12 Days of Folksy, Day 9 - Home and Family

My perfect Christmas is..

Christmas at Home with the family

Jan x

#Folksy Friday Little Houses

It's that time again....it's..

This week, my #Folksy Friday is all about Houses, click on the links under the photos to take you to the Folksy shops.


This is my Tudor House

 Tudor House from My Folksy Shop

and my Love Heart Fairy House 

House with a Heart from Handcrafted by Picto

and from other shops on Folksy, here is a lovely necklace

Silver House from The Silver Rainbow

and a pretty painting of a lovely cottage

Cottage from Art that makes you Happy

every house needs a key, here's the perfect keyring

Keyring from Stitch Galore

that's it for this weeks Folksy Friday, I hope you can pop along and say Hi.

Jan x

 

Little Wooden Houses and Beach Huts

I do like it when I'm cutting wood, I don't have a fancy workshop, in fact I don't have a workshop at all. I cut all my wood under the gazebo in my garden. Great in the summer but I have to wrap up warm in the winter. Although by the time I've sawn, whittled and sanded I'm wiping my brow and removing the outer layers.
I've been making Little Houses & Beach Huts on Stands, some of you may of already seen them on my Facebook Page

A Village of Little Houses

This little 'village' has a Cottage, a couple of Tudor Houses and even some Beach Huts. They have been given a distressed look, the green bases have little ladybirds on them, you know I like my Ladybirds. The Beach Hut bases have been painted yellow and blue for the sand and the sea and there are 4 little fishes painted along the edge.

Home Sweet Home Tudor House

The Tudor Houses have signs reading 'Home is Where the ♥ is' and 'Home Sweet Home ♥' These signs can be changed around and can even be personalised. These look really pretty sitting on a shelf or mantle.

Love Shack

I made this Little Love Shack ♥. This and all the other Little Houses have been painted on all 4 sides and as you can see in the photo the house isn't attached to the base so it can be facing any way.

A Heart for a Love Shack

I've also been playing around with little fimo clay hearts dangling from wire, these could be used with the houses or even as bases for my Peg Dolls. I could use different charms or fimo shapes, maybe a sun, a cloud, the moon or a star. I'm enjoying playing.... ahem... working hard making these and have lots of other ideas in mind. As usual, you'll find these in my online shops (links up ▲ and to the right ►)


I'd like to thank everyone for leaving your great comments last week, I loved reading them, it looks like most of you put the writing after the photo you're talking about and I learned a few things about Ladybirds too.

I'm linking this post over to Lucy Blossoms link Up,   pop over to see lots of other great blogs.

Jan ♥

Handmade Monday

I'm lucky enough to live in an area that is not too far from many lovely buildings, many of them are Tudor, I love the black and white Tudor houses and one such house is home to a lovely little museum. The Ancient House Museum is a late 15th Century timber framed building, that now houses lots of interesting exhibits. Its higgledy piggledy with lots of crooked beams and sloping floors.

 

Ancient House Museum Sketches

I have done a couple of sketches of the house, a few tweeks and it will be finished, then I need to decide whether to keep it all black and white or should I add a bit of colour, what do you think? I'd love your views.

Ancient House, Thetford

I've linked this post to Handmade Harbour's Linky Party so grab a cuppa, follow the link and have a nosey.

Jan x