Crafty Foxes Christmas Swap

On Tuesday my craft group the "Crafty Foxes" had our hand over night for our last craft swap for 2011. The theme for the swap was of course Christmas. For my partner Alice I made a wee wreath. I guess it's not a wreath in the true sense of the word, but I think it's pretty rad. I have seen a load of crafts around the internet which make use of embroidery hoops and this is my attempt to use an embroidery hoop as part of a completed project. I even included a piece of ribbon to hang the wreath on a door (or anywhere you want to hang it).

This is what I received from my swap partner Hilliare - confused? So was I at first. Until I unwrapped everything.

The blue thing wrapped around is a vintage scarf (I can never have enough scarves) and the heart shaped things are luggage tags and finally the book is a travel journal. Some of you who have been following my blog for a while will know that I am going away for a few weeks in January/February to Phuket (for my cousins wedding), KL and Singapore - Hilliare made me some goodies to help me on my trip. She also reminded me I REALLY need to sort out the final stages of planning - including my hotel in Singapore.

Has anyone else out there been busy with Christmas crafting?

Wednesday Wardrobe Post - Purple

Here we go - outfit post number two! This weeks wardrobe challenge was purple. I actually don't own many purple things - which is weird. I don't dislike purple or anything, I just don't seem to have many purple clothes.

But I do have a pink, purple and blue dress that I bought from The Fringe markets for about $10 one weekend. Here's the fabric.

Next - here's the dress (with me in it of course!). Its a shirt dress - although its hard to tell under the cardy.
The photo this week is taken by my friend Kat outside Meow Cafe where we have Crafty Foxes, our craft group every second Wednesday. I think the graffiti behind me is pretty rad. I love street art.

Kat and I have decided to do our outfit photos together each Wednesday - we are hoping that our photos and outfit posts will improve over time.

Last time I tried this whole outfit post thing, some more experienced bloggers told me it was a good idea to have some close up shots. So here we go! My "Little Ghost" brooch which is handmade by me, I like this guy a whole lot. I don't make accessories for myself that often - I usually end up making things for others or just giving them away. But I love this guy so much. Here's a photo of Kat and I inside Meow Cafe, where we have craft group, you can see a whole lot of her purple dress and pretty much none of mine - opps! But you do get to see some of our lovely Meow cafe - its delightfully vintage. I like it a lot. Finally - just for fun! Although my slip is showing in this pic - eek!

Outfit Deets:

Dress - Op shopped - Fringe Markets

Belt & Cardy - Glassons

Tights & Slip - Who Knows?

Little Ghost Brooch - Made by me

Black Necklace - Diva

Doc Martins - Bought in South Korea

I would love to hear your thoughts - hopefully these outfit posts will improve each week.

Our Wednesday Wardrobe Challenge for next week is the 1940's - which I have to admit will be a bit of a stretch for my wardrobe. If anyone has any tips for 1940's style I'd love to hear them.

Crafty Foxes Movie Swap

Tonight my craft group had a craft swap - we have a swap approximately every six weeks. The theme of this swap was movies and my partners movies were The Dutchess, Marie Antionette and Bram Stokers Dracula. Given she liked period dramas and dracula I decided to combine the two in a vampric set of pearls.

Next up - what I recieved in the swap tonight - an amazing bag made by the lovely Sadie.My movies were all zombie based - Dawn of the Dead and Evil Dead amongst the mix. Sadie not only managed to pay tribute to the great "Evil Dead" on this bag, she also managed to incorporate Hello Kitty and cupcakes.

Zombies, Hello Kitty and Cupcakes - my three favourite things on one bag.

Also aren't her embriodery skills amazing - I love this bag so much. I want to frame it!