Happy Easter

Hillooo!

 

I hope all of you had a lovely long Easter weekend :)

 

I had a really great time with my family xxx As usual my dad did a fun Easter egg hunt for me and my brother, he really outdid himself and found tons of great stuff for it, here are all my goodies!!!:

 

 

I have finished one of the chocolate bunnies and lots of the little eggs already :p My mum got me an Easter egg too so I am well and truly spoiled with goodies! Thank you Mum and Dad!

 

This year I organised an egg hunt each for my parents too for a bit of fun :0) and to repay them for the years and years of fab Easter goodies :-)

Hehe, here is my dads pile of goodies (the Mars Easter egg is my dads from my mum :):

 

 

My pile makes my dads look tiny! but he and my mum said they  had a lot of fun doing my Easter egg hunt for them, my brother helped me hide all the stuff- he came up with tons of great hiding places!

 

For lunch we didn't have the usual Easter roast we had Pizza from Pizza GoGo instead, at my request as they have started doing a whole range of vegetarian Quorn pizzas!!! Which were delicious :P All the sides were tasty too, mmmm mozzarella sticks :) I definitely recommend it, in fact I think it has jumped to the top of  list as my favourite takeaway pizza (it was less greasy and salty- and very veggie friendly now!)

 

In other news this Easter Weekend I also finished my Kameez!:

 

 

 

 

I still may iron on a couple of flower motifs I picked  up at the creative stitches and hobbycrafts show down the centre back at the back neckline but I want to do some testing first to check it wont ruin  the fabric etc... But the sewing is all done :-) I am really pleased with how it came out- now I just have  to find the perfect occasion to wear it!

 

And my final  bit of news for this post- I have now begun my Elizabethan foundation garments in college (to go with my Elizabethan corset).

 

Here I my Wheel farthingale toile (tester), I also have a bum roll underneath this to support it:

 

 

And here was some test fabric draped over it so we could see the effect a skirt of the period would have on my foundation- so I could make any alterations to my foundations to get the right look:

 

 

I am reealllyy enjoying this module (as I do all of the really, but I do love me some Elizabethan costume!)

 

Hehe, I am off to get to bed now ready to wrestle with my 6m petticoat I am also making again tomorrow!

 

See you all soon, and don't forget to enter the spring giveaway which closes this Friday if you haven't already,

 

Thanks for reading :o)

 

Bye XxXxXxxXxX

***Spring Giveaway!!!*** :D

Hi everyone,

 

Yes, the time has rolled around for another giveaway! :D

 

I have made this one spring/Easter themed, here is what you could win

 

 

- A sweet floral cotton reel shaped pincushion

A reel of ribbon with little chicks on it :3

- A pack of strawberry stickers

- 3 cute, pink, iron on flower appliques in different designs

- And a lindt chocolate carrot umbrella stick!

 

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As usual the giveaway is open to anyone, any age, anywhere.

 

All you have to do to enter is:

 

1. Be a follower

and

2. Leave a comment below (make sure to include some way to contact you in case you win :P e.g. a ravelry name, email or blog address)

 

 

Entries close on the 25th of April and the winner will be announced on the same day.

 

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I hope you like the prizes :oD

 

Goooood luckkk!

 

See you again soon,

 

Byeeee XxXxXxXxX

 

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

 

 

Yes, I do know it's not Easter... :-P

Helllooo,

I hope everyones week is going OK so far :)

 

About two weeks ago some friends of my family were meant to be coming round for picnic for the bank holiday and I decided to make some little chick/duck/birdie sweeties holders as little presents (based on the chick Easter egg holder my mum got me as a gift at Easter :) I was pleased with how the pattern worked out as I thought they came out pretty sweet. Sadly though one of the family friends was ill so couldn't make it. In the end we rescheduled and so they came round the Sunday just gone. I put the little chicks away safely until the came and used them as little place settings:

 

 

I think they looked quite nice on the plates and they were well received :-)

 

Without thinking though the day before they came I made some chocolate crispy nests to go with the cakes my dad made for dessert, when I thought afterwards I had to laugh though... chicks.... crispy nests, hahaha, I thought people would think I was confused thinking Easter was coming up! :P

 

(They may have made me look a bit crazy but they did come out pretty tasty! :0)

 

We all had a really good day in the end, all my dads food was delicious as usual, mmm... I'm getting hungry just thinking about it, we finished off the last of the leftover cake today!

 

See you all super soon,

 

Bye xxxx

It's my Brothers birthday! (+Happy easter)

Hey guys,

It is my brothers birthday on the 1st of April (tomorrow!) but as we came on holiday to the isle of wight on Friday my brother got his special cake early! here it is:

It is a domo in the centre of the universe cake! :P

Hehhe it is very yummy and we still have lots left to enjoy so that is good!

