Eyelets and phones

 Hi,

I hope your weeks are all going well :) I am happy with how my corset is going in college so that is good, I will show you some more pictures after I have completed the next few steps as then it should really be coming together.

 

This week I have also been working on my 1/2 scale red dress that I designed and draped, I have been hand sewing the little eyelets down the back so then I can lace the dress up with red ribbon:

 

 

It is going well- only about 18 left to go :P They are soo small as they have to be 1/2 normal eyelet size to be in correct scale. I think I may have placed them slightly too close to the edge to be in correct scale but not majorly so it will be ok, no one is actually going to wear it so there won't be much strain on them.

 

In other news last weekend I got a new phone! :D A red Samsung Galaxy s4 to be exact. It was a big step up from my old phone, that I had had since I was 10 and so old the guy in Carphone warehouse said the makers had gone out of business, lol :P I have been spending time this week trying to get used to all its amazing functions. I downloaded several free bridal dress catalogues to flick through as extra research for my new work experience and tons of other stuff, it is helping me to get more done each day which is good. I really love my new phone but am really protective over it as I don't want to damage it! Hehe Sunday I made a case really quickly from a sock I hadn't worn and added a kawaii hello kitty button to keep it safe:

 

 

Hehe, now though I have an case which is apparently what the army use to protect their gadgets from rain, sand, you name it- it is virtually indestructible!

 

Hehe, I am off to bed now, I need to get a good sleep so I can power through my corset sewing again tomorrow,

 

See you all again soon,

 

Byeeee xxx

IOW goodies giveaway! :D

Hi everyone!

It is now time for the giveaway of the goodies I picked up (and made!) while on holiday in the IOW!!!!

Here is what is up for grabs :0):

• A bundle of mini skiens (designers testers) I bought in Quay arts, a cool art shop attatched to a little gallery. Perfect for adding pretty stitching or finishing touches to projects :)

•  Some Hello kitty and cute snail buttons, I couldn't resist buying sets of both as they were both soo sweet!

• A yummy chocolate owl from Chocolate Island, where my valentines lolly and huge bunny last easter was from :-)

• And..... A mini baby biscornu I made, and designed! I really enjoyed making my first biscornu for the biscornu swap on craftbubble ( pictures coming soon!) so wanted to make one for the giveaway too :D

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The giveaway is open to anyone anywhere and all you have to do to enter is:

• Leave a comment containing some way for me to contact you if you win e.g craftbubble or Ravelry name or blog address

and

• Be a follower (please metion this in your comment also :)

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Entries close on Friday the 2nd of March and the winner will be announced on the same day,

(-:   I hope you like all the prizes!   :-)

See you all soon,

Bye :D xxxx

It's the 1st of December! :D

Hi,

The countdown for christmas has finally begun!

This year I have a Thorntons chocolate advent calendar and a special Hello Kitty toy advent calendar :D

In todays door I got a teeny weeny pink chair, Look, look :0D

Isn't it just soo cute! You get a whole little Hello Kitty christmas scene :3

Hehehe I wonder what I will get in my toy advent tommorrow??? :P

In other news if you were wondering about what was in the crafty advent calendar I gave away, Eleanor is posting about the prize she gets each day so you can satisfy your curiosity :)

Here is her first post: http://craftingmusicalellie.blogspot.com/2011/11/advent.html

I'm off now I have to get a good nights sleep as tommorrow I am hosting a christmas party with my best friends :P

See you all soon,

Bye xxx

Lovely birthday package! :D

Hi!

Today I got home from school to find a very large parcel waiting for me :) It was a birthday gift from the very lovely (and newly-wed! :) Laura from Cute Crocheted Creations.

Excitedly I opened the parcel to find all these wonderful gifts!!!!:

All my presents were wrapped in cute dinosaur wrapping paper and Laura even included a little goody bag from her wedding containing some of the beautiful leaves that her mum made which decorated the wedding tables :-)

Here are some of my gifts up close :0):

I love these two guys, they are soo sweet! I'm putting them on my school bag zip to make me smile every day :)

Laura also made me this cool charm, and pair of stitch markers which will come in

 very handy when making amigurumi!

Here is the little wedding goody bag <3

The socks are so darn cute! and really snuggly too :0) And I was like 'WOW!' when I saw the lemon scented embroidery thread :P

I've already started thinking of what projects to use all these buttons and charms on, my fave is the little silver froggy! I had to carry all of them to my room in the cute lemon purse to prevent losing any of them!



Laura Started me on cross stitch and now she is helping me continue by adding to my cross stitch kit stash! :o)  I was really happy when I saw the little Hello Kitty figure as I have a mini collection of them and now I have one more!

Thank you Laura for all the amazing gifts!!! The parcel made my day :D

I'm off now to admire all my prezzies from afar as I finish my homework. Then I'm off to go an be a guide at the open evening at school for upcoming year 7's :)

See you all soon, bye!

xxx

It's My Birthday! XD

Hello guys!

