OK, another it’s-bedtime-but-I’ll-update-quick post. At the weekend, not that I didn’t have enough to do as it was, I decided that I was going to make Rae’s Spring Ruffle Top. Minus the ruffles, of course. I have to say, I struggled to follow the instructions. I didn’t get the strap instructions at all, and ended [...]
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Quilt & Disney journal
It’s almost bedtime so I’m going to be quick. Life is just so crazy you wouldn’t believe. Lots of family stuff is just taking over things, the other weekend we spent visiting my Father-in-law in hospital and the weekend before we were visiting him for Fathers day. I really do mean to blog more, and [...]
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My cousin had a little girl last week, and as a little present I decided on a quilt… I saw this rainbow fat quarter in Hobby Craft and I fell in love! So much so, I’m not sure I’ll want to part with the quilt when it’s done LOL! Who wouldn’t want a pretty rainbow to [...]
Read the rest of this entry »How to unwind
I spent this morning working on my wedding invites, I was literally sat in the bedroom with the sewing machine and silver thread sewing on my invites. It seems I don’t like to do things easily! My geocaching book arrived today so once I had done that I sat and read it for a bit. [...]
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I love books, and as you know I love journals as well, so when I stumbled upon Karla Dudley’s workshop “Journal 3 Ways” I was intregued… and then I saw the journals we would be making and the fact that there were cool downloads as well… That was it. I was sold. So all images [...]
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There was no contest when I decided on which template I wanted to use to carve my pumpkin this year I wanted something pretty simple as this is only my third ever pumpkin, and my second using a template, but as I was soooo proud of my witch last year, I had to at least [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Autumn is here
Hmm, I’ve not been a big fan of Autumn. Ever. Well sometimes with the back to school stuff and getting new stationary and clothes etc, but otherwise not really. I’ve always been a summer girl myself. But Gareth gets the Next catalogue, and I can’t help but flick through it and sigh, thinking of getting [...]
Read the rest of this entry »New t-shirt
Firstly, The images can be found here at this Crafster thread by “boo-zombie”: http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=299075.0 I’ve done the Quileute High Protectors shirt so far, for the pricely sum of £1.47 and I’ve had the transfer paper for a while now, so I won’t count that, but the top was from Primark. It’s not 100% cotton though, [...]
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I ended up doing the buttercup bag again and I made some accessories Ok, so I had the jelly bracelets already from my Primary School days when we all used to trade them up, and for a pack of black jellies I ended up with purple and day glow green (one is glittery) which go [...]
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