stitches and craft show

On Thursday Mum and I went to the Stitches and Craft show. It's a convention filled with craft supply stalls mostly. This year the scrapbooking army seems to have subsided a little, making a bit more room for beautiful quilting fabrics (yes I got some, you know I can't resist), beads and buttons (among loads of other things).

I accosted a poor girl who was wearing the most amazing felted necklace/scarf kind of thing. Seriously we were on an escalator, she had no where to go! She made it herself, and turns out it was JD the "felt girl" from Craftster. She was nice. She has a similar (but not quite the same) felted necklace thingo in her Etsy store, it's well worth a look!

Anyway, I came home with beads, and fabrics, and notebooks and stuff, inspired and excited! So I got stuck in and made 2 necklaces (both now available in my Etsy store). I love them both so much!

I’ve also finally loaded up some hairbands and 3 little paintings. I did them a few weeks ago, they are of ladies wearing period French costume. Not the grandiose Marie Antoinette kind, these are provincial costumes: more conservative, but no less quirky.

They come from a dusty, but lovely old book I have…


So you can check out my renditions in my store:
www.flossyparticles.etsy.com