Budget shopping features again for today, a lot of goodies and everything not more than five dollar.
(being an Etsy addict, today is an exception, all the goodies I feature today are all non-Etsy shops)

1. block printed card, $4 from fey handmade
2. animal bookplates, $3 from fey handmade
3. button up button set, $4 from papernstitch
4. pencil hearts gocco flat card, $4 from papernstitch
5. flowie coin purse, $4.95 from kir devries
6. deer and toadstool greeting card, $4.50 from kir devries
7. how to make a super 8 film zine, $2.50 from cut+paste
8. felt bird hair clip, $5 from redvelvetart
9. wonderland headband set, $2 from blonde birdie

Simple yet elegant. I love all the vintage accessories found at Byemma, assembled by the hand of a surgeon. Emma enjoys the creating something beautiful in her hand, turn sickness into health, ugly to beautiful.

My personal favorite is the chandelier necklace. I never like too much of bright colored accessories, I am more of bronze and silver girl, yes of course other natural metal colors too.

How is your mood today?

Today I am feeling calm. Usually I had a hard time to go into sleep on a Sunday night (due to late night weekends) but after finished reading a book last night, I dozed off quite easily. And there is not much Monday chaos at work today, so today is a good Monday.

ipperwash from Jennifer Squires

From now on, I am going to post some supplies beauties every Sunday. For no particular reasons, we all like to keep stashing supplies, sometimes we might not have good use for them but we keep stashing them anyway. I have a supplies obsessions for fabrics (I don’t sew a lot), jewelries (cabachons, pendant, charms…wooo) and buttons (who don’t love buttons????).

Let’s kick off the supplies Sunday feature with a little shameless self promo from my own fabric shop.

red hot and lovely pink

blues and greens

and there’s a lot of kawaii lovelies

NottyPooch shares with us, her family’s fun and easy butter cookies. So fast and easy that you can even teach your kids to do this, lets have some kitchen craft this weekend.

What you’ll need:

250g butter, room temparature
100g icing sugar
300g flour
Approx. 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 180-200 degrees C.

2. Mix flour and baking powder in a bowl.

3. Cream butter and icing sugar with an electric mixer until white and fluffy.

4. Fold in the flour mixture

5. Make into the shape(s) you want and place on cookie sheet. Here is the part I like best. We discovered our very own tools-of-the-year – a COOKIE PRESSER! It’s so much fun to play with!

6. Bake in the oven for about 15 minutes, or until golden brown.

7. Last but not least, this is the most important step. Eat as much as you like.

From Etsy chatroom today….

1. plum rose ring, $18 from Morado
2. yellow rose cuff, $48 from tiedupmemories
3. hooty hoot white ear studs, $4 from ZAPOLdesigns
4. little snowflake necklace, $32 from heartsabustin

5. red posey earrings, $12 from LittleRaven
6. amethyst necklace set, $62 from serenasgifts
7. labradorit and sterling silver ring, $18.50 from Wildheather
8. white beaded and metallic dangling earrings, $8 from ticc

Who have not play with Lego?? Everyone had! Or should have. I have always been fascinated with these little vibrant colored plastic bricks. I spent most of my lonely childhood (I am an only child) building a Lego village all myself, demolished them and start all over again, a different village, but same lego peoples…hehe.

Here’s some lego love for you, from Lego artist David Haliski, check out his shop for these lovely lego pieces.

Ever wonder can you get for five dollar? With the economony nowadays, there’s not much we can get with five, but if you look hard enough in Etsy, you will find a lot of affordable little treasuries.

and here are some cuteness you can get with five dollars.

1. cute felt bird hairclip,$3.50 from DaisyDaydreams
2. forest friend magnets set of 6,$5 from ShutYourButton
3. cake charm pendant, $3.50 from geminiartwork
4. cheshire cat mini cards set of 4, $3 from factorygirlashli
5. forget me not earrings, $4 from mellisahaske
6. owl wool felt clip, $4 from MayCrimson
7. mini deer calender printable, $4 from alidesign
8. me and you notecard, $4.50 from BACLORI
9. mushroom miniatures set of 4, $3.50 from SerenityMosaics

Embroidery is illustration with thread and needle.
only that I don’t work so well with needles, I’m more a brush girl.

but look at these beauty….

blue balloons from woundupladybug

noel from sewdeerlyloved

apple tree from HAREandDRUM

from Gill & Co

from kleio’s belly

heart buttons from Deep Indigo

chickadee necklace from neawear

linen button from JuniperByKate

sweet little hedgehog from GeorgiaGriegoFineArt

crewel embroidery kit from takofibers

1. The man is Jeremy Holmes
2. He loves mozzarella fries with ketchup
3. He’s involve in illustrating children book, printing, editorial, branding, publishing, web and packaging.
4. He also wrote and illustrated the book “There Was An Old Lady”
5. You can find him here : http://www.muttink.com/index.php

birds of a feather

the old lady

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