My younger daughter is getting married next year and I am on bunting duty. She gave me some fabrics and searching through my stash I found quite a few to compliment them. Next step is cutting them out but I need enough to decorate a marquee – I’d better start soon!
A while ago I made a floral hanging from scraps of dyed fabrics overprinted and accentuated with hand stitch. Not surprisingly a little turquoise snuck in! Now I think it’s time to up-cycle. Shall I make some little book covers, or maybe some greetings cards? Which to do? Perhaps some of each…
I have made a new set of greetings cards good for most occasions – birthday, new home, change of address, get well, just saying “hello”….. It’s a good excuse to try out my latest prop and a few plants do make it look better.
My Victorian kitchen fireplace has been neglected and left outside to rust all winter…… but I have given it a new lease of life. After hoeing the ground it has been fixed to the garden wall and will double up as a prop to display new books and cards that need photographing. Now just need to do some planting.
I have such a huge collection of fabric I’d forgotten I had so I thought it was time to do some ‘proper’ sewing. In between gardening and de-cluttering I decided I shouldn’t really need to buy clothes when I have so much fabric so this is what I did this week. With this flowing material I made a quick and easy draping cap sleeve dress. Now just need the right occasion to wear it.
In deep concentration: a bridesmaid writes a special message to the bride and groom in their memory book.
No creations to show you as yet as I have been very busy celebrating my daughter’s wedding which is actually a fabulous three-part wedding! So, instead, I am showing off my chrome ‘cocktail-time’ nails glistening in the early evening Ibiza sun where we had part two of the wedding. And now there is part three to look forward to…….
is finally finished and ready to go to the bride and groom. I’ve suggested that on each wedding anniversary they put a photo in the album so they have a lifetime of happy memories to look back upon.
Adding a fabric photo of the happy couple gives their book an extra special personal touch then after the wedding ceremony I’ll sew in a voile picture of their marriage certificate.
My next task is to make a book to fit snugly inside this wedding memory box. Even with the book inside there will be plenty of room to store treasured mementoes of a wonderful day.