Happy valentines :)

Hi eveyone,

I hope you all had a great Valentines day with your loved ones yesterday :)

 

I had a lovely day with my family. My dad treated me to this cool multicoloured rose (and a box of lindt chocolates!). It is a real rose and everything but they used coloured water to make it these amazing colours:

 

 

 

It was called a Harlequin rose. I love it soo much!!! it reminds me of cirque du soleil, it is very theatrical :P

 

Talking about flowers, this week (as it has been reading week for me) I have had some time to work a bit more on a little half scale dress I have been working on- I designed it, then draped the pattern and now I am making it up in the real fabric :0) Here it is so far, the skirt is inspired by petals:

 

It is also inspired by the dress in Disney's Princess and the frog (I love that movie!). When I have finished the dress (it will be ribbon laced at the back and may even have some form of sleeves :-) I am making a petticoat to go underneath to puff out the bottom for the petals to drape over. I have been really careful with the construction and pressing and am really proud of it so far :-)

 

This week I also finished the new stock I have been working on for my shop- some of my little knitted Easter chicks!:

 

 

I have uploaded four sets of two; one set of light green (pictured above) and one set in pink, blue and yellow- All at only £2.50 per set.

 

Do pop over and take a look: Click here :)

 

Today me and my mum went to see the Isabella Blow fashion exhibition at Somerset House in London. It was really fantastic- so many amazing hats and dresses to look at many of them quite outrageous making it all even more fun! :) Then we went for an afternoon tea at Hush Brasseries in St Paul's which I treated my mum too, We ate it all before I remembered to take a picture though :P It was very nice there were little scones and mini macaroons. Hahaha I didn't know I liked macaroons until today and now I have a craving for more! The slice of mars bar cheesecake you get at the end of the tea was tasty too :0)

 

Tomorrow me and my family are going out for a meal (Hehehe, I will try to remember pictures this time :P) as it is my last day of reading week then i am going back to uni- to do more corsets, yay :)

 

Talk to you all again soon and I hope you all have a lovely Sunday,

 

Bye xxxx

 

 

Im back! (+ valentines day update)

Hola,

I am back from holiday now, I would have kept you all updated but there was no internet where I was so I have had to save my pictures till now :) Hehehehe, I will try not to bore you all :0)

First up HAPPY VALENTINES DAY EVERYONE!!!!!!! I was a bit sad I couldn't wish you all a happy, lovey, dovey day on the 14th so I had to do it now! My family loved their bookmarks so I was very happy :) I was also super happy because my dad gave me this lovely chocolate lolly from 'Chocolate island' (one of my fave shops on the IOW) as a valentines gift...

It was sooo delicious, I had to wrestle it off Domo, Etty M and Candy first though! Hehehe :oP

For dinner my dad also made heart shaped pizzas and garlic breads for dinner too, here are the garlic breads but the pizzas got eaten before I could take a picture:

They were super yummy too!

I really hope everyone had a lovely day :-)

In other news, I now bring you a picture of the infamous choc dipped Ice cream, I think I wrote about these in my last IOW holiday post but didn't remember to take a picture, but this time I did and this time I had a super duper double one.... mmmmm....

It was very big, but not quite as big as the one outside the ice cream shop.....

hahaha :D

I will leave you all with the picture I took of view of the sea I saw as I strolled along eating my ice cream :)

Keep an eye out tomorrow as I will be opening my special giveaway of the little parcel goodies I picked up whilst on holiday :D

See you all soon,

Bye! xxxxx

Families Valentines gifts- all finished!

Hello all my lovely readers! :)

Last week I finished my mums valentines book mark gift, meaning all my valentines gifts for my family are complete :D I have really enjoyed making them all, I hope my family like them :0)

Last night I wrapped them all up and added 'Handmade with love labels' here they are- all ready for the 14th of Feb!

For my mum I decided to do little birds in the end. The pattern is a modified version of a little bird motif from an old cross stitch magazine my nan gave me a while ago :-)

I am sooo excited about giving them to my mum, dad and brother, so far I have managed to keep everything a tip top secret....... Now all I have to do is get them to the Isle of Wight, where we are going on holiday to tomorrow!!!!! :D

Wooooo, I am excited about that too :P As many of you will know I visit there regularly and really love it <3

Whilst there I am going to look for some bits for a special giveaway when I get back

Hehehehe, see you all soon,

Byeeeeeee XXXXXXX

Heart applique giveaway winner!

Hi Guys :)

The entries for the valentines heart applique giveaway aren now closed. The winner (as picked by the random number generator at http://www.random.org/) is... Taleah Greve!

Congratulations !!!!!!!!!!!!



An email has been sent to yoou telling you how to get your prize :D

Don't be too sad if you didn't win as there will be more giveaways and exciting stuff happening on the blog soon.

See you later aligators!

BYE :3

All good...

Guten tag guys!

I hope everyones ok :) Yesterday was a pretty good day for me. Not only did I get some valentines gifts from my family I also came home to my parcel from the Cute 'N' Quirky march swap on ravelry! The theme was love and romance (seen as February is the month of looovvvvveeee <3).

I got a packet of heart buttons, some cute Miffy stickers, a Hello kitty magic flannel (which I cant wait to turn full size :0), some veggie jelly bears YUM!!! :P and one very cool handmade object named Mr. Anti-Valentine who I LOVE!

He is amazingly fab!

Thank you soo much to my great swap partner, everything is fantastic :D

I love swaps, they are so fun. They really brighten your day when you get a surprise parcel.

I will be posting again very soon as I have basically finished my special slippers with the hello kitty buttons from the last swap so I will be putting up pictures :)

BYe!

Happy valentines day xxx

Hi everyone!

Today is valentines day!!!! I hope you are all having fun :)

As a special valentines present for all my friends I made a pattern for these mini heart applique/things <3

I whipped up lots of them in all different colours and bought some sweeties too :P

I gave them all out today and my friends thought they were really cute :3



I like to spread the love on valentines.................. :0)

As a very special treat and to show all you readers how much I love you, I am doing a mini giveaway of a pack of 5 of my new heart appliques!:

You get :

1x blue heart

1x yellow heart

1x white heart

1x pink heart

and 1x orange heart!

all packed up nicely. And the cards recycled, 'cos I love the planet too! :)

The giveaway is open to anyone, any age, anywhere.

To enter all you have to do is send your name and the country you live in e.g UK, USA etc...

to: iitki@hotmail.co.uk

Entries close on the 28th of February and the winner will be announced on the same day.

Dont miss out :)

see you soon ByE bYe!

Stitches in time

Welcome dear readers to my humble bloggy home :)

I was having a mooch  around on the internet and came across these amazing knitting and crochet themed watches!!! As soon as I saw them I knew I had to share them with you all:

I have never seen anything like them, they are soo cool! You can get them personalized and can pick the colour strap/rim you want. They are all made by Whimsical watches and can be found at their website : http://www.whimsicalwatches.com/

They make watches with tons and tons different themes, there is pretty much one for everyone. (there is one for taco lovers for goodness sake!)

I really want the first knitting one, with the little basket, it is just soo cute :) All you knitters out there who are with someone, what are you waiting for, get them on your valentines list! <3

I may just have to treat myself..................................................... :0)