Felt Cat

Last year I made a Babushka doll last minute for a gift to fit in a homemade bed.

This year Sidney loves cats...

Very simple white felt with pink heart and a ribbon collar.  I have tons of buttons I bought for Eliza's quiet book so I sifted through them all and found the little pink star.

I saw this pin for the felt cat but it was just a picture so I can't credit whoever came up with it sorry!  It seemed pretty simple to follow for me who never draws just goes straight to cutting and usually at a really inappropriate time like this morning when I was looking after FIVE children - two of which are my own!  The gift is for Friday but I have two parties I am planning right now so I had a spare half an hour to get this finished.  The kids were playing happily and Finlay was making a rainbow loom bracelet for Sidney.

We are LOVING rainbow loom right now.  We have not mastered anything other than this basic design but we will sit and watch a tutorial one day soon!  Easter holidays just now so we are busy touring the parks with a picnic full of old Halloween and Christmas sweets :) Not good enough as a choice of sweet in the house but when you are out in the cold a chocolate coin goes down a treat :)

Party season soon Nerf and Cocktail parties coming soon!!!

I Love a Tutu!

For not being a girly girl I am really turning into one!!

My love of tutus started when Eliza was 2.  Her second birthday party was a Ladybird Picnic and Eliza was dressed of course as a ladybird.  Pinterest had taken over my life and I wanted to try every craft going :) I already had bought a little red tutu in a sale though so I just added black felt circles through the layers and I loved it at the time 

But knew I wanted to go back and make a tutu myself - they looked so easy to do.  I found out from this pin how to cut tulle easily - and I bulk ordered TONNES of tulle!!!  I don't know what I thought I was going to do with it all but once I saw all the colours I couldn't resist!  I found them on an Ebay shop really cheap by the roll so ordered in every colour I thought would be useful!  Lifetime supply :) 

My friend's little girl is just a couple of weeks younger than Eliza so for her birthday I made her a tutu using these instructions

She is a huge Elmo fan so I cut out an Elmo face and stuck it to a red t-shirt.  Home made Elmo tutu gift <3

It was so simple - basically tying the tulle in knots around a ribbon.  Simples :) 

Unfortunately I also bought a blue tutu in the sale so Eliza still didn't get a home-mader for her cousin's space party - just some silver stars stuck onto her shop-bought one.

Still, how cute?!?!

But I was desperate to make my own tutu for Eliza

Our holiday to Florida was the perfect occasion

 My very beautiful Minnie Mouse <3 <3 <3



Once we were home it was time to make a new one for Hallowe'en 

 Superhero tutu!!
For this tutu I used this pin to satin wrap it with yellow ribbon.  This is really too big for her here but I knew I wanted to make them so they would last some time because even though I bulk bought quite cheap tulle it is still an expensive hobby!

And here she is with her friend in her Elmo outfit from earlier in the year :) 

 Next was another hero outfit - this time Batman for her brothers Superhero Party

SO cute Batgirl :) 

Look how big she got!!  10 months on and she has turned into this little lady <3

World Book Day 2014 and she was dressed up as Little Red Riding Hood.  The "hood" is very dodgy just an old Santa hat attached to a cape - not my best effort but left myself little time as usual!  And the old Minnie Mouse tutu still fits :) 

I am sure there will be more in the years to come especially judging by how much tulle I have left :)  Might need to have a tutu party this year!  

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Merry Christmas

Just a quick little post to say Merry Christmas everyone.  I will show you a couple of the cakes we made for orders today.  Nice and Christmassy!

Chocolate orange holly on logs

                          Fruit cake with a snowman and penguin scene

                          Chocolate orange, chocolate mint and vanilla Christmas cupcakes

                                  Snowy

                                  Penguin

                            Skating penguin

                             Mini chocolate orange cupcakes

                            Christmas box of 4 with some pretty ribbon

 Another snowman and penguin scene...thats the theme this year :) Santa made his appearance last year.

               Pretty red velvet cakes before decorating

                    A lovely big box of Christmas cakes (toffee, lemon, baileys, strawberry and white chocolate and red velvet)

                       All wrapped up ready to go

                      Sparkly Christmas box

I have barely left my kitchen the last few days.  Tonight I have been making some puddings for tomorrow.  Santa is away to have his cuppy and cake - or coke and mars bar that has been left out - so traditional this year!!  Haha Finlay thought Santa would like a change.  Rudolph has an apple - I forgot to buy carrots but Finlay thought he would like a change as well this year :)   Enjoy yourselves tomorrow I will update you on all the puddings me and my sister have created for tomorrow - you can't have too much variety!.  One of mine was a failure unfortunately so now I have a tub of caramel sauce with no home...oh dear Santa LOVES caramel sauce straight from the pot!!

Merry Christmas!!!

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♫ Gift for Music Teacher ♫

Tomorrow Finlay's music teacher is leaving for a new post so we decided to make him a little Christmas tree decoration to say thanks. 

♫Had to be a musical note!♫  We cut this out of black felt - just free style as usual I am too lazy to do anything properly and measuring out felt seems like too much effort!

Managed to find a nice little black and white ribbon out of my HUGE ribbon selection!! (I told you I had an unhealthy obsession with buying ribbon!)

♪ We were going to leave it like this and look for a card to give the teacher but when we were searching for an appropriate card we came across some music note craft paper and a blank card so we made this for him ♪

♫ I would love to receive such a personalised gift! ♫

♪I am looking forward to Finlay giving this to him tomorrow and Finlay is really delighted with his gift card.  So simple what you can knock up with a bit of felt and a needle. I think I will make some of these for my musical friends now. Any other ideas for personalised Christmas gifts like this?♪

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See more felt gifts here and here 

Present Wrapping

e Finally I have wrapped all my presents!  It does not help that some people have December birthdays! e

A few from the mountain I wrapped today


And the birthday presents...

SO impressed with my brown paper roll that has still not run out.  I always run out of wrapping paper!  I can't even remember where I bought it or how long it was but probably Amazon - when in doubt I always order from Amazon :) 

 This time I hot glued the button on - no need to waste time sewing that was crazy!!

Little green flower button 

Slightly boring - pushed for time!


And my Christmas presents this year followed the same brown  paper theme...

                                                             Stenciling - not over that yet!             

So my presents this year have a red and white thin ribbon I found on an ebay shop and a Merry Christmas ribbon I cut and made into a bow ( I got this Merry Christmas ribbon free from my favourite gift shop Cox and Cox just for placing an order!) 

Some of the presents have a bow made out of the same red and white ribbon instead

And some have red and white twine instead of ribbon because that did run out :( 

Very simple and the stenciling saved me lots of gift tags!  Scrimping and saving so I can craft more next year :) I used my gold sharpie pen I showed you last time

If I had sent Christmas cards this year I would have written them in these...:D Merry Christmas