Alberto Cozzi - a little bit of heaven in Florence.

Florence is a paper addicts heaven!
Of course it is well known for its colourful marbled paper - and you do see a lot of it once you start looking.
It was a lovely surprise to come across the first of many lovely little papery goods shops....and they had such delightful little cards.

And then we wandered past Alberto Cozzi - but just had to go in!

In the back you can see the craftspeople actually crafting with paper and making the marbled variety.
They also do book-binding and leather stamping.

Behind the counter is a rack of all sorts of interesting-looking tools!
(and those of you who are fascinated with tools will think they're interesting as well!)

I bought a few little gifts - paper-wrapped bracelets.

And paper-wrapped pens.

I wish we'd had more time/money/space to investigate more.

Highly recommended if/when you visit Florence.

Make your own - paper bunting

I'm still banging on about bunting!

You can make your own, in fact you can print your own -

by graceandguy

Or this fun birthday bunting -

by ewhoo

This little cake topper bunting can be personalised and how cute is it?

by ewehooo

Or you can be really different and have some bug bunting!

by dreamdigital

Have you got any favorite printable bunting sites?

This week's earrings and other creations

This week I have made a series of simple wire wrapped earrings.

I used to make earrings with these beads and use a bail to hang them, but I love the slightly untidy wire wrapped look.
So I ordered some more of the lovely Czech glass beads as in the last 2 photos, but in many different colours. They are such beautiful quality beads, so transparent, kind of like lollies!


Then I played with paper.
I bought these fabulous french inspired collage sheets from CharmedMemoryCollage and used some of the mountains of card I have to make some gift tags.


Then I got a bit carried away and used some of the leftover images from my scrabble tile necklace phase and made some more tags.


These are very time consuming and I'm not sure that they are a very sensible use of my time.
But, hey! I had fun!

In between I found time to get to the sewing machine and make this lady bug that A had designed for a commission.


Plus a prototype VW kombi for the Old Bar beach featival and kombi fest in October.
I'm waiting for a custom stamp that sugarskull7 is making of the VW logo, so Ican stamp that on the kombi.


What have you been up to this week?