Action / Noz tiny haul (crafts related)

I didn't get much things lately, money is too tight, and I don't find really interesting things that sound new or useful to me. It's like if knitting has taken over all the other crafts here :-( 

But I found some little treasures at Noz and Action

cute stamp and dies from Action, I always loved hot air balloons !
I'm not sure I'll use the dies, just the stamp is yet interesting 

can't remember the price for those who'd like to go and check, but it's less than 2€

From Noz I got this

this is a set of 2... borders ? They are sturdy, like made from cardboard and a thin foam makes the brown one "dimensional" too. Cutting them in 2 in the lenght (they are very long as you can see)  I could make nice roof tops for my handmade houses. And the price was ridiculous so... 

From Noz again, dies

what a nice set ! Couldn't resist ! I always wanted to get a branch or bush die, never found one that was that detailed *happy dancing*

and for the same price, I got this one too. I just LOVE it, it's a set of stamps and dies, to make cute tiny dimensional tree and house. As soon as I can find a replacement for my "thin dies pad" for my old Big Shot, I'm going to give it a try before anything else *major excitement*

I don't like much thin dies, I always prefered the big ones, that could cut thought whatever you used. But I don't find those anymore. In fact, I find really few things now... Our 2 craft shops closed, they were yet 35 and 45mn from home driving, now there's only a Cultura who carries nothing, it's expensive, things don't match, etc... and they are always short on everything. The shops closed not because of the concurency of Cultura, as they pretend, but because they treated their customers so badly that they stopped buying... Sad...

Let's go back to my finds : tiny beads from Noz for my Sylvanian Christmas market : not only they sparkle a lot, but they also already have the little hoop on top (and bottom, I'll cut one)

I planned to get a couple of pastels to help colorate my liquid fimo I found back behind a bunch of other silly things, thinking a couple of colours would match my needs. I can also use it to put some shades on tiny cakes, etc... But it was really expensive, like 2.50€ per stick. OUCH. I found this whole box at Action for 2.45€.... LOL... ok, this is perfect ! :-D

and from Noz again, I bought this set of MDF tiny "houses", they are very small and supposely made for scrapbooking, but I also use them to frame cross stitch and... make Sylvanian stalls LOL. This set is made of 2 houses, one being smaller than the other... you'll see soon how I used this set heehee
It was sold months ago, and they sold immediately... so I don't know how this set got lost, probably because the shop is in such an incredible mess that you hardly find things in the racks, everything is melted, like if you dropped garbage and shovel it silly... be it food, make-up, toys, books, it all ends in a maelström of destroyed things....(I'll try to take a pic with my old phone someday, to make you laugh/frighten you)
Lucky me found this little treasure under a dozen of half eaten packages of cookies, an open nail varnish and a broken bottle of awful perfume (yuck), and a bunch of destroyed Xmas decorations. I have my technic (that I developed after cutting my hand badly on a knive lost in the middle of books months ago) : as soon as I get in the shop, I'm taking in the first racks whatever that looks like a stick, a long spoon, a curtain rod, someday I even grabbed a toilet brush LOL and use it to stir in the racks like if it was a witch soup LOL

My technic sounds like interesting as some people are usully following me, to see what I can make emerge from the trays heehee

Tiny haul (Action, Noz, Ebay) + news for my village

Hello ! 

I've decided to publish some news and pictures, mostly on my "private life" blog, but here as well. 

After selling another Pullip doll, I'm ready to let 2 others go (a Pullip and a Dal), as well as a couple of BJD. And a bunch of other things too... 

