Day 366 - A 365 patchwork table wearing leg warmers.

Here it is, my last project, with the other one of my free nest tables. It is a tribute to my 365 project, and comes with woolly legs, for the chilly Bendigo winters.

What an awesome thing to have done. I have loved doing it, learning new skills, trying things I never would have tried, and getting a huge buzz from completing things I never imagined making.

My new blog is here. http://avintagecraftyadventure.blogspot.com.au/ Not set up yet but hopefully I will get a chance to do that over the next couple of days. You can keep following my ramblings if you want to.

Thanks to everyone who has supported me over the past year and kept me going. Special mention to Joyce, I've loved your comments and appreciation.

I'm off to have a cuppa now, with Little A at kinder for 2 hours, I get a tiny bit of time a week where no one is talking to me. Now that's what I call bliss! x

Day 334 - A book shelf

My craft area has been getting totally out of control. I just don't have the space for all my stuff and then it takes forever to find things. My mum gave me this bookshelf a month or so ago to try to help sort it out, and I finally got to it today.

I assembled the shelf and did some Peanuts decoupage, then made some curtains for the bottom row of shelves. I am loving the little curtains and feel like I am finally making some progress in organising the area, leading to less frustration with time wasted looking for things.

Day 323 - A picture to tell a thousand words.

This is a special picture for Mr Crafty. It's our 10 year wedding anniversary this year. It's not until April, but I will be making him a few things to celebrate and this one came to me so I decided to make it early.

I like the way it has layers and textures, symbolising the many layers and facets of 10 years of marriage.

I began with an old map of the alpine area. This is an area where we went hiking about a month after we met, lugging our heavy packs up the side of a steep mountain, and camping for 2 nights, one of which we awoke to find our tent covered in snow. I glued this map first to a canvas.

Then I photocopied these birds from a skirt I have (also used early in my 365 project to make a card), cut them out and stitched around the birds with some embroidery thread. Mr Crafty is a bird lover. Bird nerd.

Glue went under and over the birds, and then came the next layer, with some help from Frankie magazine. The birds got their colour from the magazine pages.

Ten words popped out at me from an old dictionary, randomly, just thoughts about our marriage.

I added them to my picture. Then some button eyes. The glue is still drying in the picture so it has a little white haze, which will dry clear.

My crafty and the kids made me these fortune cookies this morning. :-) What a beautiful morning it was.

Day 321 - Pretty decoupage shoes

Since the 2 big kids have been back at school (three days last week) I have a little bit more time to think, to have thoughts of my own. More ideas for projects have been coming into my head now, after a month or two of struggling. 

Today's inspiration comes from this stunning pair of boots by Michal Negrin. Seen here on polyvore. Brought to my attention by PenelopeHangerRefashions facebook page. They are simply stunning, but at $800 a pair, the likelihood of me ever owning a pair is reduced to a zero.

I purchased these comfortable but boring and plain shoes from an op shop about 4 months ago for $3, with the idea of a decoupage project, but no idea what to use to decorate them. Awesome! Now I had an idea. OK so they're not boots, but we are in the middle of the hottest summer on record where I live, so boots are not really a happening thing right now.

I printed and cut out some pretty pages I found using google images.

Glue. I put masking tape on the rubber around the sole first to minimise glue drops where they weren't wanted.

 These have been glued under and over the pictures.

 After the glue dried I applied 4 coats of polyurethane gloss. I've got a crush on these shoes now.

They went outside to see what a gorgeous day it is today.