Christmas cards

This year I stuck with the patchwork theme I have been experimenting with for a while, layering felt and fabric. Below is my base the felt here it is before the felting process, I added some sparkly Angelina fibers in gold to add some festive sparkle.

They were all slightly different I played around with embroidery threads and green fabrics.

I planned to do a similar layering design with angels and stars but got so carried away with the Christmas tree's that I ran out of time before Santa came. Oh well!

Christmas a sneak preview

This year I have had the time to go back to my Be-Ro book and make another recipe, i managed to finally tick another one off, yay. It felt so good, feels like it been ages since I had the time to plan a Be-Ro recipe. A target I set myself almost 2 years ago was to work my way through the book, and make all the recipes along the way discovering all the flavours from my childhood. Big grin!

One thing that I do every year is make cards, for the past few years I have used handmade felt as my inspiration. This year is no different. I have made a production line of cards with a view of being able to sell some next year. Thought it would be good to be organised as I'd have to start making them in summer for them to be ready to go on the Christmas markets if I didn't.

For the first time I also plan on making my own mincemeat....we shall see if it tastes good. This is not complicated to make but for some reason I never thought of making my own.

I love Christmas and I can't wait for Santa to come, I'm defiantly a big kid!

Silver Bangles

I have decided to make some plain silver bangles, because I think they would be classy and go with everything. I ordered both square and circular wire I went for the 3mm width as I fancied them to be chunky. As with everything that does not have a pattern on it and is just plain silver the hard bit is to hide the soldering.  I only found this tricky with the first one that I then found that I had developed a production line and the join wasn't half bad.

Circular wire bangles

Square wire bangles

They look very classy on and go with everything just as expected. I think everyone should have some of these in there jewellery box.