Free Vector Shapes – Florence Shapes

I have been fiddling around with different shapes and making them in to scatter and pattern brushes, and I thought I’d post these here for you all to play with to! When you open the Illustrator file, be sure to check out the brushes palette for some bonuses! Download CS3 .ai file – Vector Florence…

Monday Illustration

Actually I did this on Friday, but that’s between you and I. I’m feeling rather dizzy from working with resin! I have a respirator with a filter for dust particles, but it doesn’t work for resin fumes when it’s still liquid. I’m counting down the days until I can fiddle faddle full time with my…

Lace earrings – how perfectly lovely

You know I’m a sucker for craft and motif. On my search for jewellery making tutorials, I came across Prismera’s Lace Earring tutorial, and it reminded me so much of a pair of earrings I actually own! Last year I met Keena online, and saw a few pictures in which she was wearing these totally…

Wedding Favour Ideas from Cox & Cox

Created with fd’s Flickr Toys. Cox & Cox have some really cute and innovative ideas for wedding favours. They’re also favours you can put together yourself, without being out of pocket thanks to the horrendous exchange rate! 1. Wedding Matches – You can print on some nice card stock and create a box for these…

Trash the Dress!

I love the concept of “Trashing the Dress” but I’m still not sold on trashing mine. Ms. Polka at Polka Dot Bride reports there’s now an Australian site for TTD! My dress is going to be a labour of love, and I’m actually thinking of getting it professionally mounted as a wall display later on,…

My bridal bucket!

I’m almost sold on hyacinth for my wedding bouquet. I found this lovely picture from floristblogs.com. The bouquet consists of Sweet Pea, Hyacinth, Peony and Roses. This posy is so me it’s not funny – kind of vintage looking without being over the top tizzy, and it has a cascade of vines to “lengthen my…