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On thursday I will once again take part in a crafts fair in Kungsbacka, close to where I live. It requires a lot of work so I decided this time I'll only take part in it one out of two days. Hopefully the weather will behave. It's been a lot of rainy days here lately and with most of my crafted items being made out of paper rain on thursday would mean I'd have to cancel. And that would be a shame since a have a lot of nice things lined up ready to be sold.

A little note

Just wanted to leave a little note saying I'm still crafting away. However I felt that this blog took too much of my time and energy, especially the photo part of it. I decided I wanted to use that time for crafting rather than anything else. Maybe I'll feel differently in the future. Right now though I'm content with the crafting in itself. I still do sell some of the things I make, although I decided it wasn't really worth the effort to market them. So nowadays it's mostly friends, family and aquaintances who'll enjoy my creations.

Life has been busy!

I must admit I have had my hands full since last time I wrote. Mid July we got married, then I took part in my second fair, a couple of days later I had my birthday, then we flew off to the U.S. to visit relatives for a few weeks. When we got back my grandpa had his 80th birthday and our daughter started daycare. With all this happening almost at once I haven't made this blog a priority.

So, what´s new in my creative world? Well... For one, I've been shopping like crazy. I love browsing those huge crafts stores they have in the States. There's so much to choose from and I get many new ideas on creating simply by seeing all those beautiful crafting supplies. Love it!

A matching cowboy set consisting of a photo frame and a wooden box, made shortly before my first crafts fair. 

Time flies

Feels like it wasn't long ago I took part in my first crafts fair, although I realize now it's one month ago. Tomorrow it's time for my second one. I had so much I wanted to make for this one, but as with so much else when you have kids, there just wasn't enough time. I've made the lavendel soap I was talking about and a few pinwheels.

Oh, and remember my flying hearts? I felt they never came to their right at the last fair, when they were lying flat on the table, so I decided to actually put some thread in them and make them fly for real. I'm happy with the result and they are now up in a "tree".

Give-away!

So, my first crafts fair is over. It turned out to be a really nice sunny day. A lot of people stopped by admiring my handcrafted pieces. It was a lot of fun talking to everyone and of course it was even more fun to get to sell my things to appreciative customers. Knowing that people like the things I make truly means a lot to me. What sold really well was my eye pillows with lavendel, which you put over your eyes when you go to bed, to help relax and leave the light out.

To celebrate my first crafts fair I've decided to have a give-away, where the winner will receive a lavendel eye pillow, free of charge. If you'd like to take a chance at winning, just send me an e-mail (or write a comment here in the blog) with your name and e-mail adress. The contest ends on August 2nd and the winner will be announced shortly thereafter.

The bunny to the left is taking a rest with a lavendel eye pillow. 

If you weren't able to make it to the fair or want to have a second look, there will be another opportunity on Thursday the 2nd of August, 9am-2pm at the same location: Badhusparken, Kungsbacka (Sweden ;p ). In addition to what I sold this Thursday I will make some new cards, including cards suitable to give away at child baptism or name-giving ceremonies. I will also make a few soaps with lavendel. I made these as a christmas gift last year, and they were much appreciated. The smell of lavendel is just wonderful!

My first crafts fair

It's finally confirmed: I will be taking part in a local crafts fair next week! It's my first fair so of course I'm very excited about it! The fair will be taking place on thursday the 5th of July  between 10am and 2pm, in Badhusparken in Kungsbacka, outside of Gothenburg. So if you have some time off and arn't too far away, bring your friends and family and come on by! I will be selling an assortment of handmade crafts such as: cards, candles, matchboxes, photoframes, soap and wooden chests. If I can find the time I will also make some pin-wheels for the kids to enjoy. For more information on the crafts fair please visit the official website.

A sneak-peek on some of the photoframes I will be selling:

You can either use them as regular photo frames or use them to write a nice poem or sentiment in.

Give me your love. I'll give you my heart...

"Give me your love. I'll give you my heart..." those are some of the words from the chorus in an old Backstreet Boys song who I used to like a lot. The words that follow are: "Let's put them together, see what we can start. I wanna be with you..."

As some of you who know me personally might know, Theo and I are finally getting married this summer. We put our hearts together a long time ago and started a wonderful little family. The wedding is going to be very small with just close family. Anyway, since we settled a date my heart has been flying. In all shades of color that is...

These lovely flying hearts I made out of wool with a tecnique called needle felting. The hearts themself are easy to make but the wings are a bit tricky since they tend to come out different sizes. I'm thinking about putting a thread at the top so they can be hung but I still havn't decided on it. What do you think?

I've also made invitation cards to our wedding. We haven't sent them yet though so I am not able to show them here for another couple of days. What I will show you however is another wooden chest that I dressed with some nice papers. I absolutely love how it turned out!