workroom, I can't move without falling over boxes, bags, bits and pieces. How does that happen so quickly???

I had a gorgeous little package in the post today, but I think it deserves a post on its own, not tagged onto the tags ( oh good grief ), so I'll show you some pics tomorrow.

For now, have a fun weekend, toodlepip xxx

One World One Heart 2011 Winners !

Gosh, I am exhausted! Is anybody else suffering from OWOHitis? I have tried my very best to get around to all wonderful bloggers who took part in the OWOH event, but I couldn't quite manage it. I was in France ( without internet access ) for half of the event, and as hard as I tried, I just couldn't do it. Having said that, I found some wonderful blogs which were new to me, and which I will thoroughly enjoy visiting again now that the event of the year is over. It also seems that others found my blog interesting enough to follow and come back to visit..... YOOHOOOO, hello and welcome, I am so pleased you like it here!

I have already seen posts popping up all over the place, announcing the winners of their door prizes, so I thought I had better get a move on as well. That generator thingy on the net is too impersonal for me, so that was out. I thought about writing all the names on pieces of paper like I usually do with my giveaways but 258??? My right hand was already aching from being on the computer for way too many hours, so I dismissed that as well. Lightbulb moment! I decided to ask my DH to give me 5 numbers between 1 and 258, and that worked a treat. He thought it was hilarious that I accosted him , sitting on the scaffolding outside the house, stripping the woodwork, three floors up! I can't even go up a ladder without feeling all wobbly inside, so I approached him from the other side of the window, lol.

Alright, alright, I know I am going on and on, and you really want to know who has won what, don't you? So without further ado, here goes -

The cushion made from a vintage doily goes to - SUZIE from Suziqu's Threadworks

Next -

The vintage French/English ephemera pack goes to - MARIE from Spun by Me

Next -

The blue embellishment pack goes to - SAM from Cornish Contemporaries Flotsam and Jetsum

Next -

The red embellishment pack goes to - THERESA from Faerie Moon Creations

Next -

The neutral embellishment pack goes to REGINA from Southern OOAKS

Well, thats it, I hope you like your little gifts! I am going to email you as soon as I have posted this. Please get in touch with me within the next 2 days as I have to post the goodies within 3 days ( thats Lisa's rule ), otherwise I will have to pick a new winner. I am a very happy blogger, all warm and fuzzy and gooey inside.

Toodlepip xxx

Every Inchie Monday Challenge - Fishy

I know, it is quite amazing, I actually managed to get the Every Inchie Monday challenge ready....... on a Monday! Don't ask me how that happened, lol. I think it must be the sunshine, yes you read that right, SUNSHINE, we are having today. It makes such a wonderful change.

The theme this week was "fishy". My star sign is Pisces, so that was my first thought for the inchie, but somehow I didn't really fancy that very much. As I was looking out of the window, I was struck by how golden the sunlight looked on the building opposite my window. And it wasn't the greatest leap from that golden light to Goldfish and from Goldfish to scales. So I got a couple of things together, Cosmic Shimmer Mist, one appropriately called Golden Fish, and a pair of fancy edged scissors -

Such lovely bright colours in the sunlight, yay!

First, I sprayed a piece of card with the shimmer mist, cut out thin strips of scales, and glued them to the inchie -


Cutting out tiny little images takes ages! But I thought this little fish with its lovely floaty fins would be a nice addition to the inchie. A little "Goldfish" label, and that was it, my shimmery shiny fishy inchie was done -

I photographed the inchie on some beautifully tactile pieces of driftwood, which my dear friend Dorthe had sent me a while ago. Thats it, can't really say much more about a teeny little thing like this.


Must go and visit some more OWOH posts before its too late! Toodlepip xxx

OWOH - More Prizes added !

I have had such a wonderful response to my OWOH post, I got all gooey, warm and fuzzy inside, and decided to add three more prizes. That way, there is 1 for every year that this wonderful event has been hosted by the incredible Lisa.

I have put together three little baggies with embellishments, one red themed, one blue themed and one with neutrals -

RED -



BLUE -



NEUTRAL -



You can still enter the draw until the 17th. Go to the original OWOH post HERE. I am going to hop over to that post right now and update it with this stuff.

Have a lovely Sunday! Toodlepip xxx

Every Inchie Monday ( on a Saturday, sigh ) - Electrifying

I am going to blame my tardiness on the wonderful ( but time consuming ) OWOH event. So many wonderful blogs to visit, and before you know it, you have spent hours blog hopping and not doing anything else.

I did make my inchie for the " Electrifying " challenge yesterday though, so I can finally show you. Of course, I had the usual trouble of deciding on a background. First I went with a blue background -


Then I put it on a little bit of cotton lace, which I thought looked quite pretty -


But then I got out my very old dictionary and found what I thought was the perfect background for it -


Which one do you prefer?

Yet another short and sweet post, I have soooooooo much to do today. Have a great weekend, wherever you are, toodlepip xxx

Tag Tuesday Challenge - Tag on Tag

Oh my, this week I seem to be glued to my desk here, trying to catch with everything which is going on in Blogland at the moment. I made one of my door prizes for the fantastic OWOH event, I managed to get my OWOH post up just in time, I managed to catch up on all the blogs on my reading list, and I have even made a start on the OWOH participants list.I SHOULD have done my Every Inchie Monday and Tag Tuesday challenges, well, on Monday and Tuesday, lol, but it seems I am fated to be late, every single week, sigh. I haven't even had a chance to sort out the few pics I took in France. Tomorrow? I'll try.

At least I managed to make my tag today. I was in Valentine's mood, and that put me back into Vintage mood. Didn't take long, did it, lol? Here it is. Should have said, here THEY are, because the challenge was " Tag on Tag" -

I feel all warm and fuzzy and lovey-dovey inside now, lol!

Toodlepip xxx