Happy New Year, New Decade....wow!

Happy New Year all!

Last year went so quickly, possibly quicker than before it feels, but maybe I'm just getting a bit old - haha!

To celebrate the New Year this year, we stayed in at a friends house and I organised a New Year quiz. We are regular Sunday night quizzers, so quite the experts at quizzes we like, and quizzes we don't!

There are certain topics I had to include:

Anagram
Dead or Alive
Chemical Elements
1 Sports Question
Medical Question

Also picture rounds including photos of famous people born on New Years Day, Predictive Texts, Close Up Pictures.

Then, because I got really into it and was writing it for a long time, I invented some new rounds.

The first was a water waterfall. Remember the days of waterfalls at parties, and having loads of bubble up your nose? Well with a water waterfall, it was much easier to drink, still hilarious, and also we were all nicely hydrated, to carry on with more drinking. Winner!

Secondly, I added to write a Haiku (2 team members had recently been to Japan for their honeymoon). This was also hilarious. 1 team went for a poo theme (winners), one went for one about me being an amazing quizmaster (very flattering), and the other took it more seriously, and wrote one about rainy London. I loved them all, and definitely want to do this again!!

And finally, I finished with a paper snowflake competition. Because who doesn't' want to get creative at the end of some more serious questions.

I loved it, and hope my fellow quizzers did to! Here's to a fabulous new year!

Merry Christmas Banners

I know, I know, it's only October, but if I need to sew all those letters, I need to start now.

Last year I made these banners in Red and Green, and Black and White. Any suggestions for more options....

Happy Birthday Banners

Alongside all my personalised felt name banners, I also make Happy Birthday banners (and Christmas ones too - but it's too early for that yet!!). I love the idea of having a long lasting, reusable banner that can come out again and again for everyone's birthday, and replaces all the terrible single use banners you find in party shops.

The original one I made was in yellow and grey (surprise surprise), but I've since made a range of custom ones to suit other people's tastes too!

Here are some photos...

Which is your favourite? And which colours should I make next??

Sun Hats

Wow how has it been 6 months since I last posted! I don't know where the time has gone!!

I've been asked for years if I sell kids sunhats, but have never got round to making a pattern and actually making them.

So this year I made sure I did it, and sorted out a pattern in May - just in time for a really wet and stormy summer! Typical!

Here are some photos! I'm currently working through my fabric stashes and using all my lefotover fabrics, as I have too many stashed away all over the flat!

A-Z Name Banners - PART 3

Well I am working my way through my alphabet of name banners and it's really fun. I get especially excited when I can get a double (name and shape starting with the same letter!) although as I get further through the alphabet, it's getting even harder to even find names beginning with some letters (U anyone?) but anyway, here are some more....

A-Z of name banners - part 2

It's been a hard decision choosing banners to put into this A-Z of names. Ideally, they'd all begin with the right letter, and so would the name (e.g Hearts & Henrietta which was one of todays posts). Sadly most of them don't conform to this, so I've usually picked one of each to show off.

Here are my recent ones:

Cole & Clouds = yay! Double 'C'

And then Connie with some awesome lions!

Daniel & Dinosaurs = Double 'D' - win again!

And another cool Connie, with 2 different dogs. 

Emilia & Elephants! = Double 'E' 

Emilia is such a beautiful name, and quite popular at the moment it seems - I've sewn 5 of these banners, all in different colours, in the last year. 

Faiz with 2 different animals. Because why not?

And Alfie and Foxes. It doesn't begin with F but does have an F nicely placed in the middle!

G is for Gael, and Giraffes. Sadly not in the same banner, but they still both look beautiful!

H for Hannes and Hearts - again not in the same banner, until I got the order last week for Henrietta with Hearts - which fitted in perfectly instead!!

More to follow, we're only on H! Watch this space! 

A-Z of Names...

I've made so many names over the last few years, that I've decided to do an A-Z of name banners, to show of a selection of some of them.

Here are my first few....

Alice in Wonderland for an Alice - so fun and appropriate

Pink letters and white clouds is one of my most popular name banner combinations!

Because I make all my names from scratch, it doesn't matter how it's spelt - I'll make anything!

Cute boats with a life ring for B

More to follow....watch this space....