Welcome back dear blogging friends and readers in February the month of Love and Valentine's day!
I love creating Valentines but my studio is such a mess right now, it's getting harder and harder to find something when you really need it:
So let's better concentrate on the pretties like my studio wall below, all decked out for Valentine's day
with pretty hearts & hands ~ a wall of friendship so to speak
I created the millinery heart candy box and lately the garland below with the sweet lace paper hearts I cut out of pretty patterned Tilda cardboard with my Martha Stewart heart punch
The fun this year was to decorate all the hearts on and around the chalkboard which I made out of an old kitchen cabinet door for my studio last Summer
The pretty ruffled heart comes from my
English friend Ginny, the sheet music paper hands with woven in hearts I made after a fab tutorial from my
US friend Ulla, the vintage suitcase pocket with the paper hand and vintage brooch is another gift from
dear Ann and not to forget the sweet dolls from my German friend Gerlinde (left) and my sweet
US friend Paula (right) who is currently recovering from open heart surgery
Isn't
Ginny's ruffled heart just to die for?
A few days ago I thought the paper box heart is missing a cupids arrow to make it more special for this years Valentines, so after some serious thinking and trying out to make arrows for a while with no really satisfying result I suddenly came up with the idea to solder one and well this is the result you see above and below. What do you think, do you like it? It's made from wire, tinsel pipe cleaners and a soldered glass tip with Tilda paper inside:
The pretty white Valentine's doll is made by my
English friend Niki and I recently got the antique coffee advertisement metal box shelf from my mum's best friend Sigrid, it has red heards on the sides:
I altered and embellished only the front door which was quite rusty and not so pretty anymore with Vintage sheet music paper, a fairytale silhouette and a gorgeous tag with ladies in top hats a gift from
Petite Michelle Louise. I put my red and white twine in the glass holder on top of the shelf box for Valentines day as well as some old stamps on a vintage metal stamp holder and an old pharmacy bottle with vintage millinery flowers decorated for Valentines with a red crepe paper ruffle and a heart shaped keyhole:
I had this old tarnished, scrolly silver wire heart with a heartshaped crystal in the middle for ages and embellished it with silver tinsel lately and made a cupids arrow to go through it with a silver tinsel pipe cleaner:
I also had fun to create and solder some pretty silver trinket boxes for Valentine's day. and hopefully soon to come Spring. When it comes to these boxes it is very helpful that I can now cut the glass myself in exactly the size I need. I thought for the picture they looked quite nice laying on top of the spun cotton snowballs I made last month:
Here is a close up of my latest creations. The one in the middle got one of my
flickr friend Sandra's tiny crocheted flowers, the last one I had of these tiny treasures and a little birdie from my
US friend Lorraine:
I made a tinsel heart for the trinket box on the right and now I can't decide which one is my favorite to keep, could you?
I also silver painted and embellished one of my paper maché boxes as a gift box for one of the trinket boxes I'll give to a dear friend soon:
It looks pretty opened and closed too:
Lastly I'd like to share some of my favorite antique market finds with you like this box of very small vintage German blown glass Christmas ornaments. Can you imagine how I look forward already to use them in my Christmas decorations for next season?
I also found the Perfect antique tin box:
Last Sunday was my birthday - see my birthday presents table in the last picture below - ( we also celebrated my daughters b-day in January so it was a very busy month) well and my dear parents gave me spending money for my fave Antique Market which was held exactly on my b-day, such a perfect gift for me he he :) I found another beautiful old silk top hat (chapeaux claque) in a square shaped box and pretty white leather gloves with white pearl beads sewed around the wrist, further more a vintage Marolin bunny and a pink vintage foil egg, a sweet silhouette picture and some pretty old postcards. My mom and daughter spoiled me with the pretty white pleaded metal barrel (under the top hat) and my mom also gave me the silver purse and lovely tulips and my daughter the silver German glass glitter.
Anita sent me an old German book and a whole bunch of her pretty crocheted roses. My sister gave me the toile de jouy bed linen and the fabulous papercutting book and some spending money too! I had a really great day!
Now I'll have to leave you again and go back to creating and packing friendship swap parcels before the weekend is over and it's back to work and I wish you all my dears a very wonderful
month of LOVE ~
