Petit rouge

The schools in Norway are closed this week due to what we call autumn vacation, and my oldest daugther are attending a handball-school in her vacation. For me, that means that I have to drive her there before I go to work and pick her up in the afternoon (the schoolbus are also on vacation). Only "problem" is that she starts later than me and ends earlier - so this week I only work five hrs a day.

This gives me some extra time to spend on Etsy in the morning, so yesterday I put together a treasury before I went to work:

Featured shops:
oldbutnew, irenesuchocki, pinkdragonfly98,
NestaUsa, skinfullybare, rikrak,
ArtZodiac, ColorTheoryCollage, DesignsbyDanna,
devilishgrin, AlisaPaints, NickiGrace

This is 12 great artists - use this opportunity to take a closer look at their shops. Trust me, it's worth the time spent!

Inspiration = new products

It's been a while since I've sewn anything - no time and no inspiration, but now as the autumn has arrived it is again time for sewing. I got some really good looking clothes from a fleemarket a few weeks ago, and suddenly I became inspired to create a few items.

The first one I made was from a lovely limegreen jacket. This is the first one were I've kept the front of the jacket as it is, and not turned it sideways, and I'm quite happy with the result:

The next project was two skirt made of fabric in opposite colors - it was quite fun turning them in to in my eyes, two good looking products:

Key fobs are really fun to make. When I make these I usually sew a bunch of them at once on my sewing machine, so that I always have some of them lying around that are half-made, only missing the buttons and the ring. Then I use my "telly-watching-time" to complede the product.

Here are the ones that I've made so far this autumn:

In addition to this, I've also made a couple of other bags - they are all available in my shop.

This saturday it is time for another fleemarked. Who knows, maybe I find some clothes that just needs to be turned in to bags. If not, then I have loads of clothes that I collected during spring season - that are just waiting to be upcycled.

Yeah, life is great!

How can you resist this colour?

That's the title of my latest treasury on Etsy:

You will find the treasury here for the next two days - hope you have time to take a look around in the twelve shops in my treasury and the four alternates if I rotate the items. There are some very talented people behind these shops.

Here are direct links to all the 16 shops:

urbandesign, dreadpiratefluffy, coffeebnz,

MyCoutureJewelry, joywhite, woollab,

Art2ArtColorado, nicole6697, phookafire,

SugarRoxx, rikrak, shellieartist,

MiddletreeMade, dawnchastain, motyl, flickerings

Thank you all for creating these wonderful items!