I've snuck a few of these new snowflake bracelets on the shop. I spotted the charms today and thought they were very sweet and made myself a bracelet. If anyone needs any last minute presents, do pop past but be quick as I'm closing the shop as of tomorrow night to make sure I can meet all orders before the last Christmas post.  

:o)

It's the Mums Christmas do tonight. Woohoo. Got my bottle of non-alcoholic spritzer chilling in the fridge and I'm just about ready except, I can't make my mind up about what to wear?

Do I go for this one?

Nothing like mixing up a few textures here, with a bit of black velvet, silk, pleather, pony hair and snakeskin. Well it is Christmas!

Or ... should I edge it up a little and go with something a little bit shiny shiny? And I get to wear my party shoes!

I made my own Christmas picture up there inspired by these prints :

I bought a canvas. Mine is from Home Bargains (size 50cm x 60cm) and it cost me £1.99.

Paint the canvas if the white is too stark for you. I bought a paint roller and tray from the Pound shop specifically for this purpose and used some left over paint lying around so I had a "coloured" even if it is a mere hint of a colour canvas. Paint away whatever you like but I was quite taken with how simple, effective and timely this particular "Oh Deer" image was. I made it mine by sticking a face on it :)

You need the following things to do this.




Again, I painted the canvas as the white was too stark. Then, use some pretty ribbon or twine and fasten this across your canvas. I used drawing pins around the back of the canvas pressed in to the frame and wound the twine around and tied them. Take the string across the font and make sure it's taut. Fasten to the safety pin on the other side.

Press a drawing pin in to the top of the door (so you can't see any holes). Hang the frame on the drawing pin. Done.

We'll see how this goes or it will be back to the old drawing pins in the wall again next year! Grrrr.

When tissue pom poms go wrong, we turn them in to flowers. See!

Sometimes things don't go quite to plan. Like when I decided I was going to make tissue pom poms as I wanted to decorate the house with them this Christmas. A bit like this :

So I looked up tissue pom poms on Pinterest. Cast a glance over a few pics, ignored the instructions and then went off to look for my tissue paper, a pair of scissors and some string. And set too.

My first attempt was a tiny scrunched up ball thing. It looked like a little flower rather than a lovely airy fairy tissue pom pom. But I persevered and a couple of pom poms appeared  ...

... and then I decided I wasn't a pom pom girl anyway. But the little screwed up flower thing ... I looked at that again and thought, that has potential. It had the potential to become a little flower garland. So if you'd like to read some instructions on how to make a flower garland - read on. Or if you want to cast a glance over the pics like I would ... glance on!

For each flower, you need 3 sheets of white tissue paper - size 12cm x15cm

Depending on how long your garland is, you might be there a while. Make sure you have a snack to keep you going.

Got the shoes! Where's the party?