Princess and the Teapot

It appears that my grandma has been having her own craftanoons of late, for she gifted me with this gorgeous porcelain teapot princess.

Isn't she divine?

When we were younger, my gran would make porcelain dolls for our birthdays and the like. They were the most precious gifts, and still are. These days grandma still makes the porcelain dolls, but on a smaller scale and with these delicate hand knitted beaded skirts.

Miss Marple shall be her name :)

Craftanoon

Every now and then, I feel super crafty. When an especially wonderful photo of my Loverboy and I appeared, frames were needed. And I thought I'd go overboard with ewwy gooey lovey dovey stuff :)

I transformed these plain white frames into cheesy masterpieces.

First step, paint them a lovey dovey red.

Then, gather a variety of shades of pinks to paint love hearts of various sizes in the corners of the frames. Too much is never enough.

I then used fabric paint to write 'Princess Frivolous loves LoverBoy' on the frames. 'Loves' appears on parallel sides, so that if you read it in a circle, it goes on and on and on and on and on and on. And on.

Completed!

Beautiful, dontcha think? :)

Paper flowers.

Inspired by Eloise Corr Danch's beautiful paper flower designs, I attempted to make a paper flower bouquet as a centre piece for my birthday party. Aren't her designs beautiful?

Using scrap booking paper, tissue paper and good ol' PVA, I had a go a making a few. I used some of the skills my Nan had taught me in quilling. She always sends out birthday cards with some of her quilling artwork. Beautiful stuff. This isn't a card of hers, but it gives you an idea of what quilling is:

My own quilling samples (with horrible lighting):

While smaller flowers can be fiddly, they are more co-operative with PVA glue. I swapped to the hot glue gun a couple of times for the larger flowers. The larger ones were surprisingly time consuming, but those that I did make I'm quite proud of.

My baby bouquet

I think the above pink one is my favourite paper flower creation.

The red flower had a bit of zing and attitude to it.

I'll need to make a few more before I get a collection worthy of a centre piece, but I thought I'd share anyway. Until then , I shall continue to admire Eloise's beautiful work.