When Georgie decided she wanted a fairy birthday party, I tried to think of something we could do with the kids to make it a bit more fun. I wanted something they could take home at the end of the party, as a nice reminder of a (hopefully) fun afternoon. I hit upon a variation of …
On Saturday afternoon (or should that be crafternoon?) I spend a happy three hours at the Custard Factory in Birmingham with a group of local bloggers, getting my craft on with Hillarys Blinds, Joe Blogs, and The Crafty Hen. Hillarys have a new range of rather lovely fabrics out for their blinds, and to celebrate they …
My craft bag was “borrowed” from my Mum, who had it for years before I got it from her. I keep a whole host of things in it to do with crafting, so I thought I would give you a peek inside my bag, along with a guide to the essentials you need to start …
As Georgie gets more creative, and her creations become more recognisable, I thought it would be great to blog each month about what she has made. Some of these projects were done at playgroup, some at home on her own with very little guidance, and some with me helping her with each step or letting …
I’m not really keen on chocolate advent calendars for little kids, and so I find the increasing trend of toy advent calendars quite a fun idea. As well as the excitement of counting down to Christmas, your children get to build up a collection of something, which quite often ends up as a nice Christmas scene …
This Thursday Georgie and I managed to make it to the Children’s Centre for our playgroup for the first time since Christmas (sound the drums, it’s a miracle!). We had a really lovely morning and it was great to see Georgie happily playing with the other children, as well as it being a great chance …
Now that I have my lovely new camera, the last thing I want to do is lose the lens cap. Unfortunately women’s clothes are often (stupidly) designed to not have pockets, so I was facing the problem of where on earth do I put this thing when I want to use the camera? The obvious …
A good friend of mine is having a baby this autumn so I decided to make use of some of the yarns I acquired from my mother’s stash while we stayed with them in Cornwall to make her a snuggly warm baby hat. I browsed through the newborn hat options on Ravelry and settled on …
I have been feeling a bit under the weather this week so have been taking a bit of time to relax & am trying to get back into my crochet. This week I made a new sunhat for Georgie, using Lindsey’s Little Lady Sunhat pattern for a base pattern, with a six petal flower in …
I started my Breastfeeding Buddies training last week at my local children’s centre, and one of our activities for the first week was to make our very own boob, to be used for demonstrating expressing & latching techniques, etc. It was quite an amusing task; there may have been some muttered curses as we stabbed …
