My little creations

Well hello there, 

I thought it was about time to blog a little something about the things I've been making. Just before Christmas 2012 I started doing some sewing, I thought it would be quite nice to make some little handcrafted decorations for the Christmas tree. So off I went to the nearest haberdashery and bought some felt, needles and thread and got to work =) since then, I've made Christmas decorations as well as some cushions and other little bits and bobs =) as you are all aware, I've got a little one on the way (my greatest creation yet!) so I've been making some little things for her Nursery - since we don't have money to decorate haha! Anyway, after showing people I've had quite a few people tell me to upload them to the blog and get them out there so today I thought I would =)

I'll start with the Christmas Decorations that I made for my tree: 

I also made a couple of decorations as gifts for people. The following image shows 4 decorations that I made for my parents. The pink gingerbread man was for my mum, and the other three were for my Dad and his partner - each animal is for each pet that they own =)

After this I thought I would try with cushion, I've always wanted one of those beautiful owl cushions that are silly costs lol so first of all i made a small pin cushion using a craft book that I got for Christmas, and then I set to work on a couple of owl cushions:

hehe so cute ^_^ my little one's first cushions hehe. So next I started on the Nursery, the walls are bare white so I wanted to make something that would take up most of the room, be pretty, and also be educating for her lol! So I saw this beautiful wall piece on Pinterest and decided to make my own version. It's a wall alphabet, just using simple cardboard and scrapbook paper. I cut the cardboard into letter pieces that I drew on, and then using a LOT of double sided sticky tape, wrapped the paper round each one and staggered it on the wall: 

I'm quite proud of this one =) it makes the Nursery look so much more cosy and personal for her rather than stark and boring. 
Last week, I made another cushion for her room with three little words that I like to live by =) hopefully she'll grow to live by them too. I also made some little felt elephants and hung them up on the wall of the nursery. 

There's definitely something so much more rewarding in making things yourself rather than buying things. It makes things feel more personal and it has got me through the lonely days of being on maternity leave lol so everyone's a winner! And to be fair, I don't think I've done too badly considering before this I'd never even sewn a button on anything so to handstitch all of this - I'm pretty proud of myself =) 

I've got a little sketchbook and some watercolour paints.....gonna give that a go soon hehe ^_^ I'll keep y'all updated on more of my little creations. 

And coming soon....my greatest creation yet <3