Makes for my shop

I have been quite busy since my daughters birthday. I have made myself a gorgeous top courtesy of a pattern from Sew magazine. I altered it slightly as the material I wanted to use was quite see-through so I lined it first.

I have also started to make a few Christmas cards for the wonderful ladies on the CB forum. I have also made my latest postcard for the swap. this month it is - Winter Wonderland. Do you think it fits the brief?

Finally I have been adding a few items to my shop. First I have my cushion covers which I just loved making. They are 14" and an envelope style. I also have a stitched picture of the sign from Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows. Finally I have just made some gorgeous jade green flower brooches which I love and want to keep myself! If any interest you, please have a look at my Folksy shop, the link is on the left.

My Daughter's Birthday

Monday was my daughters 4th birthday. I can't believe how fast the 4 years have gone! For months she has been saying that she wanted a Princess birthday cake until two weeks before when she decided it should be a Fifi And The Flowertots cake instead! So that's what I made for her. It took in total about 5 hours as i bakes the cake and then decorated it. It tasted good and it didn't look as evil in real life as it does on the picture!

SOME OF MY MAKES

I have been very busy the last few weeks and I thought I would keep this short and sweet and just show you some of my makes. My daughter in her Jasmine costume, again in her new pyjama's, a wallet for my sister and a four seasons stitched picture. And thats not eveything!

It's been ages!

I can't believe it has been over a month since I last posted! I have been rather busy! I'm slowly starting to work my way through my list of 'to do's. The problem is for everyone I finish I add two to the list!
Recently I have done another fabric postcard for the Craft's Beautiful forum and I'm working on the next one. I have made myself a pair of linen trousers, the first adult trousers I have ever made. I completed the alteration of my work colleagues skirt and I was so happy that she was pleased with the result. I have also tried some embroidery on paper for a forum competition.
Finally I have made my daughter a pair of pyjama's. She picked her own fabric and I have to say it is rather bright! She is currently going through the stage of being scared of the dark so now she will probably glow!
I will post some pictures very shortly of all of the things that I have made recently and I will post again soon!

FAIRY POSTCARD

Now that the swap is over I though I would post a picture of the fairy postcard that I made for the Crafts beautiful forum swap.

I embroidered the fairy onto white cotton and the mounted it onto some lace and stitched some sequins around the edge. I then padded it and stitched it onto a postcard. I am really pleased with it and i think it is better than the Lion King one. Practise does help!

The next swap is themed 'My Favourite Place' and I know exactly what I am going to do for that one!

In the meantime I have bought a beautiful 1941 Singer Sewing Machine - a bargain at only £20 as well as lots of ribbons, lace, thread etc. Monday night is the night for altering my work colleagues skirt. I'm going to take a before and after shot so that I can see just how much I had to alter. Ive also bought a load of fabric so I can start making clothes again.

Finally I have a wedding in November and I'm hopefully going to make a 50's inspired dress for it. I love wearing my own creations because you know you wont get caught wearing the same thing as someone else! I wore a dress I made last week for my first anniversary and I felt really confident in it!

NEARLY THERE

I have had a busy weekend. My husband went for a walk up to the top of Ben Nevis (training for his charity event next year - see the link on the left hand side) so I had time to do a bit of crafting. I made my postcard with a Fairy theme for the swap on the Crafts Beautiful forum. I will post a picture of it when the swap has taken place. I also managed to get all of the cross stitch finished on my Tweety and Sylvester cross stitch and I am just working my way through the outline.

I have my first alteration to do as well! I colleague at work is the Mother of the Bride in 8 weeks time and needs her skirt altering, I have volunteered myself and it is now hanging in my bedroom ready to be altered. Sounds easy, however it needs to be altered from the waist because of the decorative hem so I have to unpick everything, take nearly a foot off (!), reposition the zip and add the elastic back along the sides! I'm really looking forward to it because I know that I can do it and it's really nice that someone else has faith in me as well. I think it helps that I keep showing her the clothes I make for the kids!

Well I better get on and do a bit more publicising of the hubby's charity event to try and raise the £1000 for Nottingham rape Crisis Centre.

LOADS OF FUN!

Wow! It has been a little while since I last posted on here and I have been busy busy busy!

I love the forum for Crafts Beautiful and I recently won the insect inspired challenge with the caterpillar cake I made my son for his birthday. I was so shocked because there are so many talented crafters on the forum! I have also signed up for my very first swap, a postcard swap. The theme is fairies and fantasy so I have got to get my thinking cap on to make an amazing card. I had a practise with the theme that didnt win - Disney Characters. What do you think?

Other than that I have been working hard on my cross-stitch so that I can enter the pets competition and I made an apron for the Sew Magazine first birthday competition! (I like competitions!)

I've also treated myself a little bit. I bought a few bits from HabbyWorld and they arrived today. Loads of lace, ribbons and sequins! I don't actually need them for anything in particular but I thought I would treat myself! Next month its off to the fabric shop for loads and loads of fabric and I can't wait!

I've also got to make a holder for my husband that can fit on his bike. It needs to be able to hold a water bottle, walkie talkie, food and anything else he can think of for his charity bike ride without impeding his movements. That should be good fun. Take a look at his JustGiving site and see just how much of an amazing man my husband is: http://www.justgiving.com/challenge1.

All of this and I have been on holiday! Well that's all for now, have a look at my latest makes.