Showing posts with label Abilmente. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abilmente. Show all posts

Saturday, March 3, 2012

I know it's almost spring...

... 'cause I've been to Abilmente in Vicenza, and it was the spring installment. So on with the spring spirit!

This is what I brought home from the fair.


I must admit I didn't appreciate the smaller size of the fair, although there was plenty of shops and stands and crafty things. I had fun anyway. I just didn't like the cake design section so much, especially when that way you end up with less space for other creativity fields... Enough with the rambling.


I bought some quilting notion: a bigger rule (Omnigrid) that I paid half of the one that's half its size; a magic pen, water washable, for the quilting.


There also was the national association, so I went to get my badge... finally!


Then I fell in love with this book that explores various techniques for paper, some easy and kid suitable, others a little more complex.


I was in desperate need of ribbons (baby pattern), bias, ric-rac and nylon string for beads.


Then I found those two essences: orange and cinnamon. I plan on making something for my bathroom.


These are cutter (for paper) that I bought for my daughter, who's very crafty with colored cards: and I didn't resist this other border cutter:


I finally found these (photo below - I don't know how you call them), to be soon used for key rings:


Some stamps and ink both for me and for my daughter.


A friend of mine gave me this stick of pure and organic linen: I must think of something to embroid, now, right?


And lastly: a wood heart that's almost identical to the one in my logo... had to get it!


On sunday morning I'll return to the fair with a friend of mine at her first experience. It will be fun! (again)

Friday, December 2, 2011

new kitchen curtains

My kitchen curtains were old (and, I'm afraid, a little dirty) and I didn't have a replacement to change the look. I went to my local fabric store and bought some fabric to make new curtains: I chose a modern style. This is how they came out:
the complete view
detail
The heart is one of my purchases at Abilmente: I actually bought the red ones for the kitchen and the brown ones for the living room, but the curtains in the living room are far from being completed yet...



With a fabric scrap I made a wedding dress for Barbie#6... nothing for the scrap bin, this time.






Saturday, November 5, 2011

Abilmente - Winter Edition 2011 : what I took home

This post is unforgivably late...

March and October are two of my favourite months, 'cause in Vicenza (Italy) - which happens to be 30km far from home - we have a wonderful fair: Abilmente

While in march it focuses on Easter, in october is all about Christmas. It's really fun and it's a paradise for creative souls... I always go and take home whatever catches my imagination... well, on a budget, obviously. I've found on my expenses that it's crucial to fix a maximum amount to spend, otherwise you end up compulsively buying just about everything. 

This year I was on a crisis-dependant budget, so I really didn't took home all I wanted, but still... 

NOTIONS:
that's for my cross stitch projects, that usually involve no less than 20 different colors... this should help me keeping things in order

again, for my cross-stitch, plastic bobbins to hold everything in place when stored away; stitch holders for my knitting projects; knitting needles for my socks projects (which I have, but never acted on)

RIBBONS AND STRINGS:
ric-rac and ribbons, intended for Smurfettes' costumes projects

something elaborate both for sewing and other crafts

some quality string, which I bought with package in mind.

I also bought some fabric, but I can't show anything 'cause it's secret projects related. That's all, for this year. Well, if you don't consider the brain overload I came home with...