Felt Headband with Sequins

Today, something downed on me... I want to make our advent calendar this year but because Chloé is only a couple of months old she's not going to be able to have chocolate and I therefore need to make her 25 little presents!

Because time is running out pretty quickly, these need to be incredibly easy and quick to make so I've decided to make her a lot of headbands and bows.

Hair accessories might also help people realise she's a girl, something which doesn't seem to be as obvious as I'd like it to be. Even when she's dressed in a pink dress. The reassuring thing is that this seems to happen to all my friends with baby girls. Or most of them anyway...

For this first headband, I use:
- Felt
- Elastic
- Sequins
- A needle
- Some thread
- A glue gun

Measure the head of your child (or yours is you want to make it for yourself) and cut the felt accordingly. Attach the elastic at both end so you now have a band which fit the head of your little one.

All that's left to do is decorate!

I used sequins but you could obviously use whatever you have in your house. Fabric, buttons, beads, anything!

I also made a cute little felt flower (this took me about 30 seconds) and you can watch the tutorial in the video below.

So that's one done. 24 to go....

Christmas Stockings

I have wanted to make Christmas Stockings for a very long time but never got round to doing it for some reason.

I went to the pound shop to get a stocking and traced my pattern from that but there are quite a lot of free patterns online that you could print instead. This one for example is very easy to follow and the stockings are simply gorgeous!

I used 1.5 fat quarter for each stocking and because the fabric I used wasn't quite hard enough, I had to use fabric stiffener on each piece before assembling them.

And here they are! I still need to decorate them and add names but I still haven't decided if I want to cut the names in felt or hand stitch them. Decision, decision...

And you might have noticed that I like these little wooden birds as I used one of them in my heart wreath. I got them from my local craft store but you could get similar ones online.

Wool Christmas Ornaments

Morning all!

Today is starting pretty well. Our neighbours have decided to cut our water supply without warning so I can't have a shower... And so here I am looking for my next DIY project.

As you know, I've decided to make my own Christmas tree ornaments this year and these wool balls made with balloons, glue and (obviously!) wool seem like the perfect project. Seriously, how pretty are they??

Click here to view the tutorial.

I've decided to add beads to mine so we'll see how that goes...

Fabric Wreath

Here is a very easy, quick and cheap way to make a pretty heart wreath (what else could you ask for?!?).

For mine, I used a polystyrene heart wreath similar to this one and some muslin fabric.

Cut strips of fabric and knot them around the wreath. Once you're done, all you need to do is glue some ribbon and decorate your wreath!

Easy Wooden Christmas Tree Ornaments

I have decided that we would have a homemade Christmas this year. So far, I managed to make a memory bear for my little girl (though I already gave it to her so I will need to make her something else) and some Christmas stockings for which I'll post a tutorial later on.

The next thing on my list is Christmas tree ornaments and I received this pretty box a couple of days ago:

I got these from Ebay and there are 72 pieces in total but I wish I'd seen these first or these for that matter...

I covered them in fabric using PVA glue and here you are! Some pretty ornaments ready to be hanged!

The Start of Something New

Hi there!

So here it is! After years of talking and talking and talking about having my own crafty blog I am finally going for it. 

I enjoy making things. All kind of things. I love fabric, beads, wood, glass and every kind of DIY activity and I hope to inspire you to take your scissors, glue stick and needles and start making things of your own. 

xx