Another week gone!

Opening a mini gift from Susanna (click her name to go to her blog) each day of December is just so exciting!

Christmas decor!

Vegetables.

Beautiful wire work.

Teensy rubber bands.

Fabulous mosaic mirror.

This velvet covered jewellery box is stunning!

A blackboard and an orange...

Here's a closer look at that tiny, perfect orange. It looks so amazingly real!

I did a swap with Stephanie at Petitplat Miniatures and she sent me this exquitsite assortment of food. Absolutely gorgeous and stunning!

Thank you Stephanie!

And this week I got a surprise gift in the mail from Sabiha's friend Karin (click her name to visit her blog). A beautiful picnic basket and a fabulous boot rack complete with gumboots! (I've always wanted some mini gumboots!)

Karin also covered that box with the most beautiful 'Pip Studio' papers, I love it!

Thank you Karin!

And a big thank you to you all for your lovely comments on Liberty's new outfit. I'm happy to say she really loves the new clothes and would wear them every day if I let her!

Mercedes

Time for some sewing...

I was sitting here on Friday night wishing I had a new outfit for Liberty. As it is two weeks before Christmas there is of course no money to spare. However, being penniless always makes one very resourceful!

I bought this little red dress at a second hand shop when Liberty was about a year old because it had French words on it. But the dress has never fitted her, it was always too wide or too short.

Freddy gave me this beautiful fabric ages ago and I've been trying to find some other fabric to go with it so I could make something. I've really wanted to make another ruffled skirt from this pattern here. (VERY easy to make!)

I cut the bottom part off the dress and used it for the lower ruffle of the skirt. The best part about that was that it was already beautifully hemmed! I already had that pretty cotton lace that I edged the fabric with.

When I cut the bottom of the dress off it left that pretty little frill around the bodice and I started thinking maybe if the top fitted her I could add some fabric to it. I LOVE frills!

The top did fit (that dress was a very odd size!) so a bit of fabric and another frill made from the leftover scraps from the dress skirt and voila! a new matching top!

Now, anyone with a five year old will know they only wear what THEY want to wear. Thankfully Liberty LOVES the new outfit. She decided she should 'pose' for this photo, lol!

Apparently it's very important to make sure you can fly in your clothes!

The skirt was finished on Friday night and the top on Saturday morning. She wore it very proudly to a barbecue on Saturday evening. I might have to go rummaging in the cupboards again and see what else there is that needs to be used up!

Mercedes

The Pixies Christmas!

When Jo sent me her little pixies I knew I had to use them for something special! I made this 'Pixie Christmas' box to display at our final club meeting for the year a few weeks ago. Now it sits on my mantlepiece. The box isn't very big, just 15 x 17cm. I've tried to keep most of the colours in the scene to the four basic colours Jo used on the pixies. The Christmas tree was a decoration and I made the hearts on it from Fimo.

The 'Believe' picture was a sticker from an old Mary Englebreit calendar.

How cute is that little pixie?!

There's the tiniest elf Jo made (he's just visiting the Christmas box). The Finnish flags are there because they were the right colour!

Can you imagine how happy I was to find that book title 'The Elf on the Shelf'!!!! The bowl beside him and the jug on the mantlepiece I made from paper.

The angel on the wall is a button. I bought the fimo Santa in Melbourne and I made the blue bowl with the hearts from Fimo...but I'm not that confident with Fimo yet!

Debbie there are your gorgeous toadstools, I promise I'll give them back to Noah. I made the chair in great haste, wouldn't recommend sitting on it!

The Christmas stockings were very tricky to make! The gingerbread man on the wreath is a scrapbooking embellishment. The starfish and seashells in the basket are just there because they are the right colour, lol! The little table is a Debbie Mumm Christmas button.

Now if you love little pixies as much as I do pop on over to Lissu's blog here and see what she's done with her Maileg pixies...how funny that two people on opposite sides of the world should have a similar idea!
Mercedes

A Country Teapot

I received this gorgeous country teapot in the mail the other day from Arantxa who lives in Spain (click her name to visit her blog). It's just the most perfect teapot for a country house. It is made of the finest china and it is the most beautiful colour!

She tells me the teapot comes from Holland and there is a whole range of items available.

Thank you Arantxa!

Mercedes