Blog Badge

I finished work early for the Bank Holiday weekend, but Im home alone for another 4 hours so decided to get to work creating a blog badge, this is the result.... you can grab the code for your site if you'd like (just copy & paste) ...why not leave me a comment with a link to your blog badge too and ill happily add it to my blogroll  :)

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Folksy Friday #18

New Home

We've made the hard decision to move, weighed the pros and cons and decided it's time, we want a new house!  So now it's all systems go, hours trawling the local property sites, pressing our noses on estate agents windows and just desperately hoping something we love comes up.  We aren't asking much, just a little house with a bit of character and some outside space....somewhere that feels like 'Home'

Thats what sparked this weeks Folksy Friday, I hope you enjoy my choices. (pinks the link)

 Home Sweet Home Badge Set - BlackOutWell

Large Ceramic Heart Decoration - Dottery Pottery

Home Tree Print - Laurenade

Moving Announcement Cards - Little Bulldog Design

Home Cushion - Sixes and Sevens

Key Of The Door - Steam Punk Storm

Home Sweet Home - Wepo Cards

Home Canvas - Made by Kate D

Caretta Caretta

Archelon - The Greek Sea Turtle Protection Society

Caretta Caretta - Loggerhead Sea Turtles

We were very lucky on our trip to Rethymnon to have 3 Sea Turtle nests right on the beach in front of our apartment....and after a very long, hot day we decided on a late evening swim in the sea, only to come across one nest being opened :)

We watched eagerly as the volunteers carefully examined each and every egg...

and then this little man appeared...

he needed a little hand...

he was very slow, I only hope he managed to get out to sea that night,

if not im sure he loved the sunset as much as us....

Folksy Friday #17

An Olive Branch

Well I haven't blogged in quite a while and I've missed a few Folksy Fridays due to being on my holidays...so I guess what I'm doing here is offering an olive branch in the hope of enticing a few of you back to my blog.  We've just spent 2 glorious weeks in Crete and and I have some gorgeous photos that I'll share in a later post, but in the meantime... have a look at some of these fantastic olivey finds from some very talented fellow folksters (pinks the link)

Ceramic Buttons - Jude Allman

The Med Mini Illustration - Foss Design

Softening Footcare Set - Olive & Rose

Vintage Olive Green Baubles - Decade Design

Olive Dish - Caractacus Pots

British Shetland Tops - Knit Cave

Small Green Bag - Firefly Friends

....and I also have to share this bowl with you, I've hunted Folksy high and low and can't find it anywhere now, hey maybe its been sold! ... if anyone knows who made this, please let me know and i'll credit them on here, it's too gorgeous not to feature, cheers :)

** edit, thanks to the lovely Jude Allman I now have the designers name
Gillian Chapman Felts

the bowl doesnt appear to be in her shop any more but heres a link to her other fantastic Felt creations

http://www.folksy.com/shops/gillianchapmanfelts

Bird Swap

As I mentioned here, i signed up to Noodle Bubbles Bird Swap in June and I parcelled off my own little birdies to my swap buddy in the Netherlands, Ina......Well I received my parcel from her this week and just wanted to share some photos of what I got.

Ina was very generous and sent me a beautiful bird pin cushion along with lots of little extras too...including some gorgeous fabric, buttons, a bird decoration, a keyring and a handmade card.

Photographs from the bird swap are being added to the flickr pool

Thank you Ina!!! :)