Vintage flower buttons and broken hearts

I work as a maid. It’s not a bad jobs as jobs go and I’m not really one to care too much about what I do. When I started working as a maid I realised I wouldn’t be able to wear bracelets and the like. So that is when I became an earring convert. I made these three pairs in the last two weeks. The diamond shapes, the heart beads and the red and black crystals are new. Findings and ‘wire’ is from the stash and scrap bucket. 

Silver shapes with red and black crystals draped  below

Yellow and brown buttons from a job lot I bought a couple of years ago

Wire wrapped little red love hearts

Long Time

I’ve just moved to Torquay to live with my boyfriend Stephen but before that we where in a long distance relationship. I made this shrine to commemorate our first two weekends together and remind myself what we look like.  The picture is one that he had taken and emailed to me. I printed it off and laminated it for protection and extra shiny. I glued it to a jewellery box that a birthday present came in. The second I saw this I knew it was destined to become a shrine. The red glitter round the edges holds no special significance other than it being red and shiny. 

• The map and list of the train stops are for the train we used to take, four and a half hours at a time, to reach each other.
• The hands holding in the top are from a young persons rail card application form.
• The Chimp and the Orangutan are from Chester Zoo which we visited for my birthday.
• Tiny love hearts are punched out of a Vimto label because he drank Vimto for the first time because of me.
• That tiny little puppy is one of The 101 Dalmatians which we watched on DVD.