embroidered felt bookmark
I’m taking a breather from my Christmas crafts and would like to show you if you like embroidery like me what you can do with a bit of felt, some threads, an elastic cord and a little bit of inspiration…
Christmas craft – decorated jars/jars of light
Idea 1: Glass jars, gold strings and ribbons, cinnamon sticks, gold Christmas decorations and tea lights — decorate the jars, light the tea lights and release that warm and fuzzy Christmassy feeling… Idea 2: I posted the following pictures a few weeks ago in Jars of Light, here they are again… definitely a very simple…
Christmas craft – decorated bottles
I love glass bottles… Dress them up with a bit of strings and ribbons, few cinnamon sticks and some toilet roll holder flowers and they are ready for Christmas!
Christmas decoration – unconventional twig tree
I settled for this unconventional twig tree for Christmas 2011 when I was suffering from severe tendinitis on both of my hands. Living in the tropics we use artificial Christmas trees and with both of my thumbs immobilised in plastic splints then the thought of taking my 7-foot fake tree out and setting it up…
for the lassie…
Annette from my office had been giving me some rather “unsubtle” hints that she wanted to get the few tins she collected all dressed up for her stationery so I eventually took the “hint” and took the tins home last weekend. Annette is not the type of girl who is into flowers and lace, she…
Christmas in September
Is it too early to plan ahead and prepare for Christmas in September? Initially I was planning to work on my crafts and other little things for Christmas only in October which at the time I still thought was rather early but after thinking about it a bit more and taking into consideration of my…
