Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts

Saturday, 12 July 2014

Flowers around this house

I would love to make this a series, but I can't afford to buy flowers and thus far haven't grown enough in our garden to justify cutting them to put in our living room! Ha. These were a gift I brought back with me from Dolgellau from a close friends garden. There is nothing more special than flowers from friends gardens. 

We go away at the end of this month and we are thinking about moving. Something I have been thinking about since we moved in here, and something we have on-off though about over the last 12 months. I'm not sure what will happen, finding the right place then finding schools aren't right, then finding the right one in the right school but not being able to move quickly enough. We might just stay here. It's a great house. It's a good house. And it's become our home. Slowly. Just not the home. 

Taking Stock:

reading// nothing I just finished Oryx and Crake and I need a rest. I'm thinking #girlboss next though, nice and easy
watching// Molly in the sun. No time for tv in the summer ;)
making// A chunky winter blanket. I'll be finished sometime next year.
drawing// Nothing, I need to get on that. Maybe a unicorn for Molly.
feeling// Strangely calm despite the chaos.
traveling// To Camp Bestival at the end of the month
wanting// To get better, I can't shake this illness.
remembering// Jamie's boss' Wedding, it was perfection. 

*Taking stock inspired by Sydney though I made up mine because cba to go searching through her archives.

Sunday, 1 April 2012

Baby Hairclip DIY

A DIY for a simple felt hair clip :)
You will need: plain clips, felt or any scraps of fabric, scissors, pins and a glue gun.
Cut your flower shape and pin together, this I think is the most fun bit! Heres a few I had 
a go with. Not all girls like flowers, hearts and bows, you could do animals or camera's or 
anything! I'm making Molly an easter bunny to go in her basket next!
Here's a paper example of how to make the coral flower, it's not very clear but I wanted to
do a quick one on photobooth while Molly has a short nap. Blogging and babies ha!
(ignore the dots I was trying to make it more complicated than it needed to be)
Basically make loads of petals attaching to each other spiraling inward, when you
get to the middle stop cutting and wind it into a flower, glue in place. Pretty easy huh :)
I added a small peach heart to go in the middle because I'm obsessed with peaches and 
corals at the moment! To fix it onto the hair clip just glue gun a little onto the end and 
hold the base of the flower in place. Just need Molly to grow a little more hair now I've
made her lots of pretty clips! 

The sweetest little model (L)