Stacks of colour

Today was my eldest son's 6th birthday party (time really does fly!) He was having a joint party at a local play place with a girl from his school class. We decided to do our own party bags rather than pay the £1.50 each child that they would charge us for theirs!

Now I hate trying to make up party bags, the stuff they sell in the shops specifically for them are rubbishy plastic toys that aren't particularly cheap when you have to buy 20 of them! I like to give things that I think will be used or played with and I struggled to find anything to suit, so what should a crafty mum do but make her own party favours!


Little notebook and pencil holders, I included a notebook and pencils with each one.


I did some boyish fabric, some girly and some neutral.


It was a great stash busting exercise, the only thing I bought for them (besides the notebook and pencils) was a bit more elastic as I ran out.

What do you think? I am thinking of making some of these for my shop.

Happy Mothers Day

rose brooch, originally uploaded by scary_mary.

Today was mothers day in the UK.

I wanted to make my mum something different instead of just a bag (she has lots of my bags now)

So I came up with this brooch for my mum from a felted sweater. I loved making it and can see myself making a few more now!

I just need some more wool sweaters in lots of different colours now!

It's been a while...

I have struggled to find things to blog about recently. I have been busy crafting but it is for a secret swap I am involved with so I can't post pictures or it will give the game away!

I did quickly whip up these notebook and pencil holders today though, they are for a couple of children at the school my son goes to, their mum has generously given me a bag of uniform that her youngest has grown out for when my youngest starts pre-school.

I based them on this tutorial. I am not entirely happy with them though and if I was to make them again I would do things differently. They are made out of an old pair of jeans, some ikea fabric and some dinosaur quilt fabric. I used fabric covered buttons and elastic as closures but I think I would try something else next time.




I used the back pockets from the jeans so they can have somewhere to store stickers and things.