Beachy Holiday

We have had school holidays here in NZ and we spent most of them on a holiday to the South Island : Nelson and the West Coast. Had a great time and have only been back a couple of days so have nothing to show you on the creative front, but these are my fav photos from our time away - Nelson was gorgeous sunshine and the West Coast was wild and wonderful. So grateful to live in such a beautiful country. Now I need to get moving on my calendar challenge and catching up on other people's blogs from the last 2 weeks so talk to you again soon.

Happy Easter

Hoping you have the happiest of Easter celebrations however you love to do that. Check out Alisa Burke's gorgeous watercolor eggs. I am sure she has other fab easter projects on her blog if you spend a bit of time looking around there.

And if you are a chocolate egg type, don't forget to save all that foil for future projects -I have friends and family who collect on my behalf now :-)

Check out Angie Hughes gallery - she incorporates lots of Chocolate foil wrappers in her work.

Remember my foiled velvet bagQuilting Arts even has a quilt made with sweet wrappers. And if you have back issues of Quilting Arts magazine, have look in Issue 13/Spring 2004 for a bag black and gold bag made using Ferrero Rocher Chocolate wrappers.

Happy Easter Weekend.

Stitched cards

I really enjoyed having my stockpile of handmade cards that I made last year. I ran out recently so needed to make some more.I can't seem to stay away from the Heart-Butterfly theme. This one is being sent to my sister-in-law for her birthday at Easter.I am still adding words cut from old large-print books once I know what occasion the card is being sent to celebrate. This one is for my niece and her new fiance.