Sewing

Hi everyone

A quckie to show you my sewing project completed tonight

 This is my beach bag for my holidays in a few weeks, I've made it with some heavy cotton doubled up to give the bag some body, I've used heavy nylon strapping long enough to just go over my shoulder, but really just for my hand.

I love the ice cream appliqué each piece sewn on separatly and I've hand sewn the buttons just to fancy it up a bit.

I then just had time to run up a travel pouch for passports etc, just need to add some Velcro to secure it. I should of done the brolly with purple and pink but for some bizarre reason used blue with the pink. Nevermind really enjoyed my evening and I will do more now I've started.

A xx

Today!

Had a good day today, met mum for lunch at a local eatery, had a giggle then came home to walk dogs etc, decided to do a craft project using some lamps and bead trimmings and buttons.
 Really easy you just need some glue,  various buttons and the trimmings. Really enjoyed it see pictures below:

You start off with a very basic lampshade, this were £8 from Argos 

The best glue to use uhu glue

Put glue around the bottom of your lamp 

Cut the end of the beading at an angle so that it doesn't fray

Hold the beading at one end and stick it onto the glue

Then draw out a template of a heart/star/square/whatever pattern you are going to use and glue your buttons onto it

And there you have it! Your own personalised lampshade!

A xxx