Lovely and cloudy felt brooch

Hello everyone, happy Sunday :)

Yesterday the weather was horrile so, after having spent a very intensive hour in the gym and after a lovely coffee with a new friend, I came home and made a beautiful new felt brooch. 
I was meant to make one of these for long, but never did, so yeaterday I took advantage of the miserable weather and made my first cloudy brooch.
I love it! I made two versions of it, which one do you prefer? You can find many different version of cloudy felt brooches on the internet and I think they are all lovely. I am very pleased with the result, being the first one I did. Not too bad!
I am also very excited because next Sunsay at this time, I will be in my beloved, warm Italy. I can't wait!!
We are also deciding about our next holidays this summer...we have to choose between Brazil and Thailand....I know, they're both stunningly beautiful countries, but I really don't know what to choose.... I know I've been to Brazil already, but it is so big and there is so much more to explore...
So, will it be Brazil....

 ...or Thailand?

Anyway, back to the felt brooch, I took pictures of both versions of it, let me know which one do you prefer!!
This is the first version:

And this is the second version:

I hope you liked this and I am looking forward to hearing from you, tell me which one do you prefer or send me pictures of your handmade brooches :)
Have a lovely Sunday,

Gibi

It's cupcake time! Beautiful handmade felt bookmark and brooch

Happy Friday everyone!
I hope your weekend has started in the best possible way, I know mine has :)
Next week it's going to be the last at the cafè where I have been working for almost two months. Although it wasn't my dream job, I feel a bit sad because I know I will miss my amazing colleague Isabel and I was also getting fond of some customers. It's amazing how some people can change your mood with just a smile or few sweet words.

I am travelling, (yes, again), going back home for 11 days and after that I will start working as a Project Manager, finally!

In Italy I will travel around, since I am not going alone :) We are going to visit the beautiful Cinque Terre. These are 5 small villages on the coast of Liguria (not far from Genoa) and they have been declared UNESCO world heritage site and this is why:

This is a unique place, you won't find anything like this anywhere else...
We are also going to Verona and Venice, to meet some friends....oh, I can't wait to see a proper sun!!

Anyway, my last creations are made out of felt, very nice and sweet. It is a cupcake brooch and a cupcake bookmark! All I had to do, was to decide the shape of the muffin, draw it on paper, cut the paper, pin it on the felt and cut. And then, sew sew sew! 
I really like them and I am going to make some more. As always they're on sale, just send me a private msg, for more information you can also decide the colour and shape!
Have a looke at them and tell me what do you think!

Have a nice weekend,

Gibi

New beautiful woolen scarves

Hello everyone!

I am so sorry for this long silence...my sewing machine is broken :( I can't sew and I have so many ideas and so much fabric to use! 

I went to Prague two weeks ago and I bought a lot of fabric, so beautiful and sooo cheap!
I bought it in this shop, it's called flex-tex, it's in Prague 7 and they have so much stuff there, I didn't know where to start from! The medium price for one meter of fabric is 100CZK which means €4 or £3.3. Can you believe it? And they also have zippers, buttons and everything you can think of if you sew.
I think they do online orders, but I am not sure whether they ship abroad or not.

Anyway, I received a package from Italy, sent by my mum <3 
She sent me few new scarves made by her, so beautiful. I was tempted to keep them for me, but what would I do with 5 scarves? So, they could be yours if you like them!
They are 100% handmade and 100% fine quality Italian wool. Very soft and very warm for this winter that seems endless!
Here some pictures for you!

So, these are the new scarves, but we (my mum and I) accept orders, if you have a favourite colour, we can make a scarf just for you! They are on sale, £25, drop me a private message :)

I hope you're haveing a great weekend, I really need to rest after a week of very early mornings! What are you going to do? I will have a couple of lessons - I also teach Italian privately - and maybe meet a friend in Covent Garden.
Well, enjoy the rest of the weekend then and I promise I won't wait too long before posting again!

Gibi

Recycled cans - let's organize the kitchen!

I don't know about you, but I am quite messy and tend to leave stuff all over the place :P
I was looking to find a way to keep the sink tidier from all the sponges and stuff and then I had an idea: I was keeping away tomato sauce cans because I thought I could re-use them somehow, but I still didn't know how.
Then I looked on the internet for some inspiration and I found something very interesting. Unfortunately I just gave a quick look to the website and when I went back I wasn't able to find it again. So, now I am going to show you what I made out of three tomato sauce cans (this has been done by heart).
I am also going to post a slow-motion video about it. My friend, who is a video editor, came over and we took hundreds of pictures that now need to be put together, edited and have a nice soundtrack added. It could take a while so, for now, I will just post some pictures.
Hope you like it!!

I don't know if you can see it from the pictures, but to hold the can on the hook, I just used one of those cheap black paper clips that you can find at the supermarket or at Ryman, something like this:

 

You should try and make one yourself, it's easy, cheap and nice!

Gibi

New felt brooches!

Hello Sunday!
I haven't been very active online this week, but I have been doing some pretty things!
I had to cover my collegue, who was in Spain and this meant that I had to start at 6 am! So I went to sleep very early every night....hopefully from Monday I will start at 7 again. I know it may seem as early, but it makes a huge difference to wake up at 5:30 instead of 6:30....but anyway, I like waking up early (ok, maybe not at 5:30, but still....).

I did some new felt brooches :) Since I received my first Etsy order, I really wanted to do something out of all those beautiful felt sheets. I was looking for something easy and quite plain and I thik these little flowers are perfect, just what I had in mind.
As always, they are on sale :)

The background of these pictures is the beautiful woolen round-necked scarf, made by my mum. I wrote a post about that you can check here.
I hope you liked my new brooches and I hope you are having a lovely week end,

ciao ciao