Tid Bits: Flickr Favourites

Inspired by the European Street Team challenge of last week for which I made wooden buttons (sawing, sanding, drilling & oiling) and made those into a necklace, my flickr favourites of today are all about wood.
For more flickr favourites see here.

1. Banksia Ring -1, 2. Stairway to Heaven , 3. Biscuit box angular jasmine leaf wooden necklace, 4. Wood Shawl Pin & Ring

And here's a picture of the wooden buttons and the necklace I made of it for the challenge:

Tidbits : Monday Moodboard

I think I am healing pretty fast at the moment because I am craving for yummy food again. My monday moodboard is, therefore, yummy food stuff.
For more monday moodboards see here.

1. MistyAurora
2. PetitPlat
3. lacravatteduchien
4. swiedebie

Get Eurofied!

Bree aka StyleDiva on Etsy came with the idea of european sampler boxes: boxes filled with samples from independent european crafters. According to what I read about sample boxes, this could be a great tool for advertising my P8 Button Art shop. So, I decided to join it !

The Get Eurofied Holiday Sample Boxes go on sale on December 1 (2008) and are filled with at least 20 samples of different european crafters, like candles, bookmarks, candy, stationery, toys, paper arts, fashion accessories, gift certificates, magnets, pens, hair products, jewelry and more. It gives you the opportunity to see, try and use some great items handcrafted from the heart of Europe. You can buy them at the Get Eurofied Page or at the Get Eurofied Etsy Shop.

I made a lot of brooches of beautiful vintage buttons; all different. Together with my business card and a 10% discount certificate for future purchases, I put them in lovely handmade pillow boxes and closed those with bright red raffia tie-bows. Now I hope that the customers of our sample boxes are just as enthusiastic as I was about my samples.....

Challenge : Photograph

This week our European Street Team on Etsy was organised by antigoni, and she used a picture to inspire us:



This picture gave me an atmosphere of gold, wood, brown, green and flowers. I tried to combine all those feelings in the following brooch. The large button in the middle is brown and of wood, the buttons around that are golden, and the buttons on the outside are green. Together it forms a flower.

Challenge : Purple

The European Street Team (EST) on Etsy was holding a purple challenge last week. The idea behind it is to stimulate the EST members to be creative in these very quiet summer months... And it worked, lots of beautiful purple items were sent in; you can see them all in our EST blog !

The winner was Nanouke with a beautiful knitted cuff:


I was really inspired by the purple challenge: purple rings, necklace and brooch

Etsy : Then and Now ......

vadjutka from the European Street Team on Etsy had the great idea to gather "then and now" items from the members; you can see them on her blog: http://craftsthenandnow.blogspot.com/

I had to look into my old stuff and finally found this 1985 brooch. This brooch is one of the first I made (I think it was in 1985) and I am still having it ! It's made from this metal instrument you get with IKEA furniture to build it. Back then my husband and I bought our first IKEA chair, and after it was build, the instrument became a brooch. There are some wooden beads on it and some plastic female screws too; probably also leftovers from some IKEA thing ......

And this is what I make at the moment; various buttons are sewn together to form a brooch or pin. It's part of my P8 Button Art line.