Giveaway!

Here's a chance to win this set of white angels with embroidered red hearts!
All you need to do is head on over to our facebook page and leave a comment under the photo. That's all :-)
I will send them all over the world, safely packaged!

Happy November 1st!
Aleka

Birds

It's a cloudy day today, hoping for a little rain too :-)
The magpies and doves seem to like the view from our neighbor's tv antenna, they sit, take a look and then fly away.
A lovely giveaway.
Wishing you a wonderful weekend,
Aleka

A big, big giveaway

As a member of the Etsy Greek street team I have donated my flying parrot to the huge giveaway that is taking place now until the 14th of February. On the 14th our team celebrates its 4 years on Etsy so we thought a gift packed giveaway would be a great way to celebrate it!

You can see above just 2 from the 10 gift packs, so go on and check out the English version of the giveaway and the Greek, it's only a couple of days now so don't miss it!!
Wishing you a great week,
Aleka

The cutest owl

There is an a amazing giveaway over at the Pony Chops blog:
Olga from wassupbrothers is giving away Paul, the cutest owl in blue and yellow stripes! Do check out her shop, each creation is a little work of art, so lovely and colorful and of course beautifully photographed :-)
Head over to the blog and enter the competition for a chance to make him yours!
Good luck everyone (and to me too!),
Aleka

An amazing giveaway

  

The lovely necklaces above are the work of Madeleine, she's the person behind the (beautifully named) shop I am a bird. Inspired by nature and birds she combines wood with her illustrations to create amazing pieces of art that you can wear. Now she is having a giveaway on her blog, go check it out and don't miss a chance to win :-)
Have a great day,
Aleka

Packages

Okay I've been kind of lost this week, not posting as I had planned but then it seems like every time I make plans I end up not following them through. But I was actually so very busy: we're planning a craft party, I'm making and listing new things in the shops and I had two surprise sales this Friday and Saturday.
Packaging the orders came first so I could send them on Monday and now I can resume my other works: I have to make some Christmas ornaments (I know it seems early but I think I'm actually a bit behind on this) and work on stuff for the craft party!
Leaving you with a fantastic giveaway on Facebook from SilverLinesJewelry, don't miss it!
Aleka

Experimenting

I got a package of terracotta air drying clay, I usually prefer the white one but there wasn't any last time at the store so I went for this one. I made a few of my clay houses, but in order to get these ones to be so brightly colored I would have to paint them white first and then color them. I still wanted to keep the terracotta color (it's growing on me), so I decided to paint them white and at the same time remove some paint, then paint them another color and remove some paint again.
I wanted there to be layers of paint and  the original color showing up too, I like the result so far. I also used some sand paper to remove a bit more of the paint. I plan to varnish them soon, I'm pretty sure the terracotta will turn a deep red-brown color as it's supposed to be. Oh and excuse my colored hands, it was a pretty messy experiment :-)
I'm going to be away for a few days, a small trip to the country side but I leave you with a wonderful read and giveaway from the interview series: you can win an amazing print from Daniel Moreira!
wishing you a great weekend
xoxo
Aleka

p.s See more creative spaces right here!

Painted mushrooms

Well they are almost done as you can see, the mushrooms from my previous creative space. I decided to paint half in greens and browns and the other half in the brightest color combinations (thanks everyone for your suggestions!). They still need a few coats of gloss so that the colors pop even more and I also wanted to take more close up photos but these couple of days have been so busy. When I was doing the bright colored ones I was originally going to draw patters, like spots and lines but I ended up not liking how they looked. The surface of the mushroom has these lines and cracks and with the patterns it just looked too messy, so I decided to paint them one color just like I did with the natural ones and I like it that way better. I'm planning on making some more so there will be more experimenting :-)

There is also a great giveaway going on on the Etsy Greek Street Team blog, you can win a black leather clutch, it's the cutest one ever so don't miss your chance to enter, it's open to international entries as well!
Have a great weekend
Aleka

Lazy Friday post

Well not so lazy really, I have been working on lots of things and I must start photographing them I guess. The paper mache houses are done, yay! I love the way they look all together, now I only have to glue the pin backs and decide which one to keep for myself :-)
Here's a bunch of links to keep you busy for the weekend:
a feature on us and giveaway of one of our brooches is here
another great giveaway of a little prince brooch
lovely printable Easter cards
Jasper James
decorate your Easter eggs 
Atelier Gilet, I love brooches and these are just my thing!
a guessing game with Legos :-)
and more creative spaces to see and be inspired right here

Have a great weekend
Aleka