Fabric paper play and Christmas :)

we had the best afternoon last week when our little mixed media group got together for some fabric paper play....

now Jenny and Clare have already posted pics of what we made so I wont show them all again here....

make sure you check out Clare's blog tho and see what she made from her fabric paper too... absolutely wonderful...

im so glad we went to Wendy's gorgeous house at this time of the year , its was decked out beautiful with her handmade creations ...oh and her studio.....what I wouldn't give lol.....

here we all are being very industrious...

now Jenny is not glitter gal.....

but now she is....

here's proof lol....she cracked open some Martha stewart that she had for a couple of years...

Glitter Queen Jenny....

and mine finished...

each time we meet we meet we arrange a swap for our next meeting... we decided on recycled Christmas cards... I used corrugated card, music and onion bag...I also used some of my left over Kaiser die cuts and papers to make the envelopes.... Lynne is part of our group and lives away but we swap with her too.......:)

and some Christmassy  peeks around the house... Sussies lovely Danish felty hearts...

a little bit of crafting happening too.....my poor old wreath was a bit had it and had a much needed revamp with some hessian/burlap....

and yes it is beginning to feel like Christmas ...finally....

more ornies....

I made these little ornies from some fabric paper i made earlier in the spring. Originally they were just going to be creams and golds , fairly neutral but they looked so bland i had to add some color! I flooded them with twinklings and added a conglomeration of glitter, clear utee, mica and gel meduim. Saw something similar that Tim Holtz did but this was my version!
I used a coffee mug to get the circle and added text to the top with little gold paint.
My sewing mchine, the marvelous PFaff [NOT!!] is being repaired [AGIAN] so a friend lent me one. Its a Husqvarna, new in the box after 12 years!!! Its a very basic machine but sews beautifully and it takes metallic in the top so i was thrilled. [i can only sew metallic in the bobbin on mine]
I find it very hard to believe that that you never have a need for a sewing machine in 12 years!!!

My scans are a bit wonky, sorry!!

I love the doily one. It was just this piece of doily that had the center pulled out....