Personal Planner Giveaway is now open worldwide!
August 26, 2014
The giveaway to create your own personal planner is open worldwide. Click here to take you to the post you need to enter.
Month: August 2014
Make it Monday: Attic24 Crochet Bower Bird
August 25, 2014
This weeks make is one that I’ve had my eye on for a while but the pattern has only just become available. It’s the crochet bower bird designed by Lucy from Attic24. The pdf can be found by clicking here; Bower bird pattern. Lucy had held a tutorial class in how to make her fab … More Make it Monday: Attic24 Crochet Bower Bird
Personal Planner GIVEAWAY!!!
August 24, 2014
As most of you know I recently celebrated my 100th blog post! To coincide with this I got in touch with a company called Personal Planner about creating my own planner for my blog. Scrap pieces of paper are no longer (were they ever?) suitable for me scribbling down my blog ideas as well as important … More Personal Planner GIVEAWAY!!!
Make it Monday: Grecian style top
August 18, 2014
It was my birthday last week and I was so excited to use my new dressform – who I have named Betty 🙂 To celebrate having Betty I wanted to make myself a top using some grey jersey fabric I had in my stash. I recalled seeing on the Great British Sewing Bee a short … More Make it Monday: Grecian style top
Make it Monday: Lego Rapunzel’s Tower
August 11, 2014
This weekend saw some really bad weather in the UK so on a rainy Sunday Miss P made up one of the Lego kits she got for her recent birthday. She just loves building Lego kits and one of her favourite films is Tangled so we bought her Rapunzel’s Creativity Tower. After a some help … More Make it Monday: Lego Rapunzel’s Tower
Liebster Award and nominees
August 7, 2014
The very kind Fiona at Green Elephant Crochet and Things nominated me, Creative Pixie for a Liebster Award. I’ve been nominated for this award in the past but it’s fun to answer new questions and post links to new favourite blogs.The Liebster award is a really great way to discover new blogs. Once you are nominated by a … More Liebster Award and nominees
Make it Monday: dress alteration
August 4, 2014
This week I was very excited as I got a birthday present 2 weeks early. My husband and girls bought me an Adjustoform Lady Valet dress makers dummy. I’ve wanted one for ages, but they are quite expensive, so I was really excited when Hubby suggested one for my birthday. It has 12 dials to … More Make it Monday: dress alteration
What I’ve been reading – The Scarecrows’ Wedding
August 3, 2014
A couple of weeks ago saw the release of The Scarecrows Wedding the latest childrens book from Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler (the creators of The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom and Tabby McTat to name a few). My girls are such fans of the Donaldson/Scheffler books so that when I saw an advertisement on … More What I’ve been reading – The Scarecrows’ Wedding
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