This week (creative friday)

Don't you find that simple things can give so much pleasure, or tasks that you have been wanting to do but never getting round too. I have been wanting to put up some family photos for, oh let me see two years at least! Well this week I finally got there and I'm really pleased with the out come.

I always have a pin board covered with images, children's certificates, all sorts. This also got an update.

I manges a little cross stitch, I'm really getting into it!

Arthur and his friends made cat masks and spent hours in not days being cats!

So rather a personal post of little lovelies, small but pleasing steps in our home. I hope your week has been as nice. I hope to share my new around the blogs, Linda, Sue and Justine have sharing sites over the weekend. Thank you to them for always hosting inspirational news.

Creative Friday.

Over the last week we have been decoration's in a thrifty kind of way. Arthur has started to want to play in his own space, so what was called his bedroom was really filled with every ones junk. So out with the old and in with the nearly new or new to Arthur!

Using inspirational from this lovely book we made special bunting. This is a great book, I just loved to many of the idea, I think Amanda and I share a love for old blankets!

 
We also put up this wonderful print found at a local boot fair (flea market) for £!.

And finally Arthur made ART ! We has a lovely time, after making this we had a huge peace of paper and a free for all.

So I hope to get round to sharing this with everyone else on creative Friday  http://naturalsuburbia.blogspot.co.uk/ , have you been busy or still relaxing after the Easter break?

Papercraft, card making

I really like those vintage or funky scrapbook pages, I have wanted to have a go myself but not sure where to start. A good place to start maybe was simple Easter cards. If you're a family member avert your eyes now!

They are no major works of art  but I enjoyed my cutting and sticking experience, and will try more at some point ! Arthur enjoyed his own creative time too.

In true Easter celebrations Arthur decorated his own Easter bonnet too, so sweet, even if I do say so myself.

What ever Easter means to you, enjoy. x x x

Community crafting and Super Soup.

This post has been a long time coming! About a year in fact, when I started blogging I was so impressed by the support and creativity in this community I was inspired to do more. Here was the birth of a community quilt project. I gave everyone young, old, male, female, stitchers, non stitchers a blank square. All you had to do was decorate it.

After some time I got the square back and I have made a village quilt that is to have it's home in the village hall. A place that needs lots of love and making pretty, a perfect place then.

So today we hung the quilt and invited everyone along for tea and cake. So here is a our final quilt.

This Arthur's square he was the youngest (he had a little help)

These where my two squares

Plenty of tea and cake to go round!

We also used the village hall along side two lovely ladies that ran an event called Super Soup. For a donation to Christian aid you could some truely wonderful soups and home made bread.

All the hard work of making the quilt was really worth the lovely day  sitting around having soup then tea and cake. Villagers just dropping by for lunch and to see their square in the quilt, a really relaxed time but a real sense of community. I just love bringing like minded people together for crafts or food music whatever it just feels so great ( after all the worry of will any come or want to take part goes!)

I think I will really strive to work in groups more often.

PS a litle sneak preview of my OPOW!

Celebrating our hands.

Josie from hand made and happy  http://www.myhomemadehappy.com/ had this wonderful idea, photographing each day on how we use our hands. Basically everything, so lets celebrate! Josie said this on her blog:

Why hands, you may wonder?  Well, virtually every activity I do each day involves my hands – cleaning, cooking, sewing, writing, playing with the children, gardening, photography itself, tidying up around the house … everything that my day to day rhythm involves … and yours too, I’ll bet.
And in thinking how amazing our hands are, how expressive they can be, I thought it would be great to celebrate them.  Sometimes they’re kind, gentle and delicate in their actions and at other times firm and strong.  Our lives truly are hand-made, aren’t they?
Starting on Thursday 1st March, I’ll share with you an image each day celebrating this hand-made life.

Such a great idea, and it is truly brilliant for me as I wanted to improve my photography skills, no better way than taking photos each day!