not much time today

the countdown is on - under 5 weeks to go - so things are pretty busy 'round here. but at least at the moment, there is some crafting going on...

hope all is going well in your part of the blogosphere! we will catch up soon (hopefully)!

opshops and buttons

this weekend has involved a nice bit of opshopping. love it. i found lots of fun things, and was proud of my restraint a couple of times. but mainly i wanted to talk to you about this...

 

see i bought these great pants that someone had thrown out, just because they were missing a button. so this afternoon, out came one of the jars from my button collection. spilled all over the bed and poured though, until i found the perfect one. 

love it!

holidays and projects (the second)

so, i'm on holidays this week (i know, who'd be me!) and just before i head off to the beach, i thought i would pop up the second in my holiday project series.

button necklaces:

the idea for these came from a necklace a friend of mine bought in england. i just loved the simplicity and the slight randomness of it. so i made two...

and all of the buttons come from the fabulous button collection i inherited from my grandmother. they are very wearable, and i often get lovely comments on them. simple projects made from stuff you have lying around at home are my favourite types of projects. (except maybe for projects that involve a little bit of op-shopping).

well, i best get back to packing - i wonder where i put my sunscreen...

a quick distraction

so, i've been working on my felted jumper project the second this weekend, and it is still not coming together the way i'd like. so i thought a quick distraction was in order. i got so many lovely comments about my buttons from my creative space post below, i thought i would share about them with you. my grandmother was always making stuff - for as long as i can remember. she was in the cwa, and would make all sorts of things, dolls, teddies, bags, slippers... and she had this amazing collection of buttons, mostly donated to her by people who knew she would use them. when we were little, us kids would always pour all the buttons out onto the floor in her sewing room, and comb through them, picking our favourites, finding out new ones. a few years ago, when she had to go into a nursing home, i inherited her button collection. they sit proudly on my shelf, most of the time - only to be poured out all over the floor and combed though for projects of my own. here is a little sample, from two little handfuls taken from the big cookie jar of buttons...

my creative space

I love this meme from Kirsty at Kootoyoo. i find it really interesting to see the spaces people create in. one of the things that strikes me is that it seems everyone else's spaces are so neat. mine tend to be less so - i have two creative spaces to share today, and they are anything but... the great thing is that now that i have my art space back, i can mess it all up by making things. but even though i have the space to myself now, i still find that often my creative space is in our lounge room - floor based, like on monday while i was making the tea cosy posted below.

pop on over to kootoyoo to be inspired by other people's neat creative spaces...