Spare room progress

 The room is coming along nicely!
I got to have fun and play with some image transfers, two different types, first was t shirt iron on transfers and the other was the liquid image transfer medium by dylon.
I much prefer the liquid one!But the results were lovely on both and it helped me add to the cushion collection in the room. I also added more pretties to the shelf unit. made some pompadour bags to hand from the shelf. Stacked some hat boxes to the side of the wardrobes, hung a lovely heart ornament from a friend on the wall :)
I think I would make the next torso cushion  a little slimmer on the hips next time though, but still pleased with the results so far :)

Weddings!

This month is a definite wedding month, and my friend asked me to make soom bits for her wedding, so the spare room make over was put on hold for a while whilst I created these four little figures and these two candles to be displayed with her cake.
The two candles are 9inches tall.
Printed on to water slide decal paper and then added to the candles, Her theme is blue and cream with butterflies
The candles are for those who cant make it, Sharon's mum and Dave's sister have both passed away but they wanted something to show people they would be remembered and missed. Ive also made her two silk butterflies that she wants to sew inside the hem of her wedding dress :)
I am also in the process of making a sweeping sugar craft bouquet of cala lillies to go down a three tiered wedding cake for another friend, will post photos of that as soon as it is complete.

Little house makeover!

In the pound shop I came across a lovely shaped garden bird house. The only trouble was it was cerise pink with horrible red blue and orange bugs attached to it, but I loved the shape and saw it could look so different!
Its a lovely size too, over a foot tall  with a corrugated metal roof, the materials to make this would have cost me a fortune to buy!
So gave the whole thing a coat of white, it instantly looked better!
Next I gave the roof a coat of sponged green, painted some little MDF bird shapes in duck egg blue and placed them where the bright and gaudy bugs had been
The result a very tasteful little bird house wall decoration :)

More hearts!

Next I made 5 little heart hanging cushions,
Made them all different sizes and shapes and plan on making many more, then hung the wire heart hook rack on the wall and used them for their display :) very pleased with the results of these, again they took no time at all to make which is a good thing as time is always at a premium!
I dont think there is ever enough hours in a day for a crafter!

Finding things old and new

After delving in to my understairs cupboard (believe me I had to drop beads to find my way back out!) I came across this little box frame and a metal embossing kit that had never been opened,
so thought I would give it a go
One free hand rose embossed ten minutes later, popped in the frame and hung on the wall! a very pretty bit of wall art in minutes!

crackle glaze the crafters favourite medium!

These were blank MDF heart tags that I painted with a base coat of beige added a coat of crackle glaze (god I love that stuff!) and then painted white, added some decoupaged words of inspiration painted the edges with a little gold and then strung with string :)

Pretty on a budget

The room needed some pretties and being on a budget of pennies instead of pounds I hit the charity stores, second hand markets and the sales!
All reaped some fabulous rewards!
I went armed with £20 and came back with change :))