A new addiction!

I had an idea in my head before Christmas to paint each of my nieces a plate for their Christmas dinner. I wish I didn't always get these ideas going round my head because I didn't really have time to mess around painting plates that I thought would look rubbish anyway but the idea wouldn't go away so I bought a couple of cheap plates and some porcelain paints.
I traced an image of Peppa pig from a magazine and transferred this to each plate and painted it. It seemed very fiddly to start with and was looking a bit blotchy but the paint looked more even as it dried.
The childrens names were painted on each plate and some dots around the edge to finish them off.
I was very pleased with how they turned out and the children loved them and used them for every meal over Christmas.
I forgot to photograph them properly!

I am now searching round for blank pottery to paint-I think i'll look around for a white jug to paint to go on my kitchen shelves because i have searched everywhere for a colourful one but haven't been able to find just the right one!
I think all the children I know will be getting their own personalised plates soon too!

Secret santa swap

These are the lovely gifts I received from Dana in the secret santa swap.

Thankyou very much Dana I love all the gifts especially the card organiser which will hopefully mean that I send less 'sorry it's late' cards this year!

More projects from months ago!

These cupcake beads were made for part of a swap. It's ages since I've played with fimo but I think after making these I need to go out and buy more! After baking the fimo I coated the icing part with clear varnish and sprinkled with a sparkly glitter.


This is the needle case I made for my swap partner on the 'Quilting Gallery'. I received a lovely one back from my swap partner.

This picture was my first try at needle felting

It's been a while!

I can't believe how much time has passed since I last blogged!
I have been busy crafting and have a few things to show here and a few I can't show yet as they are for swaps!

Firstly some felt brooches made for friends- there will be some of these in my Folksy shop soon!

A birthday card for my sister-I've never used lace on a card before but I was really pleased with how this turned out.

A seahorse made following a Tilda pattern. This was made for my partner in the seaside swap- something else to add to my list of things to make for myself!


More to follow tomorrow!

seaside swap goodies

I recenttly took part in the seaside swap over here . It's just taken me ages to get around to updating my blog with the lovely goodies I got from my partner Nic .
The box of goodies ready to be opened!

All the lovely goodies! There were also some other things that I forgot to include in the photo- a lovely decorated jar of jelly beans, a box of polka dot buttons and some seaside scrapbook embellishments which have been added to my scrapbook of my Jersey holiday.
I really love everything especially the personalised notebook and the felt fish. Thankyou so much Nic!

Photo frames

The challenge on Bubblyfunks Vanilla Sugar site this month is 'frames'.
I have made 2 for this challenge. The first has been made with one of my favourite fabrics which I sewed around the edges using my sewing machine (not as even as I wanted but most of the edges turned out ok). I then used some of my vast collection of laces to make some lace flowers, found some vintage buttons for the middles of the flowers and attatched these along with some swirls cut from vintage silk.



The second frame has been made using a technique I've just discovered and absolutely love doing! I needle felted the frame using some wool felt from Hobbycraft. I think I'll add a magnet to this mini frame so it can be displayed on the fridge.

My new folksy shop

I have set up a shop on Folksy with keyrings(it may have other things in but for now that's what's there!)
Have a look and let me know what you think-just click on the Folksy sign on the top right

Here's what's in the shop now:

and these are the ones I've just added today: