Pineconeprim: pendants

Saturday, February 5, 2011

To Etsy that is.

I'd heard many a mention of it for ages

but finally went there yesterday to check out Dottie Angel's notebooks.

This morning I got an email with many things to drool over

but the one that caught my eye was this.

I've loved pendants ever since I found this in an op shop last year....

one of my favourite bits of jewellery.

And I've always loved images of old ships in rolling waves,

maybe it's a hangover from childhood days of reading

Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

The pendants were sold out.

So I explored further and found

this......

and this.....

and these.

Be still my beating heart.

But which one to choose.

Which one would you choose?

I got a wild idea...

did a bit more exploring

and purchased a set of 10 blank pendants.

So now I can make my own

and I've collected many vintage childrens books with the intention of one day making cards from the images.

I think some of them would be perfect for this project.

I'll let you know how it goes.

Get to know me

I love the smell of cinnamon and vanilla.
My favourite flowers are daisies.
My favourite trees are pine trees.
I always like to have the bickie jar full and a cake on the cake stand. I know...not that healthy, but so good to look at.
Autumn is my favourite month, although I do wish we had more of a change of colours up here in Queensland.
I love Anne of Green Gables and Laura Ingalls Wilder. They started my love affair with "old-fashioned" stuff.
I'm a boots and jeans kind of girl, but also love vintage skirts and dresses.
I like sewing and am in love with quilts at the moment.
I love reading. (I have a weakness for archeological thrillers and historical romances, but not Mills and Boon-type ones.)
I love old houses with character. No new estate houses for me. (Sorry Rosie.)
I love vintage/cottage/farmhouse decorating and pretty pinks and blues, with a splash of red for colour.
Polka dots can make me sigh with delight.
I have 4 chooks. They are MY pets. Another tick on my dream-come-true chart.
I don't eat dessert much any more. I'm not dieting, I just don't want it. (Does that mean I'm growing up if I say no to an icecream cone?)
I'll still always say yes to chocolate though!
I like to sit on the front stairs in the sun, to drink my morning cup of tea, while I contemplate what to do in the garden.
I've got the gardening bug again recently. It comes and goes with the weather. I'm envisioning cottage flowers in pink, blue and white to go with my green picket fence.