May Day Giveaway - Silk Jewelry Pouch - Handmade

Well here we are on the 1st day of May and have to say that it has not started well here in the South of France in fact it has been raining for most of the day. So, I thought I would do a little give away to cheer us me up. If your lucky enough to be having an upcoming holiday then you can enter my give away to win one of my jewelry pouches to take your treasures safely on holiday with you.

This is a Toile De Jouy cotton print with a delicious dusky pink pure silk interior, with eight compartments to hold your treasures. Bottom is padded and has the Toile De Jouy base inside, and pearl beads on the cord for closing.  For more pictures click HERE. Competition is open world wide and you don't have to be a follower of my blog to enter, great if you do though. Any shares always much appreciated but not mandatory. Good luck and I look forward to sending this to the winner soon. xx

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Dyeing Eggs with Silk

I saw a video showing how to dye eggs with silk and my daughter and I decided to give it a go, fortunately she has chickens and so provided the white eggs we needed, had a few pieces of patterned silk to hand so had all we needed to start. One of the silk pieces dominated the other eggs and they all turned out with a pinkish hue to them but the overall effect was pretty good. If you want to try it for yourself then here is the link to the Video. We also made an Easter tree using a few branches from a twisted willow.

I am pretty excited as we are off to Seville for a week so wish you all a Happy Easter and see you soon. If you do the eggs let me know how they turned out. xxx

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Some Goodies from India...

Well I had to ditch most of my clothes in order to bring all these gorgeous goodies back with me... I normally dislike..... hate shopping but when it comes to materials I am in my element. I fell in love with the printing blocks made from Mango wood which I found in Fort Cochi, and one day I hope to get round to using them. I can't wait to get crafting again.

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3 Years in The Making... Golden Spider Silk Cape

On display at the V&A from January - June 2012 were the world’s largest pieces of cloth made from spider silk. Included were a brocaded shawl made from the silk of more than one million female golden orb-weaver spiders collected in the highlands of Madagascar, as well as a cape which was on public display for the first time.  I would love to see this in the flesh so to speak and was fascinated by the concept and the result is just staggeringly beautiful.

Simon Peers & Nicholas Godley discuss Golden Spider Silk

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/g/golden-spider-silk/

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Krishenka Silk Pouch Bag Give Away

Don’t know about you, but for me July was a busy month and it just seemed to get started then it abruptly ended and her we are 1^st August already. 

So here’s the story and my give away.

 I had a lovely custom order last month to make a white satin and lace pouch bag same style as the one above.  

This set me off thinking about some beautiful vintage  bronze silk I have stashed  away, so digging it out I decided to make another pouch bag  along with the Nottingham scalloped lace, and as you can see I did just that. I was at the point of threading the ribbon through when to my horror I realised that I had stitched the lace all the way round and not cut in half as I did on the first bag, and as this was silk there was no way I was going to try and unpick two rows of stitching as it would have ruined the silkL Therefore renders the bag in my opinion unsalable, bummer!!!!

Unsalable yes, but nevertheless still a beautiful bag but a classic whoopsi  all the same.

The bag is bronze/gold vintage James Hare silk (which is around €48 per metre today)and the lace is a vintage Nottingham scalloped edged lace, the pouch is double layered and a reinforced base which has been over locked to stop any fraying. I think this would be cute for keeping you smalls in when you go for a special weekend Jbut whatever you do with it I hope you enjoy it.

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The Blind Man of Seville & a few Pom Pom's

Last week just seemed to fly by with me yet again pulling out various materials and then creating a pile on the floor enough to make me weep, it was only just recently that I had spent a couple off hours tiding it all up and neatly arranging on my shelves, oh well and if national pom pom week doesn’t exist then I hereby declare that it does now, well at least in my house. I have been making shoe clips and bobby pins out of vintage silks, ribbon and crepe-de-chine, a far cry from when I was a wee tot and made them with wool normally multi –coloured, they were then dotted about my bedroom, they got added to my gloves and hats and I can remember once tying them to the handles of my bike which I thought looked very cool! 

It also seemed that every given chance I got  last week I stuck my head into a book by Robert Wilson “The Blind man of Seville” which I am sorry in one sense to say I have now finished and although it had me cringing in parts, a brilliant story which I found both fascinating and harrowing, a moving account of a man facing the most heartbreaking truths about his life. Kicking off as an off-key detective story and quickly turns into a tense psychological thriller where the momentum never flags. Highly recommend.

Well not sure what I will end up doing this week, the garden is looking very grey in parts, the weeds are thriving as usual and as spring has sprung I need to get out and get cracking. As for the pile of material I will walk round or over it but no way am I putting it back yet, might just get a pom pom attack again.

Wishing you all a happy and creative week.

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Krishenka’s Treasures Giveaway

It’s time for another fun giveaway. I intended to run this yesterday but best laid plans and all that! Each day I will be adding a new treasure for you, vintage lace, silk,buttons, embroidery and more but will kick off with this little blue silk finger pincushion as you might just find it useful when you see what's coming next:). In the next few days I will be adding a new treasure for you, 14 items in total. Value will be in the region of €50 and I will pick a winner on the 1st March 2012.

Rules are very simple. I would like to increase my Facebook fan page, so all you have to do is click here , hit the like button it’s that simple. If you are already a fan and would  like to enter my giveaway then just leave a comment on this post and you’re in.

If you share my giveaway on your blog, facebook, twitter etc, thank you so much and do please tell me in a comment and you will get another entry. You get a big virtual hug if you follow my blog  but it's not mandatory to enter.

Good luck xx

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1.Blue Slub Silk Finger Pin Cushion
2.Embroidery Kit Book Mark
3.Sheet of Silver Embroidery Transfers
4.Cream silk with Floral Print
5.Vintage Scalloped Lace, this is gorgeous girls
6. A few buttons for you to play with
7. A goodly chunk of cotton eyelet tape
8. A good handful of Lavender (you can have dried roses if you prefer)
9. six patchwork squares red and biege
10. Scrapbook stickers
11.Blackwatch Tartan Ribbon
12.Set of Three Keshi Bobby Pins
13.Set of Three lavender poppits
14. €20 voucher including postage for any item in my shop
tada

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