Wednesday Wardrobe Challenge ???

Hey guys, I'm not quite sure what happened with Wednesday Wardrobe Challenge this week! My friend Kat usually sends out the challenge and then I upload it on facebook - but I didn't get a challenge from here this week. However, she is pregnant right now - so perhaps she has baby brain.

My own wardrobe challenge didn't quite work out this week - so I decided to "borrow" a challenge from elsewhere.

I noticed earlier this week that Olivia from Wait Until The Sunset was taking part in the Aussie Curves Challenges, so I figured I would join in as well - I'm kind of crashing the party, but I'm sure my Australian friends won't mind.

After all - last week the Daily Telegraph did decide that the country of Aus Zealand existed (at least for the purpose of the Olympics) so I'm sure my Aussie friends won't mind me joining in.

Anyway the challenge this week for Aussie Curves was boots - when I saw that I thought it would be a great chance to wear my brand new suede boots. However, overnight it completely poured down and it was still raining a lot this morning. I decided that even though I had waterproofed by suede boots, I didn't really want to push my luck and wear them out on a rainy day. Instead I decided to stick to my trusty old Doc Martins.

I really love this dress at the moment - It used to belong to my friend Hiliare, but she bought it to a clothes swap party and then it became mine!

My bone bracelet from Rich - plus another clothes swap score, my deer ring!

I love this little guy - I got him in an "owl & fox" swap I did on Craftster - I have shown you all the fox brooch I received before, but I am pretty sure that the owl is making his debut.

In case you couldn't guess - Rich was feeling in a rather artistic mood when he took these photos! Makes a nice change from the same old pose (or perhaps it IS the same old pose, just from a different point of view).

I hope you are all having a good week - I've been taking in some film festival films, catching up on study and of course working. Here's hoping for clearer skies so I can show you my new boots soon.

OUTFIT DEETS:

Boots - Bought in Seoul
Tights/belt/cardi - Glassons
Dress - Clothes Swap
Brooch - Craft swap
Bracelet - Gift from Rich
Ring - Clothes swap
Necklace - op shopped, Hospice Shop, Kilbirnie, Wellington

Look what I got in the mail!!

Handmade Wellington taking a course in Turkish marbelling paper - it was pretty fun. I'll share more about Handmade Wellington with you all later as I have another course to do tomorrow.

Today I want to share some amazing packages I have received in the mail lately - I love mail. If you want to make me happy, just send me a package, even a postcard brightens my day.

Any way my first package was my friend Vany in Germany - Vany and I meet through Craftster - we have been paired not once but twice for swaps and our friendship grew from there. It's not often I meet a girl that likes horror movies, zombies and crafts as much as I do! If you've been reading this blog for a while, you'll know a little about Vany as we did a 13 Days of Halloween swap together last year (and hopefully again this year - although I will have to talk to Vany about that!).

I think one of the most awesome things about Vany is that she knows just what I like - in fact I think she knows my tastes better than many of my friends I see in real life on a regular basis!

Back when we did our 13 days of Halloween swap I sent Vany a book called Creepy Crochet - I knew she would love it as she does amazing crochet and the book was full of creepy cute projects. A while back she said she would send me a monkey that she crocheted from that book - but I got so much more than a cute monkey!

Here's a cute little nautical themed box I received (you all know how I love nautical themed stuff).

Here's are all the treasures that were inside, first up is of course the wee monkey from the book. What's not to love about this guy - looking fancy in his fez and matching waist coat.

Next up is this "corporate zombie" - this package arrived when I had been working 10 hour days, so I was feeling a little bit like a corporate zombie myself.

I have also sent Vany a book called "Zombie Felties"  - this is the second time someone has made this guy for me, but I don't care as they are both awesome.

Vany also put her own twist on the zombie felties thing and made me a wee zombie warrior feltie!

She also sent me the cutest squid brooch EVER! I saw one of these guys on Vany's facebook page, I think she has made it for someone for a swap. I told her how much I loved it and she made me one too - yah!

 I also received a whole bunch of craft supplies - including some of these melty bead things - I'm not sure what they are called, but you may remember that Vany made me some skeletons with them.

She also sent me a HELLO KITTY VERSION *Squee* I can't wait to make some of these, it is on my "to do" list for this weekend.

I also got this cute paper and a roll of ribbon - I'm sure I'll find something to do with these soon. I especially love the ribbon.

Sorry - this photo isn't the best! Vany also sent me a whole lot of super cute kawaii stickers.

Here's a few other extra's Vany also sent with the package - a couple of cute key rings and a nifty wee tin.

The other package I received recently was from Olivia at Wait Until the Sunset, some of you may remember the shoe clips I sent to Olivia a while ago. Well she recently sent me a wee package to say that you for the package, isn't she sweet?

First of all these very cute heart topped pins - the are nice big pins too, great for pinning bigger pieces of fabric together.

She also sent me this set of mini postcards - which are great for sending with swap packages and the like. I often find myself short of a note card (I go through a lot!) but this set has 52 cards so it should keep me going for a while.

Finally - my favourite thing in the whole package - a zombie Hello Kitty necklace!! Two of my most favourite things together. She knows me so well!

Thanks to both Vany and Olivia for such AWESOME packages - I love them both so much xoxox

Shoe Clips For Olivia

Some time ago, I wore a pair of shoe clips in an outfit post that I had made which I thought were kind of cute. One of my blogging friends, Olivia from Wait Until The Sunset , asked me if I was selling the shoe clips and could she buy some from me. I told her that I wasn't selling them, but I was happy to make her some.

I was kind of in a "craft rut" for a long time so it took me a while to get around to making them (sorry Olivia!) but they are now all finished and at their new home in Brisbane. I felt so bad for taking so long to make them that I made four pairs instead of one and here they all are as modelled by my gold shoes.

I was pretty happy how they turned out - I think I like the blue ones best though. I think I'll have to buy some more clips to make some more. Anyone out there in blog-land been up to much crafting lately?