How to store your pencils in style...

How do you store your pencils? Scissors? Knitting needles and the like?

For too long mine have shoved unglamorously in jam jars, the kids Easter-hunt buckets, old fruit bowls (I'm serious) and in pencil cases from the 1980's.

Not any more. Over the weekend I whipped me up a pencil storer, and it cost me nothing more than half an hour of my time.

Want to make one yourself? You really don't need instructions... but in case you think you do:

You need:
- A container of some sort: an old tin, jar or (in my case!) can of drinking chocolate - yum!
- A hot glue gun or good craft glue
- Fabric
- Scirssors
- Other embellishments as you see fit!


Instructions:
- Place your vessel on the wrong side of the fabric and roll fabric around, fixing with glue (leave a little overhang

- Trim overhang with zig-zag scissors if you have them and glue down so you have a nice finish.

- Trim overhang on either end, leaving a little to tuck under and glue down.


- See how easy this is?
- Decorate with wilful abandon!


Have fun and do share your pencil-holding-work-of-art should you make one!
xx

the weekly shoot :)

yep it's that time again.
26 copy
19 copy
21 copy
25 copy
22 copy

and introducing her funny face it also comes with a silly motor noise and blowing bubbles. she thinks she's hilarious when she does it :)
29 copy
30b
all for now ;)

GHP Week 4

Here are the 'little things' that made me smile this week. The very special moments that I was grateful for...

 Day 23 - Happiness is Rob pushing me in my running! All I wanted to do what watch TV but he pushed me and came with me! Grateful for his support!

Day 24 - Happiness is reaching 50 likers on my blog! I am grateful for each and every one of you!

Day 25 - Happiness is slushing through the puddles! Grateful for my jellies that won't get wrecked in the rain!

Day 26 - Happiness is a road trip with my husband exploring our area and the rising water! Grateful we are safe and dry!

Day 27 - Happiness is running in the rain! Grateful for this new found dedication!

Day 28 - Happiness is fresh new looks!

 
 Day 29 - Happiness is family dinner outside! Grateful for a little break in the rain!

 

Head over to the beautiful 'Maxabella Loves' and share with everyone what made you smile!

Here is my Week 1&2 and Week 3

x S.K.K x

52 Weeks of Grateful: Smiles

I am grateful that this week's grateful was about smiles. I needed to be looking for them.

I'm not one to sweat the small stuff, but the big things drench me from time to time. Yes, I'm still in the river, I'm afraid. Drowning a bit. Just a little.

Sometimes a little knot of anxiety ties itself to my chest and I can't undo it without using my teeth. Change and not knowing the ending are usually the causes of anxiety for me. I need to read the last page first and it distresses me when I can't. Not knowing how things end makes me itchy.

See, writing that just made me smile: I just outed myself as a dreaded last-page-first reader. 

Do you read the last page?
What's making you smile today?


Come see me at Kidspot to see what else I'm smiling about.

So, what's making you smile today? Add your post to the list below (and please, we love you, but it really does matter that your post is a Grateful one and not just a random) and pretty-please add a link back to this linky or to Kidspot. Then pop over to visit other bloggers who are spreading a little sunshine. 



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