handmade heart

I am well aware that you haven't seen a lot of creative stuff here lately. I did make some things. Mostly plans. Will tell more of that next week.

But now a little hands-on Valentine project.

A while ago I thought it would be nice to have some card stock hearts with a pattern of perforations. A plain, good quality heavy paper canvas so to say. Easy to decorate and use in different ways.
Cutting them myself and adding perforations turned out to be a bit messy and very labour- intensive. So I looked into the possibilities of having a batch pre-punched.

After finding nice supplier, and a couple of tries (the small perforations proved to be tricky) it all worked out, and now I have a box of lovely 2mm thick, cleanly punched, white cardboard hearts.


A valentine tree would be lovely.
My "seasonal" branch is awaiting some fresh wind. Above is number one, with Miss A on the back.


For Miss M, I have some fine sequins in store.
And I added a quick, sweet garland to cheer up the window...difficult to get the whole thing on a picture though...



As I have quite a lot of hearts, I'll be putting them into the shop as well (starting Monday).
Or you can shoot me an email right away if you're interested. To get the costs covered they will come at a price of 0,95 € per piece.
The hearts measure 12 x 11 centimeters and have a centered square of 5 x 5 small perforations (2mm wide) so you can easily get a needle through. The colour is a pure, matte white.

You can add buttons, pearls, embroider, draw, use them to wrap up a special gift, string them together, make a little booklet, add decopatch etc.
Hmmm, in the end I might not have enough hearts to try it all out ;)

Popped-Up

I'm sitting here quite content, as I just found this pop-up book at the thrift store in a perfect state.

Illustrated by Kubasta, these books are classics, and an all time favorite of mine.
I used to have a couple of fairytale books from his hand, which I looked at over and over again, remembering all the details.


Brilliant.

hello, hello!

Finally back after two weeks of traveling. First to family in Holland for wonderful, relaxed Christmas and New Year's celebrations. Then a couple of days to our house in Austria. Still a huge project, especially with major distractions such as snow shoveling.
(We definitely need one of those spiffy machines to cut our way through. I've never displaced so much snow from A to B!)

I have been sorting our way through a batch of cupboards, dressers, closets and wardrobes again, while my dear husband tried to understand the wild and unusual heating system (gas, solar, wood carburator, floor heating, plus some classic wood ovens all thrown in a pot with a scary amount of pipes and faucets).

So now I can offer you an 80-ies glitzy Bogner ski-suit. A stuffed bird collection. A pair of mon-chi-chi bed linens. Or maybe the electric dart game we found hidden somewhere in the "Stube"....?

But there are some quirky nice things too. Like the antique hair curlers (we all need those right?), a brass pendulum, a silver tea sieve and a funny round brush.


We also discovered a nice big dining table in the attic under layers of dust. No trace of woodworms either for a change. Yippie! Oh, and yes,...here is the snow. Well, at least the beginning of it...


That dark gray building with the shingles is our shed. I love that shed. Filled to the brim too. But that's for summer.

For now, it's about wishing you all a wonderful and healthy 2012. Before it's too late to do so!

Diana