Part of our weekend was spent assembling this little gingerbread house (we nearly had a disaster as the roof threatened to slide off) and lots of christmassy biscuits to give to Holly's teachers. What fun! And somehow we made loads of biscuits so there are some left for us too. Yum.
Today I have had a much needed day off, which included christmas shopping and a back massage. Luckily the massage was after the shopping! I also managed to take some photos of my newest item while it was daylight, I'm really happy with it and want to keep one myself so tonight I am planning on sewing some more, I can't wait. This little feather keyring/bag charm can be found here.
Holly and I had a day out in London yesterday, and we packed in lots of christmas shopping, a time machine bus tour, (which was brilliant) hot chocolate, chair-o-planes on Regent Street and a look at the big christmas tree in Trafalgar Square. What we weren't expecting were the literally hundreds of people dressed as Father Christmas in Trafalgar Square, it was crazy! We got given chocolates and christmas hugs, I don't know why there were so many Santas but it was certainly christmassy!!
This new little kraft moleskine is now available here, the colours in this one are one of my favourites I think! And as Chrsitmas is getting closer I have started on presents, this stack of felt and fabric is hopefully on its way to becoming a gift.
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I’ve been a busy bee lately, my creative head seems to be resurfacing after being filled to bursting with other things, and here are some of the results. The first of a new set of original fabric artworks, no two will ever be the same. I transfer my designs onto soft white denim and then hand stitch with a mix of embroidery cottons, I love the texture and colour that the stitches bring. Each one is approx. A4 in size, and fit the aperture of my 8x10 frame (shown in the pictures).
These two are available here, more on the way very soon. : )
The last few soft star decorations will be appearing in my etsy shop soon, these two are there now, click here
The birthday rainbow cake was a success!! I'm so pleased (and relieved). Holly was very excited and cutting it was a bit scary as I had lots of people looking on, but it turned out even better than I had hoped. Phew!!
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I must admit to stopping whilst out running to snap these pictures of autumn approaching!
Four little foldable fabric boxes, off on their travels to a new home on the other side of the world
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Using some oilcloth and lots of glue I now have this lovely bench in the garden, this is what it looked like before.
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Holly and I joined the crowds in London on Friday to soak up the atmosphere from the royal wedding, what a great day (and sore feet) we had. We started off here, on Parliment Street, not far from Westminster Abbey. We also walked round to Trafalgar Square and saw the big screens, did some shopping and ended up on The Mall just in time for the fly past.
And as it was my birthday too, macaroons to bring home were a must!
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We had Holly's cousin over to stay for a night this weekend, as has become a little tradition at Easter. I send them on an Easter egg hunt, we make and bake lots of Easter things and they have lots of the usual sleepover fun too. The only downside was that the weather was too hot for the chocolate easter nests we made to travel anywhere in the car, so we had to keep all of them... yum! (And the ranunculus' at the top were from my husband, they are the most beautiful colour)
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Full range now available here. I can't decide which is my favourite, this is the one I have worn the most so far, with some of my summer tops and dresses that have been making an appearance now that the weather is warming up! : )
Brand new Spring/summer collection!
Find out more about the first designs here, the other colourways in the main photo will follow very soon! : )
These beautiful eggs are the results from this kit which I have long admired on etsy. Holly had a school easter egg competition and we thought this would be perfect, she had great fun wrapping the eggs, with a little bit of help from me to make sure the fabric was tight. And today she found out that she came third, so I have one happy little girl.
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I couldn't resist showing you some of the lovely daffodils/narcissi we have had in the garden over the last couple of weeks. This is their first year, and Holly helped to choose the 12 varieties we planted so we have been eagerly waiting for them all to bloom so we could decide our favourites. But then my frittilaries flowered and (almost) blew the daffodils away with their beautiful flowers. Which do you prefer?
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