Fabric shop

This post is actually a return to miniatures!!  I'm in the process of sorting through my room and condensing my stuff and making it tidy and now all my miniature making stuff is tidily packed into a pretty box. 

I came across an old bookshelf that I had been making out of the ends of tablet boxes.  I had covered it with brown wallpaper that had a slight texture to it to look like wood.  I also came across the miniature bolts of fabric that I had started making as a project for a friend.  Once they were put into a section you could still see some of the white at the back of the shelves so I did a quick painting job as well.

I have a lot of fabric bits and pieces - and a fair few of them came from this friend! I simply cut pieces of brown scrap card, in about the right depth and, because I was only doing things roughly, they all turned out slightly different heights.  They were then wrapped up in a hastily chopped strip of fabric - some had more, some less, some were a bit too wide, others not quite wide enough.  I didnt use any glue, relying on the compression of all the fabric bolts in their slot to keep it all together.

 Aaaaaand we have a full bookcase of fabric bolts.  In my storage the scraps are arranged by approximate colour as I find that useful but that wasn't the look I was going for here.  I thought I would jazz it up slightly and personalise it by adding some bunting (from one of my first forays into mini making) with my friend's name on it.

 Two views here as I thought I'd better show it standing up.  Hopefully in the future I'll make other things for her too, so that she ends up with a complete fabric/craft shop/workarea.  That is the plan anyway.

I'm sorry for not going into too much detail or instruction here but feel free to ask questions if you want details.  I know I haven't been blogging conscientiously either - lots of craft related things all happened at once and I was feeling pressure to blog it all but made myself take a step back, a step away.  At the end of the day there are more important things to worry about in life than whether I have blogged every single craft related thing! And this was, and is, for fun.

Now that I've relaxed about it again I will try and gradually share my bits and pieces as usual.

Easter cards

Go on then, just quickly before I go to bed...
A new shop opened in Kingston just before Christmas http://www.tigerstores.co.uk/ and my boyfriend's Mum really loves it.  When I was staying there just before Easter she bought a pack of self adhesive foam things for me to play with.  Using a few extra bits and pieces I created a bunch of quick and easy cards (some of which I have already sent, and forgot to take pictures beforehand).

This is my favourite - with a surprise bunny in the middle!!

They are all shown with their matching envelopes behind which is why they don't look quite straight.

So much going on

I've come back from the boyfriend's and my little sister is back from France.  She has herself and Mum embroiled in lots of different sewing projects so I'm trying to stay out of the way in that respect.  There has been lots of crafting going on - more cardmaking, preparing for my next patchwork positivity block and even this afternoon some miniatures!!

I'm gradually picking up the pace of my life and doing more and more every day; it's pushing my body to the limit and I'm really quite tired but amazingly the headaches are still remaining manageable!! I am due my next bad one soon but am just taking it one day at a time.

Yesterday I walked into town with my little sister and whilst it was too much for me and I wasn't entirely well for the rest of the day I took some pretty photos of the earthworks close to where we live.  I think they are English bluebells rather than Spanish but it's a little hard to tell in the photos.

 

First an 'arty' shot

 

 

And then a close-up.

Even though it wasn't hugely warm the sun was shining and it was a very pretty day.