My Friday Night Outfit

My Japanese Garden earrings By Fleurfatale
Cotton skirt - in dark brown with bird of paradise print BY ThongBaiTatong
Shoes by ANtrpology
granny chic- frame handbag in chartreuse By Karuski

How to recycle my leather scraps - My creative workspace

What is on my desk today?

- a pile of leather scraps
- a pair of scissors




Remember my repurposed leather flowers?
I had the feeling I had to pick up this design again, I ordered some leather scraps in new colors and started to cut.

I will take these new designs to a fair I will attend on the 4th of october in Bruges: Marché Bricolé
But they wil be soon available inmy Etsy shop too!




Want to show your creative space? Hop over to Kootoyoo's to play! It's fun! :)

Be different

I just ordered some cards at Vistaprint.
They were for free,only the shipping had to be paid. Unluckily I mashed up some things and I ordered too much, which meant that I had to pay more!
It's a tricky website, you order something and when you check out, you get directed to other possibilies,... before you know it, youorder things you aren't aware of!
hm,... will not tell you the whole story, I hope they allow me to cancel some things that were in my shopping cart before I knew!

What I wanted to show is this picture, I made some postcards of it to send with my sold orders.
Last weekend I discovered a hydrangea tree in my mothers garden, with some beautiful flowers, I took a little branch and made pics of it yesterday. The flowers have so nice texture and color!
I like the result!!!

I thought it was fun to show you some designs that were my very first sales in my Etsy shops: necklaces and earrings with my beloved hydrangea flowers. See the pictures here below:
















Do you remember my 'be different card' of last year?

Flickr Favorites autumn is here!

1. twinkle twinkle periwinkle, 2. ACEO NO 13, 3. Reach.., 4. Montgomery Woods 2 Brothers Clover

Created with fd's Flickr Toys




Today is the first day of autumn, the weather is lovely: a bit cold and misty in the morning, but the sun warms up during the day!
And I made this mossy green - purple - wood Flickr Mosaic!
ooh I love the color tones, so very autumn!!
A new idea for a felted necklace comes in my mind while looking at these beautiful tones!

In the meantime I created a ring in the same colortones, my entry for the EST challenge with the theme 'life on Mars' hosted by Serpentaires.
You can find the other entries on her blog.




Hop ocver to Artminds blog to find some other beautiful Flickr Mosaics and play along!

Monday Moodboard

Handknit fingerless mittens by Ingermaaike
Autumn Romance - poppy flower necklace on brass chain by Vadjutka
Chunky Scarf by Vaisto
Dramatic Hair Adornment by Giftandstars
Purple Swing Top by moocowhandknits
tiny bloom- stud earrings- pale pink by Karuski

Did you already notice that Europe is extremely talented!
With this Europe Gift Guide we want to promote our Europe Etsy friends and their beautiful, original, mostly 'one of a kind' designs.
Click on the links to visit their shops. And go ahead: shop till you drop!

If you want to create a moodboard of your favorite European Street Team Designs, make your mosaic and add a link to your blogpost (NOT your blog please) or Flickr in Mister Linky (click on the button below and fill in your name with the link to your blogpost or Flickr picture).

Inspired by a custom order....

A few weeks ago a sweet lady asked me to make a necklace to go with her beautiful lavender-lilac shirt.
She had a crush for my stone necklaces with the copper rings. And it had to include some purple.

I mostly make rather short necklaces in that style, but on this shirt it was obvious that a longer one would be better.
I am very happy with the result: an assymetric necklace with coral stones, I big purple crazy lace agate stone and the very warm and beautiful Bayong wood.

It's true that a custom order inspires you to do things you otherwise shouldn't, in this case making this longer lenght.
They really have something special and chic being so long, so I was inspired to make some more for my Etsy Shop (click on the pictures to go to the shop).

Amelie Necklace

(in the shop now)

Violets in the Wood

Flower in the woods

(int he shop now)

Roxanne Necklace
(Soon in my shop)

My friday night outfit

Once upon a time long fairy necklace by Fleurfatale
Havana Dress by Flowersun
Large Vegan Shoulder Bag in Black and Cloud Grey by Pansymaiden
Black leather GOLO calf boots--RARE vintage Italian 60s 70s by dahlilafound

Time for another Friday Night outfit. A bit dark this time, a bit mysterious, why not? :-)

Oh, how I wish this dress and these accessories were already in my wardrobe!
Ok, I admit, the days are getting colder, but I bet the black dress would look lovely combined with a crocheted shrug. find some awesome shrugs here.
I love boots, and that is what I like a lot in autumn and winter: the wearing of boots!
I got this International Shoe Size Conversion Charts from Mitsy aka Artmind (another shoes addict) to make it easy to shop your shoe size online.