Every year the besties and I have a Christmas weekend away somewhere in the UK where we watch Christmas films, don festive knitwear, catch up, eat all the food and swap presents. After weekends in Nottingham, Cambridgeshire, the Peterborough countryside and Oxfordshire this weekend has come to feel like the beginning of Christmas, which I… Read more »
Posts Tagged: getting crafty
Getting Crafty: Spare Room Inspiration
We’ve been busy little bees over the last few weeks. We’ve been assembling furniture, painting walls, choosing new furniture, spray painting anything that stays still for long enough, drilling and rearranging, rearranging, rearranging. Pretty soon we’ll be ready to unveil the first room in the new house on the blog and we’re pretty excited! But… Read more »
Getting Crafty: Planning the Garden
So we have a garden, hooray! And whilst it’s currently a bit of a state we do have lots of brilliant plans for what to put in there, we want somewhere that feels like an extra room and that we’ll use on a regular basis. Realistically a lot of this planning won’t happen for a… Read more »
Getting Crafty: A Harry Potter Inspired Gift
Greetings chumlets! Today I’m sharing the easiest present ever to make, honestly this gift took me less than an hour to complete and I was able to use up fabric and thread I had already. The only thing I had to buy was a £2.00 embroidery hoop, so minimal effort and money required. That’s not to say… Read more »
Getting Crafty: Embroidery
I like to think I’m quite a crafty, hands on person. I mean I can knit more than a scarf, I can sew on a button, thread and use a sewing machine (the threading part is immensely tricky FYI) and I’m quite a good baker. But there’s one craft that I’d like to get better… Read more »