Jikana Damaru: 10/12/09

Christmas Gift Guide

The wonderful people at made it have started a fabulous Christmas gift guide blog with different goodies on show each day. They also let the sellers have a turn at picking their favourites in a catergory of choice. Yesterday it was my turn - I picked my five favourite handmade handbags because lets face it one is never enough. You can see them h ere. Follow their blog for a daily post of handmade goodness up until Christmas.

I have been working on some OOAK headbands for the upcoming Apex Kids Stuff Market - They turned out quite nice and lots of fun to make. They will be in my made it shop soon enough if they don't sell though.

All things white

throw blanket from here

woven baskets from here

pebble trio available here

pegs available here

Halloween Curio Cabinet

This Halloween I have decided to go for a baroque-style theme of black, white, silver and hot pink. With lots of silvery skulls!

For inspiration, I started off by filling my Curio Cabinet with bottles of beads, sequins and trims in my colour theme. As time went on I continued to add elements of my Halloween theme like the small silver skull charms, candles and stamp.

I picked up the poison stamp at Portobello Market and the skull tealights at Poundland (such a bargain at 6 for £1). I was thinking of getting some ink pads in black, pink and silver so I can print the poison label onto candy bags and tags etc.

Skull ring

Lace effect table mats

Check back daily for more of my Halloween ideas including crafts, hand made candy and cupcakes.

Have a sweet day!

excited

~ Almost there ~

Here is the house as of last Friday afternoon - top soil down and level and ready for plants and grass!! What a difference a week will make as all this happens.

We did have a humdinger of a storm here Friday evening and half the soil washed down the street so we hope everything turns out ok once the grass is down.

Very exciting - in less than two weeks we will be living there.

Stay tuned for further updates.