The Sun has got his hat on ...

Hip-Hip-Hip Hooray - NOT!!

The weather is very depressing at the moment. I've had to revert to my Autumn/Winter wardrobe!

Tried to take some photos of craft projects this evening but it is so dull and dark they looked awful, so thought I would post a sunny, cheery image from my garden taken a couple of weeks ago!


Looking forward to some finer weather although they are predicting sun mid July!!

Another new bag!

My addiction for making and buying bags is growing yet again!
This time it is a hand made bag for my swap partner in Brazil as part of the Bag Ladies Swap over at Flickr. The theme for June was fruits and polka dots.
I've mainly gone for fruits - Strawberries to be exact. It's a smaller version of my pleated tote bag, but big enough to hold a wallet, phone and a couple of other girlie things. I'm hoping my partner will like it as I love making these bags! I'm even thinking of putting some on Etsy, what do you think?



My partner has already had a sneak peek of the bag so the photos will not be spoiling the surprise!

How exciting!!

Just checked my blog this morning and noticed that I had an large amount of visitors over night! Hold on something is wrong here, I think I usually get a couple of regular visitors a day reading my ramblings and my crafting antics.
Then whilst browsing my usual sites I saw it!!

Thank you so much to Kath at Whip Up for mentioning my covered button tutorial! It amazes me how other people actually want to come and look at what I'm doing!

So if you've stumbled across here via Whip Up - THANKS - and would love to hear from you!

And the winner is ....

Finally the winner of last Friday's giveaway is -



Congratulations Bunnys Designs!

The trouble I had with that video! Excuse what look like my massive hands and the fumbling around with one hand. First video for me, unfortunately did not have a clue on how to put some cheery music over the top, so you pick up the noise in the background! Likely I muted my TV otherwise you would have been listening to Big Brother! Will have to play some music next time!

The covered buttons are yours along with a few other goodies! Yes you do get the polka dot bag - it was a sample that I made so enjoy!



Send me an email with your details and the following goodies will be on their way!

Hi - thanks for all the lovely comments and emails about the giveaway. All entries are now in and I will be making the draw tomorrow (going to try and video it, but we will have to wait and see if I can manage that with my lack of technical knowledge!!)
Will post the winner here tomorrow night, in the mean time here's a picture of one of my favourite things - tea and homemade muffin!

Friday giveaway !!

Well as promised here is my first giveaway! Thanks to those who left comments or sent emails about my cover button tutorial, hope it inspired or helped in some way!

So up for grabs is the cute little set of strawberry buttons plus some other little crafty surprises!



All you need to do is leave a comment on this post by Wednesday 20th June and then I will choose a winner!

Good Luck!

Cover Button Tutorial !!

Well it's finally here!! A few lovely people who have contacted me through my blog or over at Flickr asked if I could explain how I made the cover buttons, so I thought what better than a quick tutorial!!

At the moment I'm sat here like a Cheshire cat with a big grin as I managed to figure out how to use Leafletter to post the tutorial rather than a lengthy post and loads of photos!! I just hope that you can all see it and it works!
Let me know!

Well here it is - have fun and any questions let me know!

Thanks to Drewzel over at Flickr she found this fab website tool - been playing around with their name signs to make my name in soup!! Loads of fun!
Plus lots of crafting today so hopefully post about that this week :)

4 months

It's nearly been 4 months since I started this blog and I can't believe I'm kinda still going strong. Not posting as frequently as I would like due to work commitments but hopefully I will get better!
Since joining the world of blogs I have met and been in touch with some fab people all around the world. It's amazing that there are so many like minded people that have the same love for crafting!
Thank you for all your comments and kind emails as I get really excited to see if someone has left me a comment! I can also not believe that I have had just over 500 visitors! I worry that maybe only one or two people may stumble across my little blog and ramblings. Those of you who are yet to come out of the woodwork (or web world) I would love to hear from you!

My little mushroom buttons have gone down a storm and because I've been a little addicted to making them I am going to put together a set to give away some how! I will work out some fab and ingenious way so check back soon!!
CraftyB

A bit of craftiness at last!!

Another lovely day over here - beautiful blue sky - and at last a bit of crafting going on!


New tool...

Shiny buttons...

The fear of cutting into one of my lovely new fabrics...


but a really cute button at the end! A few more of these to be made in the evening sun!

To Do...

I find life a little bit easier when I have a to do list to keep me busy but at the moment the list is out of control and not even on paper but in my head!! So many things crammed in there at the moment I needed a nice day of relaxing... gardening and baking!

Beautiful Clematis flowers on a lovely sunny and warm day!!


Home made cranberry and poppy seed muffins - this was the first time I tried this recipe and changed a few things to suit me and they are so yummy!!
Will definitely be trying this again with different flavours! If anyone fancies the recipe let me know and I will post it!