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

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

Bunting + New hair!

I recently bought a new sewing machine ( a Jenome Mini), and also a whole load of fabric, what better way to enjoy this by making some good ol' bunting!

It was really simple to make, I just cut triangles out of a floral fabric measured and marked to 15cm across and cut to a triangle point at 7.5cm. The same again for the denim (which I sacrificed an old pair of shorts for!)

To finish off I just pinned the pompom trimming to the fabric and sewed along.

My mum displayed it in our kitchen (I felt like a 5 year old who had just come home from school with a drawing) - Please note the photo of Gordon Ramsey is NOT mine!

Recently my hair has been feeling a little lifeless due to bleaching and straightening, so I drew some 'Hairspiration' from my idols - Deborah Harry, Gwen Stefani and Lady Gaga, called up my lovely hairdresser Sophie and went for a full fringe chop!

This is it, I will probably tie is back most of the time like this until my layers mix in.

(via: creativereview)

Not quite so fabulous but I love it anyway!

Have a great Thursday!

x

New Fabric.

I recently ordered a bulk lot of fabric/remnants from Etsy seller sarahsquiltsncrafts.

The package came yesterday and wow what a wonderful package it was!

First of all look at the cute sender label:

Then look how beautifully it was all packaged up:

Inside the package was information about the importance of ordering from Etsy, which i couldn't agree with more. It's a personal experience and although you often do pay a little more than store bought, you get more unique items, often handmade, plus the sellers efforts (like my package) make it well worth the wait and prices.

Here are some of my favourite pieces of fabrics out of the lots that I was given (although it was hard to chose!):

Here is a close up of the cutest little panda printed fabric:

Go buy from sarahquiltsncrafts ! She sells wonderful, unique fabrics to make your crafts special!

Probably wont be posting over the weekend as I'm away (unless I can figure out how to queue posts).

Until then!

x