I can't quite believe it...

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I actually have a card to share with you today!

On Saturday afternoon I actually managed to sit down and spend some time crafting (in my new study)! I spent the morning setting the room up, packing my little hutch with all things craft - getting the colours and decor just how I like it. Then, with a cuppa beside me, I spent a few hours playing. What bliss!

It's been a long time coming, but alas, it is finally here. I have a craft room, and a desk! The best best best thing is, I can now get half way through making something, walk out of the room, close the door, and not worry for one minute that the house looks like a pig sty because the dining room table has just had a bomb explode on it! As you can imagine, Will is pretty wrapped about that too!

Yah for my new craft room! xox

Chrissy gift tags

To match the blue & silver colour theme for our pressies this year, I made these cute little gift tags. They were so quick & easy to make, and I think they turned out alright...

New goodies

Last week I was super excited when my order from Papertreyink arrived. I had been admiring Dawn McVey's gorgeous Vintage Ornaments and Signature Christmas stamp collections for a while, so I bite the bullet and bought them!

I couldn't believe how gorgeous the packaging was - aren't they so sweet?

I promise to put them to good use and share some pretty Chrissy card pics soon.

Happy Monday everyone - hope your week goes fast!

Lots of love
Brooke
xox

Stacey's Baby Shower

This weekend a very good friend of mine had her baby shower. Not being a mummy yet myself (well except to little CoCo that is) I couldn't quite get my head around buying her a breast pump, rear view baby car mirror or any of those very useful (but quite strange baby necessities). Instead, I bought her a voucher for a foot massage (every mummy needs pampering after all), and made her a set of little baby announcement cards.

I can't wait to meet the little one in a few weeks time!

My big project

As you may know, we moved into a bigger apartment a few months ago and I now have a designated "craft" room (Will thinks it's his study, but that's just because the decorating hasn't started yet...)!

Herein lies my dilemma. As I am starting from scratch with the decorating, I have a clean palette to work from. Whilst this is great, I can't seem to commit to a design/layout/colour etc.

Consequently, I now have an empty craft room which I haven't been able to use for 3 months! In fact, my dining room table is currently hidden under crafting supplies which I haven't managed to put away since the weekend. And you can imagine how impressed Will is about that, especially given the fact that we got a 3 bedroom apartment for this very purpose!

I think I am steering towards white furniture - I have been looking through millions of pics on the web for inspiration and the ones I love all seem to be white. I think it's because it's such a clean palette and it really highlights all the colourful crafty things that will be shoved in there. This is a little bit of a change for me as our house is full of timber furniture and I naturally thought that the craft room would be too. Now I am thinking that timber is too dark, and I want the space to be light and colourful.

I also want to ensure that the set up is as user friendly as possible. I want to be able to access all of my supplies quickly and easily - although I don't want it to look messy. I was tempted to go for cupboards with doors, but then I wonder if this will be a pain when you want to grab something quickly... I also want to make sure that all of the things I use frequently are in arms reach - hmmmm.

I know it's a nice dilemma to have, but it is really frustrating and I want it to be over ALREADY! I just want to be able to walk into a perfectly fitted out craft room and start crafting.

Anyone have any good ideas?

Image from here

It's Christmas Time

I finally got a chance over the weekend to make a few more Chrissy cards. I haven't been feeling to inspired this year as the task of making 80 Christmas cards seemed too daunting. I know 80 sounds like a lot, but it's important to me (living overseas) to let our family and friends know that we are thinking of them (particularly at this special time of the year).

Anyway, I think I have knocked over about 1/4 of them and plan to get the majority completed by the end of this week (perhaps a little ambitious)!! Then I need to start on the gift tags, decorations, shopping, wrapping, and Christmas baking. Such a busy time of the year.

Don't you just LOVE Christmas!!

Yummy new fabric

Isn't this Riley Blake fabric Just Dreamy! It arrived in my hot little hands on Friday (oh boy, don't you just love getting parcels), and I have been admiring it ever since. I can't tell you what it's for yet [sorry it's for a pressie] but I promise to show you the finished product once it's done and dusted [and in the hands of the recipient].

Another thing I have been admiring all weekend - my dark pink roses. Seldom do you get a bunch these days that open up perfectly and smell adorable. Well, I struck it lucky on Friday and those little buds are blooming fantastic and smelling a treat! I can't walk past them without stopping to smell the roses - he, he - it's true!