Big Hugs To You!

A great big hug to all of you for liking my Joli Paquet kits so much. I am totally out of the Love Bird Wreath kits but I have a few Timeless Love kits left. All items purchased Friday and Saturday will be shipped Sunday. I also only have two Vintage Valentine-Embellishment Kit left. I am restocking the vintage style millinery flowers I have been creating and adding some new ones that I soo soo love! Oh and this is so like me....in the chaos of kits and sick kids I decided I HAD to completely rearrange my studio. The set up before just was not working. I adore how its turning out and can't wait to show you soon! Don't forget there will still be fun tutorials on the Joli Paquet blog!

Joli Paquet Valentine Kits

The Joli Paquet Blog has the unveiling of the kits today! They are ALL amazing! Here are mine. I am offering two kits. The first is Love Birds Wreath. It reminds me of the Victorian wedding wreaths! You will get everything you need except glue. The second is Timeless Love-Collage kit. Almost everything in it is vintage! Both have REAL silver glitter. You can find them in my shop tommorow.

Joli Paquet Kit Peeks

There has already been some sweet tutorials at the Joli Paquet blog so if you haven't been there yet you really should go! Kits go on sale this Friday! I thought I would give you a peek of my kits. You can preview every ones kits this Thursday at the Joli Paquet blog. That's my favorite part.

Nature Museum Tags

Nature Museums, cabinets of curiosity, naturalist, and ephemera are what really speak to my soul. All of these things seem to be about history. Which is kind of ironic because my husband LOVES the history channel and it normally bores me to death! I have wanted to create using these materials for a long time. Over the holiday break I scanned a bunch of my favorite ephemera, got a software program, and created some collages. I got a few of the images from the coolest etsy shop Shaving Kit Supplies. I just adore everything about this shop. I guess you could say I got my "start" with my paper tags. So the collages will become tags first. Then I plan on creating postcards, stickers, notecards, and more with them. My favorite is the squid. Which one do you like best? They will be avalible in my shop this week. Thank you all so much for your very sweet comments on my pictures being in Somerset Life. It warms my heart to know so many kind people are out there.

Playing With Pretties

I have been adding some pretties to the shop! I found some really pretty lace at an antique shop this weekend. Its bubble gum pink. I have a hard time finding pink so I was super excited. I also added some tarnished picks, new feather trees, and Valentine kits.

Just Tickled

When I got this beauty in the mail the other day I was truly shocked. I had loved the cover so much I was going to go buy it but then as if by magic it came in the mail! And then to find three of my pictures in it....well I was thrilled. I know it seems silly but to see my name in the list of contributing Artists between Sandra Evertson and Pam Garrison....is just really huge to me. Suzanne Duda also is in the magazine and posted a picture on her blog. You can see one of my pictures next to hers. I was really tickled to see my photo on her blog. These are just three of the wonderful women I look up too. I feel to be successful you really must have role models. And I feel I just couldn't go wrong this these lovely ladies. And what an inspiration Stampinton & company brings us, in all there magazines. I'm so glad to have found them all.

Joli Paquet Give Away

This is a gorgeous give away at the Joli Paquet blog! Thank you Cindy for putting together all these fun Valentine goodies! The tutorials start this Friday, January the 16th. Two more talented gals have joined us, so be sure to go check out all the fun.

GRACE

I have been reading blogs lately of people who where picking one word for the year. I thought it would be fun to do it too. Immediately the word GRACE came to mind. I really didn't know the meaning of it but, I had heard the word several times in the last few weeks. It really stuck in my mind. I started seeing and hearing it everywhere. For some reason I never took the time to actually look it up. Well when I decide to pick a word for the year the word GRACE was SOO big it took up my whole mind. I had no choice but to look it up. This is what I found: ==new answer== In the universal language of mind, grace refers to the relief we experience from the karma of repition of painfull experiences which only comes through understanding. When we understand how and why we have particular experiences, then we know how to do things differently so that the results are better.

I was blown away. This idea has been on my spiritual path for a while now. I just didn't know it had a word. To me this is a lesson: Slow down, be present, and listen. All the answers we seek are there waiting.....GRACE....

