Mache Letters

I have been looking for ways to personalise the children's bedroom and after a trip to Hobbycraft found that the Mache letters are currently half price - bargain! So I bought the Children's initials to hang above their beds.

I gave them a base coat of white acrylic paint and then two coats of coloured acrylic paint. I then decorated them with spots and stripes and secured them to the wall with sticky fixers.

 

I'm pleased with how they turned out and think they look very cute above their beds.

We have now bought a set of their cardboard alphabet so we can paint them and stick them along one wall - pictures to follow shortly.

I'm happy with the direction the bedroom is going in, I'm glad we painted it white and love their knitted blankets on top of plain white bedding from Sainsburys. I need a trip to Ikea for some shelves and picture frames, and want to make a pompom garland with the pompom maker I got for Mothers day, and then I think its done.

How have you personalised your Child's bedroom?

Thank you for reading xx

Lampshade Workshop

Morning all, on Saturday I went to a lampshade making workshop and loved it! What's not to love about a childfree couple of hours, learning a new craft, meeting lovely ladies and lots of cake!!

The workshops are organised by Alison and Susie at Marvellous who run really great craft workshops for little ones and birthday parties in their gorgeous bell tent! This was their first grown up workshop and was a great success, I will definitely be looking out for the next one!

This workshop was run by Rachel at Lovely Little Lamp who makes and sells really fab lampshades through her folksy shop.

I thought I would share a few pictures from the day:

A well organised table full of supplies (and sweets!) to greet us:

 

 

Lovely refreshment table:

 

 

Rachel's stall selling her gorgeous handmade lampshades:

 

 

Lampshades in Progress:

 

 

 

And here we all are with our new lampshades:

 

I'm really chuffed with my new lampshade, here it is in-situ in the Children's red, blue and white bedroom:

 

Some of the ladies added pompom trims onto their lampshades. I couldn't decide so brought the trim home with me and pegged it into place to see what its looks like, but still can't decide - what do you think?

 

 

 

 

Thank you for reading xx

 

 

 

 

Giveaway #1

I am so excited to be hosting a GIVEAWAY! The prize is a Sizzix Big Shot Machine worth £74.99 from Hobbycraft.

(Images courtesy of Hobbycraft)

 

 

I would love one of these machines myself! I have used a friends before and they are fantastic for cutting felt as well as paper, I used them to make a felt garland but they can be used for cardmaking, scrapbooking, invitations and an endless list of other projects. They are really easy to use, have a big collection of dies and embossing folders and can be used with other leading brands. For the huge range of die cutting machines and accessories available at Hobbycraft please click here.

 

So, if you want to be in with a chance to win one of these fantastic machines please click on the box at the bottom of this post. The giveaway closes on Friday 2nd May. The winner will be selected at random.

 

Good luck!! :)

 

 

 

 

(Please note: all opinions are my own, I am not sponsored for this post.)

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