WHAT THE FUCK......... MISSILE

my week in pictures:

Hogwarts Jamboree

It has been all go for Sugar Paper gang this week, starting with a trip to Hogwarts on Sunday.

We took the crafting to the Hogwarts Jamboree in Londin in the form of felt owl and pygmy-puff making and it went down a treat with all the Harry Potter fans. Here are some happy new owners of thier very own handmade pygmy-puffs (aka pompoms with eyes and feet, woo)

This girl had never made a pom-pom before!!! But she was well crafty (see hand stitched felt snitch hairclip) and made a lovely little fella.

This little 'Luna Lovegood' (sporting a home-made 'buterbeer cork' necklace) got hooked on the pompoms and made herself two! The second one is in progress on the floor there. Unfortunately we haven't got any pics of the felt owls, but they were amazing too. Thanks to Holly Horcrux for putting on the event and inviting us down. x

WARNING

DO NOT use Asda's food colouring, it is shit! I have been trying to make it work, but it makes your buttercream look like curds and whey and It turns pink cakes a dirty brown/purple colour.

I am a Supercook purist, but Asda have recently taken them off the shelves to replace them with their own 'natural' version, but do you know what, THEY SUCK, so much that I am willing to get a bus to go to Tesco to buy Supercook (that is now apparently owned by Dr Ooooootkarr, like the pizzas yeah!)

look what it did:

luckily I managed to salvage it with some icing (using Supercook colouring!):

(when lit with hott pringles action!)

Songs with crafty sounding titles....

In celebration of fact that after 7 months I finished this:
here is another song with a crafty sounding title, taken from that LP above!


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Summer is here...

..and I've spent it all indoors making stuff!

on Monday I made a lemon drizzle cake:

Today i have made some kitchen curtains for my mum:

and a shirt for Alison out of fabric from Olympia (little roller waitresses!):

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so we got crafty...

Lot's of things were being made, knitting, cross stitching, scrap booking, jewellery making... I managed to make a pom pom!

Craft Idol #1

In order to give myself a kick up the crafting arse I've decided to start a series where Kandy and I will tell you a little about our craft idols (this will mean when I run out of the ones I am aware of I will have to search for more!)
First up is...
Jenny Hart


Jenny Hart has made embroidery an art form. creator of Sublime Stitching, awesome embroidery patterns for all kick- ass crafsters. She also makes awesome art work, using hand embroidery of amazing portraits of the famous and the wonderful. She has worked with other ace art ladies Dame Darcy and Lisa Petrucci. Having artwork featured in one of my favourite magazines, Bust. If that isn't enough she has also knocked out a couple of crafty books. Give yourself repetitive strain injury and a piece of awesome embroidery with a Sublime Stitching pattern!

http://www.jennyhart.net/

http://www.sublimestitching.com/

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