A compendium of crafts.

I seem to have been on a roll this last couple of weeks. It must be down to the lovely weather we've been having.
I've been continuing with my grand reorganisation of my little room. My button and bead collection is more organised now...

...they aren't all sorted, but I have utilised my glass jars and they now hold various collections in colourways....

....when they are all on the shelf together it will look really neat and tidy, a rainbow of jars which I can get to when I need to ( at last!)!
Whilst I have been sorting and shifting I came across some bits of old oil pastels, really nice colours. So I put them aside for when I'd done for the day so that I could sit down and have a play.
Here's what I came up with....

...I hadn't done any wax art for a couple of years, and I am pleased with how these turned out. All I used was the old pieces of oil pastel on some glossy photopaper which was given to me. The paper had been bought from one of the £1 shops, and for printing pictures on, it was awful apparently, ( no surprise there I suppose) but for wax art it was great!
I have some art frames and I may put these together in the frame.
I have also been going through my magazine collection. To be honest I haven't bought a magazine for a good few years, I feel they are far too expensive, have way too many advertisments and repeat the articles too frequently. So from the ones which I had saved and the ones which have been given me I sat and removed everything I wanted, the rest went into the paper recycling. Any that were complete were sent to the local charity shop and library.....

.... I have saved some lovely images, some which will be going into a collage on a wooden tray.....

.....and some are going to be made into tags and bookmarks....

.....I'm also trying to sort my collection of vintage linens and fabrics.
There are some pieces which are really old and have seen quite a bit of wear and have damage to them. But I'm on the rescue of these pieces and will be making something with them later on in the year. In the meantime, a couple of pieces have been given this treatment...

...they've had an overnight bath in tea, then rinsed out in salt water, then a gentle hand wash. Now they're on the line...

...they've turned out just right. ( Tea bags in compost bin of course!)
I've had a birthday this week, and I've had a Sizzix Big Shot as a gift and some Bigz dies. I'm having a whale of a time with them. Will I still be using my original Sizzix machine and Sidekick? You bet I will! But now I have the option of using the bigger dies it's going to make things even better.
On the agenda for the next couple of days is a knitting project to finish off, some background pages for scrapbooking, I will use my Craft Artist software to manipulate some of the pictures I've taken. The sewing machine is ready for action, I have some patchwork pieces to sew together, which were done a while ago and have been waiting for the " right" backing fabric, which I have now found.
This afternoon I shall be baking, I was going to do it earlier this week, but didn't get the chance.
The weather is still nice so I might just try to get a few seeds sown in trays too!
Who needs the tv when there are so many more exciting things to do!