bouquets.

so when i see home made things i sometimes think anything you can do.. i can do. so i saw these button bouquets and i just had to make one, and i mean i had too...

so heres an professional one...

and then below is my one....

ok there's is better, i couldn't find the right craft wire to connect the buttons but the use of diamond pins look lovely! would happily use my version at a wedding, and costs about a 10th to make compared t buying! 

so going on from that currently making a crochet bouquet. will post updates as i get further with them, bur again its another i can do that moment of madness! 

amigurumi animals 2

so going on from the previous blog post,  i made several other animals and creatures over the weeks on the run up to Christmas, all sold with a small donation to the charity for each one, all the below are commissions, and the majority are from patterns that i changed as i went to look better.

1 of two snails. [cant find the other ones picture.  gave him eyes as well and looked really cute!]

 

1 piggie! the little tail actually curls back if you pull it out. 

the fox is a brooch with a felt back.

owls in different colours sold about 20 of these in total

there is a few more as well but the pics must be on my camera instead of my phone, will update and post when i can! 

Guineapig toys.

i have two guinea-pigs as previously mentions, and on the 14th of jan it was their birthday, for which i got them a 6ft x 6ft run with a top on, previously had a smaller topless run however after a cat incident they didn't go in it as much as i would have liked.  anyway, i was looking for hide-houses for them for their hutch in various pet websites and found them all over £10 which i thought was a tad expensive so i have made my own hide house. total cost? £3

so its a basic basket from duluen mill. 

 take out the fabric

 and cut a hole that is guineapig size

 make sure there is no sharp edges.

 and its defiantly a fave with fudge! straight in it and has been camped out in there since, biscuit hasn't had a look in. 

not sure how long it will last  compared to shop ones but they love it so far, the top if flat so makes a great place for them to climb onto.  and its now under neath their hay rack!  on the look out for other things to use for them now!

amigurumi Animals

Hello everyone well Christmas is well and truly over and I apologies for not update this blog sooner but I’ve had  loads of stuff on work wise.  Hopefully when the course is over in may my spare time will be my own again!  

So before Christmas I promised that I would post the amigurumi brooches I made for a mate in work and here they are, two guinea-pigs and a rabbit and an Alsatian dog.  

Hopefully the people they were given to as Christmas present liked them [made for someone else who passed them on] them to other people in work as I haven’t had feed back from them,  however as I gave these out in the staff room I was asked what else I could do and answered any thing so I made various items on the run to Christmas which will be in the next blog post. 

crochet blanket

Here is a bit of crochet that I am currently doing, I was trying to do a ripple blanket however couldn't get the hang of it on a practice run on a quite night in work so began to make a circle blanket instead.  Started it a week before Christmas and didn't get very far so will have to be used for 2014 instead!  There’s a few mistakes in it but I think it just add to all the charm! Will post more as it comes further to completion. 

this is the beginning of the ripple

and then the circle blanket, been making the pattern up as i go along!

color change

current size, using up scraps of thread and should be about single bed size when finished. aiming for a Christmas theme blanket! currently acting as a good distraction from some university work i have to get done! 

hope you all had an amazing Christmas. 

My scrambled legs

Most of you will know by now that I’m a keen hobby runner.. And also fundraise a lot for charity, therefore I have combined the two and have set up a blog for a 2014 challenge called my scrambled legs, will be regularly updated as the challenge progress and can be found here :- My scrambled legs.

Please check it out and support me in my journey! Thanks helenxx