Owlsome video by James Owlsome

Oh my oh my! James Owlsome from England made an amazing sweet and funny video showing his freshly received owl by Wassupbrothers.
James , you are truly OWLSOME! Thank you So So much!
I watched it all day long , what a great work )

Inameliart + Wassupbrothers = Hedgehog Giveaway

Hedgehog lovers, Welcome :)

Autumn is here , what can be better on this rainy and gloomy weather?

Of course - hedgehogs giveaway!

 I am so  happy that this time I was joined by Lovely Amelia  from Inameliart

 She giving away wonderful  print from her  original hedgehog painting . 

 Amelia made this lovely print  specially for our hedgehog giveaway. 

And her  hedgie painting was inspired by one of my hedgehogs!

I'm so honored! So sweet of her! 

I'm happy owner of Amelia's paintings , and my collection of her unique art is growing.

The winner  will get both hedgehogs:  Wassupbrothers soft creature  and Inameliart

Hedgehog print.

 

One of my hedgehogs ready to get new friends.

 How to win the hedgehogs? We have  lots of entries:

1.   Be  or become a follower of my blog and Amelia's blog  via any of this ways: bloglovin, blogger, google or email

2.  Like Wassupbrothers page and Inameliart  page on Facebook

3.  Follow Wassupbrothers and Inameliart  Pinterest 

4.  Like Wassupbrothers and Inameliart  Etsy shops,

5.  Visit  both shops, and write in your comment, what is your most favorite items in our shops.

5.  If you have a blog, post on the sidebar of your blog picture of the giveaway  with an active link, or make a separate post. 

Here is the button :

 All the other  shares ( Twitter, Facebok, etc) are welcome  but not required.

Dont forget to leave  your contacts, so i can find you  in case  you win.

The winner will be randomly selected  at 16 of October 2013

Giveaway is worldwide , so anyone can enter.

Good luck everyone! Happy Autumn!

Swap the buttons

   Participants pairs:

 Amanda - Fern

                                                                     Olga ( me ) - Diana Phillips

                                                                               Lizette - Mirta

Zane Sproģe - Elisse

Felicity Lucero - Shelley Selwood

                                                          Alejandra López Domínguez - Olga (me)

Once you receive your partner email, please feel free to contact them.  

You can share preferences about buttons types if you wish.
Once you know who you are sending it too, it will need to be sent  
by the 27 of September . 

Lots of time so you don't need to panic!

I reminding you the ''rules'':

* Send at least 10 buttons!
* Send a mixture of different buttons, not all the same
* Be nice and don't send broken buttons, the buttons  should be useful. Send something what you will be happy to receive yourself.
* The buttons can be both vintage  and handmade, they can be plastic, glass, wooden, covered with the fabric, no any limits.... :)

* And the last important '' rule''  : Don't stress yourself much, Have fun choosing and making buttons  for your swap partner :)

* If you want to add some extra  surprises to your swap package, go on :) 

Buttons swap calling

You still have time to join my worldwide Buttons Swap here

I will add  all participants  to this list.
Please check this list, and if you expected to see your name here but it isn't, please contact me ASAP as well.

Participants:

Olga ( me )

Shelley Selwood

Alejandra López Domínguez

Fern
Mirta
Amanda
Lizette
Elisse
Diana Phillips
Zane Sproģe
Felicity Lucero

We dont have much people yet, but anyway i'm so excited, thank you everyone, who joined in :)

Buttons swap

 I found the idea of  buttons swap  in a few blogs:
 Butterandbuntings  ,  michellemach.com  and sweetbeadstudio.com

I think its such a great idea , much fun and inspiration for every crafty person.
Some  of my creatures are started from the button, i have many , and I think that there is never can be enough buttons in the jar :)

So if you want to participate in a buttons swap, here is the rules:

* The swap is worldwide, so please, be ready to post internationlaly
* Send at least 10!
* Send a mixture of different buttons, not all the same
* Be nice and don't send broken buttons, the buttons  should be useful. Send something what you will be happy to receive yourself.
* The buttons can be both vintage  and handmade, they can be plastic, glass, wooden, covered with the fabric, no any limits.... :)

* Leave your name in the comments below and email me ivanovastyle@ya.ru  with your email address if you would like to join. I will then contact you to give your details of your partner.  
* And the last important rule: Don't stress yourself much, Have fun choosing and making buttons  for your swap partner :)

Sign ups are open from August 19 to  September 2nd
 I will match up partners by September  7th, and  then i will  email you with   your partner name. 
 Once you receive your partner, please feel free to contact them.  You can share preferences about buttons types if you wish.
Once you know who you are sending it too, it will need to be sent  
by the 27 of September . 

