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Soothing Stitches: Easy Pretty Fabric Noticeboard

October 6, 2014 by

I’ve been wanting one of these noticeboards ever since I saw Jeanette at Lazy Seamstress make one a year or two back. I’ve had the materials ready for months and not go round to it but wanting to try out the Sew Simple glue from Bostik this  month was the perfect push to get on […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Creative Every Day, Crochet Tagged With: Bostik, crochet flower, fabric covered noticeboard, fabric noticeboard, ribbon craft, Sew Simple

Crafty Summer – Hama Bead Mandalas.

July 21, 2014 by

I’m setting inspirations for the girls this holiday. I think we all need to reactivate our creative sides. Today I made it about mandalas and our long loved midi hama beads. More details, a Pinterest board and ideas tomorrow but it was a huge success.

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Hama Beads Tagged With: #craftysummer, hama beads, mandalas

My little felt fabric pincushion.

June 15, 2014 by

This week I have been learning a little bit of blog DIY and updating a few places to run on Genesis (with grateful thanks to Tim at Colneis for helping me unpick the mysteries of CSS and become a little more enabled in thew world of codey-wodey-timey-wimey stuff). The result is the PoP looks similar […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Knitting & Sewing Tagged With: felt fabric, hand sewing, making a felt pincushion, stitching, xcut

Peacock Rio Carnival Mask.

June 3, 2014 by

There isn’t much in the way of football mania here and goodness knows, there is no longer much in the way of education going on. I’ve thrown off the fun of crafting our way through knowledge for the misery of uncovering the threadbare patches in topics needed for imminent GCSEs and trying to patch them […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Summer Crafts Tagged With: Bostik products, craft blogging, dressing up, peacock mask, Rio Carnival mask, Rio Olympics Crafts, Rio World Cup crafts, summer crafts

Garden Bunting

May 18, 2014 by

I had good plans for the garden last Autumn when I put together a plan for a make over competition (which I came nowhere at all in!). My Pinterest board full of pretty sensory ideas keeps staring at me and I’m just beginning to wonder if Fran and I can pull off a short and […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Summer Crafts Tagged With: Bostik bloggers, Bostik foam pads, easy bunting, easy craft, felt bunting, garden bunting, garden make over plans, garden play

Heart to Heart.

May 14, 2014 by

Cheesy title 😉 Last week I purchased an xCut machine, a euphemistic expression for ‘decided the business needed one’. I do have great business plans for it but first I need to play 🙂 I’m not massively interested in paper crafts, though I keep meaning to do some scrapbooks but I do love felt, though […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Knitting & Sewing Tagged With: craft, easy sewing project, felt, felt fabric, sewing, xcut

Soothing Stitches: A Crochet Daffodil Garland

April 20, 2014 by

I wanted to make a garland that would brighten up our dining room and keep Spring alive a little longer; by combining some elements from different places and a little bit of changing things to suit my needs, I managed to make something I as really pleased with. It’s looking like becoming a permanent addition […]

Filed Under: Crochet, Freddie, Home Improvements, Spring Crafts Tagged With: #daffodilboy, Crochet Bouquet, crochet flower garland, crochet forget me not, Crochet Garden, crochet garland, crocheted flower bunting, crocheted spring flowers, daffodil crochet, flower bunting, spring bunting, spring crafts, using attic24 mini heart

This one is for friendship #daffodilboy

April 10, 2014 by

A few weeks ago I asked friends to join in with me as I crafted myself to distraction in the run up to Freddie’s ‘should be’ 4th birthday and join me. For those who did, I am truly grateful. And for those who sent photos of daffodils on the 2nd and thought of us and […]

Filed Under: Freddie, Grief, Spring Crafts Tagged With: daffodil craft ideas, daffodil crafts., daffodil crochet ideas, daffodil origami, daffodil pinwheels, paper plate crafts, spring crafts, spring crafts for kids

Soothing Stitches: Another crochet hat with a Hungry Caterpillar theme.

March 31, 2014 by

This book has been Bene’s favourite since the earliest of times. In fact, it has probably been all their favourite book at some point; I imagine that is why after 45 years, The Very Hungry Caterpillar is still going strong. I imagine that is why “pop!” and “caterpillar” and “sun” and “be-uuuutiful butterfly!” have been […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Benedict, Crochet, Reading Tagged With: beanie hat, books for babies, books for toddlers, crochet beanie, Eric Carle, hungry caterpillar hat, myboshi yarn, reading, The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Spring Crafts with Bostik Products

March 20, 2014 by

Last month we tried our hand at some crafting with Bostik glue and sticky pads; this month the challenge is Spring and Easter crafting with some Glitter Glue pens and extra strong Glu Dots. I got the jump on this a bit as we put together the craft pack this month via our CraftMerrily website […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Reviews, Spring Crafts Tagged With: Bostik Glitter Glue, Bostik Glue Dots, craft kit, easter chick craft, easy felt purse, foam flower crafts, make mother's day cards, pipecleaner & egg chick, polystyrene egg crafts, spring crafts

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