My brothers birthday may end up being a bit Domo themed though (but that can't be a bad thing! :0) as for a gift I made him this domo case to fit his new kindle fire HD he got for his birthday (again early because we were going away). I hopes he likes it, it was fun to make though trying to get a good fit was difficult- secretly running into my brothers room and putting it on his kindle to check :P

AND HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE! I hope you are all having a fantastic day, enjoying lots of chocolate eggs :P

 Here as promised I bring you a picture of the secret Easter prize I made for the giveaway:

 

It is an easter egg pin cushion- I gave a try some of the embroidery stitches on my sewing machine to try and make it super cute =:o3

 

I have had a great easter :) Today we went to some little towns to do a bit of shopping and then in the evening my dad did an easter egg hunt for me and my brother so that was super fun! Look at all the yummy stuff I found:

 

Hehehe, I can't wait to eat it all :P My mum bought me the little knitted chick in the middle. I saw it in this craft shop when we were out and thought it was cute so she generously got me one (:<>)

I'm going to call him Darren (Because he looks like a Darren to me:P)

 

I'm off to bed now, ready for all the fun of my brothers birthday tomorrow. I think we are going mini golf and pizza express, yum!

 

See you all soon,

 

Bye my lovely readers xxx

 

 

 

Mini Easter giveaway winner!!!

Hello everyone,

The time you have all been waiting for has finally come :) (Once again sorry about the days delay, It was my friends birthday outing yesterday so I just didn't manage to get time to post)

 

The entries are now closed and the winner of the Mini Easter Giveaway (as chosen by a random number generator) is...........

VERA KHULE

 

Congratulations!!! :)

 

 

I have sent you an email asking for your address so I can get your prize on its way to you ASAP ready for Easter =:0)

 

To everyone else who didn't win don't worry as of course I am sure to do another giveaway soon :) (And I will post up a picture of the special surprise handmade gift included in the giveaway too so you don't have to live in wonder, lol :P)

 

Congratulations again to Vera Khule!

 

See you all soon,

 

Byeeee xxx

 

Mini Easter giveaway =:0)

 

Hello,

 

 (As promised a while ago) I bring you another giveaway :) This one is Easter themed as that is the fun season that is shortly coming up!

 

Here is the prize :D:

 

 

> A reel of cute Easter egg ribbon

> A Lidnt chocolate egg :P

> A a set of spring style flower stickers

 

> AND...... a special mini surprise handmade Easter themed gift made by me! (not featured in the picture- otherwise it wouldn't be a surprise! :o)

 

To enter the giveaway all you have to do is:

 

1. Be a follower

2. And leave a comment at the bottom of this post including some way of contacting you in case you win (e.g a ravelry name, blog address or email address :)

 

The giveaway entries are open until the 22nd of March and the winner will be announced on the same day.

 

Entries are open to anyone, any age, anywhere!

 

Good Luck to everyone XXX

 

I hope you all like the giveaway :)

 

See you soon,

 

Byeeeeeee xxxoooxxxx

Chocolate Easter egg making!

Hi!,

Today was the day I got to go Chocolate Easter egg making :D I had been excited about this for  agggeeesss so was very pleased the time had finally come! I Came up  with my design last night (it was inspired by the sea and jewellery :) in the centre I wanted to put a chocolate star and two chocolate sea horses facing each other and then different sweets surrounding the centre and finally some piped white chocolate decoration, I was not sure how much of my idea I would be able to create in real life but our expert chocolate making teacher was really nice and in the end I managed to create my design exactly :-) Here is my chocolaty creation:
  

It really was soo fun! They had mini vats of chocolate which we had to fill our molds with and then huge bags of sweets to decorate our chocolate with.

Hehehe, I signed the back in white chocolate too :P

It was very funny when we were in the chocolate making room as there are glass windows you can look through to see the people making the chocolate and there were lots of people looking at me and my family, hehehe!

