I have been doing some projects here and there. I made a purse for a friend for her 30th as an alternative to wrapping paper! - Sadly I forgot to take a picture of this however.
I also made a door hanger for my cousin's baby as a Christening present:
As we are now living in such a beautiful cottage I have lots more opportunities to set up beautiful backdrops for my pictures - my only down fall is the quality of my photo taking. Tim, my husband, is now going to teach me how to improve this!!
I have made quite a few handmade cards as well over the summer due to weddings and birthdays. I have got really into sewing nice materials and papers directly onto my cards - it's quick, easy and produces a really nice effect.
A simple Christening card:
I was particularly pleased with my flowery heart wedding card:
My latest project, something which I did quite quickly as I needed to - you'll see why in a moment! A blind:
Our next door neighbours cut down a row of dead trees which had been blocking off the view into our toilet so I had to make the blind quite quickly to guard our dignity!! I sewed together 5 strips of different fabrics that I thought worked well together, then added some lace and a button for added detail. I sewed into onto a backing of one of the fabric strip patterns then used - get this - sticks from the garden which I whittled down to make the baton to go on the inside of the blind (to help when rolling it up and to keep it lying straight) then sewed that by hand into place (this took AGES!!). Finally I added another whittled stick to the top, tied it in place and found some ribbon to hold it up a little. I was really pleased with the outcome and it only took a couple of hours in total.
I have lots of other projects around the house to do - in fact the list is endless but I would like to:
- make some mini bunting for the porch area
- make a large rug for the living room floor (as its a cold brick floor at present)
- make a smaller similar rug for the porch
- make curtains for the bedrooms and for the downstairs windows
- make a name sign for the house using mosaic
- make a mosaic mirror (i have the mirror already)
