I like to make a selection of cards to always have on the ready for Birthdays, thankyous and occasions, so I have made a new set. I have sewn little flowers onto card.

I hand stamped wishes onto card.

I put these together.

And these are my final cards

Making cards

I always like to have handmade cards ready to send to people when a birthday or event comes up. So I decided to sit down and make some new ones as I am gradually running out of the ones I have made before.

I saw a great card idea, of using paper and sewing it onto card.

So I got going.

I drew out lots of pretty shapes, balloons for the boys and then lots of butterflies and flowers.

They looked quite pretty once I had finished cutting them all out, although my fingers hurt and it took a while!

I then got my sewing machine out and got sewing. I layed out the flowers etc roughly where I wanted them and sewed them on to the cards.

I think the results were quite pretty, I just need to line them to finish them off nicely. :o)

Knitted phone case

I got a new phone recently, so this is the case I made for it. It is cable knitted and I made a flower for it too.

Stall

This our stall while we were setting up.

Fawn

I have made a little sewn fawn. Again for my Christmas craft stall (as everything is at the moment, but only 2 weeks to go now!)

Stocking

Busy busy busy...

I've been making loads of stockings for my craft fair in December. A great excuse 2 make lots of bits and pieces that I've wanted to make for a while.

Gingerbread men

Still busy making things for the Christmas craft fair I'm going to.

I made quite a few of these little gingerbread men decorations.

I also made this mini chain with gingham hearts 2.

Bears

I have been making lots of little bears.

Busy Making

I have finally got my computer back and am therefore able to blog again. I missed my laptop!

So while I have been away from the computer a bit, I have been getting ready for the Leigh craft fair I am doing in December.

I have made lots of little bears, Christmas decorations, bunting, jewellery and I am still going. I will keep you updated with my progress and what happens along the way.

The bears above are a few of my creations that I will be selling.

Cake

This is the cake that I made for my Nan's Birthday

I used icing tools and various shades of green icing to cover the cake in green roses.

New shirt

This is the 2nd shirt I have made and after the first one came out Ok, I thought- y not make another. Saw this fabric and thought- perfect.

I also found this skirt and just had to take it up so that it was the right length, then I had my new work outfit sorted!

Mother's day pressie

This year for mother's day I made my Mum a pressie-I made her this apron.

I found some great fabric online, that I thought would be perfect, went to the little knitting shop up the road from me (which seems to have just about everything you could need) to get the cord and after some work on my sewing machine, I had made her pressie.

New Dress

This took at bit of work, but this is the newest dress I've made and very happy with it.

I thought this might have been one of the mistakes that I told myself that at least I learned something from, but it actually turned out ok.

I think it's quite cute and nice and summery (now I just need the sun to come out and the weather to warm up so that I can start wearing these things!)

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remade Dress

Ok, so fabric isn't always cheap and by the time you've added in zips, threads, elastic etc it can all add up, with the time it takes on top of that you've added yourself up alot of time, effort and money.

So when I was out shoppin I saw a dress on sale (mainly because it was an aweful design- not even sure how u'd wear it), but I transformed it from this...

To this...

I am quite pleased with the outcome! Another little dress I can wear in the summer.

Fairies

Just for a bit of fun, I have been playing with the pics I took of the new top I made and I am now a fairy! Or at least I sometimes wish I was.

I love the sparkles I can add to my images and collages on Polyvore too.

A new top

I saw an outfit that I loved online and I wanted it. So what do you do when you want something- make it of course, then u can have it in ur own size, colour etc.

Well anyway, I am half way to my outfit. I have made the top. I made this from an old top that didn't fit right. I have also ordered some turquoise fabric for a skirt I want to make. So watch this space for that one.

As you can see I have tried this top with several outfits.

Just waiting for summer now! Roll on summer :)