Owls in embroidery hoops

From my last post owls hanging nursery mobile I decided to make some more simple gifts using the same owl characters. I sewed the pieces onto some pale grey needlecord (left over from my dungaree dress which I made - blog post to come when I get around to photographing it!) I stuffed some wadding into each owl too to make it a bit 3D, then I framed them in a painted embroidery hoop and hanged with a matching ribbon.

Please do get in touch if you would like me to make you anything similar :)

 

 

Mother's Day Spring hanging decorations

Lately I have been creating these pretty Mother's Day/Easter/Spring gift hanging decorations. I chose some fabrics and made flowers from then, then decorated the rest of the wreaths using coordinating ribbons, buttons, lace, fabrics and ricrac.

Each decoration measures 20cm (8") in diameter and has a pretty coordinating bow and ribbon attached with which to hang it in your home! They are currently available from my Folksy shop here. If you have an idea of something similar that you would like please do get in touch with me.

 Blue floral wreath

Spring Greens floral wreath

Pink and black floral wreath

Another Christmas wreath!

A blue, pink and green Christmas Wreath for my friend Laura :)

Button Christmas Trees

Christmas is creeping ever closer so I thought I'd raid my button collection and make some button Christmas Trees! These cute decorations are each made of nine or ten different coloured green buttons stacked on top of a large bead and topped off with a star button and some festive ribbon.

If you'd like one please get in touch with me or maybe try making one :)

Christmas Wreath

I decided to make my own christmas wreath, but not out of spiky mean holly, but out of festive paper. I basically got the idea from a tutorial which I found here, so I'll admit I did have a bit of help. It was pretty easy though and didn't take too long, once you've found a thing to be the base of the wreath! I'm pretty pleased with it :)

The Royal Wedding Part 1

Well it seems like Royal Wedding memorabilia is all over the place at the moment, but is any of it any good? Here are some of my favourites (I went a little off track and have also included some British- themed objects as well, and also some totally random cute stuff)

Royal Wedding pint mug £34.95
from Emma Bridgewater

Behold! by James Brown (Screen print)£43
from The V & A shop

Royal Wedding Bunting £15
from Redneedle sewing on Folksy

Royal wedding print £16
from Sweet Home London on notonthehighstreet

Hanging Decoration £9
from Roelofs & Rubens on notonthehighstreet

Sylvanian families £24.99
from Argos

Chrimbo Characters

These are my latest Christmas Characters :)

Christmas Peeps

I have revived my childhood love of making stuff with Fimo and made these cute characters for christmas. I think they'd make great stocking fillers or even decorations for the Chrimbo cake :)