Beating the 9-5 blues away.....

by working at my bench sawing and filing the stress away.......   If only I could spend most of my time here, listening to music drinking good tea and taking solace and inspiration from my 'work in progress' garden.  But until that day arrives, when I can spend the majority of my time here. There is one thing that could make it even harder to walk away from my bench and that would be a window into the garden.

Crafty Mothers Day Gift.....

My mother doesn't really want me or my bliss to spend loads on a Mothers Day gift and so I was racking my brain on what to get to show her my appreciation and love. I was flitting around on the Internet and Facebook when I came across this lovely page Paper Panda and ordered the Mum Heart cut out template to frame for her.

This is how I got on:-


First tentative cuts

 

I thought I'd make my way with all the 'whole' areas initially

 

Getting tricky now so carefully does it.

 

Can really see how it's going to look now.

 

Completed. No I just have to frame it.
 

Now when I received this kit the instruction's did say that you should first, maybe buy the practise kit which comes with a craft blade and a self healing A4 cutting mat which is well worth investing in. As I'm a keen crafter and already had experience of cutting my own stencils so, I felt comfortable diving straight on with this template but I did order the practise kit as I wanted to do the templates that were provided with this kit also.

I've loved looking around on the blogsphere and pinterest (my guilty pleasure) at all the great Mothers Day gifts to make and create.

Now I'm off to find the right fame for it.

I'd would love to hear about or see your finds.

Workshop Withdrawals & Awaiting the return of Inspiration

We had family from Australia staying with us over Christmas. They arrived on Christmas morning and stayed for a week before setting of on a road trip around the UK decending upon us again at the end of January. In order to accomodate them, only having

Iron Man Bling, Bring It On.......

Not quite what it seems though, I’ve been asked and I’m really excited about it, to look into making an IRONMAN Pendant. 

Crafty Birthday Treat

Like a lot of crafters I’ve become slightly (ok… more than slightly but not quite obsessed…..) with Pinterest and recently came across a pin which was originally on Etsy. Although, I’m sure I can recall seeing something very similar in ‘Not on the High Street’ one of my favourite catalogues to peruse.

Even if I do say so myself....

Well, not normally one to go overboard in the romance department (although I’m partial to a chic flick and slightly in love with the idea of Love and romance) I decided to re-introduce it into my household….. as It had been MIA for a few years…..!!

No Excuse now Madeleine

No Excuse now Madeleine….!!!

Well, it was actually me that had no excuse now….. As I had wanted to make Madeleines for a while and I had already selected the recipe I wanted to try having seen Rachel Khoo’s program ‘The Little Paris Kitchen’ on the BBC and in episode 1 she cooked up a batch of these lovelies…

New addition..........

As soon as I picked up the latest issue of Mollie Makes I couldn't wait to get home and get started on a my own little cuties......... Under the wonderful guidance of Gretel who's blog  Middle of Nowhere I'm also a fan of.

Caught The Ladybug...

Ventured out on Monday as Mr J was home for the day and we had had a hard working weekend as we finished off putting the fence panels back up in the garden. The previous weekend was spent installing the heavy concrete posts for the new panels. The strong winds of late have reeked havoc with our ageing garden fences. Anyhow, we figured we deserved a small break and took ourselves off to