Brand New! One Day Monday...

Welcome to 'One Day Monday'!


Every Monday I'm going to share a project that I've seen and would love to do, one day.


Without further adooo...

Cute baby shoes with interchangeable flowers from Jill at Made it on Monday

Amazing ruffled lamp by Vintage Revivals. I tried to disguise the horrendous job I did of recovering, but it would seem that even ruffles cannot improve that baby! I'll post some pictures soon and give you a good laugh.

I love these bookshelves feature on Ana White. Wonder if my landlord would mind a few more holes in the wall...

And I'd love to make this if my husband would let me have a go at our laptop. From A girl and a glue gun. (She is the reason I begged pleaded demanded asked my husband to get me a glue gun.)

If only I could craft full time...

More flowers?! In my defence it is Spring...

Being the cheap skate that I am, when I saw some really sweet embellished tops for Izzy I thought "Hey, I could knock that out for her!". So off I went to the plain tops and bought up a few.

(Yes those are my tiny feet, and I do need to do my nails, don't judge it was Saturday morning. If you look really closely you can see my pjs too!)


Made the melted circles for the flowers and played around with the placement.

Added the buttons (or you could use beads).

Then sewed them in place going through the button holes.

(I had planned on the lower one being closer to the other two, but I had a birthday party to get her to!)


One happy girly!

Oh yeah that's why. Blatant bribery.


A little sneak peak at my next project...

Can you guess what it is yet?


Sharing this at skip to my lou and probably some of the others on my blogs I love page.

My new favourite project

I feel I'm still quite new to blogging (only started mid January this year), and I realise that somewhere along the line I may get a negative comment or two. I accept that and carry on because I'm hooked and I love it, plus my style is not going to be everyone else's (which keeps the world interesting right?). However, I would like to ask a favour from you all (my gorgeous readers (it's okay to blatantly butter you up. And to use brackets inside brackets. Cos it's my blog.)) :) 


The brackets have reminded me of something so forgive me while I share this hilarious lovely story about my mum, who actually has had a phone a while and texts weekly or so. My little sister got some GCSE results at school the other day and text my mum 


"Mum I did really well on my exam!!! I got A :D"


(reply) "Okay. Well done."


Hmm not much enthusiasm so when she got home she asked my mum why she hadn't been happier. Yes she thought my sister had gotten a 'D'. It's ok, I'll wait while you go and re-read the text. 


I mean, how many of the teenagers today use colons anyway? Never mind in texts! 


Anyway back to the favour...I know not everyones taste is the same as mine, but pleasepleaseplease save any not-so-nice comments for another idea (maybe the lamp shade re-cover that ended pretty badly, and with an injury, I'll post it soon for you to laugh at), because I really love this one. 


Thank you!


So I started with a beaten up toy box that I originally wanted to do black. So...

But then I decided that it wasn't going to go with the fabric I'd chosen or look right in my living room so I sprayed over in white. But I'm glad I did because it ended up being a great colour and looks kind o shabby chic (not that I would be able to create that look if I had tried!)

I used gloss white and it looks pretty tough and I didn't have to varnish it! 


The best part about this box (yet another of my grandma's awesome finds!) is that it comes with a padded lid that doubles as a seat!

Now I don't normally have an eye for restoration, but when I saw this, even with the train and crazy looking train driver painted on the side, and with the stained (and potentially soiled) nylon blue lid, I was sold. I knew how I wanted it to look (well except I was wrong with the colour, see what I mean about not having an eye for it!).

And it turned out even better!

The bag is full of hair bands and clips, first cos Izzy likes to dress us up, and second because it gets crazy on a morning, and having most things downstairs and close to the getting ready means a (slightly) less crazy mum!

For the box lid I wrapped the material round like I was wrapping a present, but ironed a hem on the sides that would be exposed and hot glued down. A lot.

Then looped over the end of the ribbon and hot glued some more. (It works better to do small sections as it dries pretty fast.)

There you have it. My favourite (and longest) post! 


And to finish...

The boy that found the one tiny car in the whole crammed full box!

Rolled flowers

I have seen this type of flower on a few blogs and thought I'd try it myself. The best thin about them is that you can use just a long off cut of fabric. Mine came from a lamp I was re-covering and I just used the scrap material I'd trimmed and managed to make these three flowers! I love being cheap efficient :)


Start with a long one/two inch strip of fabric and tie a knot in one end.

(You can see the old lamp covering in the background!)


Then twist the long end close to the knot and wrap it around the knot.

Secure with a little hot glue and continue with tiny blobs of glue every cm or two making sure that the glue is a little lower than the top of the flower so that it won't show up. (Though I had glue showing in a few places but it didn't show very much on the white fabric.)

When the flower is the size you want it trim the fabric and glue down on the reverse which will also give it a bit more stability.

I used a small one for one of Izzy's rings that the gem had fallen off.

These are ones I tried with some free fabric (my first attempts).

(canvas and fabric letter details)

And glued two larger ones on a frame I got reduced and sprayed.

I love the unfinished edges that are fraying too. Now I just need to attempt a family photo to fill it. The thought fills me with dread!