Crafty day 7 – more more flowers

Tuesday, 29 June 2010, 12:35 | Category : Sewing Week
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Not very unique, but been working on different designs and ideas. I quite like with ribbon inside.

Crafty Week – day 6 – vivcore challenge.

Monday, 28 June 2010, 11:12 | Category : Sewing Week
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Every month vivcore forums have a craft challenge. This month was the turn of the- Teru Teru Bouzu From the forum- ‘These little fellas are supposed to be so happy they cheer away the rain.’ Here’s my little guy-

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Crafty week day 5 more flowers- moar denim!

Sunday, 27 June 2010, 13:42 | Category : Sewing Week
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Back to flowers today. Decided to tackle a larger piece of kimono silk, and then fought with some jeans variant of the ribbon flower. Todays offering to the craft gods. All so far together. using the same method as my tutorial, just with strips of jeans instead and afternoon nails as I smudged this mornings

Freehand butterfly NoTD

Sunday, 27 June 2010, 1:35 | Category : Nail of the Day
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Today I followed some inspiration from twitter to create todays mani. The prompt was for a butterfly, something world cuppy or a flower. I went with the first as I have none of my colours here to do flags. Only one finger art this time, as I quite fancied it! I used purely eyeko for [...]

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Crafting week – Day 4 top!

Saturday, 26 June 2010, 6:11 | Category : Sewing Week
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Today was the day to do something with the second of the two t-shirts I’d been surgerying. (will add link to old one here). I wanted to make a skirt, but unfortunately there wasnt enough material, then it was going to be a dress- but as you can see, not the most in the way [...]

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Crafty week, day 3 denim jeans bag.

Friday, 25 June 2010, 5:44 | Category : Sewing Week
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So today is a recycling jeans day. New bag from old jeans. Fun fun fun.

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Crafty week, day 2 fabric flowers

Thursday, 24 June 2010, 11:52 | Category : Sewing Week
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So today I decided to start on some flowers for the table centres for the wedding. I will be showing a tutorial for this next week.

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Crafty week – Day 1 – Dinosaur winter hat/scarf

Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 9:09 | Category : Sewing Week
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Lucky me does have internets. Unlucky me doesn’t have my adaptor for my camera though, so sadly you are dealing with iphone pictures. I decided that for the week we’re working, every day will have one crafty thing I’ve made.  This one comes from an idea I used at christmas (well sinterklass) to make a [...]

NoTD: Cosmic Nails

Tuesday, 22 June 2010, 22:43 | Category : Nail of the Day
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So tomorow starts 7 days working straight with no internet access other than the trusty iphone.  With this in mind, have a warning thatI’ll be subjecting you to the absolute pleasures of  iphone posting of makeup and other things I think are hilariously awesome to pass the time! While you’re lamenting about how rubbish Gem [...]

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[DiY] Ribbon Flowers Tutorial

Tuesday, 22 June 2010, 0:00 | Category : How to:-
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So, I’m rather fond of the DiY and crafting approach to most things – you may have seen these flowers earlier on this blog – but I was asked on another forum to post how I made them – so I figured why not post it here too I didn’t use another tutorial on this [...]