An exchange (Ah kounelaki=little bunny!)

You might remember one of the exchanges I took part at Christmas was Secret Blog Santa organized by Zina of Efzin Creations.
This Easter Zina organized again an exchange called Ah kounelaki (referring to the Easter bunny).
I was the lucky recipient of Thalia's gift from this blog. Thalia is such a sweet artist and has a lovely blog where she shows her art and her town Distomo which has a tragic history. And of course all that with her sweet talented daughter Georgia.
Thalia sent me a beautiful gift but she showed great trust to the Greek Postal Service which unfortunately failed her.
Her beautiful hand painted pot arrived broken. She also sent me a lovely card she made along with her daughter and some freesia bulbs to plant. All in all a lovely gift.

 I managed to glue the pieces and the pot looks lovely!

But Thalia wasn't happy and wanted me to have something beautiful from her and not to be broken. So she surprised me with a lovely painting a few days later!

 Here is her painting and her pot along with Ahtida-Georgia's gifts. I will take them all to the beach house when we go there in summer.Don't they all look gorgeous together?So many sea colours together!

Here's what I sent to my recipient Dimitra of DimitrArt. I made her one of my stones and added some chocolate and a lovely soap from Karalis soap. As Dimitra is expecting  a baby I stitched her a little baby picture too that I found on pinterest in her favourite colour blue. The picture is by creativita and the frame by Tiger.

When she received the parcel and told me she is expecting a girl I made her another one in a more girlie colour!

Great exchange!Thanks Zina for organising this again!

Christmas bazaars(1)

I love Christmas bazaars whatever type they are, charity or professional, handmade or second hand.
I will cover some of the ones I went to in a couple of blogposts.
So last week I went for a little while to buy some handmade items from friends who were selling at Pillbox, a professional bazaar that takes place many times a year. This time it was at Kitchen Bar.
I bought this lovely cushion for my nephew from Anna of Inmycloset/ inmyc on etsy.

 Here is Anna of inmycloset with her sister Vasso of Metodahtylostovaso blog of great sweets.

 And their amazing cushions.

And this very beautiful pendant from Erasmia of Erasmia's Handcrafted Jewels.

 Then on Wednesday I went to the bazaar that takes place every year at the Ethnological Museum of my city. This lasts 5 days, finishes on the 22nd December,that's today in the evening, and has lovely handmade things and many activities for children.
I bought a wreath (unfortunately I didn't take a card from the seller).

and they gave me this lovely ornament made out of the bottoms of soft drink cans.Great idea isn't it?

I also bought a pair of funny earrings from Da Faux Creations.

 Look how beautiful all of Kassiani's creations are.

 I also bought a fabric bracelet and hair accessory from Fani of Skeftomai kai Ravo. 

Fani always brings her ingenious ladder/shop.

And I also loved my friend Gioula's shop with lovely handmade brooches and wreaths.

Finally I bought a diary from the Museum shop for the new year! It is called Nero (means Water in Greek) and it is made with works of art by students who took part in a Museum project!

 I loved the detail of the little boat/bookmark.

Finally a bazaar I am unable to go to or take part due to the many theatrical performances we have. But it is a great one and many of my crafters-friends are taking part in it. It is taking place today at Rover Bar. It is one more I made it bazaar!
Have a look.

Some of my crafters-friends taking part are
Lale Soaps
Karalis Soap
Da Faux Creations
Trucs Trucs
Mammy Knows
Skeftomai kai Ravo
Erasmia's Handcrafted Creations
TriCreation
More about bazaars tomorrow.

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.

So last Sunday.....

...I took part in my first I made it bazaar exhibition! It was a beautiful experience!

The venue was great, Rover Bar.

The exhibitors were all great. I made many new good friends.
This sweet girl Giota (and her mum) of Princess Gallery.

 Gentle and helpful Andonis of Karalis soap.

 Sweet Anna, creator of Sortstoriz who makes lovely jewelry and framed art and ...

 ....who also used some sea glass in one of her creations....

Amazing  Lena of Lale Soaps was there of course.

 A very imaginative sparrowart Kassy I loved this axe lamp.

 The lovely sock toys and felted soaps of Maria's Trucs Trucs

 The inspirational seamstress Fani  of Σκέφτομαι και ράβω who very efficiently show cased her clothes on a ladder.Skeftomai kai Ravo means I think and sew.

Lovely Erasmia's liquid glass jewelry found at Erasmia's Handcrafted jewels.

 And great jewelry and scarves by Niki of Niki's handmade collection.

Here is my exhibition!

Of course I had to get some things.

A little handpainted dish with an olive tree branch by Helen of ArtfromHelen

A soap from Karalis soap.

A sweet and sour handmade sauce by Sissyspanoudi.

And finally this lovely blouse which hubby gifted to me by SeliniXrysoula SoulArt.

I so enjoyed the whole exhibition and I would like to thank all the relatives, friends and colleagues who visited.