DIY Crochet Tea House Wrap

Hey everyone! I hope you're all well! I've had a busy week in the lab and doing some reading for the next experiments that I'm planning and this weekend was nice and relaxed and I saw my best friends :) Today I thought I would share with you this wrap that I just finished crocheting as I needed something to replace my big scarf that I currently have at work and I'm so happy with how it turned out! :)

Happy Easter

Hey everyone! Happy Easter! Hristos Vaskrese! I hope you're all enjoying your Easter Sunday and eating lots of chocolate eggs/ boiled eggs :) Mum and I thought we would do the eggs slightly differently this year and I don't think we will do this again haha! Can't say it's our best year for egg decorating XD

Easy Reindeer Christmas Card

Hey Everyone! I hope you're all well! Today I thought I would share with you a little Christmas Card that I made over the weekend :) It's really quick and easy to do but I think it looks really cute! :)

DIY Music Folder

Hey everyone! Hope you're all well! For today's post I thought I would share this little DIY that I did on the weekend. I needed something to put my piano books in so I thought I would decorate this folder box thing! At Uni/work/PhD land I have a black digital piano and at the base there is some space which I thought would be perfect for storing my books as at the moment I have them piled on top and it's not the tidiest :)

DIY Halloween Makeup

Hey everyone! Hope you're well! Today I wanted to share with you a Halloween DIY video where I do some easy wounds. I'm going to a Halloween party on Friday so I wanted to do a test run of my makeup. Obviously I'm not a pro and I'm sure people that know how to do SFX makeup are cringing inside haha! But I'm happy with how it turned out! And I thought it was relatively easy to do and other than liquid latex and fake blood everything else I already had! :)

DIY Bronze Plant Pot with Succulents

Hey everyone! Hope you're all well! I've had quite a nice weekend, I went to the pub on Friday with some people from work and then I ended up going home to visit my family the next day which was really nice :) I decided to try and do a little DIY since I was at home and had all of my crafty things however it took much longer than I thought it would haha despite it being so simple! I also kind of underestimated how long it would take for each layer to dry but never mind, better late than never! :)

DIY Origami Mother's Day Card

Hey everyone! I hope you all had a lovely weekend! Today I wanted to share with you a DIY which I thought would be perfect for Mother's Day :)

Daisy Card DIY

Hey everyone! :) Hope you're all well and enjoying the run up to Easter :)

Today's post is a little card DIY that I thought fit in well with Easter/Spring :) You will need:

Materials:

Card and Envelope

Coloured paper for your daisies

Hemp or string

Pencil

Ruler

Glue

Scissors

1. Cut three 0.5cmx'length of paper' strips from yellow paper. This will be the centre of each daisy.
2. Cut three 2.5cmx'length of paper' strips from different colours of your choosing and mark along 0.5cm         from the edge along the length of the strip.

3. Cut along the strip at even intervals up to the 0.5cm mark. Do this for all three.

4. Glue the yellow strip to the thicker strip with fringing.

5. Start rolling the yellow strip tightly and keep going until both strips have been rolled. Glue the end. You can     do this with your fingers if you dont have my handy tool.

6. Open up the flower by spreading out the petals. Curve the petals with your fingers so they're not as           straight.

7. Make three of these flowers and glue them onto your card. 

8. Tie a bow out of hemp onto another piece of hemp to run along the bottom of the card.

Ta daa! Bear in mind that the flowers stick out quite a bit so it's a bit of a pain getting it into an envelope. But that's the card! It's quite simple and not too busy as the flowers are the main focus :) Let me know what you think! :)

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Mother's Day Card DIY

Happy Mother's Day everyone and to all of your lovely mums! :) 

Today's post will be a little DIY for a card I made yesterday (last minute whoops) for mum today. It could be tweaked and changed for other occassions but I thought it worked well as a Mother's Day card as I chose quite gentle and pastelly colours as mums are cute and lovely XD 

The technique I used for this card is called quilling. It's basically rolling strips of paper into different shapes to make your design :) You can either use ready made strips or I made my own by cutting strips of paper 0.5cm wide.

 Materials: 

White square card and envelope

White and pink paper or quilling strips

Pink mulberry paper

Quilling pen

Pencil

Ruler

Glue

Paintbrush and water

Heart gems

1. To start off with, choose your colours and cards etc. I think this is the hardest part and it usually takes me forever as I'm sooo indecisive! I went for a white square card, pink and white paper for the flowers and pink mulberry paper, or you can use any patterned paper. 

