pompom mail

One of my friends is moving into a new house so I thought I would send a little housewarming package filled with pompom goodness. 

Ever since seeing a picture of a box filled to the brim with pompoms I have wanted to send or receive something like that so I thought it would be sweet to send some pompom garlands to decorate her new house with. 

I also sent some succulent cuttings to start a little pot plant

I decorated the box with my new jumbo confetti that I got for christmas, best present!

Valentines Pot Plants

Just some little pots that I painted for my friends for valentines day :-)

Valentines Inspiration

I love valentines day, largely for the excuse to go way over the top with hearts and pink and tackiness. It's also a nice chance to tell everyone special in your life that you love them.

 I got out my paints and paper and did a bit of valentines crafting today, the results of which I will get around to posting soon :-) In the meantime though I thought I would share some of the brilliant valentine DIY's out there on the web that I plan to try out if I get the chance. 

Conversation Heart Pinatas- Studio DIY

Crepe Paper Flower Favour Bags - Oh Happy Day

Giant Crepe Paper Roses - Studio DIY

Cupcake Kit

 

The other day I made a cupcake kit for my boyfriends little sister for Christmas out of a postal box. I had so much fun making it and collecting all the patty pans. I love decorating cupcakes but I am simply terrible at it :-(

I thought I'd share it because it's a really cute and easy christmas gift.

contents: homemade mini pompom garland, icing bag and tips from spotlight and various patty pans :-)

p.s. Only 5 more days till Christmas! hoorah!

pompoms!

Ever since I saw Mr Printables amazing tutorial for making pompoms, I have been more than a little obsessed. I made these hello pompoms a couple of weeks ago, and Mr Printables put up an alphabet tutorial a few days ago, which is great because I would not be able to explain how I made these :-P It's actually not too hard once you understand how they work, and they look so darn awesome! I've been making a heap of other patterned pompoms and I will show you once I get around to taking photos :-)

my rather poor attempt at a star pompom. 

confetti cards

I am more than a little obsessed with confetti at the moment. Chances are, if you receive a letter from me, there will be confetti. In order to satisfy my need for some confetti goodness I made some cards :-) 

They are super simple to make- all you need to do is write what you want the card to say (I looked up some pretty fonts for inspiration) and then glue on some confetti. easy!

Pompoms & Frankie Gift Wrap

I made a bunch of pompoms using this clever technique and have been using them for wrapping and garlands :-)

The paper I used above is from the frankie gift paper book which my sister gave me for my birthday :-D It has ten of the prettiest designs and it came with some yellow twine and blue spotty washi tape! I simply LOVE using it!

Housewarming Present

My sister is moving into an amazing 70s red brick house (I am so jealous- I adore red brick houses) and so I made her a little housewarming present. I bought a cabbage flower plant (no idea what they're actually called) and a nice vintage painted pot and made a little banner to add a special touch :-)

Buttons

Some buttons I embroidered :-) These are fun and easy to make - all you need is some pretty material and some self cover buttons which you can probably buy from most craft stores. I bought mine off etsy, and of course as soon as I had, I found a heap in an op shop for super cheap >_>

giant freckles

This morning I made some last minute easter gifts- giant heart freckles! I initially intended to make them for valentines but ran out of time so they are making an appearance for easter instead. They are so simple, cheap and quick to make! All you need is some cooking chocolate and sprinkles. Melt the chocolate, spread it into the shape you want and sprinkle some sprinkles on top and you're done! easy peasy :-)

DIY mini notebook from postcard

Yesterday I made a super simple little notebook from a vintage postcard to carry around with me and jot down notes. It's pretty basic, all you have to do is fold a postcard in half, cut some paper a tad smaller than the postcard, fold these in half together to make a little booklet and sew this onto the postcard. Easy peasy.  

A little while ago I re-discovered a suitcase full of cranes that I made years ago when I was younger, which I never got around to stringing up. I intended to send them over to Japan to hang up with the other thousands of cranes, but once I had strung them up I decided that it could wait a few years because they are just too darn colourful and pretty. 

They are hanging in my stairwell instead :-)

wrapping

☆ wrapping with gold paper and mini pompoms ☆

DIY: valentines pins

Everyone is getting prepared for Valentines so I thought I would share what I made for my friends last valentines;

The little packages included a sweet award pin;

and some homemade heart shaped fudge.

The bags were made out of baking paper, but had I owned any, pre-made glassine bags would have been much easier. The award pins are very simple to make, and you could fill the little packages with any sweet treats. 

DIY: Floral Lampshade

Inspired by Aunt Peaches Flower Lampshade, I spent hours attempting to make my own. This is the final result :-) 

I made all the flowers using various tutorials and improvisation out of tissue paper, then used a hot glue gun to attach them to a lampshade that I already owned.

Although I prefer Aunt Peaches lamp, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. It looks especially nice at  night when the light shines through the tissue paper. 

DIY: 21st timeline booklet

For My sisters 21st birthday I collected 21 photos, one from each year of her life and created a little timeline booklet.

It's quite easy to do, although very time consuming (I hand stitched because sewing machines are my arch nemesis, and I also like the uneven look of hand stitching). I sewed each picture onto some vintage fabric, and placed cardboard between the material to keep it stiff.