Adding color

I'm making small hearts to go with packages, I love colorful, happy mail that cheers you up before you open it! I'm also experimenting with a new matchbox design, it will be up in the shop in the next few days, with more color of course :-)
Also I watched Mildred Pierce, the mini series, I loved the styling and overall feel of it. I know there's a movie version, I'm curious to see that one too :-)

Hope you are having a lovely day,
Aleka

Spring cleaning

On my working table, small felt hearts.
And finally sorted my embroidery threads, I'm in spring cleaning mood :-)

Line logos, love the simplicity.
xoxo
Aleka

Sunny and working

The sunny days are here, it's like spring in the middle of winter :-)
And I have a stack of hearts to make for the weekend, hopefully I'll stay concentrated long enough to finish them!
I've been working and finishing a couple of new things too, I've been busy with the gloomy weather.
Now all this sunshine makes me want to go out :-)

Wishing you a great weekend,
Aleka

Rainbows and hearts

It's only been a few days of 2013 and I'm happy to say I've been feeling very productive lately. After I posted the coin tags I got a lot of positive feedback, so a new project came to my mind! I finished a set of rainbow tags and I must say they look absolutely fantastic, just like colorful candies :-)
And I also finished a set of puffy hearts for Valentine's day! I know it's only been a few days of the new year and too soon to think about Valentine's but I got the idea and simply had to see it thought!
Wishing you all a very happy and productive new year :-)
Aleka
ps. you can see more creative spaces right here!

Happy Sunday & a feature

Working on an order, our little heart tags in progress :-)
Wishing you all a lovely Sunday,
Aleka
ps. A lovely feature on us and our decor shop, you can read it here!

Busy bees

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It's been silent her on the blog but we've been busy these last weeks and the reason is that we opened a new Etsy shop: FishesMakeWishesHome. We decided to move all our home decorations there, so far we got little clay houses, Halloween decor, felt hearts and clay tiles but we'll be adding more things soon! It's been exciting but also a bit of a whirlwind, how we'll manage three shops without going nuts now that will be a challenge :-)
Hope you have a great week,
Aleka

Leaving again!

We are taking another short trip to our village, apparently the strong winds lifted small parts of our roof, so that needs to be fixed as soon as possible!
In the meantime I listed two Valentine heart sets, a red and white one and a colorful one in shades of red, they are very cute and can be used as tags or home decorations. I was thing of making something similar but in a much larger scale for the shop, don't know if I'll make it in time for this Valentine's but maybe next year :-)
I'm leaving you with two links: photographs from the depression in color and a public art project called Before I die, a very cool idea!
xoxo
Aleka

Spring things

Some new things in the shop: a cold clay necklace in pink, yellow and turquoise and new bright colors for my felt heart brooch. I'm currently loving yellow, pink and orange it must be a spring thing! Also finally the weather is warming up and I'll be able to work in the studio again, I've really missed that. A very sunny day today and I have a few things in my to do list.
Have a great day!

Love notes

A pretty easy tutorial on making little love notes perfect for Valentine's day. I used small scraps of heavy paper about 7x3.5 cm, a heart stencil, colorful markers and pencils. Making the heart stencil is quite simple: you just draw a heart shape on a piece of paper and then cut it carefully using a cutting tool, make sure that the paper you use is thick so it won't get torn while you draw. Place your stencil on top of the paper scrap and using a pencil or a fine tip marker start drawing from one side of the heart to the other. Do the same from the other side so that the lines crisscross. You can just draw vertical lines, or even try horizontal and vertical together. Fold in half, write a little love message inside, punch a hole, tie a pretty string and you're done!