Christening decorations!

Hi all!

I've spent the weekend preparing for and then celebrating a friend's child's christening and thought you might like to see what I made for it! First up there's the bunting which I made using my Silhouette Cameo! The purple flags have carousel unicorns and the others have the letters of the child's name, Aisha. I plaited a few embroidery threads together and used this to sting them up on the mirror. Love the outcome!!!

 

After that came the tissue paper flower pom poms. I got this idea from Pinterest, which seems to be pretty obsessed with them! :D They were surprisingly easy to do, but took a fair bit of time. I love the effect though, it was bright and fun, and it's still all hanging up as we love them too much to take them down! They're hanging around the gazebo in the garden and on the curtain rail in the living room.

For instructions on how to make them, take a look at this: http://www.marthastewart.com/how-to/tissue-paper-pom-poms-how-to#slide_0

Blue skies everyone!!!

End of year pressies!

Sorry it's been so long folks! End of the year seems to be a hectic time, but now I can get a bit of a break to sort things out. I'll be moving house in a few days, out of my parents house and in with some friends. Looking forward to it but it's a little scary :S :D


Anyway, I wanted to show you what I made for the kids for the end of year presents. I attempted the crayon shapes and completely failed so will be trying and perfecting them for next year instead.


Below you can see my production process. Each child got:
- 1 plastic cup
- 1 plastic straw
- 1 crayon
- 1 melody pop
- 1 toffee fudge
- 1 owl (more on this shortly)
- 1 personal note
- 1 wordsearch with everyone's names included in it

After I put them all together, I wrapped them in cellophane and tied them up with a bit of blue or pink embroidery thread.

I made sure the names on their personal notes (cut out on my Silhouette Cameo) were showing along the outside so each child got the right cup. The kids loved them!!! Definitely going to have to repeat this next year, it was very cheap and easy to do! And hopefully I'll have managed to make some crayon shapes for them by then too!

Blue skies everyone :)