Pretty Flowers

Pretty Flowers, originally uploaded by Roxy Creations.

Embroidered bracelet 2

I have finished another bracelet. This one is made on narrow pink satin ribbon, embroidered and beaded. The flower in the center is handmade as is the Chinese knot. The bracelet is backed with linen. I love making these so you'll definitely be seeing more of them hope you don't mind! more images on flickr

Wedding bracelet

I made this beautiful wedding cuff for my husband's cousin who will be married next year. She asked me to organise all the decorations for the wedding so I thought I had better start thinking about it now even though they haven't decided on the date yet! I'm full of ideas and am thoroughly enjoying trying them out so stay tuned for more. Back to the bracelet/cuff - I embroidered satin ribbon, then beaded it and backed it with a soft linen. The flowers, leaves and berries are all handmade. Inspiration and technique for these and the embroidery came from a book my mum gave me at Christmas 'Beaded Dimensional Embroidery' by Helen Pearce. It is a stunning book and well worth looking at. The chinese knots came from a book I bought online from Vintage vogue 'Chinese Knots for Beaded Jewellery' by Suzen Millodot. These are my first knots ever, a little wonky but do the job. Need to practice those. More on flickr.

My Ikea Box

I have wanted to put different papers on my set of Ikea drawers for quite some time and have finally got around to doing it. I also used 'Mod Podge' as it is called in Australia, for the first time and it worked really well. It's no wonder why everyone loves it so much. The papers I used were a misx of scrapbooking papers and these other thick and decorative papers I had. They were all easy to use.

Devine IKEA Drawers

A lot of people like to decorate drawers from IKEA. I remember as a child I had a set of these and painted each one a different colour. I have a new set with my craft stuff in it and am going to do something similar to the ones in the pictures as they are simple to make and look fantastic.

Wonderful Wreaths

I love wreaths. These favourites from Flickr give me some great inspiration.

Little Houses

Here are some of my favourite little houses from Flickr. I really like houses and birds. They give me some good crafty ideas. I just need to get on with it and get started.