Today is my birthday WOOOOO!!!! and It has been brilliant! :D My dad (as you will know if you have been a reader of my blog for a while) always makes me and my brother a special cake for our birthdays, and this year my dad really out-did himself! Look, everything is edible even the lid (which is made of rice crispy cake)! :P:

He combined my two fave things, knitting and cake!! :0)

It looks soo great and tastes just as good! The balls of wool are homemade chocolate chip muffins coated in icing :0P

My dad even made an icing replica of the little felt monster I made him XD He's yet to be eaten, Lol!

Today my other friends gave me a birthday present :D I got a giant Hello Kitty poster and these two cross stitch kits which will be soo fun to make:

They know me well :)

My family were also extremely generous with gifts too!

My brother made me a mini hamper with sweets, a hello kitty surprise egg and a cool purse in a really pretty box, the sweets and choccys are in the fridge now but here is the box and purse:

I love my little bro, and my new purse hehehe! <3

My nan and grandad got me lots of gifts including a couple of cross stitch kits, one of my aunties got me two funky pineapple dance tops and my other aunties got me some make up and bath stuff and £20.00 to spend in Miss Selfridge.

Here are some of the wonderful prezzies I got from my parents... : )

I can't wait to read the book about Lady Gaga's fashions, they facsinate me! ( I'm listening to the Born this way CD right now! :)



Do you think that's enough chocolate and sweets for one person? Mmmm :-P



Look at all these Hello kitty goodies! :3 Im going to put some of my crafty bits and bobs in the tin

I LOVE CROSS STITCH :)

WOOOO! These four cuties were on my b-day list!!!! They are Hannari tofu plushes, random and cute, perfect! I loooooovvveeee them! <3 <3 <3



This tin my dad got me I also really love, it has talking grain of rice on it, hehehaha, so random :-)

My parents as an extra gift are also paying for me to start taking driving lessons, my first one is in two weeks, I'm soo excited!

I still can't believe all the amazing gifts I got (thanks everyone! xxx)

And thanks to everyone who left a comment wishing me a happy birthday, I really have had the best day ever! :)

See you all again soon,

Bye! XxXxXx

Lucky me!

Yolah!

It's fast approaching my birthday (woooo!) so on Friday I had a party with 3 of my friends, it was very fun, we played monopoly and had pizza :P (I also got some special Hello kitty plates to eat the pizza off of! ahhaha so cute!). One of my friends gave me my present (well actually 2) early and I couldn't resist opening them, they were calling me! My first present was a stick of rock she had got me from her trip to Brighton (in a mystery flavour!!! :D) And the other present she got me was a lovely stylish mini 4 draw storage box for me to put my crafty bits and bobs in, psychicly she must have known I was running out of storage space! :-)

... But thats not all she also put a little gift in each draw of the box! :D How lucky am I! In draw 1 she had put a few sets of beads, and very thoughtfully in the colour black so I can use them for eyes on my amigurumi (currently I have to paint brown and pink beads to get black eyes!)

In draw 2 was possibly the coolest eraser you have ever seen.... :-) A big mushroom!

My friend is so generous, I still can't believe she even filled all the draws with gifts <3 In draw 3 was something I have never, ever seen before:

Mini love hearts! I really like love hearts but I didn't even know they made mini ones so I got pretty excited, they are sooo cute :D

And last, but definitely not least, in draw 4 was a handmade paper crane chain for me to give me luck :) I love it <3 It is so pretty and it means so much that she made it for me :0) I have hung it up in my room now so I can see it everyday!

So cool! XD

Also recently my nan came round and she bought lots of ribbon she had been given by someone and she asked me if I would like it!!! There was tons of it and as many of you will know it is really expensive in craft shops so I was thrilled. Look!:

I especially love the brown dotty one and there is almost a whole roll! My brain started whirring when I saw it, thinking of all the things I could make with it. My nan also brought me round three balls of red wool, one ball of yellow wool and a knitting and crochet stitch book she had been given too, I felt spoilt :0)

And if the lovely birthday gift and crafty donations weren't enough I also was recently chosen as one of the lucky random DAL winners for the summer challenge on Ravelry! I have won some pretty mystery stitch markers which I will post about when they arrive :) I also got this badge to put on my blog, made by Alyoops herself  (the DAL group creator):

I have submitted my pictures of inspiration for this round but am currently stuck between a few different designs for my final choice to make, I think I have nearly decided though. When I have finally, definitely, chosen I will be posting my sketch for you all to see!

I hope everyone is having a nice week,

See you soon!

Au revoir :-) xxx

Crafting Update!

Hey guys!

It has taken me longer than expected to get this post to you due to my internet being very temperamental lately :/ but I'm pleased to say, here, now, finally, is my crafty update!

I thought I would start by showing you all the stuff I made whilst I was on holiday :)

First up I made three pieces of bunting for my knitting group. If you can remember my previous post they are trying to make a really long string in celebration for the Olympics and set a world record too!

