My Busy Craft Life

Hi all! I am supposed to be crafting something but as I cant decide where to start (too many projects!), I thought I'd tell you all about my weekend :) Hope you dont mind! After spending a fun evening on Friday with a friend from work who was having her leaving party, I was very much in a London mood the next day. But what to do? Strangely enough, Facebook came to the rescue! I found a post about a book called 'Tired of London, tired of life' which I thought was a very striking title. After some googling I realised that this book had only been out for a short time but was sold out virtually everywhere! Again, FB came to the rescue as someone posted that the Museum of London sold copies. Excellent :) So off I went. I figured I may as well visit the (conveniently free) museum at the same time for some inspiration. Something that never clicked... before the Great Fire of London in 1666, THIS is what St Paul's Cathedral looked like! I never realised that it used to be point...

Hi all! See, told you I would keep posting ;) Hihi... As a Christmas present, I made a needle book for one of the girls in my team at work. She asked me several times for mine to she could fix something, so now I made her her own to carry with her when I'm not around. I made it so that she wouldnt need a bag with several things but an all-in-one item. She loves colour, so I used some lovely colourful felts. The front. It closed by putting the elastic on the right around the butterfly button. The stitching is a little uneven because I used the inside as a guideline. On the plus side, the inside looks very even! ;) The back. The elastic starts with the blue butterfly button. Folded out. I put some cardboard in between two layers of felt to make it stronger. I love this felt, it's so cute! The first 'page'. On the left I added safety pins and buttons. Centre page: sewing needles in various sizes on the left, and pins on the right. On the last 'page' I made a pouch ...

Hello again! When we went to Hyper Japan last year, I got this bag from Yelp for registering on their mailing list. The size and shape is so handy that I actually carry it to work nearly every day, so this is definitely a very handy bag for carrying shopping/lunch/parcels or anything else. The only thing that really annoyed me was the Yelp logo... It is so red and not crafty looking at all! Enter Halloween fabric stash... The original bag. After I'm done with it :) I chose this fabric from my Halloween stash because it was purple (which was already my favourite colour but is currently a bit of an obsession), and because the fabric was a little thin for quilting. I still have a little bit left but it makes the bag a lot more fun :) I just sewed the square (well, rectangle) onto the bag without wonderweb or anything. It wont be washed anyway so it should be ok. The bag isnt that stable that it will keep for 10 years hihi. So the first personalised item of 2012 is here! :) Also, plea...

Hi everyone and Happy New Year! My my, the year is already a week old, can you believe it? Have you made any new year's resolutions and have you stuck to them yet? LOL, it is always a bit tricky... For example, I really wanted to start the year off well with the blog and do much more than I did in November/December, but as usual work got in the way. HOWEVER, I have a ton of pics to share with you about various projects and more will be done soon so I'm definitely having a comeback :) But first things first. I hope you all had a wonderful NYE! The bf and I stayed home for the evening after spending a good hour at HMV picking out the evening's entertainment which funnily enough turned out be a Marvel evening. We watched Captain America and the Green Lantern. For some reason for the past 3 years we've ended up with Transformers so it was time for a change hihi. Old habits die hard and completely unintentional we ended up with more Marvel. But it was a truely Marvel-us even...

Hi everyone!! I did it! I left the house this afternoon :) hihi, not so weird you may think... BUT! I have spent the last several days inside, eating and watching tv and just enjoying the fact that I dont HAVE to do anything (well, the usual laundry and cooking but on the whole that is really minimal). I really wanted to sew or bake or something but I really didnt know which project to sew first and I figured my waistline is not going to be happy if I bake much more, especially that cinnamon bread . That was just to die for! So today I dropped some stuff off at the charity shop (really, I cant recycle/re-use everything!) and I just happened to catch the tube in time for the hobby shop. Oops... *angelic smile while polishing halo*. Strangely enough I hardly found anything for myself. Really, the items on sale just didnt appeal to me at all. But then I literally bumped into a shelf full of discounted Warhammer paints! And a ton of the colours the bf needs to his Warhammer projects. And a...

Hello again everyone! I hope you all had a lovely Christmas with friends and/or family and lots of food :) As for me, it was quiet but relaxed and nice. Well, I didnt have to cook so it was definitely relaxed, hihi... Because I HATE travelling around this time of year (really, someone is always on strike, flights are packed or delayed, luggage gets lost, and my present never fits into my suitcase), the bf and I just stayed home and had some nice food, some presents under the tree, and a LOT of television for the last few days. I had honestly forgotten what it was like to just sit around and don't do much at all! Slowly but surely the work-stress is leaving me and I seem to find myself baking a lot. Joy for my creativity, not so much for my waist line ;) At the moment it is 1am and I can't sleep. Luckily I dont have to work tomorrow (am off for nearly another week, whoohoo!) but it might have something to do with a coffee I had at 1pm today... and of course I only just realised ...

Heyhey everyone! OMG it has been so long! So sorry for not being online more, but work has been insane these past few weeks. BUT today my holidays have started and I can finally relaaaaxxx... well, after cleaning the entire house but maybe I'll start that tomorrow ;) As you have realised, I havent really been sitting still and Christmas preparations are well underway. Christmas Eve is tomorrow, oh my! So let me show you what I've been up to: I put up the Christmas tree Used some of my collected jars to make new Christmas lights for in the stairs (still prefer the Halloween ones though!) Made 19 (!) Christmas crackers Made cookies in a jar as a present for the girls at work And upcycled jar lids to make some Christmas tree decorations for some people at work also. See, some projects were still done ;) I will share the how-tos and links later, need some nice sleep now where I know I dont have to get up for work in the morning. Whoohoo!