Geez, until I went onto my blog to do a post just now, I had no idea that it has been two weeks or so since I put up my last post. Really? Two weeks? Only seemed like a couple of days to me. Guess I have been kinda busy, lol.
Anyhoo, on to the wonderful Blissful Whites Wednesday linky party. While I was making tags the other day, I thought why not do something a little more exciting and alter a little box? So I did, and here it is -
It was very satisfying turning a humble little box into something a little bit more appealing.
Tag Tuesday, and we are up to the letter W. I almost picked WHITE, then decided on WINGS, and had a beautiful Victorian angel with the prettiest wings in mind. And then I ended up with...... Her! WANDA! Wanda, the WINGED messenger. Yes, you read it right, lol, not Hermes the winged messenger, but Wanda. She, errmmm, is his apprentice. Sort of..........
Feisty young lady she is.
Did I show you last week's tag? Nope, didn't, did I? Letter V, and I picked the Merchant of VENICE for that tag -
Last week's inchie theme was TABLE -
A matchstick for the legs, a scrap of Le Rustique cheese paper for the tablecloth and a badly drawn cup of tea and vase of flowers was all I could get onto the inchie. I was going to draw a cat curled up under the table, but decided that my drawing skills really weren't up to that ;-).
This week's inchie challenge is bed, and boohoo, I haven't made it yet, bad me. Will do so today though.
Almost time to take the doggies for their walk in the Firehills, so toodlepip for now xxx
Love Whites? Then check out all the other wonderful Bissful Whites Wednesday post over at the TIMEWASHED blog. Thank you, Becky, for hosting this much loved party.
Yes, yes, I know, I am a day early with my weekly challenges post, but I got them done already, go me! I went to my craftavan this morning just to make the inchie for the Every Inchie Monday challenge, and somehow ended up making the tag for this week as well. Hence, once again, a very silly title trying to get both challenges into one sentence.
The challenge for the inchie this week is BICYCLE, and over at Tag Tuesday, we will be doing Q tomorrow. It was tempting to go with Queen, but that seemed so obvious a choice for Q, so I went with QUARTERS instead. Or QUILT, if you like, or even QUARTET! All three apply.
Inchie first though. Dang, girls, it is really difficult drawing a bicycle! Who'd have thought it would be so challenging, it would have me using bad words, lol. I really wanted to do a steampunk kind of bicycle, so I picked the tiniest little bits, from my sewing box of all things, and set to work -
Next, let me show you tag for this week's Tag Tuesday challenge. The image on the tag is divided into four QUARTERS, presenting a QUARTET of religious figures, making a four-patch QUILT pattern -
I used vintage French Battenburg lace tape to divide the image into quarters. I really wanted a religious medal dangling at the bottom of the tag, but couldn't find any in the stuff I had brought with me from England. I had, however, just bought this beautiful silver medal of Ste Therese at Sunday's vide grenier, so I just placed that on the tag for the photo, as it is destined for the shop. As soon as I find a suitable one, I will of course attach it to the tag.
Well there you go, this is a first, lol, me being ahead of myself. Don't think it will ever happen again :-).
Have a great week wherever you are, toodlepip xxx
Not really, I was just trying once again to get both challenges into one blog title.
The challenge over at the Every Inchie Monday blog was TRAVEL, and I decided to make a teeny weeny TRAVEL guide -
And over at the Tag Tuesday blog we have arrived at the letter M. I knew I had a very old book on MOTHS somewhere, and once they had nibbled away at my brain, that was it. I scanned in one page from the book, and for the background, I used a photograph I had taken of the night sky in France a couple of years ago. The metallic lace is there to represent the moonlight shimmering on, ermm, stuff. I also couldn't resist making a little moth out of a printed image, a bit of wire and a tiny piece of pipe cleaner -
We are still in the UK, as we need to take care of some elderly parents and elderly auntie stuff, but we are hoping to be on our way in a week's time. Can't wait.
Toodlepip xxx
