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Maybe I should have been a baker....

Posted by vicki brown on

Well I am looking for a career change and I do have this huge obsession with cupcakes at the moment!

I just absolutely adore the aesthetics of these lovely little scrumptious cakes. I am particularly proud of the little cupcake buttons I made this morning. I have already adorned my favourite cardigan with these treasures and it looks super cute. Daylight is fading here so I shall post a picture...

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Beauty in Unexpected Places

Posted by vicki brown on

I just got back from a lovely spring walk around my little (well actually it's the biggest village in England, maybe even the world) village and it was so so surprising! We've lived here for almost 9 months now and yet there is so much more to it than I realised. The same thing happened in the summer when we decided to go wondering not expecting to find much, when we came across a lovely canal and...

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Busy Bees

Posted by vicki brown on

Indeed what a busy bee I was yesterday! Apart from all the boring things, going to the doctors, post office and food shopping, I also managed lots of creating!!

I am particularly proud of these....

I used glass beads for the sprinkles as a bit of an experiment and it worked! Horah!

I also painted some new ceramic magnets, this is them in their raw form, they still need to be glazed and fired...


I part...

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Craft Room Mayhem!!

Posted by vicki brown on

I started to sort through all my craft supplies last night and my oh my are there a lot!!
Way more than I ever realised I possessed!!
After gathering everything from all it's little nooks and crannys around the house this is what it looked like...
Argh!! Once I had got this far I just wanted to give up on everything and go watch T.V. But I soldiered on through it and actually really enjoyed putting...

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By vicki brown on 2007-01-28

Posted by vicki brown on




So I did eventually make it out of the house to get my ceramics which include these lovelies..








The pendant is in my Etsy Store but the Espresso cup is a gift for my lovely man as he's been looking after me so well of late, and has had some really fab news this week.




I spent yesterday playing with polymer clay and producing these...


They glow in the dark don't you know!!

I cannot tell you how...

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