A little crafting

I seem to go through fits and spurts with wanting to do some crafting. Perhaps because the garden is just doing it's thing and there's nothing much to harvest or preserve at the moment that I felt the need to get my teeth into something new. Ideally I'd be thinking about making some Christmas gifts, but haven't thought much about that either! Last year I did quite well with making some Christmas tree decorations by making some felted balls and then beaded them and also made some other beaded balls. Hopefully they have held up ok and will find out next week when we get the tree and decorations down from the wardrobe to set up.

As for gifts last year - I grew a potted tomato plant for each of the nana's and brewed a batch of ginger beer for my step-dad and for my mum I made a cushion cover as a part of her gift.

Anyway, last night I was looking at Danielle's dolls stroller and thought it really was time to replace the cloth seat part since it's been in a state of falling to bits since we were given it and had sewn up areas where the original stitching had split and then frayed away too much.

Little Miss was suitably impressed this morning when she spotted it sitting in the lounge.

I also felt an urge to put some decoration onto Danielle's bedroom walls yesterday. So last night got out some scrapbooking paper (I don't scrapbook but love the papers) and decided to make a bunting - I started with making my triangle template. This afternoon I sat with the kids while I cut out the triangles, then unpegged her artwork from the ribbon on the wall and put them up instead. I initially was wondering how to attach the paper cutouts permanently when I realised that the pegs looked quite cool as they were. Means I also don't need to commit to this and can feel free to change things as I want.


And then, a few nights back I was browsing online as you do and felt the urge to get a bunch of felting wools to do with whatever took my fancy whenever and know I'd have some supplies on hand. They arrived on the courier today and we had fun oohing and aahhing over the pretty colours. No plans for these just yet.