Millie's Quilt

My very dear friend's daughter Millie was turning 4 and I asked my friend is she would like a quilt for Millie's room, and to my delight she said YES. 

This quilt was quiet a challenge. It's first time that I had pictures of the room, which had been decorated and I had to try to find the fabric to suit it, to fit in with the decor. Usually I just pick up fabric from my stash, but this time nothing in my stash seemed suitable. So I searched high and low until I came across Moda 'Posy' collection.  And it just felt right. It felt right for Millie, and it felt right for the room that I been given pictures of.

Challenges didn't stop here. I'm still very much amateur, so it was quiet tricky for me to make fat eight bundle to "stretch" to make a single quilt. But I managed :) Used up pretty much every scrap that there was.

Modeled on my daughter's bed, as always :)

Blast From Mummy's Past {cot quilt}

Many ears ago, when I first came to live to England, I made a friend. We shared flat, we shared same workplace, we even shared same birthday! But as time went on, she went back home, to Lithuania, and, sadly, we lost touch. Recently I had discovered (thank goodness for Facebook) that she just had a baby. Immediately I knew I have to make a cot quilt for the old times sake.

Main fabric that I chose is called "Next Stop London". I thought it's perfect - colourful, bright, happy and, more importantly, will remind my friend of her time UK, small part of which she actually spent in London itself.

Dragonfly Jewellery Box set {decoupage}

This lovely jewellery box that I made back in December got lost by Royal Mail and never reached lovely Ann. As far as I understand it was supposed to be Christmas present for her daughter. Bad bad Royal Mail!

Anyways, so there was nothing else left to do, but make a new one. This jewellery box is slightly smaller than the one that got lost, so I decoupaged a tiny extra box as well. Maybe one day it could become box for Tooth Fairy, or just keep a single very very special piece of jewellery.

Eleanor's Quilt

Ah, Eleanor. Sweet little girl. I've known her since she was about a year old. And there she is now, 4 already!

When my daughter and Eleanor get together, there is no stopping them. They get up to all sorts of mischief. I love seeing them play together, I hope they will be friends for years to come.

When we got invited to her birthday, I wanted to do something special for this little girl, create something one of a kind, that nobody else will have.

So, I decided to make quilt. Very simple jelly roll (fabric collection called 'Urban Cowgirl') quilt. I do like simple quilts. They show off fabric beautifully, without distracting from it too much.

Here it is, modeled on my daughter's single bed. The other side is very different, but just as beautiful.

Oh, and I made a card too :)

Candle Holders {decoupage}

I have been neglecting my blog. You see, I made lots of Christmas presents, but couldn't blog about them until after christmas and I got seriously backlogged :)

Here are 3 candle holders. Initially they are the same, but one got given little feet (which are just cupboard knobs).
2 of them became Christmas presents and one- a very belated housewarming present.

Techniques used - white acrylic for background, tissues with note print, 2 step crackle medium, Inka gold wax to fi cracks and matt acrylic varnish top coat. Oh, and metallic acrylic for 'feet'

Rapunzel Wig

My little girl watched 'Tangle' the other day and that was it, she now introduced herself as Rapunzel to other people. And it's sort of makes me a bit sad that she's got really short hair. Clearly, we needed a wig.

So this evening I quickly knocked up this