Happiness in the kitchen once again! Free Printable Little Cooks... Chefs

I know you all think my hubby is the greatest but he does have a few quarks that really bug. One of those is that he insists on having a bunch of junk sitting on the counter all the time! So I put it all on a wooden tray so that when company came I could quickly hide it away in the pantry. But I STILL HAD TO LOOK AT IT!  Recently I saw a post on pintrest where a lady had put all her tea necessities on a silver tray and knew that was my answer. I found one I loved at a local thrift store and on went all his junk.

I put his splenda in a little silver sugar (of course) his creamer in a little silver overlay creamer jar. Not that he drinks coffee... he has to add it to his hot chocolate to make it creamer...lol. I found a silver swan napkin holder. Our butter has always been in a vintage refrigerator dish. I used the sugar shaker for his garlic salt and his vitamins and hot chocolate packets went in the silver biscuit canister. Now there is happiness in our kitchen once more!

Be sure to click on the little thumb to go to the larger printable :) 

Studio progress... Free Scissor Printable

I am loving being able to work in my studio again. I made this cute little necklace with the tiniest little antique change purse.

 Not only am I able to create again but with all my supplies and tools in place I can now start decorating! I have just added a new "old" shelf that hubby made me from an old door and antique door knobs.

and I have to show off my latest find... a scissor light for my workbench. I was so excited to find this. I pictured it with an antique light bulb but I have ordered some reproduction Edison light bulbs to actually use.

Speaking of decorating and scissors... I thought this little graphic might look good blown up and framed. I think it would make a cute little card too. I hope you can come up with a fun use for it :) Oh and I almost forgot to say... check out the brand on those scissors she is holding :))

Don't forget to click on the little thumb to go to the larger printable.
Enjoy!

St Patrice's free printable

I made this cute little pendant for St Patrice's Day using a vintage bookmark and I thought you might like the graphic for it. I thought I would make a card with a detachable book mark but I don't have that done just yet :)) 

Be sure to click on the thumb to download the larger graphic :) 

Vintage French Chocolate Change Pocket Envelope Free Printable

I love this little change pocket. When a servant was sent to purchase something, the change was often put in a change pocket with the item to be given to the employer. I love this little French chocolate change pocket and I wanted to have it posted for Valentines day. It could be used to hold a little card or tea bag for a birthday gift too. If you click on the little thumb below it will take you to the printable graphic.

Enjoy!

This is what I was distracted on... the studio work continues. These are some crates I got from the craft store. I distressed them and used vinegar and steel wool to age them. I think they are perfect for Fairyland and some of my little theaters. My other distraction you can see sitting on the crate below.... Yep... I got a Pazzles cutter! You can copy and paste any .jpg into it so if you have software to open the cut files you can convert them to .jpg and just copy them into this cutter. I have just been going crazy finding all the fun cut files available! I will be making some stencils for the sides of the crates too. Just as soon as I figure out the software for it.. lol.

Valentine Car Window Card Free Printable

I love these little window cards so I thought I would post one more. Cut out and glue the bottom of the windscreen below where you see "Our House" so that it folds down. Cut out the "doors" and glue along the sides so that they open to reveal the verse.

Be sure to click on the little thumb and save the larger printable 

Enjoy

Studio Update

I am not quite ready to show the entire studio redo but I thought I would share a few pictures.

As much as I love my new-old sewing trunk, the sewing space is a little cramped. For everyday sewing and mending it is fine but for those time I need a larger surface it sucked. So we picked up this old sewing machine cabinet on Craigeslist and removed the sewing machine and turned it into a sewing table. Here is a picture of the before.

and then the after...

The top folds over for even more work surface and since this picture was taken I bought one of those little pads so your cell phone wont slip off the dash of your car and placed it on the treadle for my foot peddle...worked great :) 

Then my printer was a big problem. It is a professional version color laser so it was large and just doesn't fit the theme of the room. So we bought an old Victrola cabinet for it. I forgot to take a before picture but here is the after picture. 