Lots of time so you don't need to panic!

Yay! Cant wait to see who will be my swap partner :)

Feel free to tell your friends,  about this swap!

Moss Terrariums

I transplanted my indoor plants all day yesterday and made bunch of moss terrariums.
I wanted to make a moss  terrariums for a long time. After many beautiful inspirational photos on Pinterest i wanted to have  my own moss terrariums badly. 
 I tried to find some big and beautiful jars during  last week, but without great results, so i decided to make my terrariums with what i have. I don't want to wait. I cleaned up all the big jars i had and one bottle from cognac.
So here they are .
It was fun to make them, layer by layer. It is easy and interesting!  

 '' Grrrrraw'' says green dino moss keeper

Walace owl , my  owly gentleman

 

Little Mari owl - my little helper

 Totoro terrarium. This Totoro figurine was a gift from lovely Laura from Blueeyednightowl blog. 
I'm so happy to find right place for him :)

Photos by Igor Zamyatin ( MystHive)
http://500px.com/Mysthive
First 2  photos taken by me

And the winner is...

And the winner of  my ''Going crafty'' giveaway is..... Tara Coleman 
Congratulations, Tara!
Thank you, everyone for participation!
Have a wonderful august!

Jimmy owl moving through the Moscow night to the morning

My husband have his own little Wassupbrothers owly friend.
And he almost always takes Jimmy owl  with him when he goes to photo sessions.

Photos by my dear husband Igor Zamyatin ( MystHive)
http://500px.com/Mysthive

Here is what he said about this photo story:

''Once ,completely once. Just a moment ago. A couple of hours ago . And maybe not a couple , but more. Little owl walked around the city with me.
Moreover, he was interested in absolutely everything.
How burning the lights of colorful mosaics of large owlybuildings on the waterfront.
How a multi-ton buzzing Boas -trains hurtling through huge, like a river, paths here and there.
How buzzing bikers on their owlybikes ‘’ Vzhvzhvzhzhzhzhz…’’
like a hedgehog little Jimmy owl climbed and explored the night Sovngard-Moscow.
I certainly was there, and I was wondering, what is interesting to owl.
Unfortunately we do not always have something that can show us the other side that reflects us when we were the smallest big explorers of the world! But this time it was just the opposite. Yes!! And it is in this album . Hurry hurry. Look look!''

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Sweet find

Today on the way from the post office I found a lovely plate near garbage bins  
Somebody threw it and other crockery away . Why I drew attention to this plate?
Because my beloved grandmother, who passed away few years ago, has the same table set with leaves and birds. 
I always liked it!
I'm so  happy  to find this sweet remembrance!

Anniversary pigeon

My dear customer from Spain who ordered postal pigeon with the love message, asked to make a notecard to add for ordered pigeon for the anniversary .First time i tried to make something like machine embroidery with text. I hope it is readable ) I like how romantic it turned out.
Its quite chaotic) but its real me)

 

 

 Pigeon package is  in the way to Valencia, Spain now. Have a safe flight, lovely!

Little paper friends

Last week i was addicted on little paper things. I spent hours and hours on making tags, cards, and other things.

Here is my owly frame sketch for ( maby) stamp i want to use for making  tags.

Cutting simple  paper tags . I think they look like cookies :)

 Owly Envelope for a friend.

Little paper stickers - sheep and owls

Paper sunny day  for a little owl.

Owl with the new friends spending paper sunny day together

 Paper friends decided to add some color to the sunny paper day and was so happy to find this colorful trims:)