Giveaway Winners!

Thanks to everyone who entered my summer giveaway! I just love hosting these little giveaways and hearing from all of you, it makes my day! So, much love and many thanks to you all. There will be many more to come throughout the year.

Now to the giveaway winners...

By method of my red magical teacup the delightful winners are...

Handmade & Home - Foxs Lane

Blogs & Bookshops - A Little Red Dress

Craft & Coffee - Selina's Vintage

Congratulations girls, I hope you enjoy your brooches!

Wishing you a lovely Saturday. Mine has already been fabulous, with a great find at the refuse shop (more about that tomorrow). Right now I'm off to enjoy a crafty afternoon of sewing and crochet.

Much Love
xxx

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The A to Z Collection - Shop Update and Giveaway

I've had a very busy and exciting day, filling my Etsy shop with the first half of my new series of brooches, 'The A-Z Collection'.

There is a little something for everyone in this collection and I will be updating my shop with ten more brooches tomorrow so stay tuned.

Also to celebrate my new collection and the beautiful summer weather we are having in my part of the world, I'm having a little summer giveaway. I've created these three delightful brooches especially to giveaway to three lovely people.

I heart Craft & Coffee, I heart Blogs & Bookshops and I heart Handmade & Home.

To go into the draw to win one of these sweet brooches hot off my sewing machine, just leave a comment on this post and tell me, which brooch would you heart to win...

Two bonus entries if you blog about my little giveaway or join up to follow my blog (please comment and let me know so I can come visit your blog and say hi.)

Thee bonus entries for each item you purchase from my Etsy shop between now next Saturday the 16th of January.

The giveaway will be drawn Saturday the 16th of January at midday Australian time and is open to everyone world wide.

Good luck and wishing you a lovely Friday.
Much Love
xxx

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Giveaway Winners!

Thank you so much for everyone who entered my giveaway and helped me celebrate a delightful first Etsy Anniversary. It was so sweet of you to share with me all the beautiful things each of your hearts belong to. Without your support and kindness I would never have dreamed of beginning this creative journey, so big love to all!

Now to the giveaway winners!

By method of magical teacup the fabulous winners are...

Set of three custom brooches - 74 Lime Lane

My heart belongs to.. (bird) - Searching for Sporadic Surprises
My heart belongs to.. (owl) - Shrimp Salad Circus

Congratulations girls, I hope you enjoy your brooches!

After a delightful and very successful morning of antique shopping at Rose Harvest, I'm off to spend the afternoon cleaning up my lovely purchases, which I can't wait to show you tomorrow. I'm also looking forward to playing along later today in Pip's My Place and Yours meme. This week's theme, Bedsides.. one of my favourite decorating spots.

Much love and afternoon sunshine
xxx

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Etsy Anniversary Giveaway and Shop Update!

What an amazing year it has been and how time flies when you're having a fabulous time playing with fabric and buttons! I'm so excited to be celebrating my first Etsy Anniversary and to wish my little shop a Happy Birthday I've created a lovely new range of 'I heart' brooches.

The new collection filled with some of my most favourite things including...

Three brooches inspired by the ever beautiful tale of a girl who tumbled down the rabbit hole..

And to thank you all for you amazing support, kindness and friendship, what celebration would be complete without a giveaway!

I have three lovely prizes to giveaway to three delightful people..

The major prize is very special custom design collection of three brooches to celebrate what you love in the world. Created just for you this custom collection is one of a kind, you even get to name it!

Your very own collection...

I've also created two very sweet brooches for this giveaway, made to wear close to your heart.

'My heart belongs to..' brooches are a special part of my new collection, inspired by vintage book plates and days meandering in Paris.

To go into the draw to win one of these sweet little prizes straight from my studio, just leave a comment on this post and tell me where your heart belongs...

Two bonus entries if you blog or twitter about my little giveaway! (please comment and let me know so I can come visit your blog and say hi.)

Thee bonus entries for each item you purchase from my Etsy shop between now next Saturday the 24th.

