crafty catch up

 I jazzed up the worlds most boring lamp with Decopatch , if you have never tryed it you've got to give it a go its the most fun therapeutic craft ever! it really is just cutting or ripping up special thin paper and gluing it onto a surface or object ! easy peasy .

 This is the finished lamp it has the nicest pinky glow when its switched on . i added a felt flower that came as a kit from Molly Makes magazine .
Ive also done some hand applique onto a cardi , i used a black napkin from primark and a scrap of spotty fabric for the bow.

 This pretty dove calendar was made by Ben at school ,Ive stuck it to the kitchen cupboard so every morning it can cheer me up as i make breakfast for the pixies in the early winter morning gloom.

 It has been super windy where we live in lancashire for the last couple of months so with a gale blowing in under the door i found a use for my stash of bits of left over wool.... a stripey knitted snakey draft excluder ! Meet Sissy (Ben named him!) he was the most fun to make watching all the colours come together to make sissy the super rainbow snake .

i turned 30

 On January the 8th i turned the big 3...0 ! I woke up to a strange bumping sound and when i looked out of the window the their was balloons with happy 30th written on them tied to the front of our house bumping about in the wind :)  We all went out for dinner and ate lots of ice cream and then my parents looked after the sleeping pixies while me Adam and my brothers went bowling which i haven't done since i was about 14 yrs old and boy was i rubbish ! but it was lots of fun and we finished the night off with a giant pizza :)

This is a 30 year old me. 

I got this felt bag and purse off Adam for my birthday Ive got so many design ideas for the front of them I'm so excited I'll post a picture when their finished ( their from bloomingfelt.co.uk if anybody wants to decorate their own felt bag or purse).

 more felty birthday presents ,i finally finally have some 100% wool felt sheets yay!!! and 'The Cuter Book by Aranzi Aronzo.

 Adam also bought me a big bag of buttons :) happiness is defiantly a big bag of buttons!

 The pixies bought me this really pretty sewing kit which comes in its own little tin . Ive since finished making them so theirs a Before... during and after photo ! they turned out brilliant and strangely enough even though they are all from the same pattern they are all different sizes which is a testament to my wonky sewing but i think it works well and they do look very cute snoozing on my shelf.

                                                        

 The pixies made me a lovely card and Ben wrote happy birthday on the front, i'll treasure it forever xx

Molly turned 2

Molly May turned 2years old on the 28th December ,i think that's the quickest 2yrs ever!  We all went to a soft play centre for her birthday treat and then back home for a birthday tea with Grandma and grandad and the uncles . Her favourite present was pre loved buzz light year we got given from a friend ,she takes it everywhere with her now even to bed so sometimes in the night we hear Buzz talking if she rolls onto him in her sleep :)



christmas 2011 :)

 Heck im really far behind in my blogging ! This is our Christmas in a couple of piccys. We had a lovely stay at home spend half the day in our jammies kind of day it was really relaxing and just perfect.
we saved the free lego kits from the Sun newspaper and wrapped them up for Ben's Christmas present their was about 24 little sets in the end and he was over the moon when he opened them and spent most of the day at the table happily building little cars and spaceships .

 this is Daisy Doo modelling some of her christmas presents , we bought her a little sylvanian family windmill which she was delighted with , i was sooo pleased she loved her Sylvanians it was my absolute favourite toy for most of my childhood :)
Molly may got a pre-loved Waybaloo house with the little weird people that live in them , it was Mollys first real christmas being old enough to know all about father christmas and presents etc so she was very excited .

 These are some of the lovely presents i was lucky enough to be given , I got the super cute Happy Tree felt kit from Adam and i just couldn't resist quickly making one christmas night , i also got lots of little fabric bundles from Adam which are just gorgeous and my brains all a kerfuffle while i try to decide what i can make with it :)

My parents bought me the Kirsty Allsopp crafty book , ive loved watching her crafty programmes on tv and think shes brilliant so im well chuffed with her big book of exciting things to make :) cant wait to make the Elderflower cordial !

          My two little girls :) who are fast becoming best of friends x

Missing my pixies.

On Friday Ben and Daisy went to stay at their fathers for a week , he asked me if he could have the pixies that week ages ago and i stupidly said yes and as its got closer and closer Ive been dreading it . They have been for a week before and i missed them like mad but i miss them even more i think because its the run up to Christmas i just feel they should be home doing Christmas crafts and opening their advent calendar etc.
 My tiny pixie is still home with us i still wont let him have Molly overnight shes just too little and every cell in my body screams at me that its just not right to let her go but in the spirit of compromise and to stop the constant hassle Adam is taking us the 80miles to Stoke where the pixies father lives so she can spend the day with him and his fiance on Thursday and yet again i dreading it :( i know she will be happy to be with Ben and Daisy again as she is missing them lots but i hate the thought of handing her over and then having to drive off , i don't know how I'm going to deal with it i just cant wait for it to be over .

Ive been keeping myself busy so far this week making some more decorations .

 This is a felt and fabric scrap garland  i made alternating stars and hearts .

                                         Molly had lots of messy fun with some red glitter.

 I found a Christmas stocking knitting pattern in a magazine so made a stocking garland for the other fireplace :) their super cute and by chance i discovered they fit Daisy's doll Penelope perfectly so im knitting some pink stripey socks for Penelope for Christmas.

        

Our Handmade Christmas

 This year we got a real Christmas tree again i toyed with the idea of getting a fake one but real ones just look soooo pretty and all our homemade decorations look much more at home on a real tree than they ever would on a fake one . I decided last year that i wanted our Christmas tree decorations to be mostly homemade and so far we have stuck to it we have two pieces of tinsel and a couple of ikea gnome decorations but other than that its all handmade by me and the pixies and every year we plan to add more homemade decorations . Some of these are last year decorations and some are this years.

 Ben's saltdough star and his angel that sits on top of the tree.

 This is a copy of a decoration i saw in last years tesco catalogue and my needle felted mushrooms turned into Christmas decorations.

 This is a tiny copy of a Tilda bear .

 I got the knitting pattern fort his tiny sweet little bear from littlecottorabbit.typepad.co.uk

 little fat needle felted robin.

 I enlarged the tiny bear pattern and made a big bear big sister :)