May 27th, 2010
Make your own Sock Puppets - cute ideas for children's puppets from odd socks
So it’s 8.35 on a Wednesday morning, five out of six shoes found, swimming things dragged from under the bed, homework rescued from recycling and weetabix (mostly) scraped off school jumpers. And then the eldest says, “Mum, I need to make a sock puppet for class.” And I say, while tying youngest to scooter, “Great, when’s that for, darling?” And he says “Today!” and I say, calmly, “That’s a little bit short notice,” and he shouts, ” But I can’t go in without one.” And I say, less calmly, “Well you should have told me sooner, ” and he wails, ” But they’ll behead me,” and I yell, “Of course they won’t, now get your shoes on.” …does this sound at all familiar?
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May 21st, 2010
sewing the pockets on our new advent calendar
We’ve been putting the finishing touches to our new advent calendar kit this week ready for a photoshoot on Tuesday. We’re getting quite excited about Christmas – even though its seven months away and we’re off camping in the lovely sunshine this weekend.
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May 14th, 2010
Sara sets up the photoshoot
I know, I know – it’s May and it’s finally getting warm enough to think about summer and here we are – elbow deep in Christmas decorations and holly. I spent yesterday scouring the park for suitably wintery twigs to use as props in our Christmas photo shoot – not easy when the trees are full of bright new green leaves and blossom. Read the rest of this entry »
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May 7th, 2010
Different colours, fabrics and sizes look great - even in a small garden
I used to be very anti-bunting. It was just too twee, just a bit too try-too-hard. That was until we decided to finally tackle the enormous boxes of left-over material piled up in the corner of the studio. And that was when we realised that making your own Bunting is a brilliant way of using up all those scraps of fabric that are too good to throw away but too small to really know what to do with. And, unlike patchwork – which is the other great thing to do with lots of small bits of material bunting is really, REALLY quick and really, REALLY easy to make – look what we knocked up one afternoon! WE were actually meant to be tidying up the studio but we got distracted by all the boxes of scrap fabric and decided the Big Sort-Out could wait until another day.
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