The giveaway will be drawn Saturday the 24th of October at midday Australian time and is open to everyone world wide so please join and to celebrate my little shop's first anniversary.

Good luck and wishing you a wonderful weekend.
Much Love
xxx

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Giveaway Winners!

Thank you so everyone who entered my little giveaway! Your comments were so beautiful and I feel as though I have travelled with you all around the world to many gorgeous cities this week.

Now for the winners...

The winners are:

Book Blossom 'Joy'- Mooie dingen: Pretty Things
'Create' Petite Scrap Brooch - Myrtle & Eunice

Paris Petite Brooch- Tale Peddler

Congratulations girls, I hope you enjoy your brooches!

Well the sun has just come out here so I'm going to take a little break from the custom order I'm making, brew a pot of tea and enjoy the sunshine with a magazine or two. I will be back a little later with my photo for day sixteen. I hope you are having a wonderful Sunday.

Much love
xxx

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Open for Business and a Giveway!

In just a few moments my little Etsy shop will be back open for business and I'm so excited about the new collections I have been busily creating. This first update is only the begin with much more to come over the next month. This Spring, blossoms, beautiful cities and fabulous colours are all dancing together at a delightful high tea party.

High Tea Brooches

Alice - One of my new collection of unique 'Book Blossoms'

Petite Scrap Brooches

The exclusive Thea and Sami - City Collection

To celebrate my re-opening I am having a little GIVEAWAY! I have three brooches to giveaway to three lovely people, one from each of my new collections.

Book Blossom 'Joy', Petite Scrap- Create and from the City collection 'Paris' with exclusive Thea and Sami fabric.

To go into the draw to win one of these lovely brooches straight from my studio, just leave a comment on this post and tell me what is your favourite City in the world and why.

Two bonus entries if you blog or twitter about my little giveaway! (please comment and let me know so I can come visit your blog and say hi.)

Thee bonus entries for each item you purchase from my Etsy shop between now Sunday the 16th.

The giveaway will be drawn Sunday the 16th of August at midday Australian time and is open to everyone world wide so please join and to celebrate my little shop's re-opening.

Good luck and I hope you are having a wonderful Sunday.
Much Love
xxx

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Giveaway WINNERS!

First of all thank you so much to everyone who enters my Mother's Day giveaway. I laughed, cried and was truly moved by all your beautiful comments. Big love to all the wonderful mothers out there, especially mine.. Have a lovely day today.

And now for the winners... thanks to random.org

The winners are:

The Artisan scrap brooch- LittleLovlies
Love (Green) - Edward and Lilly
Love (Blue) - SaraSophia
Love (Pink) - Bec

Congratulations girls! Wear them, love them or perhaps even share them with your mum! I just love giveaways and will be having another very soon.

Wishing everyone a wonderful Friday, enjoy all the lovely moments! I'm off to work, it's 'Suit Day' today, all the teachers are dressing up, should give the students a laugh.

Much LOVE!
xxx

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When Autumn and Spring Collide..

As Autumn and Spring collide around the world I feel myself drawn to to wear beautiful warm brown tones and at the same time I am creating brooches in the prettiest of Spring pinks and greens. Oh how I love global inspiration! My weekend to bought moments of Autumn and Spring as I stocked up on some winter essentials, spent some much need down time on my granny squares, played with some beautiful Thea and Sami fabric and created a little collection of brooches inspired by tea sets and flowing Spring dresses.

Shades of Autumn- Getting ready for winter, new boots, scarves and vintage gloves

My little grannies are slowly growing in numbers...

My beautiful Thea and Sami fabric arrived in the mail.. The delightful Thea and I are joining forces and I'm so excited to create a collection of brooches using her amazing fabrics.

Inspired by English Muse's beautiful roses and delights of flowing dresses and the amazing work of Susan Southam, I couldn't help but celebrate mother's day with a little collection of girly petite brooches which are available in my Etsy shop now.

I loved the delightful blossoming Spring feeling so much I just had to continue it into the brooches for my Mother's Day giveaway.

