MY One World One Heart Gifts

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I really enjoyed my participation in OWOH, and was the very lucky recipient of 4 gifts. Today, with the arrival of the last of the four, I am posting pictures of these wonderful presents.

From Vanessa, a stunning clay heart necklace. Her work is so beautiful!

From Sherry, a hand made tote bag. Fabulous! How did she know I have a thing about totes?

From Abigail, a charm bracelet! Can you believe that? I'm in a charm swap right now. Perfect! From Anne, another perfect gift for me, the ATC addict: a star album sized for ATCs, with someATCs included.

Thanks again! I love them all and greatly appreciate the heart that went into each one.

Buttons!

This week's challenge at Paper Imagery Designs yahoo group is buttons! Thanks to Angie, our challenges have two categories, ATCs, and miscellaneous, where absolutely anything goes.

For my ATC I did a transfer of one of the "pretty women" inchie images onto textured fabric, added some buttons, and mounted it onto a very layered background.

I recently scored a huge number of bamboo tiles from two placemats I found in a discount store, so I used one as a base for my miscellaneous project, a pin featuring a bunch of buttons and another "pretty woman" PID image.

PID ATC Swap

I'm back in the cold of NY after 5 blissful days in the Dominican Republic. Sigh....a wonderful vacation, but at least now I'm able to do some creating.

My PID Swaps Group is working on the lovely image of Avery for our March swap, and I just finished mine. Since she's wearing her wings, I decided to put her in a specimen bottle and give her a fancy latin name. "aer volatilis averyimus," according to the translator would be small flying avery. Well, I think the small and the flying are accurate, but I just stuck a latin word ending onto Avery.

You can't see it in the scan, but I gave the bottle two coats of clear embossing powder so it does look like glass in person. The bottle istself is a stamp from starving artists, and I really love it. My background is red glimmer mist (well, my homemade version) on water color paper.

Happy Valentine's Day!

To all my blogging friends, new and old, here's a valentine for you!

Have a wonderful day, and may your hearts be full of love.

Eileen

My Good Fortune

As if being a participant in OWOH and meeting such wonderful, talented, generous people wasn't reward enough, I was a winner in 4 giveaways!

From Vanessa, a stunning clay heart necklace. Her work is so beautiful!

From Sherry, a hand made tote bag. Fabulous! How did she know I have a thing about totes?

From Abigail, a charm bracelet! Can you believe that? I'm in a charm swap right now. Perfect!

From Anne, another perfect gift for me, the ATC addict: a star album sized for ATCs, with some
ATCs included.

Click on each name to go to their blogs. Well worth the trip.

Thank you one and all for a really great journey on and with the Gypsy Caravan!

And The Winner of my OWOH Giveaway Is.....

......Karen Klomparens, Glass Addict & Artisan! Congratulations, Karen! Now, all you have to do is email me your mailing info and my altered pendant will be on its way.
BTW, Karen does beautiful glass work, so check out her blog.

Last Day!

Today is the last day of the OWOH event, and what an experience it has been for me. If this is your first visit, and you don't know what I'm talking about, please click here to find out.

In the last two weeks I have had the opportunity...no, the privilege of meeting talented and generous bloggers from all over the world. I have been inspired, awed, amused and humbled by all I've seen.

It was my very ambitious intention to stop by every single blog on the list, but have so far only made it to about half....which is still a mind boggling 400+ blogs!

Sometime after midnight I will pick the winner of my giveaway. You have until 11:59pm today to leave your comment on my OWOH post for a chance to be selected. I will announce the winner here, and also notify that person by email. If the winner can get back to me with a mailing address very quickly, I'll be able to send out the necklace immediately. If there's a delay, it will have to wait until the last week in February, because on Sunday I'm going on vacation!

I want to thank every person who took the time to visit this blog and leave a comment. I have read them all, and am still overwhelmed by the response.

Good luck everyone! I hope you have enjoyed OWOH as much as I have. Thanks, Lisa for starting it all!

Altered Compacts

One of the latest swaps going on at the PID yahoo group is the altered compact. It is being hosted by one of my Design Team sisters, Miz Carla. Click here to learn all about this very cool project.

Here is what the inside of the above compact looks like:

And the inside bling, close up:

I enjoyed doing this so much, I decided to do a second one:



Both were colored with alcohol inks, then embellished with some PID images and assorted glitz. I filled the inside wells with seed beads before adding the flowers and leaves. Come to the yahoo group to see what some of my very talented friends have done with this challenge. Better yet, join us and make one yourself!