I love Buttons!!!!!

Oh my god I absolutely love buttons! I have no idea where this strange like has come from – although I do remember as a child always playing with tins of buttons than my nan had – looking through them and sorting them out into colours or shapes. Well, not surprisingly they are on my [...]

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Cushions!

Well, I’ve still not made a lot of progress on the chair cover for the kids room. Any ideas on the best was to make a cover for that shape chair (see post further down page) would be gratefully received!!
I have however made these two patchwork cushions which I am very pleased with as they [...]

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I love Glass Beads!

I love glass beads! I was looking for some quite large blue glass beads to make some tie backs for the curtains in my bathroom. Today my mum visited all the way from Cornawall and bought me a blue bead necklace with the idea of me taking it apart to make the tie backs with! [...]

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More memories!

Well following on from my previous post on the memory boxes for the kids bedroom, I have taken the shoebox which Jake’s first shoes were in and decided to make it a bit more special.
Here is the outside of the box:

and here is the inside (complete with Jake’s ever so cute first pair of shoes!)

I’ve [...]

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Mastocytosis/Kids from Fame!!

My son has a condition called ‘Mastocytosis’ it’s quite rare (actually very rare! So click the link and learn somemore about it!!) he has the Paedeatric version so hopefully should grow out of it by  puberty. His body produces too many mast cells and there are so many things we have to watch out for, too [...]

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Relearning an old craft!

When I was at school I used to make lots and lots of Friendship bracelets with my best friend, then in the school holidays we’d sell them at car boot sales etc with other stuff we had made like hair scrunchies and jewelery and we actually made quite a bit of money – when i [...]

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Flikr Favourites Addicts Email Swap

This is an email swap I am currently in on Swapbot. Its a link to a Flickr Mosaic of our 16 most inspirational craft pictures. I chose this swap as I love looking at everyones craft pics on Flikr! Here’s my mosiac:

I shall take you through them and why I picked them (numbers left to [...]

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No time for scrapbooking!

Out of all of my crafts which have suffered due to the lack of time for me since my baby became a toddler, is scrap-booking!
I started a ‘baby album’ for Jake a year ago and have only managed 5 layouts! There is no way I’m going to get it finished before the new baby arrives [...]

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Memories…

I have kept a memory box for as long as I can remember, just bits and bobs I’ve collected in a box throughout the years to remind me of things I’ve done that were important to me. Therefore I knew as soon as my first son was born I would do the same for him [...]

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Total Hexagon Addiction

Well, I had a night on the sofa in front of the TV last night making hexagons for Jake’s ‘Disney’ quilt! I have to say I am surprised at how many I did in such a short space of time – once you get going on them its hard to stop. I decided to start [...]

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