Collections, brooches.

I have a lot of collections, so I thought I'd start showing you some of them.  

First off, brooches.  I have a LOT of brooches, retro ones, handmade and charity shopped!  Here are some of them. 

These are my handmade, by indie designers brooches.  Most of them have come from Lucky Dip Club boxes. I love my Daria and Jane brooches - they were a Christmas present and I wear them with pride!

I 'specially like animal brooches, so I have loads of those.  The gold one with purple stones was my Great Aunty Lily's and the silver one with aurora borealis stones was my Grandma's so they're pretty special.  The 'Jim and Ida Owen's School of Dancing' one makes me smile too, anther one that belonged to my Grandma. 

Sadly, my Shakespearean insult badges are too rude to wear to work, but I wear the 'I like big books and I cannot lie' badge quite regularly.

If you like my brooches you should check out Kezzies, she has so many good ones!

I wrote an article for Barnardo's Charity Shop blog the-thrift.co.uk with some top tips for creating a retro brooch collection, don't forget to check it out! 

Do you have any retro collections?

Linking up with Flaunt it Friday, Vintage Charm and Vintage Bliss.

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Christmas cards and crafts.

I haven't made many Christmas presents this year, only a couple of hair clips for my nieces and a brooch for me.  

I'm quite pleased with them though!  I made this kitsch deer brooch for myself to make my work uniform prettier.

These cute little deer hair clips are for my cute little nieces

I made a few Christmas cards, mainly for family members, using cute toadstool paper, 'Merry Christmas' washi tape and more deer buttons.

If you fancy making your own brooch, clips or cards my tutorials for them all are available for free on Guidecentral.  

Kitsch Christmas deer brooch.

Handmade deer hair clips.

DIY deer and toadstool Christmas cards. 

Have you had a crafty Christmas?

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