Day 3 (OADCC)

Day 3. After I got home from work I fell asleep on the couch while watching the baseball, oops. So we had take out for dinner and I made this little squiggle heart (5" sq). I actually had the idea to do this over a year ago when I made my big red stripey linen quilt of the same fabric. It has been sitting in my to do piles for a long time. I thought this was a good opportunity to do it. I now would just like to mount it (mat it for you Americans ) and frame it in a little square frame. This is for our bedroom, but maybe I could make some others for my shop, what do you think? Just the one picture, the in action ones I took came out a little blurry.

Day 2 (OADCC)

Day 2, I need to go to bed 10 mins ago because I have to be at work by 5am, yuck. I will post this really quickly and then I am off.

You should never try to take pictures at 10 pm, the light quality isn't very good.

I recently bought some lovely hard back notebooks with the express purpose of recovering them, for creative people (like my Mum) to carry around in their handbags. You can see the after and before above and below.

The back must have a little something.

And the inside cover is pretty too.

I actually have a lot more to say on this, like how hard it is to do corners and how frustrating this was, because I started by using the wrong glue. But I will settle for being pretty happy and quoting my Art teacher - "A person who never made a mistake never made anything!"
And I think it turned out pretty well in the end .

Ok Nighty Night!

others Up for the challenge.

Day 1 (OADCC)

After deciding to do this craft challenge and getting a good response I looked at my work schedule in horror last week as I saw that Day 1 was going to be a pretty hectic work day. As I was working hard all day and then had to buy groceries and make dinner, I decided I better do something quite small and achievable for my first day. I know, (I thought) a small little fabric brooch!

How about a lovely little purple flower.

Little! LITTLE, little (I said). Well I made a fairly large purple flower brooch.

Detail of the clown size flower brooch!

Despite its size I am quite pleased with the fruits of my labor on day 1 of my One A Day Craft Challenge. To see other participants check out who else is Up for the challenge! at the end of my first post.

If you want to join in at any time let me know and I will add you to my list.

One A Day Craft Challenge

Hello Everyone! I cordially invite you to join me in my One A Day Craft Challenge for the month of September.

Here is how it goes...
Create 1 item per day in September. These items can then go into your Etsy Shop, Craft fairs, used for Christmas prezzies or just for your personal enjoyment. This means at the end of September you should have 30 separate handcrafted items. They can be as small as you like or as ambitious as you please...... just make sure that you can do it in a day!
Post pictures! At the end of the day post pictures of your handcrafted items.

This is my personal challenge but I invite you all to join me and keep me to my word. If you are interested in doing this with me please let me know and I will add a link to your blog at the bottom of this post. Feel free to use my image (above) on your blog if you like!

Up for the Challenge

juanitatortilla
sara at soap rehab
TiLT
topknots
Julie of Musings of a Northern Girl
Anjeanette of Roots and Wings Co

Juliann of The Sick Chick

Jen D of The Silver Lining

Colour

GP105 Red Kaffe Fassett

I took my first ever trip to the Guildcrafters Quilt Shop in Berkley Mi, Not allowed to take photos inside but you can see some on their website. I was hoping to find some Anna Maria Horner Good Folks fabric, which I adore but I did not. They did have some of her other ranges though. It is a lovely shop and filled with the most glorious selection of fabrics unlike Joanne fabrics, also unlike Joanne fabrics, the price Yikes! I mean it is great fabric and you get what you pay for it is just that I am a cheapskate. Having said that I couldn't leave without buying something and I came home with a 1/4 yd of this lovely Kaffe Fassett fabric. They didn't use a ruler to cut and I was a little worried until I got home and realised that they are a little generous to compensate for the lack of a straight edge. In Joanne Fabrics they will trim off an uneven edge and throw it away rather than give that little extra bit to the quilter. That really offends my sensibilities.

Just as I sat down to write this post the most wonderful rainbow appeared across my studio, I took it as a sign that I should post more often. Or maybe that I should clean up as it came from a CD that was lying on my desk in the sun.

5 Years

5 Years ago Today I got married to my lovely Husband. Since I have never posted pictures of my wedding on this blog before today seems an appropriate day to do it. We had a handmade wedding, I made my wedding dress, very non-traditional as you can see.

My Dad drove us to the wedding in his vintage Hilman.

Here is a shot of me in my wedding dress, It is an off white dress, with cut work, hand painted roses and lilies in aquas and pinks over a fuschia silk underdress, which gives the whole dress a light pink feel.Detail of the shoulder piece, my alternative to a veil. You can see the hand painting and cut work.
The drop waist seam of the dress had tiny little cut work lilies and roses on it.

Here is the beaded hair clip I made to match my dress. I also carried Stargazer Lilies.

My Mum and I made the bridesmaid dresses and My Mum and helpers did the flowers on the wedding day!
My Nana baked the wedding cake and my fantastic Mum decorated it.

Everyone got a little package of sweet Pea seeds as a wedding favour.

Finally my lovely Hubby, It has been a very Happy 5 years!

Quick tour - London

Hello, I am back from my holidays, where I was mostly away from a computer for any length of time. Actually I have been back for over a week but it was kind of hard to get back into being connected all the time. My holiday comprised of three parts, first a quick weekend with my best mate Jenny in London. I love London and haven't been there in years so I really enjoyed spending time with Jen and soaking up the atmosphere of London Town . I love the tube and especially the old tile down in the tunnels.

Jenny although she lives there, being a tourist in Camden.

We stopped here and shared a lovely bun and pot of Tea in primrose hill, some actress came in when we were there ( I don't know who she was -I am so out of the loop). After she left Jenny couldn't remember her name either but knew that she had seen her naked in something.

Jenny and me posing in Camden
Down at Camden Lock

This was a great stall at Camden Market everything was such good value, I bought a little purse for my camera. I would have bought more probably but I had no cash and my atm card wasn't working.

That was a whistle stop tour of London, I also went home to Bangor for 5 days and then to Italy for a week. I have so many photos from Italy - I don't really know how I will pare them down.