With the money I got myself a private bank account (finally managed it ! woohoo) not linked to my ex-husband one 

For those who live in a foreign country, I have to explain a couple of things for you see how mad my  country is....For exemple, if you are a woman who was ill and not working on your own (but doing much for charities), with a family account at YOUR name + your husband name, a woman who don't want to depend on social help and work it out alone with courage, when you husband leaves and let you alone with nothing but your eyes to cry the administration is punishing you all the way they can, like : you can't open a personal bank account. Yes... sounds silly ? Listen, it's more than this : you can't open a bank account if you can't prove your incomes, and you can't get incomes if you don't already have a bank account... Most of the time the French are bragging about our marrrrvelous country. This is making me sick. I asked for help at the social worker, who told me to deal with it. HUH. It's a pure luck that I found out there is only 1 solution, nobody mentioned it to me be it the lawyer, the social workers, etc... It's a SHAME ! Well, now that I have a solution to most of my technical surviving problems (I don't have money but I have a bank account LOL !), I can relax a litte bit. Not much because I've been even more ill, and I actually suffer silly. So, after paying for the account (much expensive than a simple one), I also paid for some wood coat, painkillers, and other supplies. Then I used the leftover to have some fun. I really need to have fun, no matter how...

First I ordered a very cheap die for my BigShot machine, I got it from ebay, we are talking about a 2€ thing. Here it is. You cut paper "leaves" and then can use them on a card, or build a tiny tree. Isn't it cute ?! It's SO cheap that I thought I can give it a try. Scrapbooking supplies are awfully expensive here, and you hardly find things (in my area, there is no craft store left, all closed except a Cultura, which is expensive and doesn't have a great choice)

isn't it cute ?!

I hope the postal services will not loose it... with my luck it's more than possible...

Then on ebay I got an hot air balloon for Sylvanian babies. I saw one a couple of times, and when I finally had the money it was sold. I wanted one with low shipping cost, and this one is matching my tiny budget ! As long as it didn't change the shipping cost, I added another little thing, a post box. I tried to add another thing, but then the shipping started to increase so ... no way.

I can't afford the baby windmill or primrose park, at least I'll have a balloon !

Then I had the chance to go to Noz and Action, 2 discounters (the shops are almost side by side, clever !), François was going there, so I could join him for the travel, and see if there is something new or interesting I can afford. 

Action :

I got another box of those cute resin pumpkins, they are so cheap it doesn't worth the time making them with polymere clay ! 

I was also SO happy to find 3 Christmas stalls kits. I could get 2 last year, and had no money to get more. There were 3 left only, so I got the 3 (less than 2€ each ! It doesn't pay the MDF !). Cheap, and really clever DIY kits

Now that I have 5, I'm planning to use one as a "beach shop" for my Sylvanian beach (I don't know yet what it's going to offer but I'll find out, someday... 

maybe it's going to offer shells, postcards, beach toys, flip flops, etc)

Another one is going to be a newspaper booth, one will go to the halloween tiny scenery, and the 2 last ones will be for my tiny Christmas corner. If I ever find cheap things for this. I have all the scenery (not Sylvanian) but no characters to go there :-(

Ok, then from Noz :

I already told you about a cute tiny kit I found when I could go to Lure, I found some more at the "local" Noz (still 30mn from home by car)

So I got those 2 cute ones

this one is the same I already got, just missing the box (I don't care)

and I bought a bag of "this and that"... I didn't know what was inside, but I decided to try my luck on it. Finally it had 2 kits inside (yeepeeeee). I don't know if those are complete or no, no decorating at all, but I can build the 2 "houses" so it's great ! They are bigger than the one I got boxed (on the left is the one I got in its box). I don't know what I'm going to do with those, but it's really cute, I'm sure I can use them to frame a tiny cross-stitched piece or use scrapbooking supplies, etc

I also got this bag of flowers and greenery, all the leaves are separated, so I think it can be nice to make a bunch of flower pots for my sylvanian town !

about this particular tiny kit, I first planned to use it the same way but I now believe that painted it could make a cute Sylvanian cupboard or shop display ! 

This week I'm going to town, so I'll probably try to get my hands on a BIG piece of cardboard or wood to make the surface for my sylvanian beach corner. I really wanted to have it in one piece to see no separating, but if it's too expensive or complicate to bring it home, I'll get 2 smaller ones... I tried several things for my water... I haven't find yet THE solution, but at least I know what is not working LOL

En cours

Petit kit acheté chez Noz pour 2€ et quelques, un peu de peinture de chez Cultura

colle de chez Action, et y'a plus qu'à !

suite au prochain épisode !