New challenge, new creations

This week's challenge theme is this time a song, chosen by fleurfatale, the winner of last week: Your Ghost, by Kristin Hersh. A difficult theme, but the creations that are listed so far are fantastic. You can see them εδώ!

I was inspired from the video-clip and made this necklace, which is made with felt covered with white lace.




And since I was working with felt, and tomorrow I have to go to a christening, I made these booties for the baby:

The EST team book project

The European street Team (EST) on Etsy decided to make a journal Book where each member will create four pages, the first page will have information of the member, the last page information about the member's Etsy shop, and the middle pages are for artwork. Kreativlink , who makes wonderful handmade journals, will collect all members pages and sew them together and the project will be sold in the team's shop for charity. I just finished mine:

Elizabethan Era challenge

Τhe inspiration for this week’s creation “Elizabethan Era”, came to me when I saw this Escada outfit,


 which reminded me of the huge ruffled collars of that era, and I knit this neckpiece:

Μy sandals

I’m very excited today! Daria, from Sense of fashion, show my sandals on flickr and ask my permission to feature them on her blog. Today the article was published! You can read the whole interview here. Thank you Daria!



And two fellows from EST, have including my sandals on their treasury list, among other gorgeous creations! Thank you Antigoni & SwedishJewels!

New banner

I'm very excited!!While we were chatting in the forum today, I asked Antigoni how she made her new banner, because I have no idea about this, and she offerde to make one for me when she has time. And this afternoon she sent me these fantastic three banners!!!!Isn't she a tresur???? Tell me, aren't these wonderful all three??? I have already uploaded one in my shop and one on my blog!!! Thank you Antigoni!!!!

More creations this week

The weekly challenge “wasps” has inspired me to work with yellow, a color that I don’t like very much, and I made besides the necklace, this bag which participated in the contest too. I also knit a yellow shrug.

Winner of this week’s challenge is Dinafragola and she chose the next theme, which is “Elizabethan Era”. A difficult theme, but I have already thought of something, and tomorrow morning I’m going to Kangaroo for my supplies! In the meanwhile, I finished a crochet bag with stripes in happy bright colours and I’m working on a scarf for the monthly challenge of Etsyfast.

Scented Sachet tutorial

I bought the Clover's yo-yo maker from Kangaroo (Sofia Vamvaka has exclusiveness of the Clover tools in Greece) and had the inspiration to make small scented sachets with it. It is a very cute small gift or you can put it in your drawers.

 Scented Sachet tutorial

You will need:

1. The Clover yo-yo maker (or you can use a circle from cardboard with diameter 9cm).
2. A piece of silk cloth (or another thin cloth) about 10x10cm.
3. A button
4. Scissors, thread and needle.
5. A ribbon
6. Dried lavender.
1) With the wrong side of the cloth facing up, place the cloth between the disk and the plate and press firmly the aligned disk lines onto the plate protrusions.

2) Cut the cloth, leaving a seam allowance of 3 to 5 mm.

3) Fold the seam towards the disk and hold it with your fingers. Insert the needle from the disk side. Push the needle in through the disk side and out through the plate side. Continue sewing counter clock-wise along the entire circumference while holding dawn the seam with fingers at each stitch. When you reach the end sew the first hole one more time. Don't make a knot yet.
4) Remove the disk from the plate and the cloth from the disk by lifting the seam.

5) Put a small amount of lavender (one tea spoon) in the cloth and close the seam by pulling the thread slowly. Fold the seam inward and neatly make creases.




6) When the opening is closed, make a knot. Fold the ribbon in half and sew it on the middle of the crease. Sew the button on it. Make a bow with the ribbon. Enjoy!