Purple rain

Well, spring is here! But here in Bergen April showers are almost all year round and inspired by this I have made a dedication to RAIN. Or my own interpretaion of rain...PURPLE RAIN. (the real stuff, not the Prince song)

I got the idea when I came by this cloud at Meet me at Mike's.  I made my own version and rummaged through all the material I had. I cut out a cloud from this material I bought in India.

I made the rain drops from fabric samples given to me by a friend.

I stuffed the cloud with dreams of sunny days and some polyester stuff.

 I joined it all together with some ribbon and...voilà

 

 ...an instant rainy day brightened.

Elephant ears.

My love of buttons and a new skirt got me thinking about some new earrings....

My new skirt felt a bit African...so an elephant seemed perfect.

I've made some button earrings before (they are super easy to do!) and require almost no equipment. You need, of course, a couple of buttons and some studded earring backs. You'll also need some strong glue for sticking the stuff together and a knife to chop off the loop hole at the back if there is one.



Make sure you leave them a good few hours before you put them on...you don't want to have permenant earrings!

And ...Ta Da! A new pair of earrings in one afternoon and a rainy day passed productively.