New things in my garden

Winter is finally here... we've been spared enough! So new birds are coming to eat the slices of bread that we leave outside for them. Mr tit here, is a regular:
 

but we rarely have robins visiting us:

As I was slowly moving with my camera to make a picture of it without scaring it off, boom! A large aspen tree fell on the roof of my house. It fell from the roots so all its weight is right now exactly on top of my bedroom's roof... auch. We could only cut some branches of it... well, my boyfriend did, I was mostly documenting, since I already had the camera in my hand :)

It was our neighbor's tree, I don't know why it chose our house to fall on!

Now I just have to think of a way to use these tons of free wood!

Happy Holidays!

1. EvgeniyaMaslakova
2. MariaKonstantin
3. JumiFelt
4. LaNiqueHOME

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Colorful Paper Wreath

Inspired by THE paper wizard, Manufacta, yesterday I made a paper wreath of my own, using some crepe paper that I've bought a few years ago and never used.
I'll also try another one on brown-white-gold tones, to put my wrapping paper leftovers to a good use.

For the round base, I've used some decorative Easter sisal grass. I've made sandwiches from different color papers, and wrinkled them to make the flower shapes.

It was a very fun experience as it is basically a trial and no-error-possible process. It came out pretty quickly too! I've sewn my flowers to the base, as my stapler is momentarily unavailable (it was the victim of another experiment of mine, poor thing...)

You can see the original tutorial here: manufactacarta.blogspot.com

Monday Moodboard

I reaaally have to get my gears going... That "to do" list starts to look like a book.

1. silkstory
2. stephmel
3. bidesign
4. Lamercerie

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Magic Mushrooms

Noo... these are not those mushrooms that make you crazy high or whatever.. these are magic because yesterday, they weren't and today there they were in my garden! What a lovely surpise! I have no idea what kind of mushrooms these are so I'm not planning to eat them although they look pretty edible to me...Don't they? Anyone wanna try them first?
I think it's wonderful how nature blooms in the least expected places.

So my enthusiasm showed in Etsy too as I quickly created this mushroom treasury - by the way, check out the shmetsy tools, they are true lifesavers for a treasury maker :)

'All the mushrooms I could carry' by Baghy

Five Enchanted Fore... SecondChants $10.00	Red Mushroom Marble EmergentGlassw... $20.00	Sm Amanita Magic Mu... sdegasperis $29.00	Crochet Red Mushroo... meekssandygirl $20.00
Amanita the Sitting... ALittleCharact... $25.00	Toadstool Hand Pain... luxfish $10.00	Forest Mushrooms Si... BagNoir $58.00	Pottery Mushroom - ... wolfartglass $14.00
Mini Felt Mushroom ... ilovehearts $3.99	The Bright Forest p... marisolspoon $32.00	A3 Print - Mushroo... PeaPress1 $15.00	Fairy Toadstool Red... FantasyCreatio... $16.95
Three Mini Red and ... jadeflower $9.00	Mushroom - crochet ... ch1306 $4.30	Mushroom fairy hous... moonforest $16.00	mushroom salt cella... lbegley $30.00

Treasury tool by Red Row Studio.

Secret Conspiracy Unveiled

So... as you know I have quite an addiction to buy stuff from Etsy. I received recently a new package with goodies and there it was... another Werther's Original candy! It is like the third time that I receive this particular type of candy in a package with handmade goodies.. from totally different sellers! I wonder, is there some kind of secret agreement between Etsy sellers that I don't know about?  Is there a Werther's Original commercial that says "the best candy for the handmade addicts?"
Now don't get me wrong, these are one of my favorites candies, so keep them coming!

Have you ever received something surprising along with your handmade purchase?

finally, an A!

I remember, during primary school, that all my grades were A, except at the calligraphy class... I always failed to succeed... my mom tried to teach me "make them like beads on  a wire"... My letters were all chunky and had a lot of corners. But in time I tried to overcome this defect and now I can proudly paint initials on my books. A lot of customers ask for this service and are very happy with the outcome. It's true, while I monogram them,  there's no room for errors so everybody has to walk on eggshells around me... or else!