The dotty piece was the most difficult. I had to kind of make up where to put the dots as I went along because the pattern was only for a plain piece, there were pictures of dotty pieces though so that helped a bit. I brought them to the group along with some sweets I got from Cyprus and a kids knit book for people to have a look at. All the ladies are soo nice at the group, they really liked my bunting and were also very interested in my finished DAL gloves, which I wore to the group to show them now they were finished as they were the project I was working on last time :) Also whilst on holiday I managed to finish some more innocent hats and two more cross stitch kits:

I really like the way my ice cream hat design came out and I also love the hat with two colour pom-pom, I think the colours make it look kind of royal :-) So far I have made 15 hats but I am aiming for 25 by October!

The monkey cross stitch kit required me to do some french knots which were very difficult at first.  In the end I managed to get them though which I am really pleased about as now I can try more challenging kits and can use them along with other stitches to make pretty borders etc... around some of the other designs I have stitched :D

I haven't really decided what I am going to do with all my finished stitchlet kits yet, at the moment I am thinking of making some kind of wall hanging but first I am going to finish my bat and cat-under-snow kits.

That's all the stuff I made whilst I was away,  I was in the swimming pool all the other time! Now for the stuff I have made since I got back :)

Mainly I have been doing a lot of sewing lately in my ongoing attempt to broaden my crafty skills! I picked up a book from the library about how to sew your own fleecy monsters and thought I would give one a go. I decided to make this little cutie called 'Prudence':

I didn't have any fleece so I made her from a pretty patterned washcloth I picked up once in a store  (I knew if I bought it and saved it one day I would find the perfect project for it!) Prudence sleeps next to red nose day monster now in my bed with all my other cuddly toys :0)

Today I finished the pencil case I have been sewing myself ready for when I go back to school (which Is tomorrow so I just made it! Hehhe :) I am sooo happy with it! :D I was like a nervous wreck at the sewing machine, I had spent so long applique-ing the little bird so didn't want to ruin the whole thing!

Luckily it also fits everything in it :0) The pattern was from a book my mum and dad got me for Christmas called 'Fast Fabric Gifts'.

I also finished this big bow headband today which I may or may not wear for my first day, I like it LOTS but it is very, very, BIG! and I don't want to be told to take it off because the people sat behind me can't see the board, lol :D

And finally the last thing in my crafty update, this random Hello Kitty necklace I made from the top of a broken HK Pez and some bits and pieces I had lying around:

I think it's quite funky! :0) I will be wearing it to school sometime when I find an outfit it goes well with. That's the positive side of now being in 6th form, you can wear whatever you like :)

Well that's it for my (huge!!!!, sorry :) crafting update, See you soon

BYYYYYEEEEEEEE XXXXXX

P.s don't forget to enter the holiday giveaway! There is only three days left so don't miss out :D

Bye :0)

Funky fruit parcel!

Hey guys :)

This months theme for the Cute and quirky swap group I set up on Ravelry was Funky Fruit :0)

Today my parcel arrived!!!!!! I got a ton of great things:

I really love the rainbow yarn <3 I'll have to think of something really special to make with it!

The hello kitty body spray also smells GORGEOUS and the little strawberry charm is reallllyy cute! I think I may turn it into a stitch marker.......

Thank you to my great swap partnerino!

If you want to join the group and get in on the cute knitting/crochet swapping fun just click here :3 

(The group is open to anyone in any country and there are several swaps e.g a UK swap and a USA swap so you don't have to post internationally. It's also a budget swap. So even if your a bit low on cash you can still enjoy the cuteness!)

Next month the theme is wacky weather, ooohhh I can't wait!

Byeeeeeeee xxxxxx :-)

Even more chirpy chicks

Hi guys!

Last weekend I sent off another 10 chicks to the charity. I created a couple of new designs and wanted to share them with you all :)

I made 4 chicks with little bow head bands....

.......Some Mickey and Minnie chicks......

........Three Hello kitty chicks .......

and finally I made a little apple chick :0)

awww I think hes sooo sweet!

It would be so great to work for the charity and receive packages of chicks, I would love to see the differentt designs people create :D

I'm off to bed now to dream up new designs :)

See you later amigos!

xxx

Project special slippers: Complete!

Hello!

Ever since I recieved the really cool hello kitty buttons from my swap partner I was determined to use them in a special project. When I found the pattern for the slipper socks I knew the butttons would look great on them and now I have finished them I think I was right! :)

Im really pleased with them!

Instead of a white border I just went with the blue to blend in but added one of my white heart appliques to the front of each foot for decoration intead.

At first the straps were a bit too big but I stitched a bit of them in a loop inside and now they fit perfectly :D

And they are all ready for me to wear on my holiday in Ipswich ( I leave tomorrow! :) Now my feet will be nice and snug as I relax and watch telly :3

Another project I finished recently (well actually started and finished in one night) was this little apple cozy:

The pattern was in this months Issue of Knit Today magazine and I couldnt resist casting on when I saw it!

I bought a pack of the sunflower buttons when I was in Japan which Im really pleased about now as it was the perfect finishing touch. I love it when you've got just the perfect button for the job :) I also added a stalk (by casting on 2sts and knitting a few rows in Gst) to make it look just that bit more realistic.

See you later, au revoir!

P.s I am nearly finished making the finishing touches to the second free pattern so it will be up soon!

P.p.s Dont forgt to enter the giveaway for the little heart appliques!!!