2. Using the ready made strips, or the ones you made, quill the strips into roughly even sized circles and glue the edge. I used a board that has premade shapes so I used it as a rough guide for my circles. Pinch the circle to make a teardrop shape. This will make a petal. Do this for all of them. I made 4 flowers, so 20 petals, 10 in white and 10 in pink.

3. Measure how big you want your square windows. For this card I chose 4.5cm squares. If you're using mulberry paper, I'd recommend drawing drawing your shapes in pencil then instead of cutting with scissors, drawing along the outline with a wet paintbrush and gently ripping the paper, then leave to dry for a few minutes. 

4. Glue to square windows to your card and glue the petals onto each window. 

5. Finish it off by adding two little gem hearts to the bottom right corner. 

6. I like to fold a piece of white paper and glue it along the crease to the inside of the card so you can write on the paper and it gives it a nicer finish. 

Tadaa you've finished! Mum really liked the card so I'm really glad! I hope you've all had a lovely day! Let me know what you all got up to :)

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Treble Clef Card DIY

How simple and effective is this musical card? It was so easy to make and I like the monochrome feel to it. It would have been better if the muscial score was cream to match but never mind :)

1. I started off by copying the template of the treble clef to the reverse of textured card and I carefully cut it out .
2. I also cut out a rectangle out of black card to the desired size that I was after.

3. I then lined up the clef on the card how I wanted it to be and traced out a similar outline onto the photocopied musical score, not gonna lie this took me ages as I kept doing it wrong XD

4. I then stuck it all down and added 2 little blue hearts to the corner.. tadaa!

And there's my finished card! It was so easy to make and I think it looks quite good :) What do you think? :) 

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Graduation Card DIY

One of my close friends recently graduated with a First! I'm really happy for him and all his hard work paid off! So I thought I would put my card making skills to use and make him a little card. I spent a while trawling through hundreds of photos on Google and Pinterest until I found a template of an owl that I liked. I thought I'd keep it simple and do a big owl on a card.

I printed off the template

Cut around the template and drew them onto card

I'm pretty sure it takes me longer to decide what colours I want and how to do the card than actually making it itself haha! So after I'd fiiinally decided on colours (aka asked mum to pick between the options I'd narrowed it down to) I started copying the template onto each colour and cutting it out.

Glued all the pieces of owl together

Made the hat and glued it all onto card :)

It was quite simple and easy to make and it looks super cute! I'll probably be doing this same card again unless if I find another one I like for everyone's graduation next year, maybe vary the colours slightly, or not haha :') Sorry everyone for getting the same card XD 

If you've recently graduated congratulations! And if anyone's made any cards link me below I'd love to have a look! :)

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Porcupine Pincushion DIY

 I made a porcupine! :) Mum's current pincushion is an old, tattered, rubbish little square, so for years now I've been meaning to make her a cute new pincushion but I just keep forgetting. So now that Uni's finished and the weathers a bit grey and rainy I thought I would finally get round to making one. After trawling through loads of Pinterest posts I finally found this one. At first I was torn between a crochet cactus XD so cute, and little mushrooms but I decided to choose this one. Maybe next time! :)

So I finally managed to find the instructions as you can see below, buuut they're not in English. The picture seemed pretty self explanatory but I typed it all into Google Translate anyway XD Turns out I didn't really need to but never mind.

You can find the post with the instructions here and the original post that I found is here. I ended up doing a little hybrid between the two and I put beads for the eyes and nose. I was thinking about sewing eyelashes but thought I'd probably mess it up XD

Basically you cut out the template, sew along the body and pull it together to make a ball, stuff it with pillow stuffing stuff, Sew along the head bit and make it into a cone, and sew on the eyes and nose. I sewed on the ears after but you could probably do that now. I decided to do a blanket stitch around the face and the bottom as I thought it looked cuter but it's personal preference :) And then you somehow neatly sew it altogether, that's where mine went a bit wrong, but it's cool, it makes it look handmade and not that I've bought it in a shop :')

And that's it! Probably shouldn't take you a day like it did for me but nevermind haha! I forgot that I was such a slow sewer! I guess you get quicker with practice, but I'm quite proud with my little stitching XD The face is a bit wonky but never mind :')

So yeah, there's my little porcupine pincushion. Link me below if you've made any pincushions or if you try this one out I'd love to have a look! :)

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