To enter check out my giveaway post and leave me a message telling me a little something about a wonderful mother you know. The giveaway will be drawn on Friday the 15th at 8am.

My weekend was made complete when Dujour Magazine released their stunning Vintage Issue which I am so delighted to be featured in.

The whole magazine is full of stunning designers, artists and photographers, beautiful photo shoots and all round gorgeous vintage moments, I really am in some amazing company. It is a must to check out! To buy your own copy or subscribe to the environmentally friendly online version check them out at Dujour Magazine.

I hope you have enjoyed a lovely start to the week, I'm about to locate my scissors and curl up by the fire to cut fabric circles and flick through the latest Country Style magazine.

Much love, Autumn leaves and Spring Blooms
xxx

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Mother's Day Giveaway...

First and foremost, Happy Mother's Day to all the beautiful mothers, grandmothers and mothers to be, who touch the lives of so many everyday. In celebration of all the love and joy you bring to the world I thought it only appropriate to have a Mother's Day Giveaway. I have four lovely brooches to giveaway created especially for this giveaway, inspired by spring blooms, laughter and love.

The major prize is one of my signature, one of a kind scrap brooches. 'The Artisan' is inspired by all the amazing blogging mothers who design, craft and create.

I also have three 'Love' Petite Brooches to giveaway, so three lovely winners will be able to help share the beautiful Mother's Day love all year round.

To go into the draw to win one of special prizes just leave a comment on this post and tell me a little something special about a beautiful mother you know.

Two bonus entries if you blog about my little giveaway! (please comment and let me know so I can come visit your blog and say hi.)

Thee bonus entries for each item you purchase from my Etsy shop between now Friday the 15th.

The giveaway will be drawn Friday the 15th of May at 8am Australian time and is open to everyone world wide.

Good luck and I hope you have a wonderful Mother's Day.
xxx

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Congratulations! Giveaway Winners!!

Happy Birthday little blog! What a wonderful week it has been! Thank you to everyone who entered my first giveaway, I was just so excited and overwhelmed this morning when I counted the entries and there was over 130! I just adored everyone's sweet comments and wish we could all celebrate with a lovely big tea party.

After a lovely morning of putting all the entries into my favourite little box my lovely hubby drew out the two lucky winners....

The little box of entries

So a BIG congratulations and thank you to.......

fancypicnic the winner of the mixed media original collage 'Ballet History'

Blossom the winner of the three custom brooches

Thank you so much for all your support, i just love my little blog and being able to share my world and all my favourite things with you. I hope there will be many more years of blogging to come.

Have a wonderful Saturday whatever you are up to! I'm off to get ready for the writing workshop. Can't wait to spend some quality time with my pen and notebook.

Much love and birthday celebrations!
xxx

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First Anniversary GIVEAWAY!

As promised I'm very excited to announce my first anniversary giveaway. It has been a truly amazing year and what better way to say thank you for all your support, comments and kindness then with a delightful giveaway. My anniversary is next Saturday so this is really a whole week celebration and why not, I just love a party.

So because I just couldn't decide what I want to giveaway there will be two prizes, so two lucky people will be receiving lovely little packages in the mail.

The first item is an new original mixed media collage titled 'Ballet History'. I've put this piece together especially for the giveaway and the Ballet theme is because I created the artwork on the cover of a lovely 1950's Ballet appreciation manual called 'Prelude to Ballet'. Some of the pages and images also feature in the collage along with part of a vintage fan, lace and a 19th century letter.

Ballet History -Original Mixed Media Collage

The second giveaway item is a very special custom design collection of three brooches to celebrate what you love in the world. Created just for you this custom collection is one of a kind, you even get to name it!

Your very own collection..

To go into the draw to win one of special prizes all you have to do is follow these really super easy instructions.

1. Go to my Etsy Shop and find one thing you love.
2. Come back here and leave a comment on this post and let me know what you found!
3. 2 bonus entries if you blog about my little giveaway! (please comment and let me know so I can come visit your blog and say hi.)
4. 3 bonus entries if you buy something from my Etsy shop between now and Saturday the 28th.

