Cloudberry Land

This Christmas was one of the best ever present wise!  For me best ever = not too many, but each of them special little items.     This year my family and I embraced the handmade revolution and supported small indie businesses.  I hope to be showing some of the goodies to you soon.

 I also joined in on 'Secret Santa' - a type of Kris Kringle between some members of the European Street Team (of Etsy sellers).     It was so good!  I was matched (by the lovely Mitsy who had the huge job of organising it!) with a person to send a handmade gift to and then another person sent their handmade gift to me.  My gift came from Ioulia Torres a jewellery maker from Finland.    Ioulia has a shop on Etsy called Cloudberry Land (love that name).

I was so lucky and happy to receive such beautiful things in the mail! I especially loved the 'pressure' earrings (above) she sent.  They are made from paper! - the black parts are handmade paper sequins  -and then put together with freshwater pearls on handformed sterling silver earwires.

I also loved this sweet reflector - it's a felted heart with reflective material on both sides that you can attach to your bag for when you are out walking on dark days and evenings. 

I was also very impressed by the postcard that came with it - it so nicely completed the package.  I definitely have to get something like this for my packages too!

So a huge thank you to Ioulia!