Up, Up And Away ...

Hello my dear friends,

so nice that you are visiting Todolwen again!

Today I would like to finally share my newest creation with you. I had already given you a clue by showing you the three main 'ingredients' I have used. I wonder if any one of you lovely bloggers have been able to maybe guess what I was up too ... ?

So, this was the clue I gave you ...

... and before I share my newest making with you, here is another clue to make it really interesting!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5akEgsZSfhg

As a little girl I used to love listening to a song called 'Up, up and Away' by the Fifth Dimension. If you don't know which song it is, I have added a link under the picture above. It will take you to YouTube so you can listen to it.

And now ...

... this is my latest creation! (I can't wait to share this with you and by the way I had totally forgotten how messy papermache can be!!)

Yet again many photos ~ I would hate for you miss anything!

My creation ...

'Up, Up And Away'

So ... there is still a seat left over in my balloon ...

would you like to fly in my beautiful balloon?

I hope you have enjoyed my latest making. It was fun and a challenge at times for me, especially when it came to attaching the wire to the basket and balloon (I almost gave up at one stage) but thankfully in the end all was well.

My final thought for the day ...

... altered art is perfect ... no patterns needed ... no instructions ... use what you have and just let your imagination run wild and create!!

 

Please, come back and visit me here at Todolwen sometime soon again and until the next time ...

 

I hope you are well and life is treating you kind.

Have a peaceful and creative day,

Karen B.

Old To New

Hello my dear friends,

since Piknik is closing down very soon I thought I would take the time over the long weekend to make something new for my little blog.

I am sure almost all of you know that 'Todolwen' was made up by me from the words 'old to new' and it was perfect for me to use and this is what I came up with ...

... nothing fancy or special, but right to my liking!

My newest addition to my sidebar ~ Old To New or better know as Todolwen!

(it's already on my sidebar since a few days)

I am not sure if you all know this, but  my dear friend Dawn, from the Feathered Nest, found a site called 'ipiccy.com' which is also a free site to edit your photographs. I have tried it out already and it's not bad ~ why don't you pop over and take a look. I have added the link below for you.

www.ipiccy.com

That's all for today my dear friends!

I hope you are well and life is treating you kind.

Have a peaceful and creative day,

 

Karen B.

Treasures of Nature

Hello my dear friends,

I hope you have all had a lovely Easter Weekend! Mine was good but busy because I spent most of it in our garden digging, putting a new drainage system in and designing the layout but apart from a very very sore body every evening ~ it was really good and peaceful!

Whilst tidying underneath out willow tree 'Salisbury' I found something really neat! It was a piece of her bark which looks a bit like a ladle I think!? I also have older little treasures from nature that I found last fall. I am thinking of combining all or most of them together in a new creation. I might have an idea already but I am not going to say anymore right now. Once completed I will of course share with all you lovely bloggers!

Here are my little outdoor pieces ...

This piece of bark is so neat!

A little dried maple leaf with it's little seeds ~ I am amazed that the leaf is still so green!

My little wasp 'house' and last but not least ...

... some lovely dried flowers from my garden!

So ... now I just need to find the time to sit down and start creating. Right now my outdoor project is #1 because I want to have it finished before my birthday in June and believe me I will need all the time I can get, that's how much work there is to do. Once I am finished I will share photos of the result. I love before and after pictures but to tell you the truth I can't remember if I took before ones.

That's all for today my dear friends. Please keep dropping in here at Todolwen in the next few days ~ I have finished my latest creation and I will share it soon!

I hope you are well and life is treating you kind.

Have a peaceful and creative day,

Karen B.

Happy Easter Wishes ...

Hello my dear friends,

I just wanted to wish all you lovely bloggers and friends out there in blogland ... from my home to yours ...

... Happy Easter!

 

 

Have a peaceful weekend with much love and joy!

( and a few easter eggs too)

hugs

Karen B.

Once A Matchbox Candle Holder~ Now A ....