Too easy! The giveaway will be drawn on Saturday the 28th at midday(Australian time).

Good luck and thank you so much for making my first year of blogging so wonderful!

Hope you are having a wonderful day
xxx

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Shopping List Saturday..and a winner

My shopping list inspiration this week comes from my memories of fancy dress parties when I was young. The very first costume I ever had was Little Red Riding Hood, complete with cape and little basket. Over the years I've continued to be inspired by that scarlet red cape, mysterious forests and adventures down the garden path.

Once upon a time, there was a little girl who lived in a village near the forest. Whenever, she went out, the little girl wore a red riding cloak, so everyone in the village called her Little Red Riding Hood.

1.My, what big heart you have -Print by HidenSeek
2. Little Red Riding Hood ACEO print by StephanieFizer
3. Little Red Riding Hood mini book by Little Green Button
4. Little Red Riding Hood Cape by Finley Studio
5. Evie in her red hood and the girl in the fox mask by mcatgarrison
6. Little Red Riding Hood reaches Grandmas house by Artquirk

I just love how fairytales and fables inspire such wonderfully creative pieces. There is something so enchanting about entering that world, long lost inside a dusty old book hidden on a bookshelf. It is so delightful to see those childhood memories explored and transformed into works of beauty.

I hope your day brings you many adventures, remember to take you cape and basket and not to speak to anyone in that resembles a wolf in a top hat. I'm delighted to have this beautiful day to create for a secret that I'm working on. More to be revealed soon. I also think a little trip around the antique stores is in order for some books, trinkets and just to be surrounded by inspiration.

The winner of my little giveaway 'thank you' brooch is the lovely Mollimoo. Thank you all so much for your lovely comments, it just makes my day! I'm nearing my one year anniversary of Her Library Adventures at the end of March and to celebrate I will be having a very special giveaway so keep an eye out.

Take a moment to brew a fresh pot of tea and pop over to the the fabulous Fancy Picnic to check out the other amazing Shopping Lists. The perfect way to begin a Saturday.

Have a fabulous carefree Saturday!
xxx

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A flying visit and a New York surprise!

I can't quite believe how quickly the last few weeks have gone! I've been up to Brisbane and back to celebrate my sister's 21st birthday, almost finished week two of the term and it's already February! Doesn't time fly when you are having fun!

I had the most fabulous weekend in Brisbane with a wonderful party on Saturday night for my beautiful sister. As I mentioned in my last post the theme was Black and White and we decked the house and ourselves out to match the theme. We also had a big surprise in store for my sister as we handed her a beautiful black and white baroque box. Inside was a ticket to New York from the whole family. She was totally shocked and thrilled and is already making travel plans!

All together an amazing night of family, celebrations, dancing and champagne! Here are a few photos of our celebrations..

My sisters and I in our black and white,
I made my rosette especially for the occasion.

The beautiful backyard...

The girls strike a pose..

Now I'm back after my weekend it's back down to business, I will be busy making custom orders over the next few nights and then I can't wait to get into making a fabulous new batch of brooches and mixed media pendants.

I'm also very excited that the fabulous Nicole Tattersal is having a giveaway over at her blog of one of my mixed media artworks. The piece is called 'A tale of two cities' and pays homage to the works of the amazing Charles Dickens.

'A tale of Two Cities'

Pop over to her blog check out the giveaway for your chance to win this mixed media original I created especially for the giveaway. Entries close on Friday 6 February 2009, 10pm so get in quick.

Well I'm off to watch set up all my bits and pieces in front of the TV so I can create and watch 'So you think you can dance'. What a fun night!

Much love and happy Wednesday!
xxx

PS. A big thank you to Polly Danger for the lovely feature of my terrarium pendant and I heart Mr. Darcy brooch on her beautiful blog. Her blog and Etsy shop are a must to check out for beautiful aprons and crafty goodness.

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