tree decorations

tree decs, originally uploaded by incywincystitches.

1. Bauble swap received , 2. wrapped tree, 3. stars, 4. bauble swap - sent, 5. peg dolly, 6. bauble swap - sent

I've been busy making decorations ... plus I received the cutest gingerbread house from food of love. Thanks to Eileen for organising such a great swap x craft neutral bauble swap

To see what I sent Eileen link to my swap set

Happy Christmas x

Hand Stitched Embroidery Swap - Sent

Little Red

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Megan has now received my embroidery piece so I can add some pics I took before it went on it's long journey!

Megan had mentioned that she loves Japanese fairytale fabrics, so I instantly thought of little red riding hood. You can see some of my sketches and wip photos in my swap set here

Flickr group - "Hand Stitched" Embroidery SWAP

Button Baubles

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I've written up a little festive tutorial for the UK Handmade tutorial blog - thanks to my little helpers Emma and Lucy! x

Link here

Hand Stitched Swap Received

I took part in a hand stitched swap over on Flickr and here's what I received! Thank you so much to chmihen for my beautiful embroidery piece - I just love it :)

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I will add some photos of mine once it has arrived, but for now here's a wip pic ...

Little Red

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Flickr group - "Hand Stitched" Embroidery SWAP

Children in Need

www.folksy.com/shops/CrafterooShop

Don't forget to check out our Children in Need shop over at Folksy - It's full of lovely handmade items all donated by members of Crafteroo ...

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www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey

Pumpkins and Misi

We had a pumpkin carving session last night, which turned into a bit of a competition between Em (with my help) and Daddy! I'll let you decided which one is the best ...

On one side of the kitchen Emma and me created this spooky pumpkin ...

Photo is not brilliant, sorry!

Emma helped me prepare the pumpkin by scooping all the middle out, then drew her design on (with the help of a stencil) which I cut out. A great pumpkin, well done Em :)

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Then on the other side of the kitchen Daddy spent over 2 hours making this ...

Isn't it great! Well done hub :) Em said it's amazing, but her one is still the most scary!
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Check out those teeth! ...


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New shop...

I've set up a little shop over at Misi and have listed a few new findings, button sets and accessories - link here to see what's in stock!

Kenny the duck

ay up me duck!
In the summer holidays we decided to take part in a rubber duck based photography competition organised by a local gallery.

So we spent 7 weeks carrying Kenny (our duck) and my digi camera round with us to get some shots … and we got some good ones, in fact Emma was chosen as a finalist in the 8 years and under category. And this Wednesday night we went to the exhibition launch where they announced the winners. Unfortunately Emma didn’t win in her category, but she absolutely loved seeing her photo large scale with all the other finalists.
Here is Emma and her photograph …

My little red rosy cheeks :)
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To see Emma's photo and others from our holiday link here to my Kenny flickr set
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The exhibition is on till early December at Loughborough town hall.
vanillagalleries.com

button jewellery swap - sent and received

I actually started writing this post last Friday, but have been so busy this last week that I've not had chance to do any blogging! ... so, here's the lovely goodies I received from my partner Abbi in the button jewellery swap -

A beautiful buttony bib necklace, some buttons handmade by Abbi (really love these!) and a whole stash of crafty goodies and yummy chocs :)

Thanks Abbi x

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And here's a couple of the pieces that I sent over to Abbi ...

Wrap around button bracelet (or choker) - buttons stitched to a leather crochet chain.

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Layered vintage button pendant on a brown leather cord to match the bracelet.
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More images in my Swap Flickr set
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I had great fun creating these button pieces for Abbi :)
Thanks to everyone that took part in the swap x I'll do a little swap round up post once everyone has received there goodies in the post.
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Button jewellery swap Fickr group

Hand Stitched

Hand stitched - taken from my Flickr favourites
Originally uploaded by incywincystitches

Taken from my Flickr favourites (old and new) -

For the "Hand Stitched" Embroidery Swap hosted by Ariel

Ruby's Owls

Owl softie and taggie style snuggle for baby Ruby.

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I found a pair of hubs old corduroy trousers in my stash and instantly decided to make an owl. (Click image to see what other fabrics I've recycled) I had intended to make a personalised cushion with an appliqué owl, but the trousers weren't wide enough, so decided to turn her into a softie instead.

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I just love this spotty fabric at the moment; it just seemed to work so well with the brown fabrics and felted rainbow wings.
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Hand embroidered patch on the reverse - more pics on flickr ... link

Welcome to the world baby Ruby! x

fair and two veg

I had a lovely fair on Saturday at Ulverscroft Manor. The sun was shining, the atmosphere was wonderful and for once my table looked pretty decent compared to my usual messy displays ... thanks to GK for all the display stands ;)

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More images on Flickr

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home grown veg
I sent off for the free seeds from the BBC dig in campaign in the spring. We planted them in June, so thought it must be time to harvest, but to our disappointment they were a little small...

Yes those are leeks!

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... but they were delicious!!

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haha, Em admiring one of her comedy carrots!

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Happy 4th Birthday!

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