Hello my dear friends,

today I would like to share my latest creation with you which is something I haven't made in sometime now and I am talking about none other than of course a pincushion!!

I haven't made any in the past few months now I think and when I opened my 'metal' drawer which is just filled with all sorts of things like egg cups, shakers, sugar bowls and many, many other metal/tin treasures and I saw these two matchbox candle holders - what else to create but a pincushion came to my mind.

My old tattered matchbox candle holders before I transformed the right one.

At first I thought of covering the little matchbox with some very nice scrap booking paper but then I had an even better idea ... I copied the paper onto a piece of muslin using my printer. Not only did I cover the matchbox with the fabric but I had enough to make the actual pincushion out of it as well.

My printed fabric ...

... on the left you see the printed muslin and on the right is the original paper.

And here is my finished matchbox candle holder pincushion ...

... I used some of my little crochet flowers embellished with old pearls for this pincushion ...

... along with a small scrap of a vintage doily and a vintage brooch.

I hope you have enjoyed my latest creation, it was fun to make!

Last but not least ...

please include dear Sonya from 'Counting my Blessings' and her husband in your prayers ~ they have had some bad news and could do with loving thoughts right now.

And finally ...

I am still working on my creation that involves a sewing table drawer, a map of the Heavens and a water balloon and I am hoping to be able to share it with you soon but I am not sure when that will be since I have to start my gardening chores tomorrow. So ... keep stopping by and visit me here at Todolwen ~ you never know what you might discover that has been created here!

I hope you are well and life is treating you kind.

Have a peaceful and creative day,

Karen B. 

Haberdashery Box

Hello my dear friends,

I found three J. & P. Coats machine cotton boxes over a year ago in an antique store and they just had to be mine ... to put them into a drawer and that's where they were until a few days ago.  I finally decided to sit down and use them after finding my original idea I had in my little book and not only do they look nice but there are also useful now!

My little boxes ...

 

... each box is slightly smaller/larger than the others but that doesn't matter at all because each one is just as pretty as the other.

So far I have finished the largest one of the three by filling it with all sorts of neat sewing things  ~ sorry, I mean haberdashery things! ( I like this word ... haberdashery ~ it sounds really neat and old fashioned!)

I took many photos for you to see everything and not miss a thing!

 

My first haberdashery box ...

 

The box is lined with a piece of an old pattern sheet and tied up with string ...

 

 

... that holds an aged tag with a very neat quote that I made and ...

 

... once opened there are so many bits and pieces ~ some old and new ... but see for yourselves!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope you have enjoyed my latest doings and now I am off,  to work either on the other two boxes or maybe another creation ... I not sure which it will be yet, but please do stop by soon again here at Todolwen to see my next creation!

 

I hope you are well and life is treating you kind.

Have a peaceful and creative day,

 

Karen B.

Finding My Thread Again

Hello my dear friends,

it has almost been another week with me not doing anything creative at all and I hate it! I seem to have 'lost my thread' when I took a break for the time when my husband was home and there was a lot to do with builders coming to our home and other things that needed attending to. I am hoping that I am on my way of finding my thread again and I will be back in my creative mood and working on more new ideas.

I  have been working on one of my ideas this past weekend little by little but the only thing I am going to share with you today are the main 'ingredients' to my latest creation's recipe to give you a little taste of what I am working with right now. Once completed I will share with all you lovely people aka bloggers of course!!

And these are my 3 main ingredients for my recent makings ...

... an antique drawer from a sewing machine table, a vintage map of the Heavens and a water balloon!

(I bet I have you thinking now!) Of course there are more items than these three which I am using but I thought these were the ones I wanted to share with you.

And last but not least ...

 

...Spring is slowly arriving and here are some of the first little flowers in my garden.

Please, keep stopping by here at Todolwen to see what I might have to share in the near future.

 

I hope you are well and life is treating you kind.

Have a peaceful and creative day,

Karen B.