WISHING YOU ALL THE MOST BEAUTIFUL NEW YEAR!!

Dear friends, I want to thank you all ,for your support

here on my blog, for sending lovely messages, and

comments, and for visiting me, over again.

It has been a hard year for the world ,in many ways, and I pray

and hope there will be more peace for everyone, this coming year!!

I wish you all to stay safe and well , to experience 

happiness and joy, and to have a Happy New Year,

in every way possible.

With hugs and love

Dorthe 

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL , DEAR FRIENDS-

Very soon we have the Holidays and I want to wish you all a very happy Christmas time.

I hope it will be filled with beautiful and happy adventures for you all !!

This is a card I created for a dear friend !!

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And this is a beautiful gift I received from another very dear friend 

Marie http://marie-lostbirdstudio.blogspot.dk/

 The most wonderful and so lovely

card  and star.

The card  with the warm dressed girl , so very beautiful

 resting so adorable onto the cardboard, and the French paper, and I love the glittering snowflake

and the two tiny bells, all adhered to the beautiful embossed card.

And this stunning  and most beautiful star ornement , with lovely old paper,

laces and fabric. What you can`t see here, is that is so gorgeously

glittering in the light.

Marie also spoiled me with these beauties, to play with myself,

in white felt ,-you can see the wonderful paper she used behind.

And here the wonderful big snowflake !

Just had to show you the star hanging here, on a birdcage in

my tv room. Thank you my dearest Marie, I so love the gifts from you,

they are both gorgeous, and so adorable.

Hugs to you my friend .

And to all of you whom might have time visiting,

I wish you a Merry,Merry Christmas,

happy hours and joy, the many coming days !!

Hugs and love

Dorthe 

A GIFT OF WINGS AND BEAUTY !!

Hello dear friends. 

This is my latest Christmas card, which I created yesterday.

It is not real finished here, as I forgot to take a picture

of it after having distressed the edge around Baby Jesus ,

with Archival  Ink -Hydrangea, but that is for your

imagination to see :-) 

The background is very thin paper, sprayed with infusions

stamped with the snowflake stamps, and using 

a snowflake stencil.

But back to the gift of wings !! 

I was dearly gifted a handful of wings from a lovely

friend last week, and she also added other lovely

pieces made in moulds.

I so love these wings ,and would love to be able buying 

the mould.

And on top of all that I also found this ,dearest

stocking ,handmade and so beautiful with pearls and laces. 

Thank you from my heart , my friend,

you really made my day special and filled with joy !!

I as some of you know, started decorating, and here are 

a few of my little Snow-angels from last year. 

Each in woolen coats, and skirts made from

old handkerchiefs ,with laces. 

Each bringing love !!

Thank you for visiting me, you are all so very

important and a beautiful part of my life .

Hugs and love

Dorthe 

MY FIRST CHRISTMAS DECORATION IN MY NEW BIG WINDOW !!

Many years my dear friend Solvejg, made this tree for my shop, 

and I decided to buy one myself , it was green back then, but in my

new "white" sitting room, " it looks better in white, and my husbond 

sweetly painted it for me .

I have hung the most beautiful tags and ornaments

onto its branches,--all pieces I have received from

very dear blogging friends, over the years.

They are all beautiful, serene,

Lovely and sweet,

So beautifully created ,

All showing the joy , 

and spirit of Christmas.

I feel so blessed to have so many friends, with warm hearts

all over the world, and I treasure the different ,

winter creations, which are all unpacked, every year.

These are only a few examples , more will be added later .

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This tree created by stacking lots of paper bits on top of each other,--

another Danish friend created for a Christmas Market, I visited

last weekend.  I think they are so lovely ,and this stands in an old

silvery cup, which you unfortunately, can`t see, in the photo.

I hope your weekend have started lovely, and wishes you 2 beautiful days ahead !!

Happy Thanksgiving to all my dear American friends !!

Hugs and love from Dorthe,--

and thank you for visiting my blog, it is a joy

seeing you here!!!

NOVEMBER VERY SOON HALF GONE !!

So what would be more wonderful, than spending time 

creating a little Christmas joy !! 

This ornament is created from a wooden Christmas ball,

given to me from my very dear friend Lynne , together with the 

leaf and pom,pom`s , too. Thank you my lovely friend.

I first painted it all white, then used a lot of gesso to form the snow feeling,

and on the leaf I also added : Crust velvet white flock, showing up 

almost like soft snow. The acorns are filled with two pom,pom`s ,and around them I added

more of them, with a lot of Diamond Dust.

I made the flower, and added two beautiful real crystals ,

from where it can hang. 

Something else, a sneak peak of a card, where I used 

beautiful old embroidered fabric, another handmade rose, and even

some brown packaging material, from a packet from USA. 

You know I like to mix  fabric and papers.

And last, natures beauty!!

what could be more gorgeous, than these, almost ,skeleton leaves,

I found on one of my walks, and brought home !!

I hope you all are finding time to cozy up with ,whatever

makes you happy to create, and to enjoy quiet and inspirational

hours !!

Hugs and love

Dorthe 

SNEAK PEAK ON ANOTHER CHRISTMAS CARD .

Yes a corner of another Christmas card created last week.

I love this stamp from Artistic Outpost, and helped

the winter arrive with texture paste, and snow pearls !!

Remember to click on the photos, if you wants a bigger

look ,at them !!

Yesterday my husband and I walked 5 kilometers in a nearby

wood, and as you can see I only have to bend down, to collect

cones for this years decorations , they are there in their thousands!!

Here on Bornholm we still have many green leaves on the trees, only few are becoming yellow.

The warm Baltic Sea, still hold sommers warmth !!

A grey day, but still with a little pale sun shining on the beautiful sea!!

This week starting tomorrow, my dear grandchild Mathilde will visit us,

and I will therefore not have much time on blogs, or FB,

but see you next weekend again, dear friends !!

Hugs and love from Dorthe 

My first Christmas card , this year .

My husband and I had a walk to the beach last week, it was a cold

and half grey day, as you can see on this picture. 

All of you  knowing me for long, and knowing my former life , close

to the sea, can maybe also see the difference on the coast lines.

Where we lived before it was very rocky and not much of a sand-beach,

whereas here it is only sand and very small pieces of stones, in the sand.

There will surely be other pictures later.

And this the very last rose bouquet from my old garden. ..the new

owners arrive this week :-)

So here is my first Christmas card, I love the

Dinky stencils from That `s Crafty`, they have a wonderful

size , so fitting for cards, and this brick one, is a favorite .

The sweet deer was a gift from my dear friend Lynne https://lynnesbowsandbelles.wordpress.com/

and the background is a piece of tissue paper I found.

I used grounge paste for the snow, 

and the die of ivy fitted lovely here ,growing on the old wall, through

witch we can see the idyllic scene with the deer,and the geese emigrating !!

I so hope all dear friends in the areas of  Matthew, are all safe,

and without serious damages !!!!

I wish you all a lovely weekend 

Hugs and love

Dorthe