EGST Secret Santa exchange

Although I am not active anymore in my little etsy shop I decided to take part in the
 Etsy Greek Street Team Secret Santa exchange again like last year!
It was great fun!
This is what I received. Eleftheria of Personal2Treasures was so creative and generous with me.
I received a huge heavy box and wondered what was inside!

 Amazingly inside there was a heavy glass vase filled with blue aquarium pebble. The vase was covered with a handknitted case which Eleftheria suggested I can wear as a cap and indeed I can and will. It is in lovely colours!

 There were tealight candles inside the vase too. Also Eleftheria sent me some polymer clay Christmas ornaments, handcrocheted coasters and a beautiful fused glass keyring.

In total a lovely package! Thank you Eleftheria.

I was to send my gifts to Emilie of Prosinemi. She had sent me gifts in a previous exchange.
I made her one of my stones in the colours she likes.

 I added a Christmas card I made, some cards to recycle, a book to read, and a jar filled with chocolate. The jar was painted by the Art teacher at school who is amazing in making such things.

 It was a great egst exchange once again!

Win a thalasseaglass giveaway on loribironicosmetics

Loribironicosmetics offered to host a giveaway of one of my stones. So if you like to take part just go there and add your comment. There are certain things you should notice please.
First of all the giveaway is open till the 17th February at 6 in the evening local time(Greece).
You have to follow loribironicosmetics blog by gfc and bloglovin, you have to leave a comment with the names you follow with and your e-mail and also join the group on facebook that is on the link at the end of the blogpost.
Go here to do all that.
This is the stone to be won.

You may leave comments on this blogpost of mine but to take part in the giveaway you have to go to the loribironicosmetics blog please.
Also if you want to see more of my stones there are still some of them on the shop.

New Year's Resolutions

Don't we all make?

Do you ever manage to keep them?

I try but do not always succeed.

2014 new year's resolutions for me are:

1. Refresh my driving skills and drive our new car!

2. Learn how to crochet!

 (I said this last year too and I made some effort and learnt a couple of things myself  from the Internet but need to continue)

3. Be more on time with answering my e-mails and mail!

4. Start doing cross stitch again!

(2013 wasn't a very good cross stitch year!)

5. Make lots of felted beaded stones.

6. Travel, travel, travel!

7. Organize my time, my day, my space better!

8. Keep off the computer as much as I can!

(I really don't know how this is possible!)

Photos that accompany this blogpost show my beaded felted stones that during the months of November and December were either given away as gifts or sold.You can still find some at thalasseaglass, my little shop.

Sewmamasew Giveaway Winner

So Sewmamasew Giveaway is over.
By Random Generator the winner of my giveaway is Number 32

...and the winner is  Deb@asimplelifequilts

and she wins one of my felted beaded stones.

You can find similar stones on more on my etsy thalasseaglass!

Congrats Deb.I will contact you!

SewMamaSew Giveaway Day- a felted stone by thalasseaglass

Hello and welcome to my blog!
If you are new here because you just saw my giveaway on SewMamaSew you are most welcome to have a look around.
You are in Greece and this is my little online home! I am Ariadne from Greece, a teacher of English, and lover of anything handmade as well as many more things like reading, photography, sea glass and travelling!
Today I am giving away this lovely beaded felted stone! I always loved collecting stones, sea glass and beach finds and I decided to incorporate them into one piece of art! Here it is, a decorative stone or a paperweight!A little sea garden that will make your desk, room, office, home more beautiful! You can find more of these in my little shop thalasseaglass.

Now about the Giveaway.What you have to do!
Just leave a comment on this post only till December the 13th, at  5 p.m. PST.
(For the local readers that's 3 in the morning of Saturday the 14th!)
In your comment tell me who you are, where you are from and what your favourite handicraft is which takes most of your free time. Don't forget to add your e-mail so that I can find you if you win.
I will choose the winner in random. I'd appreciate it if you become a follower of my blog but it is not obligatory. I will ship internationally.
Finished commenting? I'd recommend that you come back, with a cup of coffee to browse around my blog. You might find something interesting to read. Now go to SewMamaSew to find more giveaways to take part in! I know I am going to do the same!
Bye bye!
Ariadne
Edit: Giveaway is now closed. I will make a random generator choice and hopefully if the lucky person has a way to contact her I will let her know. Otherwise I will choose again.
Update!
The winner is comment number 32 Deb@asimplelifequilts! Congratulations!I have sent you an e-mail!

So last Saturday....

I took part in the Old School Bazaar Exhibition at Elite Cafe.
Although not many people visited the exhibition, still it was fun spending time with so many creative, talented artists.

Some photos from the cafe.

Here are photos I took at the bazaar.

First my own table.Thalasseaglass was there with lots of felted stones, jewelry, mirrors and bookmarks.

And here are some of the creative people there.

Maria of Make the Change jewelry. You can find her jewerly on etsy here.

 Vasia's Theredanemone jewels

 I loved that driftwood piece.

 Sweet Athena of Tsagiero Handmade and her lovely teapot.

 Sofi of Sofi Moukidou Jewels

 Poppy of Poppy's Stuff

 Lena of Lale Soaps was there of course and I was again her personal photographer.

 Heart Kingdom 

 Of course dear Karalis soap.

 Magda of Tricreation whose bags and pouches I really loved.

 Elegant Angelina of Angeldust

 Gentle Ioanna of Soul_Made.

She even had a piece of sea glass jewelry.

Last but not least our photographer Mak Semers of Tenebris.Apparel with his black and white T-shirts.

I have to thank this great guy because he took some amazing photos of the whole exhibition and made some amazing photos of my stones.

Here's one of them. I will show more in a future blogpost.

I hope I will manage to attend more bazaar exhibitions.

You can read about this event on Sofi's blog here.