Shabby Chic Fabric Flower Necklace

Hi everyone, with the weather improving and summer finally looking like it's a possibility, I have been busy making fabric flowers and hair accessories.

There are so many different types of fabric flowers around and I have been experimenting with many of them!

I made this one from unbleached muslin fabric and made it by stitching the muslin to some tulle net fabric.  I frayed it to give it a shabby look and then I was looking on Pinterest and came across this tutorial and decided to have a go at it.  I've never used fabric flowers on jewellery before although I've seen many beautiful examples.

The tutorial is really easy to follow and very nicely explained.  Here is my finished necklace.

I am quite pleased with this first attempt and the colours are very neutral so will go with alot of clothes that I have.

Thanks for stopping by!

Flowers and Hairbands!

Good morning/afternoon or night depending on where you are in the world!!  It's another beautiful day here in sunny Bristol.  We've had some lovely sunny days recently, let's hope it continues!!!

As summer seems to be on it's way, I've been making some fabric flowers and bows and started putting them onto headbands.

I didn't realise just how much pretty fabric I had until I started making the flowers!! 

So then I attached some to headbands and was wondering how I could photograph them so that you could see the full effect as if I just lay them down and took a photo it looked like this

So I trawled Ebay and looked at mannequin heads and then my mum suggested borrowing my 5 yr old nieces play mannequin head - doh why didn't I think of that!!  So that's what I did!!  She is so pretty, here she is

Just added a blonde wig that I had to her and voila! ready to go!!!!


Here are some of the hairbands that I've made up

It's quite addictive though!!!  They are available to buy on my Facebook page here.

Hope you like them!

Cake International - London Excel

Hi Everyone

My post today is about my trip on Saturday to Cake International at the Excel in London.  I went with my sister who is the cakemaker, you can see some of her cakes on her Facebook page - The Sugar Plum Fairy.  We caught the coach up in the morning from Bristol and then took the underground and the Docklands Light Railway to get to the Excel.  Pretty straightforward and easy to get to!

The show was packed and there was a real variety of ages, both male and female.  I was quite surprised at the amount of men there and not all of them were there to just carry their partner's shopping either!!

Some stalls were 3 or 4 people deep and you either had to nudge your way in or come back to that one later!!

There was a good selection of cake making/decorating items available with some nice offers.  We caught a glimpse of Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood and did try later to go and watch their live demo but it was packed and unfortunately the sound quality on the mike was awful and the camera pointed onto them rather than on what they were doing so the TV screens were abit pointless!!  We watched the start of the demo then decided we were wasting our time!!

There were some fantastic cakes and sugar crafting on display there and the cakes that were entered into the competion were excellent.  I've taken lots of photos of the cakes in case you are interested to see them!  If you aren't, then don't scroll down any further haha!!!I tooko the photos with my phone so they are not the best quality but not too bad considering!!

Do you recognise who the one below is???

Well that's the last photo - there were many more cakes but these were the ones that caught my eye!!