A hand-made Cath Kidston Bag!! :) and a very excited lucy :) :) :)

Hi there!! :) :)

I hope you are all well? :) Nearly bonfire night!! :) Yippee :) Have you noticed yet that I get very excited about  all occassions (holidays as they would probably say in America :) ) I love this time of year because it is Halloween (YAY!!) then Bonfire night (YAY!!) then Christmas!! (Double YAY!!) and we will be having a new ickle member of our family joining us this Christmas :)

For my birthday my very lovely friend Hannah (who knows well of my Cath Kidston love) got me the new Cath book which is called Patch. It is all about Patchwork and I LOVE it :) :) This is my first little project from the book :) Last week I sat down to watching a Jane Eyre DVD and made this bag from the free kit which came with the book. I love the finished bag and it has been on a few outings with me already :) :)

 

So thank you for my book Hannah!! :) :)

In other news..........................
Perhaps you remember my cross-stitched beach huts? :) :) Weeeellllllll I sent a photo of them to Cross Stitcher magazine and they have printed it!! :) eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! I was very excited when I opened the magazine today and there it was!! :) :) :)

                        

FAB hey? :) :) :)

Guess what?
I started making Christmas presents yesterday!! eeeeeek!! :) I think I'll be very busy for a while!! :) But its all fun :) :) :)

Big hugs and smiles :)

Lucy x x x :)

Haaaappy Halloweeeeeeen!! :) :) :)

BOO!! :)

As I mentioned last week, I adore halloween!! :) :) And I therefore LOVE carving pumpkins :) this year i have carved 8 pumpkins!! 8!! :) :) I thought I would share them with you, to hopefully make you feel halloweeny :)

I must say however that the very good pumpkin carving of the haunted house was done by my very clever g :)

Happy Halloween everybody!! :) :) :)

Big hugs and smiles :)

Lucy x x x :)

BOO!! :) :) :)

Boo!! :)

I hope you are all well :) :) Getting excited for Halloween? :) I sure am!! :) :) :)

This morning I have been making Casper Cakes :)

Spooky hey? :) :)

Anyways here is the recipe, in case you want to make some of your own ghostly friends :)  (the buns ive made are chocolate, but you could makeplain buns if you want :) :)

Ingredients (to make 10 ghosties) :)
3 eggs
6oz soft margerine
6oz caster sugar
5oz self raising flour
1oz cocoa powder
Jam
Roll out Royal Icing
Icing pens.

What to do:
1) In a foodprocessor, mix your eggs, margerine and caster sugar on full speed for 60 seconds.
2) Add the flour and cocoa powder and pulse 30 times.
3) Mix at half speed for 30 seconds.
4) Split your mixture across 20 bun cases.
5) Cook at 150-175 degrees until your buns feel springy to touch.
6) Remove from the oven and let your buns cool.Then remove from the bun cases.
7) Stick two buns on top of each other with your jam.
8) Roll out your icing so it is quite thin.
9) Cut the icing into circles.
10) Lay your icing on top of your bun piles and wiggle the icing at the bottom so it looks like a floaty ghost :)
11) Draw faces on your ghosts using a squeezy icing pen.

TA DAHHHHH :) You are done :) Well done you :)

I hope you all have a wonderful Halloween weekend!! :) :) :)

Big hugs and smiles :) :) :)

Lucy x x x :)

Halloweeeeeeeeeeeen!! :)

Hi there!! :)

Halloween is actually one of my favourite days of the year :) I dont know why really, but I LOVE it :) and I love to decorate the house all spookily and carve extravagant pumpkins :) :) :)

Anyway I do quite often send Halloween cards, to spread some spooky love :) So here is the CAD that I have designed for my Halloween cards this year:

I hope you like it :) :) Tommorow I should hopefully be doing some halloween baking, so I'll share some pictures of that with you too :)

Big hugs and smiles :):)
Lucy x x x :)

I'm Back!! :) and crafting for Battersea Dogs Home :) :) :)

Hello everyone!! :) :)

I hope you are all well :) I'm sorry I've been away for a while, I've been doing some temporary work. I must say I am now a pro with a tape gun!! :) :)

Anyway I am back and this morning I have been crafting little scented bags.....for dogs!! Whilst I was browsing the Mollie Makes blog:;

http://molliemakes.themakingspot.com/

I spotted that Battersea dogs home are asking crafty folk to make them little scented bags to help keep the dogs calm while they wait for their new perfect home :) :) Soooo, this morning I have made them 3 little doggy bags :) (they still need filling with lavender and sealing up.)

I hope the doggies like their little bags!! :) :) :)

Now that I've got a little bit of free time on my hands, its craft central in my house  :) Need to get started on Christmas presents!! :) :) Tommorow, however I'll be showing you my special CAD design for halloween :) I LOVE HALLOWEEN!! :) :) :)

Big hugs and smiles :)

Lucy x x x x :)

P.S. If you want to help and make some of your own scented bags for the dogs, check out the Battersea Dogs Home website:  www.battersea.org.uk/doggiebags

Some More Love for Mollie Makes :) :) :)

Hi there :)

I hope you are having a lovely weekend :) :) :) I've had a nice day today watching Downton Abbey <3 and making some anniversary presents for G :)

I thought today I would show my latest project from Mollie Makes magazine :) A cute little coin purse :)

I really like it because it has a different fabric on each side :) :) Which is super good for a lover of fabrics like me :) :)

I'm also quite excited to report that I've had a few orders now for christmas presents (YAY Christmas!!) So if anybody else would like something making as a special Christmas gift let me know asap please :) :)

I hope you all have a lovely evening :)

Big hugs and smiles :)

Lucy x x x

 

2nd Commisioned Project....and the BEST deck chair ever!! :)

Gooood day!! :)

How are you all? :) Im having a pretty nice day so far, applying for jobs, watching The Great British Bake Off <3 and doing a spot of vintage shopping :) Heavenly :)

Today I thought I would show you my latest craft project which was to make a cross stitch beach hut doorstop for my lovely friend Hannah. :) Ive made the sides of this one from some yummy Laura Ashley fabric which i think looks fab :)

Have you spotted my latest vintage purchase there? :) :) :) As I was popping to the post office with another job application today I spotted it outside of an antique shop across the road. I pretty much hopped, skipped and jumped across the road to buy it as it was love at first sight :) Its SUPER comfy too :) :)

I really love it so much :) and its perfect for this lovely summer weather we seem to be having at the moment :)

I hope you are all having a wonderful day :) If anyone else would like anything sewing (like a beach hut perhaps!!) please do send me an email :) :)

Big hugs and smiles :) :) :)

Lucy x x x