Valentine Ornie (Felt doll)

Originally uploaded by Bella Umbra Designs

There’s still time to sign up for the Felt Art Doll swap with Alpha Stamps!

Please email me if you’re interested in joining the swap. Swap will be 6/5, dolls no bigger than 6″, sign up for swap closes 2/28 and dolls need to be mailed by 3/28.

Hope you’ll join in the fun!
bella @ alphastamps . com

The Sedlec Ossuary

Awww, Miz Lenna posted my Valentine Ornies on her Creative Swaps Blog! If you haven’t seen her blog - g’on and visit her. The artists that participate always send in the coolest stuff!

Le Parfumeur Rebelle is happy to announce February’s giveaway prizes ~ 10 mls of ‘Love’ fragrance, and ‘For Lovers’ massage oil presented by perfume designer, Diana Rajchel, of Magickal Realism.

Enter here.

I saw this on ArtByChrysti and I just loved it!

“I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn’t know, I held opportunity.”
-Hazel Lee

Made me think of the opportunities I’ve had, and what I have before me. I had better get busy.

The Rose of Jericho, the Lazarus of the plant world, held a cherished place in many Renaissance collections of wonders. When dry, it looks like tumbleweed, and rolls across the deserts of Mexico and the Middle East in much the same manner. But it is not dead. Add a small amount of water and the Rose of Jericho comes back to life, blooming bright green. Stick it in a drawer and it “dies” all over again, waiting to be resurrected at some later date, months or even years in the future. The process can be repeated over and over. In some countries, the roses are passed down from generation to generation and brought out to bloom just once a year, at Christmas.

source: My favorite blog

ATC swap - 6/5 Theme: Circus
Once again Leslie at Alpha Stamps has created the cutest collage sheets for the Circus swap! If you haven’t seen them yet - you can view them HERE . I’ve yet to find anyone who doesn’t love making or receiving ATCs sooooooo - are you gonna play?

If you’ll notice, it is a 6/5 swap. The extra ATC that the hostess keeps will be going to a good cause too! They will be auctioned off as a full set in a cool ATC box (that will soon be coming to Alpha Stamps!) to help raise money for artist Bernie Berlin’s dog (and cat )rescue A Place to Bark . Sign up by March 30th, mail by May 1st. Please email me at bella@ alphastamps.com to sign up for the swap

*The requirement for this swap is that you use something from Alpha Stamps,i.e., collage sheet image, rubber stamps, embellishments, etc, etc. If you sign up for the swap detailed information will be sent to you

I hope you’ll join in the fun!

For the second time this week we are getting snow!

It’s lovely to watch fall and to see the Oompa Loompas running around in it!

I am the editor for the “Bath and Body Blog” at craftgossip.com

Basically, I post about indie companies that I either know personally or that I’ve heard of or sometimes people even email me and ask if I would write about their website. Sometimes I even get samples and then I review them on the blog (which of course, is my favorite thing!) You know….small indie businesses - not the well established or huge companies that are already household names
If anyone would want to do a link exchange for the B&B blog (or for the Queen’s Obsession) just let me know! Above is the small cube if anyone wants to save it to their hard drive and use it. The linkback for it is http://bathnbody.craftgossip.com/

Thanks Lovies!!

Located in the back of the Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio in Rome, the tiny Museum of the Souls in Purgatory is a collection of bibles, prayer books, tabletops, and articles of clothing said to have been singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.  Read the rest HERE.