Here are my mum, dad and brothers creations too:

Egg on the left is my Dads (mine is in the middle :P) my mums is on the right and then the big bar in the front is what my brother made he decorated a quarter for each of us with our fave sweets on so I promised I would share my egg with him too! :0)

I'm off to eat a little bit more now, it is extremely delicious! I would share it with you all if I could :)

I hope everyone is having a nice week,

see you all soon,

Bye! xxxx

P.S. A big huge massive thank you to Tricia who awarded me the Liebster blog award the other day!!! :D You should definately go vist her blog: here! she has got some lovely makes on there! :)

Happy Easter everyone! =:0)

Hi,

HAPPY EASTER!!! (:<>)

I hope you are all having a fantastic Easter :-) Luckily I have internet where I am in the IOW so I didn't have to wait and wish you a belated Happy Easter when I got back. It is also good because I get to show you all my Easter makes and goodies not-late too :D

It is a tradition in my family that my dad sets up a little Easter egg hunt in the house for Easter for me and my Brother, look at all the yummy goodies I found hidden round the house for me this morning!!!:

 

There was also a big Lindt bunny hidden too but he didn't last past breakfast, hehehe :P I am a very lucky girl!

You have probably spotted Catherine in there, she is wearing the Easter egg costume and Easter bonnet I made her especially to wear today:

The egg costume is a felt sandwich board style thing, I came up with the idea about two days ago and luckily finished it just in time yesterday!

The little straw hat came in a pack of about 12 I bought in the Hobbycraft January sales for £1.99, I knew I would find a use for them when I bought them and I was pleased to finally use some of the Easter ribbons I bought last year as well :)

In other holiday news I got to go my favourite little craft shop on the Island and picked up these two little cross stitch kits, I am going to make the little carriage one in commemoration of the Queens Jubilee :o)

On Tuesday I am off to make my own big Easter egg at the chocolate shop :D I am soooo excited!!!! I will definitely be posting up pictures, hopefully it will turn out well not just like a big choclately mess, lol!

See you all soon,

Bye! xxx

ATC fun :)

Hey!

After making the ATC's for the swap I did with Laura I have wanted to experiment and make more, so the other day, I did :-) I had lots of little cross stitch kits I finished a while ago (some of you may remember me posting about them) and have been trying to think of what to make them into and I thought why not make them into ATC's to expand my collection? I also made a different version of the 'American diner' one I made for the swap:

They really are so fun to make! They are quick and easy and really get your creative thoughts flowing :)

I am off to the Isle Of Wight again tomorrow for Easter :D Yay! Guess what.... for Easter this year my mum booked for me and my family to go and make our own big Easter eggs at Chocolate Island, I am so excited!!! I will be sure to keep you all posted if I have Internet access but if not I will make sure to post all my holiday snaps and news when I get home :0)

I hope you are all having a nice week!

see you all soon,

Bye xxxx

Brother's Birthday! :D

Hello everybody,

Tomorrow is my brothers birthday! :D This year he got his cake a bit early as my dad had to work on Saturday so wouldn't of had time to finish it for Sunday then so he started early and presented it to my brother yesterday. My brother loves space and anything to do with it, this is the cake design my dad came up with for him this year:

A to-scale (and factually correct) cake representation of the first footprint on the moon!!! The flag behind the cake is also made of icing and the ridges underneath it are made of chocolate rice cake crispie and the moon rock chunks are made of coloured icing, so everything, as usual is edible :-)



It is super delicious but after two days we have barely made a dent! Hehehe my dad said there was 36 eggs (!!!!) that went in to it so luckily we all have good stamina when it comes to eating cake :P lol!

I didn't quite create anything near that scale for my brother but I did design and make him this little ami Nasa astronaut:

I tried to get it a little bit factually correct by adding the little badges and straps on the space suit, I really hope he likes it :0) I also got him a Domo plush because he keeps admiring my collection and two trading card thingys with real moon and mars rock on them!

In other news I sent of these ten chicks/snowmen I made for a cancer charity's chick knit that some of you may remember I participated in last year:

It took me longer than expected to complete them but I am glad I managed to finish and get them sent off before Easter :)

I'm off to eat some more cake now, hehehe :P

See you all soon,

Bye xXxX

Amazing ATC's!

Hi,

Today when I got home from 6th form a special parcel was waiting for me, the ATC's (artist trading cards :) from Laura as part of the March ATC swap we arranged to do :D We decided to swap one Easter themed one and one food or treats themed one. I  was super excited as this is my first time of making/swapping ATC's. I was even more excited when I opened the envelope and saw the two super amazing creations Laura had made!:

They are soo super fab, seeing the cute little chick made me immediately happier and the glittery aida the cupcake was stitched on is really cool, I must ask Laura where she got it! :0P I love them both soo much and they are first two in my collection of hopefully many :-)

Thank you Laura!!!

I am posting off the two I made tomorrow, I will post pictures when Laura receives them. I hope she likes hers as much as I like mine :0) I am also posting off this months parcel for the cute and quirky swap so will post pictures of what I made for that too soon :)

See you all soon,

Bye xxx

Easter never ends!

Yolah guys!!!

