More Pretty Brooches On Etsy

I have been working on these cute handmade vintage style love hearts perfect for valentines day.. and each one comes gift wrapped too.

The love hearts are made from laser cut wood with a beautiful vintage picture stuck on them. The backs are finished with black paint and silver fastenings.

To view the brooches and other items in my etsy store you can find them here ; Kellys Vintage Makes

Thank you for popping by again...feedback is really appreciated too. I have lots more designs coming soon. So anything you really like just let me know.

Happy Brooch Wearing

Kelly 

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Handmade Alice In Wonderland Brooches

I have made new handmade Alice In Wonderland Brooches, ready now for sale in my Etsy shop. you can find them here...Kelly's Vintage Makes

Each brooch is wooden and vary from 2 and 3 inches in height. 

The brooches are beautifully finished and each come gift wrapped.

The brooches are £4 each plus p&p (I will post anywhere) 

Thank you for stopping by..... 

Kelly 

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New Baby Clay Decorations

Now available in my etsy shop are these cute new baby clay decorations.

You can find my shop here : Kelly's Vintage Makes

There are lots of colours of ribbon and buttons to choose from, just start a conversation with me.

I have made elephant and also square bunting baby clay decorations. These are lovely as a gift or as a gift tag ready to pop onto the little ones nursery wall.

Each item from my shop comes gift wrapped ready for you to give as a present at no extra cost.

The elephant clay hangings are £4 and the square bunting are £3.50 each.

Thank You for Popping By

Kelly

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Ten things I'm grateful for this week... #1

In a world where it's so easy to get caught up in the everyday of life, bills, working, stresses of having a family it's easy to forget things that we are grateful for. And to realise that we are so fortunate. I've had a lovely week, and each week as I approach Sunday night I do my pick of the week on Instagram. 

So starting tonight I will write what I have been grateful for this week... Feel free to join in. It can be the smallest of things, silly things, things you've seen or heard or simply made you smile this week.... 

10 things I have been grateful for this week:

1..A lovely bunch of flowers I brought myself this week. I can't wait for it to be spring.

2..Finding new craft friends on Instagram, and treating myself to their work. I think it's so important to support other craft people and small businesses. 

3..My gorgeous new sewing machine- I'm in love!

4..Celebrating a weekend with my lovely boyfriend and soulmate in Stratford-upon-Avon

5..Continuing to make lots of lovely cakes, for customers who return for each celebration. I'm grateful they value my work

6..For finding the most loveliest sewing shop in Stratford

7..For my home, and although it gets messy and feels like it always needs decorating ( maybe that's just me) it's homely and filled with everything I love

8..For my blog. This one is relatively new and after closing my last one I decided it was a fresh start. 

9..Today for flat shoes, after falling in my wedges yesterday off a Kirb! I may or may not have been a little tipsy... 😉

10.. For tonight tucking my children into bed, knowing I'm doing a good job at being their mummy. 

Happy list making... Feel free to join in 

Kelly 

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Toadstool Love !!

I seemed to of developed a small toadstool obsession, well there are worse things to love! I love the toadstool print from Cath Kidston and had to have the dress. And after buying fabric I also made lampshades for my house and a cute storage box for my sister too.

So you can only imagine how excited I was to find not one but two fellow toadstool fans on Instagram. Who make the most beautiful Toadstool items.

Kate makes the most stunning jewellery. 

I've brought myself a beautiful necklace and was so thrilled when she sent me the matching earrings! 

Thank you so much Kate, I cant wait to wear them.

You can view and also buy Kate's jewellery here : Kate Selene

Heather makes beautiful pottery in her shed in the garden.

I have brought 2 cute pottery Toadstools which now sit happily on my dresser in the hall.

Everyone comments how cute they are when they visit.

Thank you so much for my pieces Heather!

You can view and also buy Heathers ceramics here : Spry Ceramics

Kelly

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Making Chocolate Lollies

These cute lollies are so easy and make lovely gifts for children's parties. 

What you will need:

Any chocolate will do but I love these bags of candy drops from HobbyCraft They come in so many colours. I've used pink and yellow for my lollies.

You will also need a lolly mould... please pop over to the very lovely Baked By Me. The website is full of lots of chocolate moulds, I have quite a few now and the service is excellent.

