button up .....

..... button swap goodies!

I took part in the Button Swap over at Lemonade Kitty's place and this week Vintage Vicki and I managed to get our swap goodies delivered on the same day ....

Otis helped me unwrap (I suspect this was down to the chocolate inside .....)

inside we found this beautiful box:

with lots of lovely parcels inside:

a hand embroidered linen button bag (*sigh*):

with green and pink buttons inside:

 a green and pink corsage:

the cutest lavender bag:

carded buttons (another *sigh*):

  
a trinket box:

and chocolate buttons .... squirrelled quickly away before Otis helped with those too!

So, big THANKS to Vicki for my lovely parcel and a big THANKS to Lemonade Kitty for organising such a lovely swap .....

three of my favourite things .....

..... buttons, beach huts and badges.

I found a wonderful shop called Just Delights on a recent visit to Cornwall, it made my heart ache with all the wonderful, wonderful things on sale - I have the perfect spot in my home for each and every item that this shop sells. The website doesn't yet reflect what they have on sale, but I'm visiting it every day to double check and when it's up to date then I shall be buying like there is no tomorrow! I especially fell in love with their ceramic buttons, I didn't have as much time to choose as I really needed but I managed to select these little beauties:


I don't know what I shall use them on just yet but I'm sure there will be that special something that calls out for one of them, in the meantime I shall just keep looking at them :-)

We spent last week in Preston, near Torquay and it really is one of my favourite places to stay. I love seaside towns .... sitting by the harbour eating fish and chips, crabbing, crazy golf .... what more could you ask for? My dream is to have my very own beach hut for those lovely beachy days ... one like this would do:

I've been making some more bits and pieces to sell in my MISI shop, I'm still very taken with sewing on felt - I think this is because it is such a change from my usual papercrafting .... I made one of these to match a bright pink top of mine and once I'd started sewing them I just couldn't stop!!


I've had a bit of a destash and have listed some crafty bits and pieces for sale .... I need to make space before my craft room explodes!! :-)

Button it ....

I've been playing with my buttons this week ... much as I love just looking at them now that they are all sorted into colours I decided that it was about time I used some of them. I've been making button badges and I am absolutely hooked .... so quick, so easy and so utterly fabulous!!

I'm planning to make loads more but I do need a little bit more practice using superglue first .... I'm not the neatest of people and still haven't quite worked out not to wipe up superglue dribbles with my finger ....

Decorated pegs - definitely the way forward!! They are so cute, and a great way of using up all the "must have" embellishments that it turns out I didn't really want after all. Of course, no creation would be complete without some lovely Prima flowers.!! I put magnets on the back so that they can be used as memo holders on fridges etc .... and, what a relief, you don't need superglue to make them!!

I'm looking forward to making a whole lot more!