Yesterday I received my Easter themed cute and quirky Ravelry swap parcel! :0) As usual my received parcel was grrrreeeeaaaaatttt, here's what I got:

• A reel of spring  coloured ribbon
• Lots of yummy and cute chocolate bunnies and a creme egg :P
• A HELLO KITTY HAIRBRUSH!!!!! Ahhhh I love hello kitty :oD
• And a really cool rainbow/random coloured knitted egg

So cool!

I love this little knitted egg, it rocks! So bright and colourful. I think the odd bunnies will like it too :)

Thank you to my lovely swap partner

xxx

See you all again extremely soon!

Byyyyyeeeeeeee :0)

Holiday pics!

Hey!

I hope everyone had a good Easter and was visited by the special Easter bunny =:0) I thought today I would put my promised holiday and chocolate bunny pictures....

Firstly here is the AMAZING chocolate bunny I got as my Easter gift! He came from a shop called Chocolate Island (on the Isle of Wight where I went on holiday). Their chocolate is delicious, all that is left now is a tiny bit of his bum :0) mmmmmm............

The other bonus of my Easter gift was that I got to keep all the ribbon that was tying it up to use in future projects. I was a very happy bunny, lol :D

I stayed at Calbourne Mill in the Isle of Wight, in a cottage. The cottage was surrounded by large grounds with mill, cafe and shop, mini boating lake, mini putting course and even animals like peacocks and chickens!!!!!!

We got a slice of free cake in the cafe and free use of all the activities/grounds (which is good as normally if your just visiting the place you have to pay for it all including an entrance fee)

 This was the boating lake (avec fish!) which we all went for a row on pretty much everyday

 And here are the grounds, the boating lake runs all the way along the hill so you get a lovely view as you row, row, row, row ,row your boat :) We pretty much had all of this space to ourselves after closing time.

Now for some of the most cutest animals you have eeeevvvverrrr seen...

 Tiny baby chickens AWWWWWWWW I WANT ONE!!!!!!!

 And baby ducks, I nearly died of a cuteness overload! :o3



I'm glad I saw the peacocks fanning their feathers though, It was amazing! Very inspiring... They were all trying to impress the pea-hens who basically weren't at all interested :( Ah well, that's nature.

soo cool!

That's basically it for my holiday pics (I probably bored you all to death, soz!)

In other news I FINALLY found a pattern for a little pretty jacket to go over my prom dress! Yayyyyyyyy :) Im getting there but its crochet and Ive never done anything big in crochet before. However I think Ive got the stitch pattern now soo Ill be finished soon.

See you all vvvveerrrrryyyy sooon!

Bye x <3 x

Odd Bunnies – Free Pattern!!!

Yo people :D

I’m back from my hols now (so have loaaaddsss of great pics to share with you all! :) and now, as promised here is the special free Easter pattern I created for you all...

I like to call them odd bunnies =:0)

You will need:
• 3 ¼ mm Knitting needles

• Some DK yarn in your chose bunny colour

• A small amount of black DK yarn or embroider thread for eyes and toe lines

• A small amount of contrasting colour DK for embroidering belly and eye circles

• A small amount of contrasting colour DK yarn for embroidering belly and eye circles

• Handful of toy stuffing

• Darning needle

• And scissors!


Pattern:

Body (make 1)

Using main bunny colour DK Co 10 sts

Row 1 – 4: Gst

Row 5: K4, P2, K4

Row 6: K 1 row

* Row 7: K3, P4, K3

Row 8: K 1 row*

Row 9 – 12: Repeat from * to * twice

Row 13: K4, P2, K4

Row 14- 16: Gst

Row 17 – 32: Stst (start with P row)

Row 33 – 47: Gst

Cast off


Feet (make 2)

Co 10 sts

Row 1 – 12: Stst 12 rows (start with k row)

Cast off


Ears (make 2)

Co 4 sts

Row 1 – 15: Gst

Row 16: K2tog twice (2 sts)

Row 17: K2tog (1 st)

Cast off


Making up:

Take the body piece and fold it in half with the RS facing inwards seam down both sides (leaving bottom open) turn right side out. Using pictures as a guide embroider eyes and small cross for mouth. Then using contrasting colour DK embroider small circles around the eyes and around the stocking stitch belly patch using backstitch. After stuff the body and seam bottom.

Sew ears to top of head.

Take the two feet pieces and for both and:
Fold in half with right side facing inwards and seam side and one end (leave one end open). Turn right side out and then embroider toe lines on feet. Stuff foot and seam back of foot. Sew both feet to bottom of bunny.

Darn in/ fasten off and cut any loose ends.

Voila!

I hope you like my new Easter pattern, see you all soon :)

BYE xxx