Orangery

I doubt that I will ever have orangery, but I could dream about it!.. And until then why not to make some handy thing for it, like this watering can. Understated colour, traditional design - just for my future orangery!

Lavender Set

I love lavender, any variety of this wonderful plant and flower! I am not very lucky with lavender in my garden because it's shady with heavy soil, but every summer we visit Yorkshire Lavender. With huge variety plants on display and sale, nice tearoom and free entrance - well worth a visit! And views are just stunning!
And of course I use lavender images in my craft all the time, like in this set of shelf and four jars. It may be a useful addition to your kitchen or bathroom.

Double Dutch

I made a utensil holder, decorating plain wooden item with the scenes of old Holland. Colour palette is proper Dutch blue colour, similar to that of old Dutch tiles.

Vintage style watering can

Last year I was given lovely watering can. It is made of copper and boasts interesting shape and details. It took me quite a while before I decided on the design and motives, because I wanted to keep as many original features as possible. Eventually I got an idea from old painting of farm animal in slightly naive style. I choosen the colour to match coppery tone of the can itself.

Blue-white Tray

I like black and white things, but do not feel myself confident enough, because it requires impeccable technique. So I went for monochromatic, blue and white design on this tray and I think it looks great! I really like it!

These blanks with carved handles are a bit tricky, narrowing the choice of motives. But I have already done quite a few, these are my favourites:

Spring is in the air!

Spring is very slow this year and everything in my garden is on standby. Primulas are very tentative and so are crocuses, only hellebore is bold and confident. But still I am very pleased with crocuses which multiply happily and of course my favourite - snowdrops. Last week I bought and planted new variety, while still "in green", hope they will like it in my garden.

I put image of snowdrops on this glascase and added some fine cracklings, so that it looks very delicate, like flowers themselves!

Flower Theme

Flower theme is my favourite in decoupage and these cases for glasses are not an exeption! I made plenty of glasscases last year and most of them with flower pictures. These three are the first in this year: