Christmas is on it's way Stage 2: Bling Up The "Tree"

I realise I may have been a little quite this past week or so. I did have plans for blog but a couple feel through...

1. The Halloween wreath I attempted to make went disastrously wrong, so I gave up on that....and it could have been so pretty....

2. The walk to find sloes to make gin resulted in no sloes whatsoever, but we did have a very lovely long walk in the sunshine.

So that was that. I do have one currently in the process but everything takes a little longer now husband is back at Uni full time as I have no access sat home to the pc as he's usually in the spare room til late working every night.

So what have I been doing with my time? I have in fact been making my Christmas tree costume a lot more bling. I decided it was far too sparse of baubles so spent four nights happily sewing baubles onto it and sleigh bells to make it jingle as I walk. That and adding lots of tiny sleigh bells to the gloves too.

Ta-da - the finished product!

This one is from last year but I will be a lot more baubly and jingly this time round :D 

If you're confused as to why I might have  Christmas Tree costume in the first place, may I direct you here, to my other website. I know it's not something I blog about a lot but I did say I'd update here if I did any kind of craft stuff related to my other part time career!

Star Wars Card Embroidery: Stormtrooper Birthday Card

Star Wars Stormtrooper card made for my mate Thew! This is actually my favorite card I've made so far out of all of them. 

Birthday Embroidery for my Da and Step Ma

Card for my Dad, a lovely tie pattern free from Wild Olive. 



And for my Step-Ma a flapper gal. Design from Sublime Stitching.

Sorry for the crap pics, had to take them in car as I only finished stitching just before I left the house to drive over there!

30th Birthday Embroidery

30th birthday card for my friend Becky with a sweet kawaii cake pattern for the front, courtosey of Wilde Olive. 

Home made Halloween Invitations

This year we're hosting a little Halloween film fest for a few friends and I decided to go the old fashioned way and shunned facebook in exchange fir some hand made invitations with a simple ghost embroidered on to black card. The inserts were printed in orange and brown.

Ghost drawn freehand by me (obviously, it's not that hard is it?!).

30th Birthday Card Embroidery

My friend Lauren always has a piñata on her birthday so I thought this cute design was perfect, from Feeling Stitchy 

Card Embrodiery: Happy Birthday Rob

This card was made for my mate Rob who recently walked the three peaks with Tim and Slashwaaaa. Tim drew the design, I stitched it up. 

Card Embroidery: Good Luck Ros

 

A card made for my lovely friend Ros who is taking early retirement at work. 

Drawn freehand, and I also made this lovely lemon cake for her leaving gift! 

Card Embroidery: Wedding Card, About Effing Time!

I recently made this card for my friend Mhairi for her sister's wedding. My first bit of business!

The ribbon one the bottle was a light blue to contrast with the dark green of the bottle and the main lettering was in a dark blue to match the bridesmaid dresses. 

Sorry for the dark photo!