Christmas Bows

I made these tartan bows to sell at my work craft fair.  Packaged in cellophane (2 to a pack) they look quite cute!

Christmas Crafting!!!

My work are having a Christmas Crafts sale on the 22nd of November.  

Here's the first few tree decorations that I have made for the sale

Here's the steps to make these little tree decorations.

1. Cut squares of felt

 2. Cut a length of ribbon

 3. Sew the length of fabric onto the felt

 4. Sew the two layers of felt together to make a border.  Leave one side open to stuff with filling.

 5. When sewing the last side of the border sew in the hanging ribbon.

 6. Finished product

Here are a few finished items - I sewed fabric hearts on some as well as the ribbon.  I don't know which I prefer!!

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House Renovations!

Over a year ago I bought a derelict house. I guess you could say this  has been my biggest crafting project.  If you are interested, c'mon over to my blog about it for lots of photos and info!

Oktoberfest Costumes

Oktoberfest Beer Festival was on in Dublin last weekend.  My sister and I dressed up as beer girls in dirndls for the event.  Although we wore shop bought costumes we altered them by making waistbands for the dresses to make them look better.

Take a look! What do you think?!

Here is the waist band that Amy made

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Project 7 - Headboard

Project 7 - Headboard


This should be a good one!


I was showing Ciaran a bed headboard which was made out of a photograph printed on to canvas and I said  I would like to do something like this. 


He suggested that I make a headboard and that he would then paint it.

                            These are the colours we will use!


Pics to follow when I get started on the project!

Project 6 - Bedside lockers

Project 6 is a big one!

I am currently in the process of moving house.  Some of the furniture from the old house won't suit the new house. If you are interested in house restoration, please have a look at this blog.

In particular I have two red bedside lockers that will need to be repainted a more muted white or cream colour.

Here they are:

I am unsure whether I will leave the coloured tiling in these particular colour or whether I will paint over them.


Here they are after they have been painted with undercoat

And here they are finished.  They are mainly painted White with a light grey  for the top.

                                 How do you think they look?  

Project 6 - Rocky Road

 Honeycomb "Crunchie" bar was broken up  in to big chunks.

                           Butter and chocolate were melted.

                                Biscuits were broken up

Mix the marshmallows, crunchie and biscuits into the chocolate and then pop in to the fridge to set.  

                                                            Enjoy!