Burlap & Lace

Having finished all my orders for Christmas and with just one day off left before packing up for our trip to the UK I decided to make some pretties for myself and, inspired by Sugar Lump Studio's and Lost Bird Studio's beautiful vintage Christmas stockings I thought I would have a go myself.
First I printed off the cute snow girl and the vintage Santa from The Graphics Fairy onto some calico that I had ironed on to freezer paper.  Remember how I was so afraid to try this technique until a few weeks ago?  Well now I can't seem to stop!  Next I cut out two stocking shapes from a piece of burlap and two from calico.  I ironed on some wonderunder to the back of the burlap which made it much easier to handle.  Then I had lots of fun sewing on vintage lace, beads and ribbons.  I made a cuff from some lovely damask fabric from the thrift store.  Then I simply sewed the calico backs on and hemmed the top.
A little while later I decided to tear two strips of the damask and have a go at making some fabric roses.  Like the freezer paper technique I have been putting this little experiment off for a while too.  BUT how easy was it?  and how pretty??  So now I will be making these darn cute little flowers and sticking them just about everywhere I think!

So anyhow enough of the waffling already, here they are, and I am just so pleased with the way they turned out!

Oooh and did you notice the loverly Christmassy pillow too?  Another image from the Graphics Fairy, Joy to the World, some great red and white Christmas print fabric and Bob's your uncle!  Oh and I also made three little hanging cushion ornaments too...well was I busy or what?

This week I am linking up with:

The Graphics Fairy Brag Monday
Feckled Laundry
Shabby Art Boutique 
ShabbyNest - Frugal Friday
Creation Corner Linky party 

A Quick Little Project!

Oh my goodness!  I hopped over to Rosemary's blog earlier and saw her tutorial to make a beautiful ethereal dreamcatcher...and I fell in love!  in love with both the dreamcatcher and the beautiful music Rosemary has playing there (Adam Hurst she kindly told me).  So with Adam playing in the background I set about finding all the necessary items required and set to work.  Well!  Would you just look what I made!  So pretty!

A Day Indoors

Well who'd believe it?  4th April and it snowed ALL DAY!  nothing for it than to put the fire on, and the radio and get down to some creating.  It all started fairly well.  I made a video tutorial making paper flowers for a book sculpture...but then it all started to go to rats :(  Try as I might i could not work out how to upload to my laptop.  I have a MAC and whenever I connect my camera it automatically opens in IPhoto.  Fine for very short videos, done those before, however 600MB didn't want to play at all.  I tried closing IPhoto and looking for my camera as a device but no matter where I looked on the hard drive I couldn't find it.  So in the end I gave up and  took stills and sequenced them in Photoshop!  Then I turned my attention to the making of the wedding ring cushion that had been floating around in my head for days, the one to match the bridal purse I made on Saturday.  This, thankfully, went well and ta da!  Here it is

 

I also managed to almost complete a sweet midnight blue devore velvet evening purse which will be on my bag page soon!