Elena's Beanie

Starting my beanie for Elena

I promised to make a beanie for my friend Elena about 2 months before Christmas! I've started it about 3 or 4 times now with different colours, but I didn't like how it came out. I tried to do it with quirky, fun colours as Elena is a quirky, fun person!! But each time it just came out looking like a fancy dress hat or at best, a great beanie for the kids!...So, now I'm going for some more subdued colours...Hope you like it Elena!

27th January

Beanie finished!! Took me a while as this week Mr. T. hasn't slept, which means I haven't slept, which means I've been like a zombie during the day. So anyway, it's finished...it's a bit weird, but we like weird...and most of all, Elena likes it!!

Elena and her finished beanie.

Oli's Artwork

Seascape by Oli.

My eldest son Pooh Face, who will be 10 in May, is also a lover of arts and crafts...He's going to be a great artist one day I'm sure as both sides of his family are arty and crafty.

He did me this wonderful seascape about 3 years ago and it's been stuck on the side of my microwave ever since...I keep meaning to buy a frame for it so that I can hang it some where more appropriate, but it really jazzes up the dull cream microwave!!

I love having all his paintings and other stuff he's made around the house instead of stuck away in the wardrobes, it's a way of him putting his little stamp on the place!

A Duvet for Mr. T.

Mr. T's new duvet.

Here's a duvet and duvet cover that I made for Mr. T's cot.

The actual duvet inside is made from a spare duvet that I cut to size, For the blue, back side of the cover I used a sheet that we already had that doesn't fit any of our beds. The colourful animal print is a roll of material that I bought for just over 5 Euros IKEA and the red ribbon cost me less than 1 Euro in a local haberdashery shop.

A great half recycled, half new...very cheap...and colourful duvet and cover for Mr. T.!!

Poppytalk's Mini DIY Round-Up!

Just found a great blog, Poppytalk! New one on my I Love list!

Poppytalk's Mini DIY Round-Up!: Paper roses made from coffee filters from Kuchnia Peina Cudow via La Dolce Via Make a moodboard using decorative...

Paper roses made from coffee filters
from Kuchnia Peina Cudow via La Dolce Via

Such a simple idea, yet so effective and pretty!

Halloween Beanie

OK so Halloween has beanie and gone (I know, that was awful!), but here's another beanie I made for Pooh Face last Halloween.

He didn't actually wear it in the end, but we had some laughs taking the pics! Pooh is a born actor and loves making faces in front of the camera!

Beanies

This is my first try at kids beanies! They worked out quite well to say I just made them up as I went along. I'm not one for reading and carrying out patterns as I get to frustrated when they don't work out and I'm very impatient!

The photo is terrible, I do apologise...but I wasn't in a photo taking frame of mind when I took it!