Life right now.

Well it certainly has been a long week! Edinburgh was really great, I loved the city and Aral and I had a great time there. I was struck by how much space there seems to be and how wide the streets were. We stayed in a fantastic apartment, and I hope that we might return [...]

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Felting Info, Links and Examples.

After yesterdays post about felting, I thought I would give you some links to good sites about felting.
So first of all, a definition of felt. And there is a little more history here.
The Esty Storque has a really good article ” Trends: A Little Fuzzy Bling of Felted Goodness” about felting with lots of links [...]

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Felting FTW

What a busy few days! Aral returned safe and well on Thursday morning, much to my relief. Of course as soon as he got home, jet lag struck and he promptly fell asleep for several hours, so it was pretty lucky that when he was at South by Southwest he had visited the Make: expo [...]

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Sunshine in my eyes.

I truly think there is nowhere better to be than England in the sunshine. Today was the first day of the Creative Stitches and Hobbycrafts show in The Brighton Center. I went along with my friends Relly and Jessica, and it was really very inspiring. The WI exhibition was really great and showed off [...]

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Creative Stitches.

On friday I am excited to be going to Creative Stitches & Hobbycrafts at the Brighton Center. I am really looking forward to the knitted gingerbread house, and I am going to be accompanied but some crafty friends, Relly and Jessica.
I’ll let you know how I get on

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Yip Yip

I saw this on the Cut Out + Keep site the other day and e-mailed it to my Mum, who asked if I could make her one, but there doesn’t seem to be a tutorial attached . Can anyone give me making suggestions?
Does anyone else remember the Yip Yip’s ?

clipped from www.cutoutandkeep.net

I [...]

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Snail cakes.

Just when you thought you couldn’t take anymore cute cupcakes, here are some super cute snail cupcakes, to feast your eyes upon. Pete’s Mum, Maggie Flodman made these for her Nephew who loves snails

Aren’t they great! Photo courtesy of Pete Aylward

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Cupcake goodness

After posting a link to those lovely images of cupcakes with knitted marzipan embellishments the other day, I had a need for cupcakes. So I baked these lemon and vanilla delights. Who would have known that lemon and vanilla would go together so beautifully.
I am currently on the look out for some natural food colouring [...]

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Knit a cupcake!

I could not resist posting a link to this. Cupcakes with knitted marzipan decorations! So super cute!

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As life flashes past.

This morning I met with an old school friend for coffee and a little hat shopping, it was great to see her and catch up with everything she’s doing. We popped into Habitat to look at all the lovely Christmas things and I spotted some pretty wooden cut out coasters in the sale that I [...]

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