Cute ruffley bag

Today I made a lovely ruffley bag, out of a metre of fabric. You can't see it here, but it has a silky blue lining, which I LOVE!!! I wore the bag today with a short trench coat with a pinched in waist, and turquoise jeans which match perfectly with the bag. Great outfit! The bag itself is pretty easy, as it's basically a tote bag with four ruffles fixed onto it. I feel a lot of these ruffles coming on...

Also, loving the Vivid Please giveaway! Check out their blog at www.vividplease.me to find out more... there is loads of sooo cute geeky stuff.

Easter Bunny

This lovely little bunny was made with the help of a visiting friend, and some lovely pink button fabric. I attempted to use the fork method of making pom-poms, but after 3 efforts that failed miserably, just got some strands of wool and tied another strand round their middle. Hope you like it!

Easter Presents

 My grandma sent me this gorgeous sewing organizer as an easter present, and it is really great! I play the trombone, do the cross stitched brass instruments on the pockets are a lovely detail.

Plus, she also sent 3 fat quarters from her local sewing shop, Fiddlesticks. Two owly ones and a buttony one... sounds great to me! Happy easter everybody- just don't eat toooo much chocolate.

Choc-chip and banana bread

Who doesn't love choc chip and banana bread?

Yummy cupcakes

I made these yummy cupcakes ages ago, but found the picture when I was reorganising my pictures folder, and couldn't resist sharing it.

Car boot bargains

Today I visted the car boot slae, as it's been such lovely warm weather. I got loads of bargains! All this stuff plus a sports top and a next jacket, for about six pounds. Now that is what I call a bargain.

Here's a fridge magnet with a quote from Shakespeare - " There IS money, spend it, spend it, spend more" That sounds good to me. Also an eyeshadow and heart, which I'll make into a necklace- 20p each! The watercolour pad was the best deal for only 10p.

 These to bags were 50p each, and an amazing deal, since the one on the left is from Monsoon.

This dotty Union Jack box is perfect for storing my papercraft stuff, and along with the thread and pencil, it all came to £1.10

I also bought a beautiful ruffle top, which fits perfectly! All in all, a great day. And to make it even better, I'm hopefully going to see the Hunger Games tonight, which I'm really looking forward to. 

Tutorial- easy storage tins

Todays tutorial is based around two illy coffee tins I got from my dad, which I wanted an easy way to customize without the hassle of buying paint.

Decorated storage tins!

These are really easy and great for storing make-up, jewelry and any other random bits and bobs.

Materials

Pink paper
Yellow card
As many tins as you want to decorate
Scissors
Tacky Glue
Buttons
Two felt flowers big enough to cover the lid
Felt tip pen

First of all we are going to do the lids. Paint them with glue, and press down the felt brooch, holding it in place for abput 10-15 seconds to make sure it sticks.

Now cut out two long ovals from the yellow card, and write on them what you are going to store.

Cut a strip of pink paper long enough to fit round the tin, and wide enoughto cover it up whilst leaving a gap for the lid to screw down onto.

Put a dab of glue onto the centre of the sign, and stick it on to the tin.

Decorate the tin with buttons etc.

Fill the tin up, pop on the lid, and ta-daa! An easy storage solution.