NEW PACKS ARE IN!!

So excited to share this with you!!!

The new pack are in store at Old Favourites!!

They are all bursting with vintage charm and lots of little bits for scrapbook layouts, card and ATC's and even off the page.

 and - they are a fantastic price too!!!

The first one is

                           Love and other things  $5.95

Around the world  $6.95

Sugar and spice  $6.95

run... dont walk to get your kits at these low indtroductory prices...

 and dont forget your twine is still 30c a metre!!!

go here to start shopping and a full list of contents.....

until next time MAD MEL XXXX

Sneek

At some gorgeous new products coming from Old Favourites....

go here to see what other kits are available...

as you were

Old Favourites!!!

 ok.... you dont need to listen to me whinge about the camera, photos or the computer any more.... but you get the idea...

and another close up.....

sorry - blogger is playing funny buggers with me and I am not sure how to make this close up closer up for you to see... squint and you may get the idea

Well this is an old photo and its one one of my very favourite photos of my little man looking all cute and innocent with snot and all.

 I have used lots and lots of goodies from Sam at Old Favourites. She is having a sale right now on alot of her stock so you should go and have a look and pick up a bargain while you are there!!

I have used a bingo card, a playing card, vintage monopoly card, vintage dress making alteration tag and lots of little tidbits that are all so cute and funky!!

Another Year on...

After 6 full years of Kindergarten, my time has finally come to an end. I am sad to be no longer a kinder parent, but with all the kids just next door at school, we can still pop in to say hi whenever we like.

So my baby girl graduated kinder yesterday - and I was very brave and didn't cry!! She was so excited and the kids all put on a little concert before the certificate ceremony and then we had a party ... then we came home and had some of her sweet little friends over for a play - love having little girls in the house, so much quieter playing dolls and tea sets and babies than the boys racing in and out with dinosaurs, trucks and footballs...

Here she is proudly displaying her certificate Another of my friends Daughters graduated primary school on Monday. Natasha is such a sweet girl and is always friendly and smiling and is the type of girl any mother would like their own daughters to be like at her age... so, using my Old Favourites Vintage paper pack {yes... its STILL going - such great value} I made this cute little gift box to put some hair clips I made her in...

and packaged it up with twine....

Congrats to you Tash, we know you will do well in high school, and to my baby girl!! :(

be good

Mad Mel

Deck the halls...

well at least the tree!!

In this house - the tree decorating is such a big deal... and I love Christmas... so we like to put up our tree early enough to be enjoyed for the entire Christmas month or two..or until I get sick of finding decorations in weird spots around the house...But our tree is not one of those "magazine" designer trees... with everything colour co-ordinated and beautiful ...its more of a mismatch of bits and pieces from school, kinder and just because .. but to me its memories of happy little kids getting older each year and adding their own personal flair to our tree.

So this year its my turn to add some flair to our tree - with these Bakers twine decorations...

and some funky fabric buttons

and my hand dyed doilies...

old favourites chrissy card

Remember that cute little Christmas Playing card I showed you from Old Favourites???

Weeeeelll.. I have made this cute little vintage Christmas Card using the playing card and other goodies from Old Favourites and of course my fave ... Bakers twine also available from here...

As you were...

Christams Ideas with Bakers Twine

Can I just say, I love using Bakers Twine, I think its my new addiction.

Since I have been playing with the Old Favourites Bakers twine, I have come up with some cute little Christmas Ideas for cards and tags that I know you will have to try.

They were really easy to do - sew around the edges of a stamped shipping tag with the twine and finish in a contrasting colour. I chose red and green for Christmas but the store has SO many different colours to choose from for all occasions, not just Christmas. Wrap your presents in beautiful boxes tied up with bakers twine for a funky vintage twist.

Try hanging flocked Christmas stockings on a string of twine and attaching them to a stitched tag, and again tying the box with some more twine

Remember those string art pieces around in the seventies? My Mum used to make them to sell at markets.... well they really were quite ugly, not that I would tell her that...
But my little card isn't ugly - I think its kind of funky and makes me want to eat a candy

cane - a peppermint one, not those yukky fruity ones available these days .....ewwww

I created this funky Christmas star by sewing the twine into the cardstock using the string art idea... Want to know how I did it?

Head over to the Old Favourites Blog, become a follower, place an order for some twine and ... as they say in the movies... all will be revealed... Whoa haa haa haaa (thats an evil laugh..)

Till next time sports fans... stay cool

Mad Mel

One for the girls.... with purple!!!!!

Have I told you all yet about how much fun I am having with my Vintage Paper Pack available from Old Favourites????
Well... I think this Lo shows just how much fun I am having.
This is one of my fave photos of my princess and I love how this LO just "evolved" into a very pretty page using the vintage book pages with a bit of a mist to give them colour ... speaking of colour... yes I did use purple..... but how pretty is it with the aqua!!!
Featured here from the vintage paper pack is the book and music pages, the cute little library card, the vintage bingo ticket, the red ticket wrapped in twine, scalloped music sheet and of course the yummy twine.
So this whole page came together without any patterned paper at all!!!
And I still have plenty left to play with!!

and some gorgeous doilies thanks to my sister... with the bakers twine and a purple bingo card ( because it matched the twine...)


and more swirly twine and butterflies punched from the book pages and the sweet little library card

do pop over to Old Favourites for a vintage paper pack and some yummy twine in lots of different colours... you will be glad you did!!
Thanks for visiting the zoo, I hope you have enjoyed your stay...

Thankyou to all that leave comments too, I do read them all, its like the postie delivering little messages all day.