Louise Goodchild - Wire Wrapped Pendants

Be enchanted by these unique wire-wrapped pendants by Louise Goodchild. Her creations are mostly wired into (no pun intended) trees.

Louise's links -
 FB - http://www.facebook.com/LouiseGoodchildDesigns
 Etsy - http://www.etsy.com/shop/LouiseGoodchild
 Blog -  http://louisegoodchild.blogspot.com


Last Days Of Summer

The last day of summer, as the first leaves begin to turn, and the first spider spins a web for the morning dew to spangle. With late summer woodland anemones, and a fallen leaf caught in the cobweb.

Lazy Days

Inspired by dreams of lazy summer days, spent swinging gently in the sunshine, sipping something long and cool.

Apple Picking

Lilac Tree Of Life

Magnolia Tree of Life

Beaded magnolia blossoms on the tree and summer woodland anemones beneath

First Snow

Blue Bell Wood

There is nothing quite so beautiful as a carpet of vibrantly coloured Spring bluebells nodding their delicate heads in an English wood. These bluebells have been made from glass seed beads and wire, and the tree has been made purely from twisted and sculpted wire.

Harvest Moon

Goddess

The Arbour

Rest a while on this dainty wrought iron garden seat, surrounded by vibrant blooms, with daisies underfoot

Pantai Bersih

These photos were taken at the beach near my in-laws' place. Pantai Bersih in Malay translates as 'clean beach' but the beach hardly lives up to its name!
It's not exactly the kinda beach you wanna take a dip in - the water is icky, mushy and smelly, caused by the  mudflats that are exposed at low tide.

Itty-bitty crabs emerge from their muddy burrows to forage and court when the tide goes out

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
Victor Hugo

Idei si Creatii Quilling

Sharing these awesome quilled creations by my sweet Romanian blogger buddy, the very talented Aurelia Eugenia of http://aureliaeugenia-ideisicreatii.blogspot.com/.

Enjoy!

Quilled graduation diploma for her adorable daughter Dana. She's a huge  Lion  King  fan!

Love the quilled butterfly!

Hilarious Thai Ad

This ad is at least six years old but it's pretty funny and worthy of a post.


Wicked! Just leave it to the Thais for making the best commercials! Who would have thunk!!!

Ideas of Gi

Sharing these cute felt creations from a Portuguese blog that translates as "Ideas Of Gi".

Gi's blog - http://asideiasdagi.blogspot.com
FB - https://www.facebook.com/Ideias.da.Gi

Book Markers

Brooches

Owl Cake Toppers

Key Rings

Street Art

These photos were captured during a recent visit back to Hubby's hometown, Georgetown - a UNESCO World Heritage site in Penang. The paintings were by Lithuanian artist Ernest Zacharevic of international fame.

One for the album

Sadly, the paintings did not weather our sunny and wet climate well and by the time I captured these, time has taken its toll on them and they looked kinda faded, bleached by the rays of the sun.

Sharing instead, the rest of the artist's paintings from other websites when they were in all their original glory.

image credit - http://j-travel.blogspot.com

image credit - http://www.venusbuzz.com

image credit - http://allmalaysia.info

image credit - http://www.onlypenang.com

image credit - http://www.onlypenang.com

image credit - http://www.onlypenang.com

Norene Cox - Party Pincher

Dang! I found this site a tad too late now that the holiday season is over but there will always be an occasion for the new year, right?

SAHM Norene Cox aka Party Pincher dedicates her website -  www.partypinching.com to provide budget friendly party ideas for everyone, creating fabulous parties on a shoestring, using products found at any local party or craft store.

CHRISTMAS
Sweet Sleeping Christmas Mouse

This little guy is dreaming of Christmas morning, a no-bake treat that is so easy to make.

Sleeping like a baby. Marshmallow, Jordan Almond, Smarties, Fruit Roll Up and sprinkles in a walnut shell.

Roly poly Santa mouse is a white chocolate truffle dipped in red candy melts and rolled in red sugar sprinkles. His Jordan almond head topped with Smarties ears and a tip of an ice cream cone for his hat is covered with sugar sprinkles and white nonpareils. A licorice lace belt and tiny Chiclet buckle is attached with red candy melt too! Make this little guy and you'll be on the "nice" list!

Nativity cake covered with fondant and sprinkled with brown sugar. Gold fondant stars decorated the cake and manger. The Manger is made of graham crackers and shredded wheat. The trees are pretzel rods and fondant cut with a daisy cutter. The figures are Rice Krispie treats wrapped in fondant with Jordan Almond and Smarties heads. The sheep's body is a Rice Krispie treat dipped in white candy melts and sprinkled with white nonpareils. The sheep's head is a Jordan Almond topped with more nonpareils and two white jimmie sprinkles for ears. A large sugar pearl is the tail.

APRIL'S FOOL
Wouldn't it be fun to fool your friends and family with this shrimp mocktail?

Made of Kellogg's Rice Krispie Treats and fondant, with strawberry perserves as mocktail sauce and  a little slice of candy lemon and fondant chives for garnish!

Shepherd's pie? You've been fooled! These are created out of Cocoa Krispie Treats mixed with "carrot and peas" made out of taffy.

These faux buffalo wings are made entirely out of Kellogg's Rice Krispie Treats, covered in a brown sugar and tangerine glaze. The "bleu cheese" is actually marshmallow sauce with bits of marshmallow and the "celery" is green licorice!

Pizza cookies! From a snickerdoodle!

4th OF JULY

Fourth of July Flip Flops. Nutter Butter cookies dipped in candy melts and decorated with fruit roll ups, Rip Whips, and sprinkles.

THANKSGIVING

Super easy and cute cookies with all the trimmings... caramel turkey legs, jelly bean and starburst peas and carrots, and mashed potatoes made of icing.

Candyland

It's raining desserts!  Doesn't this look like a scene from the movie "Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs"?

Giant polystyrene doughtnuts, colossal cakes, ginormous candies  -  I am drooling a little now (okay, a lot)  just gawking at these pics!