Lilacs and Labels

 Here in my studio and sunny sewing room it has been a pretty week, with so many sweet garden flowers opening each day just waiting to be picked and put into designs.................

 ...............and a lovely new set of secret garden stamps to experiment with.......making pretty labels with some new lilac and lavender memento inks.........

 .........i've made secret garden key tags to add to lots of things.............embellished a washed out pickle jar with a label made from an old garden book page with a butterfly stamp and a little tie on seed packet and a length of raffia..............i so love playing like this :)............

 .................i also just had to show my pretty garden blocks in my pictures this week, made for me last year by the clever fee at chipper nelly here..........i enjoy having them around my rooms as i work.......

                            ....................i love this little lavender coloured bird cage..................

                                           ..............it was given a little key tag too...............

 ...........so was the crate of tiny bottles (the one that had six bottles but i broke one and never did find the right size one to replace it with)..................

 .............i love the colours of the flowers at the moment.....all shades of lilac, lavender and blue with touches of white............the roses will be out next but at the moment the garden is full of these soft colours.....

 .........more labels.........one of my favourite decorative things is a glass jar with a bit of text on it and a pretty label :)

........and the final label is another quilt label...............now that i've started labelling my quilts i'm enjoying designing and stitching them when the fancy takes me, in no particular order.......this is the rosy lavender quilt i finished last year........you can read about it here............... 

 ...............it was a pleasure making this label with it's tiny roses and pretty colours to echo those in the lovely rosy lecien fabric used in the quilt.............

 ...........this week i've begun a new applique quilt which i hope to show pictures of next time....i must also do a crochet update very soon too..............

............by the way, the little fabric birdie in the lavender cage is made from the pattern from my book *pretty patchwork gifts* here.........thank you for popping over to see me here it's a real joy to have your visits, lovely comments and emails.............wishing you a wonderful week, filled with flowers, sunny times and happy crafty moments........back soon xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx