Shop Update: Meal and Exercise Planner Set

Just added this little gem to my store!

Sorry I haven't blogged in a while. My husband and I have been looking at buying a house and it's seriously a mentally exhausting job! It pretty much takes up most of our Saturdays!

I've also been doing a few posts on Mockeri as well.

In between all that, I've been working on this Meal and Exercise Set for Tinys and Tea. It's got a Monthly Meal Planner, Weekly Diet Planner, Workout Trackers, Profile Updates and more. Go to it now for a more detailed description.

Hope you make good use out of them!

New Item: Bunny Valentine

I just added this adorable and loveable bunny folded note card ready for Valentine's Day! It's a printable file so all you need to do is print it out, cut and use! You'll have it forever and is perfect for writing a special note to someone on Valentine's Day. It also comes with a matching envelope!

PDF printable files are great because you get it a lot faster than something that has to be shipped over to you! You are also able to choose you're own paper to print on and can print it out as many times as you like.

Available in my Etsy store now!

Mel xx

New Polymer Clay Items

I've just done a batch of cute polymer clay jewellery items the past week. They include adorable cupcake earrings and cake slice earrings! I've really grown since the very first time I attempted making items with polymer clay! My fave items are the carrot cake earrings and strawberry earrings! They are all now available to buy in my store now, so go have a peek!

I've also made another set of hamburger earrings, rainbow earrings and also made a sushi plate and sweet plate that I might make into rings later. Unfortunately I ran out of earring hooks, so I'll have to order some more before posting these in my store!

Mel xx

Recipe Card

Keep your recipes organized with these lovely recipe cards designed from my own chef girl pencil illustration.

You get 10 of these lovely elemental, chlorine-free Ivory Tinted Board printed cards with a cute patterned cut edge and blank back.

You can buy this lovely Recipe card set here.

Mel xx

NEW ITEMS

Hello everyone! I hope your weekend has been fun so far!

Just a quick post showing some new things going up in my store.

First up, I've had a super nice customer request a special custom order of a gorgeous cupcake charm bracelet and ariel necklace for her daughter for chistmas! She wanted the mermaid necklace to look similar to Ariel from The Little Mermaid as it's her daughter's fave movie (mine too!)

I thought the necklace I made was sooo gorgeous that I had to make an earring set too! Unfortunately both the charm bracelet and necklace is reserved but the earrings are available in my store now.

I also made up these cute notecards with my sweets illustrations that pop out of the cards (like 3D!) There's 4 cards, with matching envelopes and they all have different sweets.

Lastly, I designed a helpful food diary/planner. It's a printable PDF format available in my store so all you need to do is print and use! Great for those who want to keep track of what they're eating (and make sure you're not eating one too many cupcakes before Christmas!)

Holidays and Celebrations,

Mel xx

MY FIRST GIVEAWAY!

Well you've been waiting a long time for this guys but I've finally been able to organize my very own Tinys giveaway!


What's up for grabs:
* Alice in Wonderland postcards (set of 5)
* 5 Let's Play postcards
* 5 Billy Goats Gruff postcards
* 5 Wonderland tidbits postcards
* 1 Girl with the cupcake folded card
* 2 Cupcake earrings (1 fruit cupcake and 1 with vanilla frosting and sprinkles)
* Matching envelopes for all cards (21)


To Enter: All you need to do is leave a comment below what your favourite SONG is at the moment. To earn extra entries follow my blog, and/or leave a comment beginning with "I love to..." on my twitter. That's right, if you do all 3, you'll get 3 entries! All followers on my blog will automatically have one entry.

I will be selecting the winner randomly 2 weeks from now so get entering! Make sure to include your email address somewhere so I can contact you.

Good luck!
Mel x

AWARD

A big thanks to Julie from We've Got Paper who gave me this gorgeous award. It's so nice to know that these appreciation awards are still getting passed around, I always love it when I get one!

So now it's my turn to do the same!

Rules:
*Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link.
*Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you’ve newly discovered.
*Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

Here are the blogs I've chosen to receive this nice award:

1. A Drawing Journal
2. Annette Quirke
3. Art Fan Ako
4. ArtMind
5. Avlor's Imprints
6. ChinkyMel's Corner
7. Clare's Craftroom
8. DeannaMaree Hearts
9. Elegant Bloggery
10. Grosgrain
11. Lilley Handcrafted Loveliness
12. Mithi's Creative Journey
13. take nothing but polaroids
14. The Candy Shoppe
15. Whimsy

Go check them out now! They're all very special!

Mel xx

Bobo in Neverland

It's been a while since I posted the next paperdoll outfit for Bobo. And since she's absolutely obsessed with the story of Peter Pan, what better outfit than a Peter Pan outfit!

Let's hope she never grows up!

Please note: this is only to be used for personal use and not for commercial use.

4th January 2010

A little while ago I told you guys that I'm designing a diary date page for the 2010 diary project which is run by the fabulous Lucy. Go here if you can't remember what I'm talking about.

Well, the design has finally been finished and here it is! The real one will actually be in black and white but I wanted to show you guys how I designed it in colour! It was so much fun designing this and I'm so excited to see the final completed diary with all the other amazing artists around the world!

The diary won't be printed until sometime in September though so I've got a while to wait!

MORE NEW ITEMS

And here are some more I've posted up in my store! It looks pretty good now that it's filled with all these new items if I do say so myself! For a while it's been pretty bare - I must not leave it for too long next time but I get so busy at work it's hard to keep up! If only there were more hours in a day....

NEW ITEMS

New polymer clay earrings!!! Cupcakes in every flavour - chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry with all kinds of different toppings! There's also ice cream and lollipops! Each measures approximately 1.5cm in length. More to come! Check out my store now!

I'm also thinking of doing a giveaway soon too! It'll be my very first giveaway so it'll be pretty special, so stay tuned!

Ta-Da!

A long time ago, I posted a few sketches I'd been working on and promised to post them up when they were completed. This is my first time using photoshop to colour these pictures and I quite like them (for my first go)! Need to practice a lot more though! Too many things to do and try! I'm going to send these off to print soon so they'll be new postcards in my shop! So excited!

BTW: For those still unsure about Twitter - it really is a great way to stay in touch and read about what others in the world are thinking and discussing! It doesn't take too much time and I find it a much easier way in making new friends! I'm already addicted, so create an account and join me now!! - tinysandtea

NEW NAME - IMPORTANT!

Hi everyone!

I have decided to change my blog title from "tinyshandmade" to "tinysandtea". The main reason for this was that I didn't really like the word "handmade" in the name. There was nothing creative or left to the imagination with my blog's name before even though everything I do is handmade and I love every handmade crafted object but having "tinyshandmade" made it too static. Now it has the addition of "...andtea" purely because of my addiction of tea and also the warm and fuzzy feelings you get when drinking it. Hopefully these are the same feelings you get when reading my blog. It also helps if you're drinking tea at the time :)

Cupcake Giveaway

This is exciting news! Cupcake obsessed Suzi from Minnesota contacted me in regards to some of my cupcake jewellery for a giveaway she's having on her amazing blog. It's such a great idea and something I may have to consider doing in the future! She's giving away a pair of my cute and delicious purple cupcake earrings and an adorable cupcake necklace to anyone that comments to her post SO GO THERE NOW before you miss out!

While you're there don't forget to read along her other posts and follow her blog, it really is an interesting read, you won't be disappointed.

Suzi - Thanks again so much.

NEW ITEMS

A few of my Alice in Wonderland Postcards have been delivered and are now available to buy at my store so come check it out!

A bit of fun: Dress Bobo

When I was a little girl I loved to play with paperdolls and would always try and draw my own. So I've decided to let you play with some of my creations! Meet Bobo, a small, cute and shy girl that loves clothes and fashion! Click the above pic, then right click and save onto your computer. Print on something quite stiff so it's easier to bend the tags and stick to the doll! Bobo is waiting for you to dress her up!

Please note: this is only to be used for personal use and not for commercial use.

If you go into the woods today...

...you're sure of a big surprise!

"Good morning Little Red Riding Hood" said the Wolf. "Where are you off to on this fine day?"
"To my grandmother's house. She is sick and weak and needs me to comfort her" replied Little Red.
The wolf grinned a toothy grin.