You will also need cake pop sticks, which you can find in a lot of supermarkets, or hobby craft....and plenty of sweets, I've used white mice, ice cream sweets and dolly mixtures.

How To ;

1..Melt the candy drops in the microwave, just do it on 30 second bursts of heat. Chocolate can burn very quickly.

2..Spoon the chocolate into the moulds and add the lolly sticks.

3..Let the chocolate set very slightly then pop sweets on and plenty of sprinkles.

4..Pop into the fridge

5..Once set gently remove from the moulds...these moulds are brilliant though and pop out quite easily.

I like to pop my lollies into clear bags. The ones I've used are for putting cards into but found you get more for your money than if you buy special sweet treat bags. These can also be brought in Hobby Craft.

The bags were trimmed to fit the Lolly size and then finished with paper raffia ribbon. These were from Wilkinson in a set of 3.

Taaa Daaa!! super cute gifts

Happy Baking

Kelly

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Tissue Paper Garland Tutorial

These Tissue Paper Garlands are so easy and really cheap to make. A grand total of £2

We have my birthday celebrations at the weekend so these are going to hang up in the kitchen.

What you will need:

Tissue paper... 

I have used 2 packets 1 pink 1 white.

Scissors

Twine 

How To Make The Garland

1..Fold the tissue paper in half and cut into two

2..Take the one piece and fold in half

3..Cut the tissue paper leaving about 1 and half inches from the fold.

4..Open the tissue paper

5..Start to roll and crease the tissue paper all the way down the fold

6..Bend the tissue paper where it creases

7..Twist ...theres one done...now repeat with the rest

8..Thread all the tissue paper onto a twine

9..Hang up! Ta Daaa!!

Cath Kidston Chest

Finding an old chest at a charity shop for £10 meant it was just calling out to be taken home up cycled and re loved.

As you can see from the picture below it really was in a sorry state but the basic box was still sturdy.

I had some Annie Sloan paint left over from a previous project, and some lovely fabric from Cath Kidston.

Firstly I removed the lid and then painted the whole of the base in the chalk paint. I have an Annie Sloan rounded \brush which I can highly recommend. The great thing about Annie Sloan chalk paint means you don't need to sand anything down.

Whilst the base was drying I removed the handle off the lid and as the fabric was still in one piece I decided just to staple gun the Cath fabric on top of it.

To trim the lid I used red gingham ribbon using my glue gun.

The handle was then screwed back into place and once the base had dried i screwed the lid back onto the base.

As you can see the end result is just gorgeous and although I absolutely love it I decided to give it as a present to my sister Amie for all her knitting.

You can find glue guns quite cheaply at HobbyCraft 

The Toadstall fabric was from Cath Kidston They have loads of lovely fabric by the metre.

And the chalk paint and brush were from Annie Sloan

Amazing how something that was just taken to a charity shop can end up looking so lovely and then be reused again. It could of quite easily been lost in landfill.

Happy Upcycling

Kelly

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Lucky Dip Club

After sitting on the sofa feeling pretty rubbish with my dreadful cold...boo hoo poor me! The post arrived and amongst the bills was this lovely package from Lucky Dip Club

 I've been following Lucky dip club on Instagram since last year and loved watching the different boxes each month. There is a theme each month and the boxes are filled with beautiful surprise gifts. Everyone loves receiving snail mail especially when its beautifully packaged and filled with goodies. Most of the gifts inside the box are designed and made by Leona... Soooo Clever!! 

When Leona said she was having a sale I decided I'd order a sale box. Her boxes run out super quick so its best to pre order or subscribe. Any way as I said my sale box arrived today and I couldn't be happier.

In the box was the following....

 Pom Pom Gift Tag Kit,

Card Holders,

Sparkly Bow

2 Straws

Thank You Card,

Bunny Card,

Ice Cream Buttons

Personalised K Keyring!

Pretty Papers,

Note Book,

Calendar Note Book,

2 Cute Circus Themed Cards

Playing Card,

3 Cute Gift Cards

I'm now already starting to think what shall I make and who shall I send the cute cards too... I'm thinking the sparkly bow needs to be made into a brooch for my cardigan.

Thank you soooo much Leona for making me feel a little better today.

Wishing you loads of luck in your new premises,(although you wont need it)

And look forward to seeing more goodies and buying more from you

Happy Mail

Kelly

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