Checking In

Hello! Well its been awhile but we are slowly getting organised and have shifted, kids and hubby are settling in but my 2 year old took a while, she did'nt understanding why we dont live in our house anymore but in the last week she's started to come around. I've done NOTHING on the craft front, still waiting for dad to finish off the room that is going to be craft/kids room. With christmas around the corner well 5 days away!!!!! I havent been able to get anything done, we are still trying to sort out computers but hopefully after chrissy that will be sorted. Better run hubby is looking over my shoulder wanting to go to the tip.[move it sister!] That was him!! Will post soon! Merry Christmas to all:)
Cheers Janelle XX

Moving

Hello everyone! Just a little post to let you all know I wont be around for a little while due to the shifting of house:) I dont think I'm EVER going to shift house again, well once more when we build the house but apart from that NEVER AGAIN!!!! But we are nearly there and should be all moved by this weekend! I will be posting once settled and worked out my dad's computer(his is a wis bang thing) and once I've unpacked a little! So bye for now see you all in a couple of weeks:)
Happy Creating
Cheers Janelle XX

Packing YUCK!

Hello friends! I have not ditched you all I promise! But we have sold our house YAY!! With a very short settlement date and I only have less than 2 weeks to finish packing!!! ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhh!!!!!!! But on the bright side we sold and can now start thinking about building plans for our new house, so very exciting!! So in the meantime we are taking over my dad's house but I think he might be secretly happy to have us there! If anyone is wanting buttons please e-mail me at janelle@westvic.com.au, I will take orders but unfortunately wont be able to start making them until after the 17th November, with about a 3 week delivery, too much packing to be done!! If any of you out there have a craft room like me will probably understand why I am freaking out at the thought of packing it up! Is it possible I just might have too much stuff?????? Shhh dont tell hubby he keeps complaining "do you really need it all?" what a silly question!! So this week and maybe early next week will be my last posts for a couple of weeks due packing, shifting and organising computers, so PLEASE bare with me as I have a HUGE job ahead of me and I've only just started! I shall be back with my challenge entries for paula's scrapbooking place and then its more pack pack packing!!!!!
Happy Creating
Cheers JanelleXX

Opps I forgot!

Just a few things I forgot to mention ( have had sinus all week and the ol' brain is a bit fuzzy!) Firstly if you are after some buttons and were wondering how the hell to pay for them, just e-mail me your order at janelle@westvic.com.au and they can be paided for by direct deposit or a money order made out to Janelle Giblin. Easy Peasy!!! What I also forgot ( silly ME!) was to let you all know that the buttons are specifically made for scapbooking or quilting/sewing projects, difference being scrapbooking are coated in an acid free varnish and for quilting/sewing projects are coated in a varnish that can be handwashed. As I mentioned yesterday the postage is subject to how many packs are ordered for example 8 packs - postage is $7.30. So I hope I cleared up some questions for you thanks for stopping by and dont forget to leave a comment or even be a follower so I know who's out there in blog land!!:)
Cheers
Happy Creating
Janelle XX

Some buttons FINALLY!!

As I have been promising and promising and since the blog title is 'handmade buttons and embellishments' I better post some pics of what I've been up too! Dear Besty Miss Eb is off too a srcappy retreat this weekend and since her stash is low she put in an order and presto there you go a whole bunch of custom made Nellie G. buttons!!! So amongst the other orders and such I dropped them off to her this morn and I'm sure I left her with a big grin:) So here is a few pics of what I've been up too, the first one is most of my colour groups together and the pack in the middle is how they come.

This one is of my newest edition called 'buds and blooms' these are brill for using in the middle of flowers and if your after just some suttle embellies. This one is hot off the press and miss eb is the first to use them so I'm sure you will be able to check out what she came up with after this weekend at her blog http://welcometoebsspace.blogspot.com.au/ So pop on over and you wont be disappointed! She uses them quite a lot as she is my certified 'guinea pig' and she always manages to make them look fab! Thanks Eb:)!!! If you are at all interested you can simply leave me a comment and how to contact you or just e-mail me @ - janelle@westvic.com.au they are a 50 pack @ $6.95 plus postage and that varies due to weight, and the colours are as follows;

Candy - pinks

Ocean - blues

Earth - browns

Primary - red, green, yellow and navy

Black & White - black and white

Classic - dark red, white and black

Sunshine - pastels

Citrus - brights

Buds and blooms - a mixture as above

So if you're interested give me a bell with about a 3 weeks delivery. Stay tuned for more new designs as promised and maybe even a 'Made It' shop!!!!:)

Happy Creating

Cheers Janelle XX

Challange week 2 @ Paula's

Here is my LO that I did for Paula's Scrapbooking Place for the 6 week challange. I was quite surprised with myself as I finished it in about half an hour which surely has to be a world record for me!! And I didn't even scraplift!! YAY:) This challange's requirements was to come up with a LO using the colours aqua, red and yellow, this is not a combination I would usually use but I was fairly happy with the results! Thanks eb for the inspiration:) What I was REALLY excited about is the title 'PLAY' as I made it myself and made them into buttons, how cool! I was very pleased with the result and of course now have to add this design to my gigantic list of 'to do' designs. If anyone is interested please leave me a comment and I can give you a price/colour on what your after. I thought they worked really well as a title for this page and will have to come up with a few more combinations:) Well that's all for today and once again back to the orders!

Happy Creating

Cheers Janelle XXX

Yum Yum Yabbies

Yum Yum Yabbies! Just thought I would share a little hobby that hubby likes to do on weekends! He loves to go and catch some yabbies for lunch:) Last year he spent a lot of time researching yabbies and their habbitat to make sure they would survive in our dam and then stocked it up so this year we could eat them!! These particular ones come from a friends dam as ours arent quite ready apparently, although last year we did get some:) I didnt even get a sniff of these as he cooked them for the bathurst party at his dad's, boo hoo! I must confess I'm a lazy shell eater, I only like them shelled and delivered. Guess thats why I missed out! Anyhoo must run and finish orders.
Happpy Creating
Cheers Janelle XXX