Art Recipes and More: December 2019

Hello my lovely friends!

It’s been such a long time since I blogged. Nowadays IG is grabbing all our attention. Really it feels great to be back in my blog and writing to you.

It’s been such an intense year. Lots of good vibes, loving words and support from all of you, especially through the period that I was having problems with my hands. I feel so blessed that I have you all as friends and really wish to THANK YOU one more time for your love and support. You are the power that makes my creative gears move.

Of course, it was not only a joyful year. Yep, it had its downs and I mean deep downs! I struggled with very sad emotions and I felt so depressed sometimes, that I could barely breathe. At some point I got a very bad review by a couple of people, who would supposedly help me to promote my art. They spoke so little of my work that they really broke my heart. So, a lot of that was the reason why I slowed down with my crafting. And on top of all that, two teenage daughters trying to show me that they can rule the world by themselves LOL.

Anyways, my dear friend Cathy Frailey organized this Christmas Hop and sent me an invite a couple of months ago. I found it was a great opportunity for me to be among good friends and talented ladies and also have some fun with Christmas crafting!

I decided to make a shadow box that looks like a home. I made one last year and now I’m thinking maybe I should make it a tradition haha. Each year a new Christmas Home. I’ll think about it. ;)))

Welcome all to Home for the Holidays Christmas Hop.

I had bought a set of desk organizing boxes from IKEA. It’s the LANKMOJ set and probably it’s discontinued, because I found it in the clearance section at 4 euros!

I’m not the desk organizing type. I’m just a hoarder, so the boxes were sitting there with layers of dust on them lol. One day, as I was tiding up my space to prepare for Christmas decorations, it struck me. I would make a new Christmas Home-shadow box!

The title of this Hop reminded me of Karola’s Witczak amazing paper collection “Home for Christmas” so that was it. To decorate the inside of the boxes, I used various Christmas miniature ornaments, that I buy every year when I visit the toy stores haha.

I really hope you enjoy the project and get some inspiration for your creations. You definitely want to hop on to the other ladies’ pages in this group and get loads of inspiration for your Christmas craftings. Below you’ll find the list with all the links.