Makin' Mushrooms.

Using the wonderful LucyKateCraft's tutorial - found HERE - I created my own little toadstool/mushroom thing!

First up is the stalk, I used a pink paisley print fabric scrap, turned it inside out and filled with stuffing and a small pebble in the bottom to keep balance.

Then I used some turquoise embroidery thread to compliment the pink and sewed up the bottom with a felt base.

To make the top I had to cut a hole in the bottom half of my fabric (I chose turquoise again) for the stalk to fit in.

I then used a blanket stitch to sew the top and bottom fabrics together and filled with stuffing.

I then attached the stalk to the top just using embroidery thread. It looks messy but thats because I have little patience when it comes to thick thread and a small needle!

Here it is! Obviously I'm going to make a few more to get some practice and hopefully it will end up looking as cute as LucyKateCrafts!

What cute things do you like making?

I had a bit of a spree today on my lunch break so expect a shopping post tomorrow!

Have a good night

x

Crafty Tuesday + Recipe.

As soon as I got in today, I popped on the oven and started baking. I recently made chocolate marshmallow muffins according to my Muffins + Cupcakes recipe - much to my dismay, they failed.

So this time I got a new recipe, which I must say worked - however, I can't taste a whole lot in the muffin! So if somebody wants to give me a pointer or if i should just get rid of this muffin pipe-dream and stick to a basic cupcake recipe - please let me know!

Here's what I did:

Mixed in: - 250g of Self-raising flour

- 50g Cocoa powder

-175g of Caster sugar

- 2 tsps Baking powder

- 100ml of Sunflower oil

- 175 ml Milk

- 2 drops of Vanilla extract

- Marshmallows and Choc chips.

Bake on 180* for 20 mins

Butter icing: - 170g of Butter

- 170g of Icing sugar

- use Cocoa powder as fit

Then covered with sprinkles.

The icing bit tastes amazing but the rest has no real taste! If any cake specialists out there wanna help me out that would be great!

I then made this little fabric toadstool-thing :)

Also been thinking once I hit 75 followers I'l do a giveaway of some little crafty things maybe? What do you guys think would be good?

x

P.s If anyone of my lovely followers could teach me how to use Bloglovin' I'd love you forever!

my email is: nfgchimp@hotmail.com

Trip to Totnes.

For those who don't know, Totnes is a small village about 10 minutes away from where I live in Devon (in the UK), it's full of people who are into Organic and handmade stuff and they all dress a little strange. I don't mean this in a negative way I think its great that they don't care what others think and everyone is happy and very friendly.

First up I went to a shop called Gazebo - I wanted to buy every single thing there! It has alot of Cath Kidson which I'm not a fan of BUT every other single thing had to be mine from cute deer to nesting dolls - I loved it!

Here's what I bought:

Mushroom money box

Clip bird - to sit in my vintage bird cage I got for Christmas.

Cute deer and kitty postcards - just to stick on my wall.

Also went to a few charity shops and picked up:

Nesting doll keychain - £1

A biiig mixed bag of fabric for £3 (more than pictured)

and that pink one was £3 for over 2 metres and I love the retro pattern!

On the way home we popped into one of my favorite garden centers - Fermoy's:

And this really cute nesting doll was only 99p!

Phew!

So there's a long post to make up for the short ones - and (I deserve a medal for this...) I still have NO 't' button!

What did you get upto on the weekend?

x

Mini Sales shop.

First things first - I still have NO 't' button working so again I've had to form a short post to stop me from going insane with copy and pasting the letter 't' every other word!

But here is the story that goes with not getting the keyboard today:

I got asked to run an errand by my boss and go up to the top of town to post something, whilst there I asked if I could go to the Apple Store to buy my keyboard. So I head on up and as I go to walk into the shop who should be working there but enemy No.1 - the evil ex-boyfriend!

So a quick diversion through a couple other shops and BAM I end up spending money on other things.

First of all in Paperchase:

An adorable cup! It was only £2 and I couldn't leave that little happy mushrooms face behind!

In Topshop:

Super cool, super tacky gold, spike studded bracelet.

It was £10, marked down to £3 but when I got to the till it came up at £2!

Bargain! I love a bit of a spikey stud.

Okay so that's it now for the weekend, in conclusion to my story I ordered my keyboard from Amazon.

I'll be back Monday with a longer post about my charity shop and Totnes finds.

Have a great weekend!

x

Pin Cushion + New Fabric.

My 't' button is still not working so this is going to have to be more of a 'picture' post. I will head over to the Apple Store tomorrow and pick up a new keyboard (goodbye sweet money!)

This week I've been on another eBay fabric binge and picked up these four charming fabrics:

The little Oriental kitties are just adorable and I love the bunnies in the cherry blossom.

So I decided to make a pin cushion:

Side 1. Mushroom fabric.

Side 2. Froggies and Apples.

Hope you like!

Again sorry for the short post but I will be back tomorrow with a new keyboard and a better post!

x

Etsy Finds Friday!

I'm huge fan of Etsy.com, it's such a nice, quaint, personalized shopping experience and with pay day looming in 2 weeks what better way to spend an evening than Internet window shopping!

Here are some of my favourite finds:

Hamilton Beach mixer - so cute! I've been wanting a mixer for a while now.

(via. AngiesIris)

'Deer Joan' Deer Mount - this is adorably tacky, as soon as I get my own place I'm buying a faux deer mount!

(via. DeerJoan)

Vintage Rotary Phone - SO cool! look how vivd the blue is, why don't I have my own house!?

(via.sovietvintage)

70's Mushroom Jar - adorable!

(via.studiostebbylee)

Graceful Lace w/cat Fabric - this just found itself in my cart, I will be ordering!

(via.doodooshop)

(via.studioa47)

(via.birdhouseblessings)

(via.DayLynn79)

Folk Art, Gypsy Wagon and Donette's Cottage Birdhouses - I love them all, I want loads of trees just so I can own lots of birdboxes, I can't believe how creative they can be!

Well that's all for today and the weekend it's the boyfriends birthday so shall be away.

Have a great weekend!

x

p.s thankyou mum for forcing all your colleagues to read my blog haha x

Urban Outfitters SALE!

Most shops around have the Summer Sales on. Nothing took my fancy in Bristol this weekend, until I got to Urban Outfitters.

Now anybody who knows me will know I can't resist anything with an Anchor on, I even have one tattooed on me, so how could I resist this beauty?!:

This super cute anchor Tee was £12.99 from £28. Bargain!

I love the little pocket and it fits like a dream.

Next up I spotted this wonderful Pink Flamingo Tee, remember me saying Tropical is in this season?:

It says 'I'm in Miami' and yes I did use Google Translator...

It wears as quite a long top but will be nice with shorts.

£13.99 from £28.00

I'm currently doing up an old table I got for FREE at a carboot sale (pics will be up when I've finished) - ready to be my new sewing box. I saw this and had to have:

It has a tape measure, needles, pins, 10 different colour threads, buttons and the colourful head pins pictured.

£4.99 from £15.00

Last but not least is my favourite buy - the Woodland Mushroom nightlight:

I really didn't expect it to light up as much as it does, its so bright! The picture doesn't do it justice.

£2.99 from £6.00

So there we have it, a successful summer sales shopping trip!

Hope you all had a good weekend.

x