Anniversary Present For James (part 2)

This is the second lot of photos of James' anniversary present. I'll put up one more post with it completely finished! Enjoy.

Anniversary Present For James (part 1)

This is the present that I made for James for our 1 year wedding anniversary. It is a paper cut out- the biggest I have attempted so far at 60cm x 80cm. It took ages! I'm pretty pleased with it though and James seems pretty happy with it too! I will put up another post with some more photos (including it finished!) soon.

Our First Christmas Tree

This is our very small and cute first Christmas tree together. We had a lovely evening a couple of weeks ago at Ensleigh garden and leisure center picking it out. I thought that I'd put it on here one because I'm very pleased with it and two because it's nearly Christmas!

Cards

These are some simple card ideas. I was thinking about maybe trying to sell some on etsy.... not sure if they would sell or not!

Birthday Cake For Mum

It was Mum's birthday the other day and James decided to bake her a cake! It was James' idea to put her initials on top of the cake in icing sugar so he drew some lettering and I cut them out (my very small input in the whole cake process!). The only issue was the letters were a bit big for the cake (probably should have thought to measure it first!) and also the cake not being flat meant it didn't want the stencil to lie properly on it! Anyway... Mum was very happy with it and it tasted really good- well done James!

z bed

Over the last few weeks I've been working on covering an old 'z-bed' that I've had since I was younger and had been made slightly redundant because a) it was covered in winnie the pooh fabric and b) it was ripped. It's hard to get a good impression of it here as I forgot to take a 'before' photo... oops! I brought some lovely purple fabric from tavy textiles and decided to just 'go for it' (i've never attempted anything like this before!). It's not going too badly so far although it's taking rather a long time! Hopefully it will be ready for my brother in law Phil to sleep on when he comes down for new year's eve! I'll put a photo on when it's completely finished.

Another Darwin

Sorry I haven't posted anything for a little while, I've been busy with college work as well as getting the hallway ready to be plastered! I've finished the Darwin project now- I thought I'd post up one more, this one is made from polystyrene and sewing-pins. I think it's quite effective... not quite sure how it represents Darwin's personality though!