Tuesday 20 November 2012

Snowflake heart bunting

Here's a quick and cheap little project that's ideal for Christmas.

It's my snowflake heart bunting.

What you will need:



Paper (Any, sheet music would look awesome)
Scissors
String or wool
A pen to mark out the heart shape
Any extra ribbons or embellishments if you wish.


Start by folding the paper in half and draw half a heart shape with the middle along the folded edge:






Cut out the heart shape and start folding:

When you have folded it as much as you can, start cutting pieces out:
Make sure you cut a small piece out fairly near the top for the string or wool to pass through.

If you plan on having all your hearts the same, then remember the pattern of the cuts you've made and repeat til you get as many as you want.

When I cut all my hearts out I put them under some heavy books for a while to flatten out all the folds.

When your hearts are ready, thread the string or wool through the small holes you made, taking care to make sure that the string is threaded behind each heart so that it is mostly hidden.

Space the hearts evenly and add any final embellishments, ribbon bows etc and hang!






You don't have to just have hearts either, regular snowflake shapes are great or instead of cutting a heart shape in step one, maybe a star or circle? A Triangle would give you a lovely traditional bunting triangle shape.

Have fun!

Love & craftiness!

Claire xx




KITCHEN PROGRESS REPORT PART 2

Well hello!

Tempus fugit eh?

Thought I should get on here and update what's happening with the kitchen project etc.

Well not a lot's happening at the moment as we still need to get a guy in to do the complicated woodwork bits. Namely the sink hole, the oven door window hole and cut to door size & the fridge doors (as well as fitting a cat flap lol).

But I have covered the outside of the fridge in the cream gloss vinyl and put some red vinyl up for the kitchen walls which looks a lot better::



I just have to get the sink hole cut so that I can fit the sink bowl and use granite fablon for the work top, then I can stick the tile splash back up. (Tile splash back is actually tiled kitchen wallpaper from B&Q and we only need a small sample sized amount which they gave us for free!).

That's where we are on the play kitchen at the moment, in other words a little bit stuck :D

In the middle of being stuck and not able to do anything, I've been keeping busy (other than with real life lol) with making play food to go in it.

Having a renewed interest in crochet, I found this great website where you can find almost any crochet pattern for anything you need! Best of all they're all free!

I found this pattern for a chocolate cherry cupcake and used some fluffy pink wool for the frosting.

I also found this awesome pattern for a chocolate chip cookie, fairly easy but you have to sew the chips on which took a little while.

This is how they turned out, all in all it probably took me around an hour to make the pair of them.



Daisy loves them & we have great fun having a pretend cup of tea and cookie together!

Love & craftiness!

Claire xx