   

 And then... check out what I scored on Craigeslist this week!

Yep... a whole bunch of vintage locker baskets!
I am an organizational freak and now I am going to have things more organized than I have ever had them before :))

Free Printable Valentine Cupid's Window

I thought that with valentine coming soon that you all might like this little 

Valentine. I even put my favorite cherub in the window. Cut the little shutters out and glue the hinge sections to the sides of the window. Then you can either write your own message inside the shutter or just use the whole thing as your card front and place your message inside. 

Be sure to click on the thumb above to go to the larger printable!
Enjoy!
Inka

Inka's free online workshops are back online!

I don't no if you noticed but my free online workshops have been offline for several months. I was hosting them on my daughter in law's website and when she went out of business she let her domain go. I did not even realize they were gone...lol. But for those of you who did here is the new link to my own domain http://alteredartifacts.net   You can also find the link on the left hand sidebar...so check out all the fun projects and free downloads that you will find there too!
Enjoy!
Inka

Little Glitter Houses and Church Free Printable Christmas Ornaments

Yes Santa.... Inka is still alive :)) I am so sorry it has been so long and I had some great free Christmas graphics planned. Not to mention I wanted to get my Nutcracker Theater in my little etsy store. I made the characters from redressed Tuck and Sons paper dolls and the Theater is just an amazing Christmas fantasy! However I still have some work to do on the nutcracker character but he is coming along nicely.

It seems that the past few years life has just gotten in the way of my blog this time of year. This year my daughter in law was ill. It took the doctors several weeks to figure out that her gallbladder had problems, then the surgery, then the recovery. So during all this time I had my grand babies. Taking on a 14 month old when you have MS is an ENORMOUS undertaking! Sitting at the computer while watching him was mission impossible! Although his brother who is 5 helped a lot, by time I got him in bed at night I would just collapse. Then to top that off hubby has kidney stones and was on the couch for several weeks too.... no help there...lol.

Once the boys went home, I had Christmas staring me in the face. I usually have the decorations up and the gifts bought by the day after Thanksgiving. This year we skipped Thanksgiving and I was still doing some shopping the day before my big Christmas eve party. So I thought I would share some pictures of our holiday decor and the little graphic for my ornaments. I know it is too late for this year but maybe you can save them for next year :)

   Our tree was dressed in crystal icicles, little news print houses and little music print churches. The graphic for these will be at the bottom of this post. Also I glued a heavy wood bead inside the house to weight the other side. That way the little tree did not make the ornament hang crooked.

I wrapped the gifts in newspaper and burlap ribbons

The stockings were hung by the chim... well the coat rack with care :)) I made them from vintage lace table cloth and they are reversible. You can cuff them if you like but I ended up with too much to put in them so by Christmas they were hung without the cuff.

I thought they looked nice even empty!

The topiary was dressed in gold this year.

And my daughter in law did a lovely job decorating the chandelier.

We hung glitter snowflakes from the ceiling as we always do. This picture really doesn't do them justice. They spin and twinkle with every movement and it just sets such a holiday mood.

I even changed the display in my glass cloche for the season.

Well there you have it :))

Here are the graphics for the little ornaments. I used a free pattern from the internet and made the steeple to fit. I have included my copyright because of the background papers are mine. Your more than welcome to make and sell as many as you can make but please don't sell the graphic :) Just click on the little images below to go to the larger printable. If you link to this graphic, Please link to the post and not directly to the image itself... Thanks so much and enjoy!

Nightmare B4 Christmas Free Printable Printable Poison Bottle Labels

This was a special request and since it is copyrighted by the movie make sure you only use this for personal use... I would hate to be the cause of anyone getting in trouble :)

Deadly Night Shade, Worm's Wort and Frog's Breath printable poison bottle labels. Be sure to click on the little thumb above to go to the larger printable.