...I've been working on a few ideas for some London themed buttons for one of my stockists, All the Fun of the Fair.
Here are a few of the underground buttons I made up yesterday.
These are by no means perfect finished pieces, but I'm quite pleased with some of the ideas.
...last night was the very first craft night in, hosted by the lovely Bex of Stuffed Nonsense.
Held at Cafe 51, which is also mine and Milo's favourite little Cheltenham cafe at the moment, it was super lovely. Looking forward to next months meet already! Hopefully they'll be running on the last Saturday of every month. If you live in the Cheltenham area you should definitely pop along for some crafting in company!
I taught Bex how to make a granny square, whilst others knit, very cute pugs,
stitched subversive cross stitch and made rice paper flowers.
Keep an eye on Stuffed Nonsenses blog or facebook page for more details of future meets.
Inspired by SouleMama
In her words...
...today my set of 3 blue ninjas were featured on the front page of etsy...
...the most amazingly delicious marshmallows arrived in the post...
(seriously seriously amazing)
...I discovered an awesome baby events listing magazine ask baby cheltenham...
...venturing out to the lido yesterday for the first time and Milo's first swim (he didn't enjoy it!)...
...watching my tiny garden flourish in the wonderful sunshine...
...my little monkey learning to draw...
...putting my name on the allotment waiting list (OK so the wait may be years but it's worth a try!)...
...CocoRosie's Grey Oceans...
xx
photo from Bron Marshall on flickr
...a customer of mine, Jane, recently asked me to make some friendship bracelets for a breast cancer, fund raising, strawberry tea, she is holding.
These are the results...
...in pink of course!
These bracelets will be included a raffle she is having, to raise money for breast cancer care.
There will be Strawberry Tea's held all over the country as part of Breast Cancer Care's fundraising.
Here are more details taken from their website...
Strawberry Tea has been running since 1998. Last year we raised £400,000 with over 1,600 Strawberry Tea events taking place during the summer.
Strawberry Tea is Breast Cancer Care’s summer community fundraising campaign. We want people to organise their own events to raise money for us. From having a strawberry-themed tea break at work or at home to holding a strawberry cake sale at school, the event is simple, inclusive and can be done by anyone, anywhere.
I think this is a fabulous idea and a very good way to enjoy a strawberry or two!
You can also see Jane's facebook fan page here.
...it's been a while since I made any new buttons and since I had a custom order for some rainbow flower buttons in two sizes I thought I'd have a play whilst I was making them.
And so I invented double rainbow flower buttons (and hopefully soon there will also be heart and stars in the same theme).
...these beautiful shoes arrived yesterday from the super talented LaLaShoes...
A pair for Milo and a pair for his newest cousin.
It is very difficult to get a good picture of a babe who, likes taking shoes off, likes grabbing the camera, is super speedy on his knees!
So instead of one good picture I'll give you lots of OK pictures!
The shoes are gorgeous! I have no doubt I'll be back for more-and maybe some for me!
And they remind me of The Elves and the Shoemaker, which is a good thing indeed!
..we went to Cheltenham Carnival...
As a girl from a seaside town where carnival is the event of the year, it wasn't quite as spectacular as I'm used to, but it was still lots of fun and the first time the three of us have been out together for the whole day in a long time.
Milo was of course mostly too young for everything, but still enjoyed himself.
Despite seeming to be really interested in the balloons when we took him over for a look, turned out he was terrified. I've never seen him scared of anything before.
He got to enjoy some of my ice cream-before swiping it from me!
He also managed 3 unaided steps this weekend! Though, of course, I missed them because I was doing laundry!
Inspired by SouleMama
In her words...
...a couple of weeks ago quite by accident I happened upon on the utterly wonderful Alys Fowler and her Edible Garden. Since then (thanks to the iPlayer) I have caught up on all the episodes so far, have reserved her book at the library and am eagerly awaiting this week's episode!
In the episode juicy fruits she demonstrated hapa-zome, which is quite simply putting a leaf/petal in between two pieces of fabric and bashing it with a hammer to get all the dye out and transfer it on to the fabric. You need to use natural fibres and when you've finished steam iron the fabric to get it to hold the dye.
Ever since I saw that episode I wanted to have a go at this, so whilst we were down at the park yesterday feeding the ducks I picked myself a few flowers and leaves and had a go a soon as we got home! Single petals and leaves seemed to work better than whole flowers, but I expect it would depend what flowers you were using.
I'm really impressed and I have visions of a beautiful table cloth covered in leaf and petal prints (to go in my imaginary house where we have room for an actual dinner table to put this cloth!). Also the hammering part was very satisfying!
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