More Beautiful Gifts

Yet another most beautiful gift has arrived in the mail from

Lovey

at

Fabric Photo Memories

It came wrapped in this beautiful upholstery fabric with her beautiful promotional card advertising her brand new book.  See my sidebar for all the details about this.

And inside I found this most beautiful collage.  It was the one I won during the

One World One Heart Event.

This collage depicts Lovey's unique style of collage featuring Historical African American Women.  It is simply beautiful!

Thank you so much Lovey - it is so special!

And then there were these gorgeous gifts from

Judy of

Judy's Fabrications Blog

Such beautiful crazy patchworked collage with lace and beads - I just love this!

along with more fabric and some dyed motifs by Judy which

I can incorporate into some of my own creations!

Thank you again Judy, my friend - so kind hearted that you are!!!

And the last one was a package for my birthday from a dear friend, Ros

So nicely wrapped in these pretty coloured glass and fabric beads

I found these:
Soft pastel coloured butttons, doilies and lace.

Just so many things to create with - All just gorgeous.

A very big "Thank you" to all three of you!

Love from me,

Suzy xxx

Two New Cards

From the vintage fabrics and other materials

which you saw on my table

in my last post

I have made two new cards -

This one

Some of these fabrics from Rajasthan are truely gorgeous -

the piece in the foreground is a burnt orange crepe - so fine -

which has been embroidered

and

This one

which is a Wedding Card for a girlfriend (Ros) whose daughter (Candice)

 is getting married very shortly to a lovely fellow from India.

They will have one marriage here in Australia in Melb

and

the other will be a 3 day celebration in Lucknow, India.

So I have chosen some Vintage Indian braid and gold fabrics underlying

some Vintage lace and topped with a Klimpt image which I have printed onto canvas.

I have also made some more pages from these fabrics which I have decided to put

into a small journal

so hopefully that may be following soon!!!

I would like also apologise for the poor quality of the photos in the previous post

when I had to use an old computer whilst my laptop was with the fix-it man, Glen

whom I am eternally grateful for.

Also

more apologies for the little white squares which occurred when Blogger

failed to accept my attempts in posting these photos.

Hope you all have a wonderful week with lots of fun

Creating!!!

Suzy

xxx

Inspired by this............

I have made a collage of what I have on my table at present.

These items include:

Indian wooden blocks

Distress Inks
Coffee for staining/dyeing

Dyed Tussore Silk

Sari ribbon in an array of colours

Vintage Sari braid

Vintage dyed laces

Vintage recycled fabrics from Rajasthan

and

a Vintage book of poems by Persian Mystic, Jami.

These are the tools of some new inspirational work which I am playing around with

but

I  couldn't  decide whether  to make a journal or some cards

so

I decided to start small and create some cards:

Some detail of cards
(These two cards above have since been purchased and are off to Melbourne)

and

this one which is completely different using the vintage fabrics, some furnishing fabric

plus braid and some gorgeous lace which was a gift from

Judy at http://www.judysfabrications.blogspot.com/

Judy does some very beautiful crazy patchwork, beading and stitching

amongst many other crafts - a truely talented woman.

Well another weekend is almost upon us - it's Friday in Australia

so

do hope you all have a wonderful time doing what you most love.

Love and hugs to all my followers

and thank you all so much for leaving such kind comments on my work.

xxx Suzy

A Brooche Holder

This is an idea I had for a friend of mine,

Vicki, who is turning 60

and

as she has a beautiful collection of vintage brooches

I thought this would be a neat idea for displaying them

and

 I just happen to know that she would really would love one of these anyway!!!!

I couldn't think of anything richer than black velvet on which to

display them all.

Some cotton coffee dyed lace and braid!

embellished with lace and buttons!



A special thankyou to all my new followers

and

to every dear blogging friend

who has left a comment!

It is truely appreciated!

and

I wish for you all a really peaceful weekend

sparing just a precious kind  and loving thought for everyone who has been so affected by the earthquake in

Japan.

xx Suzy