My first ever skirt (I think anyway :s)

Drum roll please...........

TA DA!!!

My First Skirt :D




This was made from some left over polka dot fabric from another project and the bottom panel is off a bed sheet (which later got turned into my new patio curtains which I will blog about in a mo jo)

I think she is a very beautiful skirt and I have finally started to accept that it's no longer the 1990s, I'm not a member of All Saints and wearing my clothes on my hips is just not a good look for me, so here is a picture that will make my mum proud....look mum it's on my waist!! wowowowo!!



Cute as candy!

Love Lola x

Clippity Clop

Clippity Clop was made last summer after a failed attempt at camping with me, Mr T and The Greenwood-Lamberts. We did manage to go for one night but it rained all night and we were floating by the morning.

Not wanting to ruin the whole weekend we used the refunded camping money to buy crafting materials and spent the rest of the weekend hanging out and making stuff, Clippity Clop is the result.



Here is his sexy back, he is actually a deep Cadbury's purple but I just cannot get my camera to stop looking blue, grrr oh well you will just have to trust me when I say he is totally adorable :D



Clippity Clop, Clippity Clop, Clippity Clop!!

Love Lola x

Gracie's Fairy Tale Dress

This one is just a fix up but I'm still proud :D

My friends beautiful daughter had recently become sad as her favourite fancy princess dress had all fallen down at the hem and become frayed, so off she got sent to Aunty Lola's for some well needed R & R and here she is all fixed up and ready to be sent home to Grace to be loved and played with again:



And here's a close up of the fix, ahhh the wonder of bias tape :D



Fingers crossed Grace approves, 5 year olds ALWAYS give an honest opinion


20/10/2011 UPDATE

it's taken me a while to get this pic up due to various internet based reason but here is the lovely Grace wearing her fixed dress



And with her lil' bro William




Job well done :)


Love Lola x

Table Covering

This was a nice simple project and he only took me an hour to do, the fabric was brought from ebay for pennies and was originally brought to extend a pair of orange curtains that were a little short, I was going to make a contrasting panel...but then we moved house and I no longer needed the curtains so the fabric got turned into this bad boy:



He is also very proud to say he can be worn as a superhero cape! WOOOOSHHHHH!!!!

Love Lola x

Honeymoon Project

I would like to introduce you to a very special lady. I recently got married to Mr T, and in our guest book my sister and beau had left a message that was so simple and beautiful it brought me and Mr T to tears in the cab on the way home.



This inspired me so much that the day after the wedding me and Mr T rushed out and spent some of our wedding vouchers on a beautiful cushion cover from the House of Fraser and then during our "lock in the house 2 week honeymoon" I crafted away, sewing love and happiness into every stitch (vom I KNOW but its trruuuuuee)

Here are the results:


I changed the wording slightly to make the tense correct (as Mr T is a grammer Nazi!)




This is my favourite flower :D





I didn't use an embroidery hoop for this flower so she is a bit puckered :S





Mr T's favourite flower.





All you need is Love x

Hopefully in this picture you will be able to see the writing a little better, this was done mainly in satin stitch but I did back stitch the really fine bits:



The below writing was all back stitched:




And there she is...hopefully she will be around for many many years to come and will always be there to remind us of that amazing day and the love that me and Mr T shared with all our friends and family.

There was one more interesting message in the guest book, although for some odd reason just didn't inspire me to get crafting....


Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....







Love Lola x

Birdie Cushion Cover

Well this is my first ever post! I thought I would start with an old project which I completed in maybe 2009 possibly early 2010. Anyhow she is a lovely cushion cover I made from fabric brought from Ikea in Nottingham...unfortunately it's been so long that I can't remember the name of the fabric or the price (sorry). She was hand stitched and she is very much loved...hence her being a bit grubby...just like me...;)

I think that will do for my first post, Hopefully I will become a bit more verbose and interesting as I go along!

Love Lola x