Like a garden in your pocket...

"A book is like a garden in your pocket" - isn't that a lovely saying....

I recently used it to design a book mark for a dear friend's birthday. She loves books and words and is a wonderful source of information on literature and many other things....


So when it came to making her something for her birthday, as her skin reacts to wearing silver so jewelry isn't an option, I decided to make her a bookmark.


So I made a "pocket" and then filled it with flowers. Now her book is like two gardens in her pocket!

Giveaway and new guild website

I joined ArtFire a few months ago - an online artisan marketplace - and more recently I joined one of the guilds on there - the Fun, Cute and Whimsical (FCW) guild.

This week, the great Deb - the leader of the guild - launched our guild website (http://fcwguild.com) and for the launch, I'm doing a giveaway. You have to sign up before July 16th to be eligible - but all you have to do is enter your name and email address. One name will be chosen from all the entries.

The guild has two giveaways each month - the first on the 1st of the month and the second on the 16th - so check back regularly and see what other members of the guild put up to giveaway.


My giveaway is a bookmark with one of my paw prints on it - well - not my paw print, but those of a mountain lion :-D - so it could make a nice gift for man or woman or child or....lioness!


The guild also has a separate blog which will be combined with the website soon. So go take a look at the blog, website and the giveaway to see lots of fun, cute and whimsical things and also to see if you are lucky! Good luck! Hope I know the winner.....