My Busy Craft Life

Merry Christmas everyone!  This year's tree, I'm actually very proud of it this year, so I took some closeup pictures too... Recognise the penguin there? ;) We had some bubbly to celebrate of course while we unwrapped the presents... My sister sent me this yoga egg (still have to find out how to use it) and look at the gigantic box it came in!! Silly Amazon...  The bf tried his first ever English Christmas pudding and as I hate it, I baked a red velvet cake that looked like a Christmas pudding ;) It was much nicer (sorry to all of those who like Christmas pudding, it's just not my thing) and prettier too! Clearly I ate a liiiitle too much of it, hihi... It's been a little bit stressy this evening (I so need to take the day off this year), but in the end it all worked out :) I hope you're all having a wonderful time with family, friends and yummy food.   Merry Christmas everyone!!

Hi everyone! Yes, this is a backdated post, I waited a whole year with posting this and I actually forgot to blog about it at Christmas time!! I had also planned a giveaway but I guess that will also have to wait until next Christmas then... oops! Anyway, I made some really cool Christmas stockings last year , and I had so much fun that I made some more just in case. Plus one of my friends saw them and really wanted one as well so I was making more anyway. Let me show you the result of the three more that I made: This is the one I made for my friend who requested one. She is a very cheerful person so I chose some bright and colourful fabrics for her.  I chose yellow for the inside which really matched the red and pulled it all together. I bought this Christmas cupcake fabric especially for the red stocking for my friend, and since I still had some left, I also used it for this one. The green and gold is just so Christmassy! A bit more classic than the red one, ...

Hello again, I'm back with the follow up on yesterday's post.  After Winder Wonderland, I met up with a friend so see the Harrods Christmas windows. This is also something that has turned into somewhat of a tradition and this is the third year I'm doing this. They were a little disappointing this year I thought, but let me share them with you anyway: Let's visit the Harrods Christmas Express! This year's windows were apparently inspired by the British steam train. With very shiny staff... This was my favourite display, very 20s with that hair! Love the background also Not as amazing as usual I have to say... Check out the sign in the back, really gives the train impression :) It is said that one dress was worth GBP 80K and dripping in Swarovski crystals by Ralph & Russo. I think it's this one but I can;t be sure, no one will tell me!  But it sure sparkles...  Lots of tableware in the next carriage... ...

Hello again! I am getting so much into the Christmas spirit this year! Must be because I kind of didn't really celebrate Halloween so now I have celebrations to make up for ;) I still had some time leftover so I took the afternoon off to go shopping and visit Winter Wonderland. In the end I didn't actually make it into any shop as I just had too much fun (and it was so much better than many years ago when I had to queue for an hour for some mulled wine, now there was food everywhere!) I managed to get a pic of the Piccadilly Circus turned into a snowglobe, it's not an area I go to very often . It even has snow inside it! Arrival at Winter Wonderland, oh the excitement! It did not disappoint, everywhere I looked were these woodcarvings, so very well made!  Santa Claus statues too of course Traditional Lebkuchen hearts, I even found one for the bf (much to his shock as he really doesnt like them, but it's tradition!) Gee, you think there ...

Heyhey everyone! It's the most wonderful time of the year, it's time for SantaCon! Thought of by some as only a piss-up, it's really a lot of fun and plenty of Santas don't spend the day getting drunk. Starting at 11am the day after our Christmas party, it was difficult getting ready but I made it in the end, and on time! This year I was taking the East Route, a new route for me. The gathering point was at St. Pauls where a Santa band was providing Christmassy music. We then headed out at around noon and walked along Fleet Street, I think we may have stopped traffic at some point, we were just so many! If you live in the UK, this will make sense to you. These Santas were handing out free tshirts to random people for Team Nigella.  We slowly (yes really slowly) made out way towards to British Museum, and I met these crazy Santas who brought their own Christmas music in the shape of an amp hooked onto their phone. When they got a message, it was h...