Three days left to enter advent calendar giveaway!!!

Hi guys,

This is just a reminder to let everyone know there is only three days left to enter the: Crafty Advent Calendar Giveaway so if you haven't yet don't miss out!

Image from: here!

All 24 gifts are festive themed (and of course crafty) and I hand chose, from many places/shops, each one :0)

Good luck to everyone who enters :D

See you all soon,

Bye xXxX

Bonfire Night!

Hi everyone :)

I hope you all had a good bonfire/firework night (if you celebrate that) or happy Eid or Diwali if you celebrete either of those! (hehehe there have been lots of festivals recenlty!)

On Sunday (although actual Bonfire night was Saturday) some friends came round and my family had some fireworks. Some of them were really good this year! Very pretty :)

I let Catherine come out and watch them with me but I made sure she put her hat on because it was quite cold! These two were her favourites :-) :

Hehehe, she was perplexed by the bright green one!

We had lots of fun :)

The next day I got this cool card through the post from Innocent smoothies for helping out with the big knit :D:

It's very cool, it even has my name written inside and a thank you message.

I was very happy as now I have another knitting related ceftificate to add to my achievement folder!

I hope you are all having a nice week,

See you soon!

Bye xxxx

Project update!

Hi guys :)

I thought I would do a bit of a mini crafting update. First up I finished my dice scarf!!! Hehehe :D It has taken a long time but I have finally finished!

Here's a pic :) :

I am soo happy with it, I wore it to 6th form today :0)

 The thing that took the longest was sewing on all the dots! 

And secondly, I am getting there with quirky now :-) Bit by bit he is starting to take shape. I have finished his body, his head and neck, his wings and half of his tail. So now all that is left is his feet, hat, beak and the other half of his tail. I will post a picture of him soon once I have sewn all the the bits together and he isn't so much of a deconstructed turkey! Lol!

See you all again soon,

Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee xxx



***Crafty Advent Calendar Giveaway! :0) ***

Hello everyone!

The time has finally come to announce my very special giveaway I have been working on for ages...

I am giving away to one person 24 festive crafty gifts to countdown to christmas- a crafty advent calendar! :0D

Image from: here!

I got the idea when I was thinking of what would be my dream advent calendar; a one with crafty gifts that I could add to my christmas sewing, knitting, crochet projects etc.. Then I thought what a fun giveaway it would be to do!

I hand selected and wrapped (along with my mum or I would have been there forever!) each  gift and added a tag with a number to each one, here are all the little parcels:

You can put them all in a fancy bowl or a fill it yourself decorative calendar (those felt/stitched ones with pockets :) and then open the right one each day from the 1st to the 24th of December (like the choccy calendars) to get your little crafty suprise!

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Giveaway entries are open until the 15th of November and the winner will be randomly selected and announced on the same day.

The giveaway is open to anyone, anywhere! :)

HERE IS HOW TO ENTER:

To be entered you must send an email to me at: iitki@hotmail.co.uk

That will get you one entry but here is how to get some extra ones :) :

• If you are a follower - 1 extra entry!
• If you post about/link to this giveaway on your blog - 1 extra entry!

(You can get three entries in total)

Please mention any extra entries you deserve (and a link to your blog if you post/mention the giveaway) in the email just so I know and you get them all :0)

I hope you all like the giveaway, It was very fun putting it all together!

See you soon

Bye xXxX

P.s I am very happy as today I passed my driving theory test, wooo hooo! :D

Hehehe, bye!
x

Happy Halloween!

Hi :D

Happy Halloween everyone! I hope you are all having a fantastic day :-)

On Saturday I went round my friends house for a Halloween party and I dressed as a zombie, I was a little girl zombie with a pink dress and pink fluffy shoulder warmer (if that's what they are called?). My costume was based on the girl on the front of the book 'Dawn of the Dreadfuls' :) I brought Catherine too wearing the Halloween costume I made her, you can see her outfit here:

She is checking out the pumpkin me and my brother carved together! :0) Hehehe

The dress is quite basic, but I am very proud of it as I designed it and made it without a pattern!

And as usual, this Halloween, me and my family made a special Halloween meal of ghostie pizzas! Here is my one:

Hahaha, some cheese and a tomato fell in one of his eyes :P

My dad made the dough while me and my brother were at school and then we put all the toppings on and turned them into ghosts! They were very tasty! :0D

I'm off now to wait for more trick or treaters, we have only had one set tonight so far so hopefully more come as I still have lots of sweets to give out,

See you all soon (very soon in fact for the special giveaway I have been talking about!)

Bye X :) X

Halloween swap parcel!

Hello everybody,

I got home from the IOW yesterday and waiting for me when I got home (after the very, very long car journey!) was my swap parcel from this months Cute and Quirky swap :D I put up two themes this time; 'Amazing Autumn' and 'Happy Halloween'. I chose 'Happy Halloween' as I really love the holiday!

My partner was Annamaltoys look what she sent me :0), everything was also wrapped in cool black and red tissue paper:

I am really pleased with it all I had been looking at the bat and pumpkin beads in Hobbycraft for ages but didn't treat myself so I am soo glad my lovely partner sent me them!

And I realllllllllllllllllllyyyyyy love zombies!!!!!!! so was thrilled when I unwrapped this little guy! The added detail of the brains made me laugh, hehehe :P

And the Halloween hanging decoration is really beautiful it will be displayed in my room long past October 31st!

Hehehe, they are all soo cute!

See you all very soon :-)

Bye xxxxxxx

IOW update!

Hi everybody, I hope you are all having a nice week!

It's only day two of my holiday and I have already managed to pick up some great stuff including a mega crafty bargain! In this little craft shop they had a big box of craft paper and you could get 20 sheets for £1. Me and my dad started looking in the box and picking up loads of sheets then my dad asked the lady how much for the box and she said £10, only £10!!!!! For all of these sheets..... :D

And the decorative cutting scissors were three pairs for just a £1! (my dad got one pair and I got the other two :)

 There are hundreds of sheets of beautiful papers, perfect for making labels for all of my handmade prezzies for people.

In WH Smith I picked up a big sketchpad because I have wanted to make my own design portfolio for ages and now with all this lovely paper I have no excuse!

Along with Quirky I am making good progress on my other long running project, my dice scarf! I am aiming to finish it by the end of my holidays, so far I am on track :)

I reallly, really want to finish it so I can finally wear it, I want to wear it to 6th form :0)

The IOW is really good for finding unique handmade stuff :) Me and my family went to an apple orchard yesterday and got to pick some of our own apples (apples are my favourite fruit so I was very excited!!!:D). Then In the gift shop I found this beautiful handmade enchanted style apple clock for my room, (my dad treated me to it :)

Isn't it just lovely! <3 it looks so pretty and yummy and juicy :0P

Its almost my bedtime now but I will leave you with this picture of Catherine sitting watching the birds at the pretty grounds of Calbourne mill, where me and my family stayed in a cottage the time before last:

We had a great day out there, I really love the chocolate cake and jam and buttercream sponge they have there, mmmm.. :P I shared my slice of choclate cake with Catherine she said she liked it too!

See you all vey soon,

Bye! XxXx