5 minute bow bracelet

In my efforts yesterday to pick up all the bits and bobs around the house (there is defintely something to be said for those fabric bags hanging on a door knob to place all the bits and bobs around the house) and I came across a short silver bit of chain....no idea what it was for, but taking a second glance I knew I could make it into a bracelet by threading ribbon through.  I went for a beautiful romantic cream and I reckon it is nicer than I even planned.  Sooo easy!

Thrifty Repurpose Fun for Barbie

In my most recent trip to the local thrift store, I came upon this "condiment holdler" well I am unsure what it was, but I instantly thought "dolls swing for the girls", so that is what it is....quite cute in the garden.

Nursery Mobile - Pink, Green and Red

When my third little sweetie was born, I wanted to make her a special mobile and at the time I love pink, green and red together and had coordinating fabrics floating around so I make this mobile.

It took a few weeks, once I had hand sewn the pieces together and worked out how many etc....I kept them at different distances apart so yon can see each strawberry, heart, birdie or owl. 

I didn't  have an embroidery hoop so I bent an old coathanger, then sewed two pieces of lace together, right on the edge, threaded some deep red velvet ribbon through and threaded this onto the coathanger.  Then handsewed it together.

Here is the finished product...

I made three birds, three owls, three hearts and three strawberries.  Each one has an alternate colour on the opposite side to keep it interesting when it turns around.

For added texture, I added a feather boa when my sweetie was littlier and she loved running her cheek against it....

 

Found some more - Individual Cupcake Dessert Stands

Yep, three cute little glass plates I picked up at Vinnies, just had to be upcycled too...As per my previous post, these were just glued together

here they are glued to port glasses and an egg cup:





Repurposed glass platters - Cake stands galore

In my recent trips to Vinnies, I have found a wonderful assortment of glass plates, platters and port glasses that have frilled and decorative edges.  I even find the odd crystal glass and since I have trouble keeping all of my sets unbroken, the odd glass keeps my crystal collection the same size and with a unique combination.

So I saw these this week and new instantly they would make a beautiful tall glass cake stand/tier.

Before:

The glass plates and dessert bowls before....

After they have been glued together and my little 2yr old tot filled it up with lollies!!!

The frilled edges on the plate and dessert seem to go together really well...am excited with my DIY work today...more pretties!

Some more plates, bowls and glasses that I have collected over the past six months

I glued them all together and this is how it turned out....



No seriously now, I was playing with adobe and the "wavy" application sounded fun...

And so did this "blue omni light" application...thought it was quite cool!

But this is the real one...

 

I think this top piece really makes it special and unique...this will probably be a sweets platter for parties and little meringues or lollies can go in the top of even fresh flowers....can't wait to use it...

There is my dresser that I redid several months ago...I haven't yet posted the drawer handles I put on..they were from another dresser that was given to me.





Upcycled Lace Summer Scarf

Well, again I haven't done that much of late, but just prepare kidlets for school and enjoy the holidays.  I have found some great printable lunchbox notes sites just by doing a google search and I am really enjoying writing two inspirational notes on the kids bag tags and a secret one in their lunchbox. I find it really helped my son want to learn to read last year and it is something personal about how they are going, what they can do or just "Niceness is kindness" which went on one today,..

I am trying to give them encouragement at the things they are good at or have done well the day before.

A friend also told me she engraves special notes into their banana skins...what a lovely idea.  I will post some pics later.

Here is a scarf I made the other day, I had some leftover muslin, very light and breezy fabric.  Then some old cotton  scallop edging. I sewed this onto the bottom of the muslin and then sewed around each large lace rose. It creates the effect of one whole piece, but it just helps dress up some dull outfits.

Hope you have a great day!!

Carols by candelight

We finally made it to a Carols by Candlelight for the first time this year....but alas, half an hour into the carols, it poured raining so we hotstepped it back to my sister's for a campover which was a lot of fun!

 We made our very first Xmas shirts this year too, my 5yr old made one at kindy that needed to be prettied up so she glued on decorations onto her shirt and we printed a silhouette of our rescue doggy and painted onto my son and daughter's shirts,...(so they could for once have matching shirts) and they decorated them.....very personal they were.  Also so the girls matched too, we put fairy wings on the back of each shirt done in just felt, handsewn on (my 5 yr old sewed hers on) and then,...everybody matchs everybody, and my son had jingle bells on his sleeve with a handy little pocket for candy!!