OMG - I won a piece of art by Beth Billups

I entered a draw on Beth's blog tangled sky studio and I won, I can't believe this as I never win anything in numerous blog giveaway entries I participate in all the time.

Here is my name drawn:

And this is the most beautiful piece of encaustic art which I won and which will be coming my way from US shortly (it is a 3.5"x5" block painting):

I am so lucky, what a great start to 2012. Beth is an amazing artist who I admire greatly. More stuff can be seen on her website. Thank you Beth, you made my day and the year!

Beautiful and special Christmas presents

I received this beautiful canvas with painted poppies as my Christmas present from my friends Ala and Lloyd and their children Martyna, Karolina and our God son Max. The canvas was painted by Martyna who is nearly 15 years old. It is absolutely stunning in every aspect - the colours, composition and attention to details.

This little Christmas stocking was hand stitched for us by our God son Max who is 5 years old. A very special gift indeed.

Thank you very much to Martyna and Max and their family.

Crafty Christmas presents

It's the time of gift giving and what's better than hand made paper gifts. The below cards are part of two packs made to give away:

This is a sewing journal I fully made for Wendy from my Monday night patchwork group. I have been neglecting my patchwork/ quilt making but my friends don't mind getting paper gifts. The journal was made with coptic binding and I decorated and stamped the inside pages. The journal is tied with a ribbon and there are some stitched tabs inside. Here it is:

Christmas card for Margaret

Every year Paper Princesses draw a person to make a Christmas card for. This year I made a card for Margaret which is below:

Sewn envelope (front):

Back of the envelope:

Picture for my sister

I made this picture for my sister, she received it yesterday so now I can publish it here. It was done with the same technique as the picture I featured a couple posts before.