Another lovely cuppa... treat 2 : )

... this time "the Art of making tea" at Waddesdon Manor. A FABULOUS day of cooking demos, eating wonderful cake, drinking Champagne and tea plus lots of nattering... perfect. Thanks Pippa x

A very nice cuppa...treat 1

Oh my friends know me sooooooo well - two (yes two) of my Chrissie pressies were posh tea and cake treats at swanky places. The first one last month was at the Mansion Bar and Parlour at Earls Court. Gorgeous interiors, lovely food and wonderful cake. Thanks Anthea x

Mirrors and other cuties...

Paper design copyright Stephanie Thannhauser 2014

Paper design copyright Stephanie Thannhauser 2014

Paper design copyright Stephanie Thannhauser 2014

It's always super great to see what folk have made with my designs. Lazy Susan at Lazysusanmakes has used some of my papers from Homemaker Magazine to create little pocket mirrors. They look so fab. Pop over to Susan's Esty shop here and see what goodies you can buy

BIG love to everyone...

Copyright Stephanie Thannhauser 2014

Craftiness at the NEC

 
Dashwood Studio's will be at  The Craft, Hobby and Stitch International show at the NEC, Hall 12,  KO6 next week. The show takes place on the 16-18th Feb so pop along and say hi to the Dashwood team and take a look at their FABULOUS ranges of craft fabrics.

Aasen Stephenson Deathhouse

Copyright Aasen Stephenson

I stumbled across Aasen Stephenson's work on the local website of Ferri photographer's. Aasen used to be a car mecanic who painted and created in his spare time using anything around him that could be used to unleash his artistic flair. As Aasen’s artistic skills grew he decided to turn his passion into a full time job. Aasen's work is beautifully hand crafted using only a blade. He has created leather dresses used on the catwalk of London Fashion week, unique designs decorating Zizzi Tops amplifier and has "tattooed" footwear for the shoe makers Jeffery West boots and shoes. Take a look at Aasens Facebook page and see some of the other fabulous things he has made.

Little notebooks

If you bought Homemaker or Period Ideas mags this month you will have unwrapped a little free notebook in the pack - I designed the little ditsey on cover of the books - super cute hey?

Stick a bit of Uncle Bob on...

...he'll bring the feeling of sunshine on a dreary day.

Cold, dark...mid winter brrrrrrrrr...

It's horrible out there so I've been snuggling up and crafting. I've been collaging, have gone pom-pom crazy (have been adding pom-poms to everything, watch out kids), making clay buttons,  and rejigging my blog - what-da-ya-fink so far?

Wordy love

The brief was simple: Valentines designs, wordy, glittery and newsprinty.  Lovely I thought, I like a bit of glitter and LOVE using texty print in my designs.  Here they are my "Mad about you" Valentine card designs I created for the folk at Second Nature, you can buy them here