Healing Gifts and Creations

Slowly I'm getting back the use of my arm without pain

each day and I am sure that the arrival

of a few gifts from sweet friends has helped to spur me on!

 Recently in the mail arrived this beautiful lace edged fabric card

attached to this lavender dyed pocket fashioned from

a lacey tray cloth and inside I found this

amazing pendant

created by Terri of Artful Affirmations.

A magnificent necklace full of the most

incredible amethysts in all shapes
and sizes

but what was truly amazing

were the charms including a Milagro of an arm

and etched words of "mend" on another

with a sweet metal heart.

 Just look at the beauty of these gorgeous gem stones

and crazy lace agets each one wrapped so beautifully

and painstakingly.

Terri I absolutely love and so much appreciate this and am wearing it

every day to continue the healing process of my arm.

Terri has an on-line class called "Soulful Adornments" teaching
 how to create a similar pendant - just check out the
button near the top right of this blog!

This extremely thoughtful package arrived from Judy of

JudithAnn's blog here in Australia.

Look at the sweet tag that would appeal to anyone who loves to sew,

the lovely pearl and brass buttons, lace, handkerchief, braid

and 

these really pretty flowers created by Judy herself.

Thank you so much Judy.  I am so grateful for your kindness

and friendship.  You know exactly the things I love.

So too does my very old friend, Sue, who lives in the same

State of South Australia as Judy.  She is always on the look out

for me for items I love to create with and never fails.

More beautiful vintage cotton laces, a hand crocheted edged

little tablecloth and this magnificent handkerchief

that belonged to her mother who died 

quite recently.  I am so honoured

to receive this precious

piece of memory

from her.

I've been busting to start creating again now that my energy has

returned even still with a little soreness still

so 

starting with some small items 

I decided to create

these corsages from some sari ribbons and other bits and bobs

from my collection.

as well as these fabric wrapped and wired beads.

My inspiration for these came from Sandy Babb of Quill Cottage.

Sandy has a wonderful tutorial on her blog

showing how easy it is to create these

in easy steps

and 

I am so glad I gave it a shot giving results like these.

I'm certainly not into jewellery making as such but I just LOVED creating these

with all bits of left over silks and laces.

So pop over to her blog and follow her easy instructions.

Thank you so very much Sandy.

I'm linking also this week to the What's It Wednesday over
at Ivy and Elephants Blog! Enjoy!

Hope to be back very soon with more creations from my studio.

I trust your week is turning out really well!!!

Thank you all so much for continue to follow and for your

kind and appreciated comments!

Love and hugs,

Suzy