Happy New Year!

Hey, I'm back!

I wish all of you a very happy 2009!!! May at least some of your dreams come true, and may the New Years Resolutions last for a bit longer than the first two weeks of the new year...:-) I know how it's like!

I have just come back from a fantastic holiday in Tropical Northern Queensland. Aahhh, such nice weather! I like the tropics, just right for me!

We got up to some exciting things too! The highlight certainly was a snorkeling trip at the Great Barier Reef!! It was just amazing, all the different colours, beautiful fish.. I think I even saw a reef shark for a few seconds.. well, it was a very big, grey fish, I assume it was a shark.. Luckily reef sharks are harmless, or are supposed to be at least :-)

If I knew where my husband keeps the disc with photos we took at the reef I could post some but it looks like I might have to wait for him to come home. :-)

What are you plans for the new year? I have quite a few: Ready? Here we go:

1. Develop more products for my shop
2. Start selling on markets
3. Open another shop where I can charge in Australian dollars
4. Post regularly on my blog (this time I REALLY want to try :-) )
5. Get a regular income out of my shop (That would be awesome)

just to name a few...

Have a look at these two nice cups I'll be listing shortly in my Etsy store

Floating candles...

I'm really keen to get some more new products happening in my shop. Especially with christmas coming up it will be good to offer some different products. I have just started experimenting with floating candles and am quite happy with the results so far. I just have to find a way to streamline the process of making them a bit better. This is how they look like so far:

I have to play a bit with the colour, same as with my melts. They will be up very soon as well, i have been playing with them for a while and they are ready to go up. I just want to try some different things with the colour, I hope it will work out.

Busy week so far, doing all sorts of things. And it is COLD again in Melbourne. Sooo annoying, i wish it was back to warm. Apparently, the four-year-old I'm looking after didn't quite understand about daylight savings (the clocks got changed to summer time in Australia on the weekend) and his parents explained to him that it is summer now, that's why the time is being changed. He understood that.

Consequently, he dressed himself in shorts and T-Shirt on Monday morning. Unfortunately, it was about 10 degrees and rain. He is not very impressed with summer this year!

Here is a photo of the new Queen-Anne dressing table for our bedroom. I picked it up at the Camberwell market for a song, such a great find! (please ignore that horrible carpet, one day, when I have my own house I will have beautiful wooden floorboards..:-))

my new stuff

Hiya everyone,



I'm back, I'm pleased to announce that all colds, coughs and similar annoyances are finally gone and I'm back to health. (That little stomach bug i had during my short stay in Sydney two weeks ago is not even worth mentioning...)



I am crazily busy at the moment, trying to add lots of new cups to my Etsy store. I found some lovely cups while i was out and about shopping. I seem to get more and more picky with choosing my cups, i only wanted the nicest stuff!

There are also a few things to organise for my upcoming wedding (excitement, excitement!!). We are getting married in November on the Great Ocean Road. It will be a very small, very informal and personal little celebration and we are very much looking forward to it. But even though it's going to be small there is still a bit to organise.

Then we had the pleasure of having to get our car fixed this week. I thought it didn't sound promising when the car made an asthmatic coughing sound and than kind of died. In short, we needed a new battery and a new Alternator. And don't ask me what that is because i don't know and I'm not even sure if i spelled it right.. But we have a new one now anyway!

Anyway, wallet a lot lighter and car in recovery we decided to spend even more money and booked a "delayed" Honeymoon over New Years Eve in Port Douglas, yippieh!! That's right on the Great Barrie Reef and i can't wait to go snorkeling! And lay on the beach! And just hang out! And and and.. It should be good!



Anyway, i better start adding some photos.



I took a few photos of the soy wax melts I'm going to put into my Etsy store shortly. I'm still testing them.. with the weather being so nice in Melbourne lately i have the doors and windows open all the time and any scent would disappear quickly, makes testing a bit hard.

There are my little heart melts, they just need some colour i think.. but the scent of the essential Lavender oil is very nice!

Actually i wanted to add a few more pics of today's finds at the Camberwell market but I'm a bit tired now, i might just go to bed..:-) and admire my new dressing table in the bedroom, photo follows soon!

Nightie night everyone! See you soon!

a bit about me

Hello and welcome to Twilight Spells!

My name is Ruth (my passport tells me that I’m 26 years old, must be right;-) ) and I am the person behind the whole idea. I am originally from Germany but currently living in Melbourne, Australia with my fiancé. Sometimes love really takes you to the other side of the world.. :-)

Melbourne is a fantastic city that offers lots of creative inspiration, although it surely takes a lifetime to get used to the local weather and it’s sudden changes!

I have travelled lots and lived in different countries over the last few years. That has taken me through a lot of different jobs including Paediatric Nursing, Childcare, Kiwi grading, Fruit picking (You’ve got to try everything when you are on a Working Holiday in New Zealand- it was great fun! ;-)), Live-In Care Work, currently I’m a Nanny…

I’m quite passionate about Natural Materials and Recycling, not surprising I guess, having grown up in a German household with it’s four different bins plus all the extra specific Recycling :-)Add a general love for special Vintage/Second-hand pieces, the desire to try all sorts of Arts and Crafts, and the idea for Twilight Spells was born.

About a year ago I started making my first mosaics and was hooked immediately. I especially love working with stained glass, I’m fascinated over and over again by the beauty of light falling through the glass and making it sparkle…

Then, a few months ago I came across soy wax for the first time. I was curious about this different type of wax I had never heard of before and was looking for more information. I learned about all the benefits of soy wax ( I didn’t know that “normal” wax is a by-product of crude oil, not a very appealing thought there!) and couldn’t wait to get started on making my very own soy candles.

And suddenly there was the idea for my Vintage Twist tea cup candles... I have always liked these pretty, old English style tea cups, I just never really knew what to do with them since I’m not much of a collector. But as candles.. Yeah, that seemed like a great idea! I hope that you will enjoy my tea cup candles just as much as I do!

I spend a lot of time hitting the local Op/Charity shops, markets, Second-hand places… All my cups and mosaic candleholders are bought second-hand and therefore recycled. The glass I use for my mosaics are off-cuts from a glass cutting place. I try to reuse and recycle as much as possible in my products.

If you have any questions, thoughts, ideas or just want to chat please get in touch, I’d love to hear from you!

I will start selling some of my products shortly on: www.twilightspells.etsy.com
Have a look if you like...

Thanks for checking out my blog!

Regards,

Ruth