Valentines Day Goods

I have been working on Valentines day supplies for my shop. I really love working with all the pink and red! I like to think my Valentines creations are extra special because Valentines day is MY birthday! I used to HATE that! But since my hubby is such a sweet romantic I now love it because I always look forward to his sweet surprises.

Getting My Act Together

Yes I'm finally getting my act together! Joli Paquet is back on! Yea I'm so excited. The blog looks so pretty. Cindy did a faboulus job! I can't wait to show you my Valentine kits.
I have also reopened my shop. Right now I'm just listing some de-stashing items. But, soon I will have some things I have been working on for a long time.

What a Year!

What a year! I can't wait to see what this year brings!

A New Year

Its almost a new year! I'm busy dreaming up new stuff for my shop! I can't wait to share!

More Decor

I thought I would show you my Holiday Shabby Chic side. The tree is in my studio. The wonderful and lovely star garland is from my sweet friend Madai. I hope everyone is enjoying their holiday!

Winner!

We have a winner. I assigned everyone a number, cut them out, and had my kido draw one. I don't know your name but you said:

"I love your creativity. I have some beautiful tags that I ordered from your shop--they are so gorgeous that I hate to give them away!Wishing you a wonderful holiday season from Australia."

Congrats!

Thank you all so much for commenting. I wish I could send you all something. I really do. Well Christmas starts today for us and I have A LOT to do! I will be back soon with more Holiday decor pictures!

News....

Tomorrow is the drawing for the blog give-away. I can't believe I got almost 100 comments! Wow! I am blown away! I can't wait to announce a winner Friday morning. You can still comment until midnight tonight.

I will also be closing up shop tomorrow. I will be having a sale starting today! I will reopen sometime in January. I have a lot of new things in the works. I will be adding old but improved tags, lots of new tags, Valentines day goodies, vintage flea market, and destash supplies. I have already started going through my studio and have a huge box of de-stash items I am going to pass on to you at really awesome prices.

I'm very pleased to tell you we will be continuing the Joli Paquet blog and kits! Can you just imagine a Vintage Valentines Day?!

The pictures are a little vignette I put together on top of a stack of suit cases. I just love the romantic warm glow the vintage star has. I might just leave it up year around! I just adore all your very sweet comments on my decorating. Its amazing what you can do with what you already have.

Gift Embellishing

I have been wrapping gifts the last few days. I REALLY don't like the wrapping part. I'm not sure why. My husband is awesome at it. The gifts look perfect when he does it. I asked him this weekend to puleeese be the wrapper and I would be the embellisher. "But you do such a great job!" he argued. Needless to say the gifts are wrapped but the tape is showing and the corners are not straight. But the embellishments are fabulous! I found this gorgeous flocked deer paper at Hobby Lobby. The toppers can be used as ornaments after being opened.

Pearls, Lace, Glitter, And Stars Thats What the Holidays are Made Of

I'm way behind on Christmas decorating this year. My style and taste have changed sooo much in the past year that when I started opening all my boxes of decorations I was like "oh this will NOT due!" I culled my tree decorations to only meaningful ones and got rid of anything that had regular glitter. It just does not compare to glass glitter and silver glitter. I am ruined for life on glitter! After cherry picking my favorites (the family's too) we weren't left with much. So I have been making and hunting for decorations more to my style. Its a slow process but a very enjoyable one. So far this shelf is all I have finished. I LOVE it. Christmas past! I wish I could do the whole house in this style but the hubby and kidos would be so sad! I will show you more as I finish decorating. It may be Christmas eve before I'm done!

Thanks for all the comments on my last post. I am overwhelmed and tickled pink by all of you!

From Me To You

I have been overwhelmed at all the wonderful people I have found and who have found me though this blog. I read each and every comment! They mean so much to me. I would LOVE to give every one of you a Christmas gift but we know that's not possible. So I will just have a super duper give away. Starting today though Thursday the 18Th if you comment on my blog you will be put in a drawing to win this package. I will announce the winner Friday the 19Th!

Just Popping In

We had a lovely Thanksgiving and I hope you did too! I have been so super busy with orders, shopping, decorating, kidos and now a virus is making its way around the family. But, hopfully I will have time for one more shop update before I close for a few weeks. Im planning on coming back in the new year with new, bigger, and better stuff! In the mean time I feel a blog give away coming so stay tuned!