I guess my motivation for crafts came back. Yay! Do you remember those vintage tins I made couple of months ago? Well, if you are a visitor of this blog for quite some time, you will remember them. Last night I worked on some more. These English tins are so gracious and I don't know why, I really love to create kits like these below...it's so fun. I've seen ideas out there from other people and when I saw these tins, I just had the insight right away!!! A composition of delicious materials that delights me so much. I think we women are drawn to charming and delicate things and that's how I wanted to ornate the contents of these tins. It must be filled up with simple + gorgeous pieces. Some contents are truly vintage finds that I took months to find. When I go to an antique shop I don't buy the first thing I see. I like small treasures, just like little toys. I am not a collector, but It's a pleasure to create for others. Go figure it out! I do things for myself and the next thing I am thinking about to make, it's a mini shadow box for my craft room. I show you later as soon as I get done. Right now the chaos reign over there and as I am a paranoic person over keeping everything clean, I just close the door of that room and this way I don't get so nervous! HA! Weird, hu?

I have new delicious things coming up...but, sshhhhh, copy cats everywhere. A good thing is to be inspired by others, but using our own ideas, looking for different ways, adding our own style and a BAD, very bad thing is to see people making things exactly the same to rush over Etsy (whatever place they like) and sell for much less, claiming their own creation...nah, not cool. It's a shame! I don't use patterns for my bags. Usually I drawn my own, they are very simple though. I like simple ways to make things. I love to look what people do, because I belive that the most you see, more creative you get, but I wouldn't copy others...sometimes people have similar ideas...but not exactly the same ones.

Supplies posing for a picture...those wooden spools I believe are pretty old... 50 years old or so...I grabbed a bag full of them...not easy to find around here. The crocheted flowers were made by my mother. She sent to me sometime ago...aren't they lovely? I can't crochet! Darn it! My grandma tried to teach me, but I had hard time and I gave it up. I was too busy climbing the trees!!!

Some of the contents of one English tin...stay tuned over my Etsy Shop. I am uploading them tonight or tomorrow...