Felt Food Kit

My hand stitched felt food

My Hand-made felt bacon cheeseburger

My Hand-made felt crinkle cut potato chips

My hand-made felt cheese & ham sandwich

My Hand-made felt pizza



Whilst I was shopping in Islington last week I came across the Felt Picnic set in a sale at the art store, Cass Art. I thought it would be great to make for Molly's play kitchen and give them to her for her birthday. I love how they turned out and made a few tweaks from the original kit by buying some red and yellow embroidery thread to match the felt, as the kit only provided brown and purple. I also put velcro on the bun and bread slices so she could make sandwiches and burgers rather than stitching the bread to the sandwich filling as per the instructions. I had so much fun making them that I went on to make felt iced gems and tea bags.



Have a sweet day!

Pucker up



I need to know if I've been embarrassing myself totally for years and years and years.

I'm a bit of a kisser. I like to do the hello-kissy-kiss-kiss thing when it's someone I know reasonably well. It's nice. See, that's me in the picture above saying 'oh, hello, nice to make your acquaintance.' Ha! Not really, we're talking a little peck at most. Occasionally it's a double-job as I'm influenced by the Italians, but generally it's a fleeting peck.

But when I do the kiss, I do make actual lip to cheek contact.

Someone has mentioned that this is majorly embarrassing and you're supposed to kiss the air next to the cheek, not the cheek itself.

Who knew?

Anyway, I tried out  the air-kiss and I felt like a total air-head kissing into space like that with the little 'mwah' sound. Man, what an idiot. So I went back to making actual cheek contact.

Now, what I need to know is: is this social suicide?

Am I turning what is meant to be a warm, welcoming thing into a horrifying
experience for all I make overly-intimate contact with?

Does anyone else out there make contact?

[Image found here]

Cards and Envelopes

It has been a big birthday month for my girls with lots of friends parties each weekend.
Being the craft lover I am I always make the card that goes with each present.

Lately I have had a thing for little tags but when one of Sienna's good friends had her party last weekend I decided to make her card a little more personalised.

This card however need an envelope to make it look a little more special but I didn't have anything that was the right size so I decided to create my own using a little white paper bag and some twine.

First the simple little card for Issy
Into the paper gift bag she goes

 Is used my punch to cut a heart shape out so I could have something cute to seal the bag with

And I wrapped the bag in matching twine
Two presents that are wrapped with the same paper and ribbon but they look different thanks to a different card
Little gift bags and twine are available in the sweet style online store here

Leanne

Happy Birthday Molly!

Molly's Birthday Cake

Molly's Birthday cake

Molly Birthday cake roof

Coloured cake inside

Rainbow cake



Today is my cute niece, Molly's, 2nd birthday. Happy Birthday Molly!



Yesterday she had a birthday party and this year I decided to make a cake shaped like a house. I chose a house to match my gift to her which was lots of pretty treasures for her playhouse, more of which I will show you later....



Cake details

Gluten-free lemon flavoured, coloured layer cake with buttercream covered in fondant icing (recipe coming soon)



The roof, door and windows were made of pink wafer biscuits with a liberal sprinkling of pink glitter. I stuck pale blue M&M's which I had recently got at M&M world onto the roof. I made pale green fondant leaves for the corners of the house and roof and to get the brick effect on the house I used a textured brick mat from Blue Ribbon. The chimney was two green polka dot candles. I covered the top of my cake board with Cath Kidston wrapping paper with a layer of sticky back plastic over the top and stuck pink polka dot ribbon around the sides.



Have a sweet day!

An instagram tour of Melbourne

Happy Monday everyone - I am back from my quick 3 day trip to Melbourne so stopping by for a quick preview of Melbourne via instagram.

Lots of lovely goodies to be found at the gift fair and they will be arriving in the shop over the coming weeks.

I will show some non i-phone photos to you later in the week - hope your weekend was lovely.





Leanne

The most boring job in the world



Driving 10 hours straight down to Daylesford recently was immensely enjoyable, but the thought did cross my mind that I would go absolutely bonkers if I had to do the drive up and down the Hume day in day out. Being a truckie must be one of the more boring jobs in the world.

It got me thinking: what is the world's most boring job?

It's all subjective, of course. What I might find intensely boring might be nirvana for another. For example, I did fleetingly think to add 'mother' to the list because you can't tell me that singing 'Easy Silence' every night for 1356 nights isn't boring... but there are good bits too, so it didn't qualify.

For me, the short list is basically composed of any job where you're not required to think a lot, the work you do is monotonous and you're essentially on your own all day:

truck driver
car park security guard
tennis umpire
crane lifter
data entry

I might also add 'personal trainer' because I find exercise so intensely dull and imagine it must be mind-numbing having to watch someone else do it. There's also that guy on the Colourbond ad whose main job appears to be watching metal rust... the equivalent of being paid to watch paint dry?

What do you think the most boring job in the world might be?

[Cute guard peg dolls by Abbey of Aesthetic Outburst]

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This one is so serene! It could hang anywhere in your home.
Love this black and white.
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