Crafts for Alicia

In a vain attempt to hide the amount of stash that I actually have I emptied a pizza box that I decided to fill with Crafts for Alicia (please check out the blog to find out more about this little girl).
As I have the attention span of a gnat my daughter put these cards together made from cut down £1 shop gift tags and nesties labels 1. Note to self: get your small child to attach peel offs in future!
I also found a couple of bag lady bags and the wool to knit this sparkly scarf squirrelled away.

A couple of £1 shop diaries decorated with Sweet Nothings Papers by Papermania and Kuma Cuddles bears from Ildico

Rusty sent me these noseless images ages ago but they had got caught up in the middle of my papers and I thought I'd lost them forever- great excuse to get out my new promarkers that arrived yesterday :c) Paper is from the Flowery Pack by Papermania notebooks were in a pack of 8 from the £1 shop.


Finally butterfly bears on calendars this time from Clip Clop Crafts with paper from Craftwork Cards. I couldn't find the right colour card so coloured the edge of my coaster and the edges of a white bit with Orchid Promarker - just need to add the hangers then I can seal the box and send it off!

Why do I seem to make things in pairs? lol! (Yes there were originally 2 scarves but the Birthday Fairy pinched one)

Bag Lady sees triple

Just in case you thought I hadn't been doing anything :cP

These ones have handles with pearl beads on them - they don't show all that well on the picture though.

Bag Lady gets Bigger!

This one's mine all mine. Was really fed up at the weekend as OH had blagged a free ticket to Aintree so decided to treat myself.

It's a good bit bigger than the others I've done and stitching all the ends in was a nightmare - lol.
I used it today for the first time and it holds everything apart from my lunch!!

I also got orders for 2 more black bags today and have 3 that just need stitching up before they wing their way off to Newcastle.

Bag Lady gets carried away.

Or maybe I should be. My last lots of eBay bargain yarn arrived today and knew I had a problem when I couldn't get it all into the bag!

OH is away tonight so took the chance to record it so I can just look on here rather than spend hours rummaging - lol

I also stocked up on bangles as well and must not buy any more until I have used some of these (I do have an order for a purple one so that's an exception). I didn't realise there was so much choice of beautiful fluffy yarn. I also have lots of black as it seems very popular!

If anyone feels the need for a bag let me know - LOL! I've inquired about a local craft sale and am waiting for a reply.

The Bag Lady Goes Girly!

I decided to try something a little different with this one and am quite pleased with the results. It still has the bangle handles but I covered them with the fluffy yarn and then attached them.

I like the shape but the colour's really not for me LOL!

Bag Lady Goes Upmarket

Here's my latest bag order for someone at work.

I'm quite pleased with how posh it turned out lol! The bangles were from the Claire's Accessories sale.

The Bag Lady II

Another BL creation!
I was going to list this one on eBay but then got a request from school for Easter raffle prizes so am going to stick a bag of mini eggs in it and put it in a cello bag - cheap but effective.

It's the same pattern as the others but looks much smaller as there is hardly any fur - I'm going to experiment with some slightly bigger ones next - when I can find the time.

I just love making OH roll his eyes with my latest experiments :cP

Bag Lady!

After my first attempt at a fluffy knitted bag for DD my virtual friend Rusty requested a couple so here they are.

I've tweaked the original design a little and especially love the blue one.

I took one into work last week and now have an order for a black one. I've found some gorgeous silvery bamboo style bangles for the handles as thought the brown ones would look odd.