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Retro Beadwork Trinket Box

Retro Beadwork Trinket Box

The trinket box treasure hunt has yielded another lovely little box [via Helen and Beadwork magazine ], this retro styled box, hand beaded, by Theresa A. Gozeski of Massachusetts, USA. I’m quite taken with the turqoise and coral colour scheme, which is so reminiscent of the 1920s while the seed beads whisper of Victoriana… It’s [...]

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Snake on a Sofa

Snake on a Sofa

A Snake in the Grass isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Not when it’s a luscious rich-coloured cushion cover, nature-inspired with a South African influence. This brick red and gold cushion cover features a mixed media of surface design techniques: • shibori stitched resist • block printed • screen printed • hand painted • vat dyed [...]

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Heart in a Box

Heart in a Box

The search for little boxes continues… Tonight, a fleeting heart-shaped hint on Etsy’s front page — I caught it by the merest of lucky accidents! — leads to an artist who’s new to me, Paula Manning-Lewis… Voila! Two lovely light-hearted boxes in acrylic paints on papier mache, as well as the stash-sized Red and Brown [...]

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Caution: Shower Curtain

Caution: Shower Curtain

The bathroom is supposed to be the most dangerous room, according to the statistic wonks. It’s where most of the household accidents happen… for those of us who don’t swing from chandeliers or keep sabre-toothed tigers in the pantry. Good thing theconnor has come up with a shower curtain reminder of the hazards of wet [...]

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Golden Tile Makes a Golden Box

Golden Tile Makes a Golden Box

Okay, so this is a little too small for a proper stash / trinket box. I don’t care, it’s worth a little rave about it anyway! (My Yorkshire penpal Lynn (who just emailed me the link) is clearly hinting for an early birthday gift… ahem!) This little box is all kinds of gold. The top [...]

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