Hey Crafters

Hope everyone is having a great day and managing to get a little creative infusion into their lives.

If you have been joining us over at Retailgirl on Facebook,  you would of seen that last week Louise shared with us a little insight of her creative space.  Sometimes crafting can be quite solitary...(certainly for me as most of my crafty friends are online)  so I always find it really intriguing to see where people do there crafting..where there "happy place" is.

So if you missed it on FB here are some of the pics

Who wouldn't feel inspired to create sitting here at this gorgeous inspiration station.

 OOoooOOOooo

wouldn't you love to go crazy with all this yummy goodness.  It's a rossette rainbow.

Oh my this is a feast for the eye's...I gasped with amazement when I saw all these pearls as the are my absolute weakness and must have for so many of my projects.

What a treat to have a candy station like this!!  and this candy is so much easier on the waistline.

and there we have it guys a little peek into the world of Retailgirl.

I always love to see other crafters storage solutions and personal style.

thats it from me today I will see you soon with some more crafty carry on's.

Take care everybody and CRAFT ON :)

Tasha xx

Hey there - Tasha

 

Hey there

My Name is Tasha and I am so fortunate to be the designer here at Retailgirl.  Like many of you I started out as a customer I love Louises products because just like her I got frustrated seeing craft supplies that were so hard to get here in New Zealand.

 

As you can see our blog page is looking a little bit bare and we need to spruce it up with some crafty pics....some inspiration from myself and some of our crafty friends.

 

I have some big plans for our blog here at Retailgirl...so I will be keeping this lil spot of ours updated with fun stuff and all the necessary info you may need for tutorials...giveaways and all that good stuff and hopefully we will have Louise pop in and share what she has been up to :)

 

Here a few pics of some of the crafts I do using products from Retailgirl.

 

As you can see I love to use the flat back pearls for most of my flower centers.  Retailgirl has them in so many colours and sizes you are gonna need them all hahaha.

 

 

 Recently I have been playing around with the hot fix tool and the hot fix crystals.  Here are some of the things I have been making extra gorgeous with the crystals.

 

Blinging up some applique. I wish you could see this in reality.  The Aurora Borealis Crystals are amazing and they let out the most beautiful iridescent shine.

 

Had a play with dressing up some leather bracelet's.

These made some really cool gifts for friends.

 

My newest addiction with the Hotfix Crystals at the moment is customising Shoes and these are a pair of my daughters wedges that I got all creative with.  She wanted the crosses but the ideas are endless...hearts...skulls...stars...personalise with words...ooooo Im on the hunt for more shoes!!

 

 

So guys that's me for now.  Here are a few of my links where you can see more of my crafty carry on's and you will notice there are very few projects I create that don't have some yummy goodness from Retailgirl

 

https://www.facebook.com/WithAllMyArtSoul

http://www.pinterest.com/tashchanwai/
http://withallmyartandsoul.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/artsongandsoul
https://plus.google.com/u/0/

 

Craft on!!!!

 

Tasha xx

Welcome to the new Retailgirl Blog

So I thought I would start out with a bit of a story about me and how retailgirl came about.

My name is Louise de Lore and about 3 years ago my life changed forever.  My wee world came crumbling down and after the dust settled I didn't know what I was going to do.
So as you do when everything changes you pop on your PJ's and watch youtube,  then you watch some more youtube, then you think hey I can do that.  Next thing you are signing up to do swaps and making all sorts of crazy things you had no idea you could do.
The problem I had is that everything I wanted was in America or way to over priced in New Zealand.  Making a simple swap was costing a fortune.  So I did something about it.
I started out making ribbon roses and then selling flatback pearls.  I had my glue gun a pair of scissors some ribbon and about a shoe box (I still have the shoe box) full of other goodies.
I wanted everyone who was kind enough to support my endeavours to feel the way I do when I get a swap  from a friend.  So I loving wrap each purchase in pink tissue and decorate each parcel.  You may notice if you have purchased off me on trade me that sometimes your parcels are filled with lots of extra goodies?  This is my way of spreading the love and kindness that has been shown me.  I just hope that I can bring joy to someones day and maybe somehow that makes the world a better place.
 I don't own a huge scrapbooking shop.  I have a sense of humour.  I am addicted to flatback pearls and chiffon.
That's enough about me for now.  I better introduce you to Retailgirls designer for 2014 Tash and she can tell you about what we are up to.  I feel a giveaway coming on!!

The shoe box that started it all.

Bye for now
Big Hugs
Louise