Bunnies Bunnies Bunnies Bunnies

I am going bunny manic, I have four to complete and my challenge is to finish these little monsters by the end of next week. Most of them are cut out, well the patterned pieces are anyway, so I have just the white pieces to cut out.

Here is one of my mates I nearly finished last night, she needs stuffing and her bottom sewn back up but I must admit I love her already. She took me an hour and a half to get to this stage and I have embroidered her face different to the others so the stitching from her nose to her mouth is more secure.

I will share pics of all my bunny friends soon but there are loads of them and they have all got loving new homes so may take some time, long shall the bunny empire reign!!!

The Journey of a Box

I was asked recently by a very lovely lady if I would be happy to turn a very plain little box into something pretty and girly for her to keep something incredibly prescious inside. The box has arrived and its beautiful as it is, but today the box will start its journey into becoming something new.

I have bought my brushes and I know what I am going to paint, I just hope I can do it justice and make it as beautiful as it should be.

So Box, let's start your journey now and make sure you get home before the end of April.

Photoboxes

I have given credit for these little boxes before but I have been ordered (by Nell lol) that I should put them on my blog, so here they are in all their beautiful multicoloured glory, I give you.... Photoboxes MWAH x

Crafty Bums Outlet

A lady recently joined the Outlet looking for a 'crafty bum' to make her a baby carrying poncho.... yes I know it sounds odd and as you can see by the picture it does look a little odd.


Now I am absolutely chuffed with this rather odd item, I was shown a picture of this and i have come up with this version all on my little ownsome, no copying a pattern or anything and I am really pleased with how it turned out. The colour probably isn't the best but I was using my stash and if she dosn't want to buy it I can always recycle the material for bunnies....

BUNNIES now thats another story altogether!!!

Knitting for my Daughter

So the last knitting mission I started for my daughter was aborted due to not being able to pick up stitches but the new pattern is turning out quite pretty and I am chuffed to bits (at the moment).

This is the bottom of the pattern so far...

So again true to form I have jumped from one project to another and my poor polar bear is still sat in his bag awaiting his tail and ears. I will finish him as I think his new owner is now aware that I have been making him and is probably wondering what on earth i am doing knitting something else!!

Polar Bear here I come.......

Wire Hearts

So I'm getting married next year and I have decided that I want to make my own wedding invites, I also had want to make my own silk flowers (more of that to come) and at one completely crazy point I was going to make my own Bridesmaids dresses, luckily I will not have four beautiful little girls in rags as my nan has now offered kindly to purchase pretty dresses for them woo hoo.

Anyway, I have started making bits and pieces to go on the invites, I have all my cards all my envelopes (sending out ones and RSVP's), I also have a selection of pretty sparkly card (lilac and silver). I now want to put on some lovely wire hearts but instead of buying them I'm going to make them myself.

So last night I sat with some beautiful craft wire, some very fine tweezers and I have now made my first heart, what do you think....


Okay so the following two hearts look awful, it may have something to do with attempting to make them whilst on the train to work. But seriously how can the first one come out looking lovely and the next two look like they have been created by a three year old!

I now think it is going to be a long process if I get to fussy about these plonking hearts, I have got to remind myself they are not all going to come out perfect and the roughness of them will add 'personality' to my invitations......... mmmmmmmmmm.... I'm debating surfing ebay again for pre-made hearts, next thing I have got to do is figure out how to glue the little blighters!!

Knitting

The Polar Bear

I thoroughly enjoy knitting, unfortunatley I still knit like a newly taught 10 year old so what I do knit tends to take an awfully long time, which normally means i don't finish anything as I tend to get bored and switch to the next project.

My latest switched project was a lilac pullover for my daughter which I dumped after getting way to confused with picking up stitches, so that is now in the bottom of the knitting bag and on my needles is currently a polar bear which I am making for my friends little girls first birthday. Already this attempt at a polar bear for a gift is a complete failure as poor gorgeous Sophia's Birthday was in February!

Anyway, I am battling through my st-st Bear (oooh check me out knitting lingo) and I hope to have it finished by this weekend which means its about a month since I started the little critter.

Here is my effort so far, we are missing ears and a tail...

My knitting technique is not great and I tend to lose all the tension when adding stitches, I am debating whether to actually claim this as a new found skill as I am really not all that sure how I am achieving it, any tips from experienced and more patient knitters are welcome and I will accept all advice graciously.

I will up date you later in the week as to Peters progress (Pete being the Polar Bear by the way).