My friends make beautiful things. I just received these from Joan yesterday. I have a design specifically for them (which I did not have prior to receiving them).

I mentioned in passing that I would love buttons that looked like stone. I think these are just amazing. I have used her buttons in my designs before, but these have excited me more than the world’s largest fudge brownie.

And since I am plugging my friends today…

Claire makes outstanding journals, recipe books and hand made cards. My favourite is her teacup cards which are photographs of her personal collection of tea cups with gorgeous teas inside. They make the best get well cards ever.

Stephanie has the quirkiest collection of tea cozies and bodum covers made from recycled sweaters. She is my favourite “green” artist. She has also developed a new line of fibre jewellery that just rocks.

Oh, and I managed to collect the rest of my hand dyed fibre today. Without tooting my own horn, I find them kind of pretty…

From left to right: Hand painted roving of merino, bamboo and rayon. Hand painted superwash merino and seacell. Hand painted hand spun BFL.

And I’m knitting something super sweet, inspired by these peas.

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fibre manipulator on January 30, 2009 at 5:31 pm

Yippee I’m famous! Thanks Carmen! I love love love your hand painted yarn. The blues and greys and greens look like the ocean in winter. Can’t wait to see what you do with your new talents. Thanks Amalia for the Etsy idea, I really should get on that whole thing. Artsy friends are the best!
Amalia on January 30, 2009 at 2:24 pm

Wonderful – new addictions. I love, love, love, those stones. and the handpainted fiber is gorgeous (but you already knew that).
I wonder if the tea cozies could be made into wrist warmers? They’d sell like hotcakes on Etsy.
yarnpiggy on January 30, 2009 at 4:40 am

Oh, my! I want some of all of it!

Beautiful Things

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