Autumn leaf candle holder and bees wax egg shell candle

mothers day

Blessings to all  loving mothers

and the angels who watch over us and our children.

This wet felted angel wall hanging was created for a brave mother 

who's little boy returned to the angels all too soon.

We also send blessings to all the mothers that passed too soon 

from the world and their children. love and blessings of peace.
   
My apologies for my long absence.
As you may know i moved our family from Melbourne to the gold coast 4 years ago to look after my husbands 2 nephews and niece after they were orphaned.Tragically both their parents died of cancer 5 years apart .
After 4 years with us they have all come of age and we have had to return to Melbourne due to financial constraints.
The last 6 months have been difficult for everyone but I couldn't have got through it without Mia and my amazing crafting women friends who were so generous and loving and supportive.
So although we are all still recovering i am happy to say this blog is up and running again and i have alot of projects to share with you from the past 12 months.We are also looking forward to offering some of our frequently requested kits for sale thru this blog. 
 blessings . nikki

birthday celebration craft

Mia and I made some special peices this year for some special people.

We began by making 2 sets of birthday celebration props for Prep.

The birthday angel .

 

The rainbow spiral birthday mat.

The birthday crown.

The rainbow silk birthday cape.

And the rainbow bridge story mat with a mum and a dad, a cradle, an angel, and a wee babe.

And here is my sweet son at his celebration!

term 4 2010

Greetings dear crafters,

It has been a long time since my last post .

Fortunately there has been no gap in the creating of projects and the giving of workshops!

 I have  many many  projects to share with you! 

I hope they inspire and delight you as much as they have us.

Our first project in term 4 was Mias beautiful affirmation pocket friends.

These sweet tiny pocket folk fit perfectly into the hand (and pocket) of a child.

They are a simple friendly reminder to a child of a small message of affirmation to help them deal with what might be a difficult time or a hard lesson to learn.

What a lovely way for a child to be reminded to be brave in the face of fear or to believe in themselves!

Each one is also accompanied by a simple poem of affirmation.

They were so popular with the children we have made them into a kit including our rainbow felt and silver plated bells.The bells have the most pure ring that is quite delightful every time it is heard.

 

Here they are with their affirmation poems.

Our next project was the beautiful felt flower hair clips from purl bee.Check out the free pattern at www.purlsoho.com under rose barrette .Mia also created the lady bird clip.

 

 We then went crazy for the delightful soft trees.

 The crafty mums had loads of ideas that completley surpassed our original ideas.

We finished the year with the sweet and simple raibow silk fairies.

Dear crafty friends,

We have been busily creating spring inspired goodies at our monday craft sessions.

Our rainbow mother and baby bird were lots of fun to make.

Over 30 people came to this workshop.

 

Our silk dying workshops are also a big favourite with our mums. With just yellow and blue and a touch of pink we created some stunning spring playcloths for our seasonal tables.

We created a rainbow angel mobile in hounour of our newest craft baby Skyla.

She loves it!The ladies worked in pairs to make the mobile which was really enjoyable .

Our Australian animal series continued with the rascally dingo designed by Dionne.

Isnt he gorgeous!

 We held a saturday workshop showcasing Christina Lane with her needlefelted spring maiden.

She is truly the queen of facial detail!

This bee hive was inpired by Satchico one of our talented mums.The coil basketry technique is so useful to make all sorts of containers.We are very lucky to have so many talented women in our group!

The chidren love to hide the bees inside the hive!

It can also be used as a string holder!

 

We have a couple of weeks left in the term befor our market so I will share them in the coming weeks!

Cheers for now .... nikki

Dear crafty friends,

We have some beautiful work from Christinas crystal cave workshop which is ready to go to our end of term craft market next week.Im also keen to enter our craft groups work into our local agricultural show. Here is some of the beautiful creations!

The central one AND the one below was made by wendy. She delighted us all by creating a treasure hunt list of 14 different things to find in the landscape including a treasure chest full of jewels, a bat, a bear, a frog, a snail, a mouse, a pile, of wood, a camp fire and an owl. What an inspiration she was for us all!

I love the little camp firers that appeared.

they all turned out so well and all so different.

so much attension to detail.

They are so 3 dimentional its hard to do them justice in the photographs.

 

I love the tree idea! and the fairy ring of flowers.

 

 and more detail.

 

Well done everyone!

Hi Crafty folk,

Its been a busy couple of crafting weeks for me .I have so much to share with you!

At our craft group the week before last we made beautiful bees wax candles in a felt candle holder.

I started with a huge 8kg block of pure local bees wax.

It was then cut down into smaller size peices.

This took us almost an entire day to complete!

The wick was then cut into lengths, folded in half ( to make 2 candles at once) and dipped in wax once or twice.This first dipping  helps the wick to absorb the wax and burn better as well as making a nice straight shape to build the wax onto.Here they are hanging over a stick ready for the next step .

On the day I then set up the burners outside on tables with the tin of wax sitting in a pot of hot water.

The smell of the heated bees wax is absolutely devinely honeyish and heavenly!

 We then dipped untill they built up to a good thickness then hung them up to cool off.

And here they are all along the fence and then put together in a box.

 

We then made the felt holders and beaded them.They beading is so beautifully done!

Not a bad effort for a monday morning craft session !!

cheers for now!