Spring Flowers

For the 'Spring Flowers' theme this week on
I did a little textile piece

'Daffodil and Snowdrops'

I started with a needle felted background on denim and machine stitched some
Oliver Twist short length yarns on top and couched on some dark green chenille.

Next I added little daffodil head from this great tutorial over at crafty Staci except
 I made it a quarter of the size.
 I used printed yellow fabric for the petals, satin edged rayon ribbon for the flower centre,

 pearly seed beads for snowdrop petals, I hand stitched their dark stalks
 and added some tiny seed beads into the ground area.
I then hand stitched the whole piece onto some layered fabric and organza and frayed the edges,

backed it with card and added a selection of hand dyed yarns and a white ribbon for the tie.

Tag: Card Backing, Fabric & crystal organza, denim & needle felted wool
Embellishment:  Yarns, Fabric flower and beads.
Tie: Ribbon & yarns

~Why join us over on the Tag Tuesday blog to see lots more creative tags ~

I'm quite excited about spring :) the sign of things to come, looking forward to the warmer weather and spending more time out in the garden, already there is more sun shining into my little studio each day filling it with light and warmth.
I was delighted when my husband Kevin told me last week

that he was making me little window boxes for my little studio

He asked me what kind of flowers I would like to have planted in them.

I decided as they are such tiny cute little boxes that it would have to be violas, pansies.

The boxes are finished and fixed under the windows awaiting their little occupants who are,
 at the moment in the propagator growing :)

Thanks for stopping by :)

Room with a View

I have been busy stitching and beading and creating and have still so many things that I want to update on but .........it's such a beautiful sunny day here in Scotland and the perfect day to take some shots of the studio. These are the last ones I will be posting to my blog.

My daughters dolls house sits proudly in the corner looking very much at home its a Dura Craft San Franciscan which I built from kit and you can see more pictures of it in my albums page here ~> Boxoftrix

The bookcase which I have written more about, with more pictures in the Boxoftrix Studio Folder in my flickr

I will tell you more about that little pile of goodies sitting on the bookcase later....

Also...you will just catch a glimpse of a little banner hanging to the right of the window there .. more about that later too :o)

With all these windows the sun just pours through & it feels as though I'm sitting in the garden.

You can see all the pictures of the studio from the beginning of its construction in my flickr.