Currently loving this month...

Flower pressing, embellished stockings, spinach Pasties and pheasant feathers...

 DIY embellished tights from Park and Cube, , Spinach Pasties (image from Griottes), 'Vintage feather print' by missquitecontrary on Etsy

Ideas by heart...

I love this! I am all for anything stop motion and this is just too cute!!  By Annika Bäckström on Vimeo.

Valentines Baking...

This was my valentines day baking for my loved ones. I found a simple brownie recipe here. And then I simply used a heart shaped cookie cutter to cut out these lovelies.

Sorry I'm a bit late. I haven't able to upload the pictures due to technical problems but you can still use the idea next year... enjoy

mmm.... Lemon Frosting

These cupcakes were so easy to make and the perfect thing to do on a rainy day...

1/2 cup butter at room temperature

1 3/4 cups sifted all-purpose flour

1 cup sugar

2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 egg

3/4 cup milk

1 teaspoon vanilla

Wash your hands!

Pre-heat oven to 375°F (or 180°C)

Grease a 3x4 muffin tray
Sift dry ingredients in a mixing bowl
Add butter and pinch with fingers until crumbly mixture

Add milk, vanilla and egg to the bowl and beat until smooth and glossy.

Fill muffin tray half way

Bake for 15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of a cupcake comes out clean.

Makes 12 cupcakes.

I also found a really simple a lemon frosting recipe.

1 teaspoon fresh lemon rind

3 tablespoons butter

3 cups Icing sugar, sifted

2 tablespoons lemon juice

1 tablespoon water

Add lemon rind to butter; cream well.

Add part of sugar gradually, blending after each addition.

Add lemon juice and water to creamed mixture, alternately with remaining sugar, until of right consistency to spread

Beat until smooth

Note: wait for cupcakes to cool before applying frosting, if warm frosting will melt (And get very messy!)

enjoy...

Photos © Izabelle Butcher

Word Love

My little sister and I were playing around with our scrabble letters after being inspired by those lovely images from my post a few days ago. We decide to make lots of happy words and use up every letter we had, take a look...

I know... some words weren't spelt entirely correct, we did our best.

© Izabelle Butcher

Lovely layers...

These are some of my favourite layered artworks that I am inspired by...

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Geometric Nails!!

I was inspired by the nail art on eva foreva. I thought it would be pretty simple, although I new mine wouldn't turn out as nice as these. I loved the colour scheme of blue and black

These were mine...

What you need...

2 different colours of nail polish

Scissors

Tape

Cut 5, 11/2 inch pieces of sticky tape. Wrap around each finger leaving the section you want to paint.

Paint with first colour then remove tape.

Apply second round of sticky tape when first colour is still wet (when dry it goes flaky and gets pulled off, when sticky tape is pulled off) 

Paint with second colour and remove tape.

(Trying to take a photo with my left hand and with wet nails= disaster photography) hehe

And walla!!  enjoy...

Knock please

My baby sister recently asked me to make her a sign for her cubby house saying 'please knock'. I wanted to make something very cute and homely. So I used an emroidery style template from frankie's backgrounds...

Then I added some cute text in picnik, note: I kept with the homely theme.

And thats it! She loves it but we still need to get to a printer to print it out, hehe. Everyone is free to use it but for personal use only! Enjoy...

Oceans of Love

Some beautiful pictures from Ocean of Emotion

Adventure...

Have you every just decided that you want to just pack up your bags, get your friends, jump into the car and go wherever the wind takes you. Well these inspiring images make you want to do just that... 

Just gorgeous!

This one remind me of wanting it to be summer again

Such a cute picture...

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Scrabble letters

Right now I am obsessed with the look of cute sayings made from wooden tiles on gorgeous floral backgrounds. Here are some of my favourites...

'Wish upon a star' by Guerrilla nerd, 'Oh Hello' from an Etsy shop by Kate Loyd Photo,

'Go Somewhere' by on my toes for you, and 'Kiss me' by Smallbodies on Polyvore

The good things in life...

Couldn't be put better... from Lazy Explorers

Tea...

Green tea origami from an etsy shop by ItsDovely

How cute? Tea bags in the shape of little birds. I'd only have a problem throwing them away :(

Cute! Loose leaf tea bag DIY by A Beautiful Mess

Very clever how it's done... and you get to make what ever shape tabs you like. The hearts would be perfect for valentines day.. hmm, tea and breakfast in bed :)

Angie's Art

I just had to share these gorgeous artworks by Angie ann from Flickr. So cute and clever!

Valentines Cuties

Paint Swatch Notecard by Just Lovely Things

Kissing Hedghogs from an Etsy shop by GoodNaturedByDani

 

Heart Nail Art by Wonder Forest