Friends Forever

I made some small gift boxes with a little gift in to take for friends over the weekend - it's safe to post this now:

Thanks to my lovely friend Sarn I already had the die cut 'pillow boxes' plus even some additional coordinating papers to play with, although I was subsequently lucky enough to find the same SU die (now discontinued) being sold new on eBay.

All I did was to die cut some flowers, top them with a pearl and add a tag and white ribbon - a total steal of an idea from Sarn, once again.

And what was in the little boxes?

Some of you will have giggled at Darnell's lovely earrings the other week and as soon as I saw them on her blog I loved the idea. These ones are studs whereas Darnell's are dangly ones, I love either. Found them being sold on eBay UK, they are silver plated so your earlobes shouldn't drop off, and managed to grab just enough for us. The lady who makes and sells them has just had a baby so isn't really into making more right now - but if you're interested, just leave a comment or send me an email and I'll get in touch with her.

It's home for me today - after a fabulous weekend. At least I didn't stay up until sunrise as has been known previously - but we did miss our chum Mo very much :( We had the most wonderful weather and the menu for Saturday's Dinner had been slightly changed (YAY!) and the whole meal was wonderful!

I spy quite a few entries already into the Playground - but am typing this last little bit of the scheduled post on Sunday evening with one eye open and the other one taking a quick nap - bedtime I think! I'll be round to properly comment ASAP.

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Milk cartons

Way back in April I met up with a crowd of lovely buddies, from the Snippets Playground, at Ally Pally. These are what I took with me as small gifts:

 I used:

- SU double sided patterned card stock

- instructions from You Tube here.  What I liked about this was that you don't need a special template or die, just measure up a piece of card, score, snip, fold and stick - it's a really clear tutorial too, even I followed it without any disasters. And that was before I even had a Hougie board :)

- butterflies punched with X-Cut punch and topped with little pearls

- labels punched with a Hobbycraft label punch and the stamped sentiment is by LOTV from their 'General Greetings - small' set

- white organza ribbon to tie the tops together and hold the labels

And the contents? A scented 'Colonial' votive candle, nestled in tissue paper. The size is just about perfect for one of those.

I have a couple of 'Yankee Candle' votives that Irene sent me a while ago (to remind me of the sea air that I miss so much) and, even though still unlit, here in my craft room they give off a lovely smell - thank you again!

I think before I do light them I'll remove them from the craft room though - waaaay too much paper and inflammable stuff flying round for safety, there could be one 'poof' and me eyebrows and fringe could disappear.

How do I know this little fact about naked flames, inflammable stuff and disappearing fringes and eyelashes? Yup, been there and got the T-shirt - one of the most frightening experiences of my life about eight years ago. Refilling a gas-operated candle lighter over the utility room sink, thought 'I wonder if this is now working', CLICK, BOOM. Unfortunately there was butane liquid over my hands and that burst into a fireball - thank the Lord I was standing at the sink in fast reach of water. Spent weeks with bandaged fingers and agonisingly painful burns, minus fringe and eyelashes and was so very lucky for it not to be worse.

Of course the office had enormous fun at my expense - it could only happen to yours truly :(

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