"Arts & Crafts" Tuesday : Craft corner wall hanging & re-purposing ideas for your creative corner

First, as the photo above says, thanks so much for visiting today ! :) It's always a pleasure to have friends stopping by & new visitors discovering my little blog. So old time friends, frequent or brand new visitors ... grab a cuppa & enjoy your few minutes here !
Since last Tuesday, I can't say I've been much productive or much inspired. Probably my mind's elsewhere (read = thinking about the move). Probaby because, like in anything in life, and like life itself, and like in a circle (which is life, btw), there are ups & downs, there must be downs so that there'll be ups afterwards. (the reason for always keeping hope !!) And vice-versa. LOL Not enough inspiration or dynamism will be followed by too much ideas or things to do !! (well, that's my own point of view !) And I'm not more productive when I have more time to use, and this is totally silly, I know ! Anyway. Here are my lastest little crafty happenings. First, I made another covered embellished Moleskine small notebook. The flower was handcarved & handstamped by me. Then, on Sunday afternoon, I made two bean bags for the boys, re-using the fabric from an old trouser of Chris', that I had recently cut. One got filled with rice, the other with half lentils/half split peas.It's a good way to re-use scraps of fabrics from old clothes (Chris' trousers were really old & had holes !). And you couldn't imagine all the uses I have found for bean bags ! (I should make a list, really ! LOL)
Another little crafty re-use I made these past days was cutting security envelopes into ideas small note cards, like the ones I had made previously. OK, this time I didn't scalloped the edges, I didn't have that much time to spend working on them. And I haven't stamped them yet neither, but I'll do, eventually, as they look a bit more attractive when stamped. :)Speaking about re-purposing or re-using, here is another idea for your crafty corner, if you haven't used it yet. Glass jars that used to contain asparaguses now contain buttons & other little bits & bobs (such as keyring etc), and now they're all neatly organized ...Do you think we like asparagus in this house ??! LOL Hubby thinks I do buy these on purpose to get the empty glass jar ... um ... who does he think I am ?!?! Ahem. LOL
Now, this is what I've been doing yesterday afternoon & this morning. A wall hanging / sign, saying "Welcome to my Craft Corner". Rather appropriate, right ? It's on its way to the Shop. I handstamped the words on a linen color sewing cotton tape, hand-embroidered the word "Craft" & other little doodles in the corners. There is a lenght of green crochet lace (that I had bought in Paris last month, remember ?). The floral cotton is 100% vintage, it was given to me by my mom, who had used it probably 30 years ago to make a duvet cover, and she told me that she's known it for as long as she remembers. The front is a stripey thin (100%) linen, and the back is a thick, more natural looking (100%) linen. The string that helps hanging it & that holds two burgundy plexi beads, is in fact hemp yarn. I love that hemp yarn !OK, that will be enough for today, I suppose.

Uh, well, no. I have one good news to tell you.
Yesssssssssssssss ... the appartment is THE ONE !
Woohoo, no more appartment hunting ... now the serious things will be able to begin. We'll contact movers soon to get cardboard boxes so that I will be able to start packing things ASAP. Not that I love that, but time DOES fly & I don't want to have everything to pack in June.
Can you say that I'm relieved ?! We should go there during our vacations in the south (April 11th to 19th), so I'll take tons of beautiful photos of the empty place. Chris took photos with the phone, but I doubt I'll be able to get them decent enough to post them here. Anyway, I'll keep you posted. Because, honestly ... you're so super excited about this, right ????! (sorry if I bore you to death with the whole move thing)

OK, must go list the wall hanging on Etsy. Bye, ladies. Do take care. And always keep your eyes & heart open. You may see this on your window pane. A friend coming to say hello to you, on a bright sunny day ... :)Hello you, nice to see you :D xoxoxox

PS : remember to save your files today. You don't want to loose them if there's a problem with your computer, don't you ? ;-) Off to save mine right now.