Just made a new dress

This is my third dress that I have made recently, a bit of a sewing frenzy!!

I designed this dress and made it myself. I started off my designing the pattern and then drew it all out on to the fabric, making sure it all fitted.

I then cut it all out. I hate the moment when you have to do the first cut, there's no going back!! At least if you sew something wrong you can unpick it, you definatly cannot uncut something (unfortunatly, there have been times when I wish you could).

Luckily the cutting went fine. I then started sewing and then pinned it all onto my manequin. I love my mannequin- great for pinning, when it would be a struggle to do it on yourself- you can never reach your back!


This is my finished dress, pretty happy. Wanted something brown and fairly casual and I love big pockets!!

Turquoise Dress

I have just finished making this dress, it is not for myself, so I have made it in a bigger size.

I love the idea of big pockets, so designed this with some nice big pockets.

Artist?!

I've always wanted to be a fantastic artist- just a minor problem though- can't seem to draw very well!! or paint...... hmmm.

I have tried a few little drawings recently though- could be worse right?! Maybe I need to start practising.

Bunting

I have been inspired to make some bunting- I used lots of different recycled fabrics

Website Update

I have just added my handmade items to my site, check it out at:

http://surfjewels.000space.com/

Bears

I am soon to update my site with lots of makes other than jewellery, I think I am gunna add a section of handmade items- i'll be adding bears, birds and little boats. So watch this space.

Shopping

I'm not a big shopper, not unless it's shoppin for fabric and craft stuff!! Spent £40 on fabric the other day, but do you think I went a little shoe mad 2day?!

Dress

I just made this dress, I had no problems with it at all, went very smoothly.

Cup cakes

I was inspired to make some pretty cup cakes after I got this new cute cup cake stand. How pretty is it?!

Bracelets

Just made these new bracelets with pearl and silver beads

Inspired by pearls:
I love the idea of pearls- growing inside an oyster from a grit of dirt that got caught inside and growing into something beautiful. Amazing!

New pink pearl necklace

I decided to make a pink and pearl long necklace to go with an outfit I have just got.

I added flower, heart and a butterfly charm along with pearl, silver and pink beads.

More jewellery and info at:

Handmade Jewellery

http://surfjewels.000space.com

Ring

As promised this is the ring I have made.

Little Boat

Another little make- I just made this little boat. It is totally recycled. The boat is made from recycled card and papermache. The sail is made from recycled fabrics and the mast from found sticks.

Birds On A Wire

My little birds on a wire

Am I getting carried away?!

More bird adventures

Love Birds by Surf Jewels

Birdie at the beach by Surf Jewels

Bird Party by Surf Jewels

Birds adventures

My little birdie on a little adventure

Flower and bird

Cute little birdie with a bright flower

Birds

Birdies

Busy Bee

I've been a busy bee making lots of birdies.

Here's lots of pics of them all!

Some love birds...

All of my little birdies were made with recycled fabrics and stuffed with recycled material also. All of it reclaimed from things that would otherwise be thrown away.

Birdie Party

My little birdies having a party

Birdies

Last couple of days I've been having a bird making frenzy! I decided to try my hand at making a little bird and got a little carried away! I have now made 7 of these little birds.

They are fun to make and i'm liking trying out different fabric combinations. I think the little legs make them.

Getting them to stand up right was a bit of a challenge though, but think i'm there.

This is just a couple of the birds i've made, i'll be adding some more pics soon.

Making a Ring

I decided recently that I would make a ring. I have made one ring before, but it was a flower one very different to my new idea.

I decided to design a ring that I would cut out with a piercing saw. I played with lots of ideas and designs before settling on one.

I did a test run also, which took me a lot of time and had a few problems- mainly some weak points that needed to be stronger (which I took into consideration the next time round).

Here is my final design that I drew out into my notebook.

I then drew this on to the aluminium sheet and began cutting it out with a piercing saw.

This image shows my piece held in a clamp which I use to hold it while cutting.

This is my ring once all cut out and roughly filed.

I need to just do some finishing touches to this ring and then I will upload a pic soon. It currently needs a little more filing and finishing.

My photographs in a new frame

Just framed some pictures I have taken! :)