Tuesday 8 November 2011

Magazines & a sneak peak of a Christmas Present.

A little bit of excitement this week, firstly my reindeer project appeared in Simply Homemade.  A cushion, Santa sack, card holder & tree decoration, all based on my Rudolf template.  Very quick and easy projects using fleece and felt so no need for lots of fiddly hems!

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They were great fun to make, although I did make them in August so I feel like Christmas has been and gone!!!

Second piece of news is that my banana basques (click here for pattern) were featured on the Mollie Makes blog & Facebook page in their Monday Moodboard.  I must admit I did wonder why the number of visitors to my visitors shot up!

Right, time for a sneak peak of one of the Christmas presents I’ve been making – I wrote last year about how my family set a small price limit on what we can buy for each adult, and every year we have a theme.  Last year was a challenge as we set the price at £0!!!   A big challenge, but one that we all embraced and had great fun with (see this post).  This year we have a limit of £2 but for that we must buy a pressie starting with the same letter as the name of the recipient.  My younger brother Dan & I have a bit of a joke going about Duct tape & how it can solve anything, so this year I have created his present from the same stuff:

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Voila, a waterproof messenger/laptop bag made completely from duct tape.

Now I’ve got to think of £2 gifts starting with the following letters:

M – female, P – male, C – female, another female C, S – male, D – female.

Any suggestions??

Sally

xxx