Sweet Marie's Treasures

Yesterday I received a beautiful gift

by dearest Marie of

Lost Bird Studio.

I would suggest you grab a cup of hot coco (or whatever it is you love to drink) and make yourself comfy because this is going to be a post brimming with beauty and LOOOOOOOOOTS of photos :)

Ready?

Here's we go...

Sweet Marie had her 4th blog-anniversary and she wanted to thank her blogfriends by two most beautiful giveaways. And I was so lucky to win one of them!

Big YAY!!!

Because I'm a big fan of her beautiful creations.

First of all she had carefully wrapped the gifts in beautiful packages.

There was even a W on one of them! So thoughtful and sweet. Makes it all the more personal.

(In case you don't know, my name is Wendy, hence the W.)

In the bigger package I found the gorgeous handmade gift bag of the first photo.

When I opened it...

oh my, I felt like a happy giggling little girl in a yummy candy store!! I'll show you what was inside in a moment but first I opened one of the smaller packages

and found...

This superduper gorgeous pendant!! With a beautiful portrait of Miss Lily Elsie. You've probably seen her before or even used a photo of her in a project yourself.

I love love love this gorgeous pendant.

Thank you dear Marie!

Even the back of the pendant doesn't go unnoticed with Marie

and she made it as beautiful as the front.

On to the rest of the package...

Gorgeous lace, seam binding, buttons, old paper, pendants,
an old brooch, a most gorgeous cross...

All carefully wrapped and adorned.

Here's what it looked like when put together...

Dearest Marie,

Words fail to describe my gratitude. I'm in awe and inspired by your great and warm generosity and your talent to beautify the world around you. I feel blessed and honoured to receive this beautiful giveaway. Thank you so much dear!

(Update: I deleted the photos of Lily Elsie, because I'm not sure about the copyright. See more info on this subject HERE.)

Here's a little bokeh photo overlay, created with the silver goodies Marie had sent. You can use the bokeh in your photo editing, if you like.

I hope you enjoyed and are inspired.

Use the inspiration while it's still lingering.

So off you go

to your worktables now!!

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And I'm profoundly sorry if you ran out of coco now :)

for this was a long post.

Linking Marie's treasures to

Grey Dey Thursdey

Woops, no I don't, Michelle's having a well deserved break
for Thanksgiving with her loved ones.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
I'll be making a blog-visits-round very soon!

xx Wen