Mad Rush!

This weekend was amazing - so busy, but amazing! Tom bought me 2 enormous bunches of flowers which I had to snap a very quick picture of in-between outings. 

This was the cheesey card I sent him last week - I've never posted a Valentines card before and it was definitely very cheesey but made him smile. You get a few crumbs free with this picture :p

Then the weekend highlight was a trip to Castlerigg stone circle with some friends and their 3 year old who I am slowly learning to deal with. It's a difficult skill to master - communicating with children. Hats off to all you naturals out there!

Finished an amazing day off with a 4 mile run (ahem...walk) and the first BBQ of the season!! Warm enough with blankets and a fire pit :)

Again, I've added some fancy pics to the photography tab... but here are 2 to tempt you over :)

New Year Organiser

I actually made this for the man to use - hoping that he'd get organised this year! But its very cool and I thought I'd like to share it with you. Click to download the PDF :)

And while we're on the spring cleaning subject...I found a set of hat boxes at a charity shop recently...problem is, I still have a penchant for all things fancy dress. At least they're stored we'll now!

And I'm back at uni in Glasgow now (and have been since Jan 6th). I wanted a heap of crafty things with me here though and have outgrown my previous, yet gorgeous, wooden sewing box.

Here's the new craft stash...cool huh!

One day (soon please) MummySew and I will have the craft room of our dreams!

Juice Carton Purse

Sew this is an easy 10 minute craft! I have the pattern myself and couldn't remember where it came from...but I googled 'Juice Carton Purse' and there's a million blogs with tutorials e.g. Spoonful which has a really cool tutorial and a pdf pattern to print off and cut out if you want a go yourself. 

Honestly, they're the easiest thing!

Toilet Roll Owls!

My new obsession with pinterest has left me with a whole hoard of things to try out! For those of you who don't know - pinterest is basically an online scrapbook. You can search other peoples 'boards' which have 'pins' on them or pin your own ideas which you find on the internet e.g. someones blog might have a tutorial you want to try and you want to save the idea for later. Much easier than printing, cutting, sticking, losing bits of paper etc etc

I quite like all the childish silly paper ideas at the moment, but theres some gorgeous free patterns and ideas on my 'crochet crafting' and my 'felt fun' board. Can't wait to have a go!

Here's one of the more silly ideas I had to have a go at over Christmas...

...toilet roll owls!!! Yes, I had awesome fun. They look a bit like soldiers with the cupcake flags in wing. They served as pretty cute place names this year on the Christmas table.

Comfy Christmas

Christmas at home is bliss! We decorated the WHOLE house, and we've had a crafty time on the way. I think you met our treetop barbie before...well obviously she's back this year!

 

We also found this idea for old christmas cards on pinterest (my new obsession)!  Quite fun to stick on inside doors.

And I collected a million pine cones recently with the man which have been drying out ready for crafty action...watch this space! Meanwhile though, the manky ones ended up on the fire - and smelt amazing!

Recycling Newspaper

Sew, I've been recycling! Found a fantastically detailed instruction guide on how to make these storage boxes. Find the tutorial here in totally green crafts.

Aren't they full of character! For this box (the prototype!) I used felt to bind the edges and brown paper to line with. The felt was days to glue on and wouldn't fray...plus I can pinking shears the edges. To add detail I thought about embellishing with all sorts of things...sequins/buttons/glitter. For now, I used one of the origami paper bows which  I found a tutorial for here on let's create!

I think they'd be fab full of crafty goods, all stood in a row!