Christening Quilt.

I'm off to a double christening today, for twins :) I'll try and explain the relationship I have to these babies - they're the children of my cousin Rose's girlfriend, although I believe Rose has formally adopted them as well. So I think that sort of makes them my second cousins? Anyway, they're very cute - Henry and Grace.

For their present Rose has asked us to each make a square image for them to collate into a quilt which they're going to hang on the babies' bedroom wall. They'd like to make them personal to us. Me, my mum and my sister all got a square of fabric and this is what I did with mine:

Me and my sister with Henry and Grace :)

Some other good family news of late, my brother and his girlfriend have recently gotten engaged! So happy for them.

Anyway, this is the card I made for them:

Crafty Bits and New Job News.

No Flickr upload for today, I never got round to it :S Instead I've been doing some fun crafty stuff :) I start my new job next week (it's not in design, but I'm at a stage financially where I really can't afford to be fussy, a job's a job. I'll be working with my brother and best friend though so it's not all bad!) so I'm trying to take the opportunity to get some of the stuff I want to do done before I have no time and energy left to do it :(

Anyway, I have a monthly subscription to Making Magazine. I'm almost at the end of the first year, I bookmark a load of things I want to try each month but never actually get round to it, but as I had most of the materials this time I tried a few out. The first one is called a 'Penny rug bouquet', which is basically a bunch of circular felt flowers. Very easy to make and very pretty :) I'm not going to publish the instructions - they're not on their website so I feel like I shouldn't, but you should be able to work out how they're made just from looking at my photos!

There was also this photo on the cover of the magazine:

(the blue post it notes are from all the things I want to try!)

I really love how the embroidery hoops look on the wall, and I've been collecting a mixture of vintage photo frames over the last few months, to mix and match with pretty mirrors and embroidered text on the wall above my bed (I'm just waiting for my degree certificate to be framed then I'll actually get round to putting it all up!) so these will fit nicely.

I got a few different shaped hoops with lovely hooks on the top to hang them up by from the craft shop in my village. I've just put fabric in a couple of them, but I embroidered bunting with the work love on it for the other (I'm thinking about selling this in my Folksy shop, Wishcatcher Crafts, too) oh and added little pink ribbons and pearls/gold beads for an extra little cutesy touch :)

I'm very excited about these all going on the wall :) I also need to select which photos I want to put in the photo frames. There's about 8 in total. I'm thinking of a few of me with my friends, and the rest with some of my photography.

Finally, another project I'm excited about starting is this:

I can't claim any credit for this idea, I was tagged in this photo on flickr by and the bird took flight..., called the 'happiness project'. It's a jar full of words, photos, phrases and drawings that mean something to Ellie, the girl whose Flickr it is, and her best friend, who gave her the jar. I think it's a really cute idea, and as I've now got quite a few photos in my Words Collection on Flickr, I've got plenty of things to go in the jar. It's hopefully going to be something I can look at if I'm ever feeling down and need some cheering up :)

Heart Bunting.

After lots of lovely comments at likes etc on this photo on the various blogging/pretty pictures sites:

Flickr  /  Tumblr  /  We Heart It

I've finally gotten round to making another garland to sell in my Folksy shop, Wishcatcher Crafts.

Heart Bunting

Some More Crafty Bits....

Day 2 of food and craft for me and my little sister Sophie.

I've posted the food, now for the craft :)

Firstly, my pom making skills have vastly improved :) 

Me and Soph went with mum to a craft shop in the village and mum took pity on my poor unemployed self and bought me some tissue paper! Haha 89p for a packet of 10 sheets and I got 5 different coloured packets. (I clearly didn't take advantage of her willingness to spend money on me, but then again she did buy me petrol last week, which is the most expensive thing ever when you're jobless, so I'm very grateful to her for that!)

Anyway, I digress. So, poms. 

I think this corner of my room looks much better now. All full size poms, this time with ribbon holding them up, so they look more complete. (Although I'm not allowed to use anything other than blu tak on my walls (or in this case pink tak!) so it doesn't look so great at the top, but nothing I can really do about that)
My desk is right below the window so I'm sitting here looking at them, so pretty! I also added another white pom to the other side with the cranes, but I don't have a photo of that.

These blue ones were for Sophie's room, which has a duck egg blue colour scheme.

I absolutely love, love, love bunting.
I made this miniature bunting with some scraps of material I had. So cute!

I've completely run out of anywhere to put more bunting though, so I had to put it round the top of my wardrobe (there's already bunting running across the inside) but I think it's small enough to not be overpowering. In fact I'm considering making another chain so it can reach all the way to the floor.

That shadow on the bottom right is really weird and I have no idea what it's from :S 

I can take no credit for this, this is all my sister's doing. She could really do well as a crafter if she wasn't so set on working with horses (though she's only 13 so there's plenty of time for me to persuade her otherwise!)
She's making all her friend's christmas presents this year, and she's making them either a dreamcatcher or a little garland with their names on. She made me a dreamcatcher a couple of months ago, which is hanging up in my car, but it wasn't a cute little heart like these so I'm trying to convince her to make me one too!

She's definitely talented and creative, making each one personal to each of her friend :)

The downside to all this crafting fun; the absolute mess it leaves in my room!
The floor was my doing, the bed Sophie's.
We also made just as much mess of the kitchen table when we ran out of room to put anything down in there! Oops.

Another thing me and Sophie have been getting into is nail art.
I don't have any fancy tools or anything, so we've been trying to be creative with just what we have. Not bad for a first try right?!

So that was today's fun. I feel like I typed a lot in this post :S

We were also discussing maybe trying to sell some of this stuff, mainly the dreamcatchers, miniature bunting and heart bunting from my earlier post (so stuff we haven't copied from some tutorial somewhere but came up with ourselves) but we're not sure if there would be any interest in any of it. Any thoughts?