Lavender Filled Heart Tutorial

It felt like time for a tutorial so this week I am sharing with you instructions to make Lavender filled Hearts. You can hang them wherever you like, but perhaps with the festive season in mind they would make nice gifts.

What You’ll Need

Cardboard

Fabric

Ribbon

Button

Step 1

First you need to create your pattern. Draw a heart onto the cardboard and once your happy with the shape cut it out. Take the shape and draw around it twice onto your fabric and cut out.

Step 2

You should now have two hearts cut out from your fabric. Place these right sides together and sew around the edge, remember to leave a gap about 3cm long on one of the straighter sides to allow the heart to be turned right way out.

Step 3

Turn your heart the right way out, pull it into shape and then press it with an iron. Now you need to fill the heart with dried lavender. Once full sew the open edge shut.

Step 4

Cut a suitable length of ribbon and fold in half. Sew either end of the ribbon to either side of the heart. To finish sew a pretty button onto either side of the ribbon.Then sit back and admire your creation!

Tis the season to hold a Fair!

With the festive season rapidly approaching fairs of every creative nature seem to have sprung up. Just last weekend I visited Lustre at Lakeside Arts in Nottingham. I’ve been for the past couple of years and it’s always a wonderful mix of new and old talent. Although I think my favourite has always been Steve Handley and his wonderful cupboards and hooks. This year seemed a little overrun with jewellery designers, which I appreciate may sound a little strange coming from a jewellery business myself, it just felt a little lacking in variety in comparison to previous years.

This weekend Anne is busy working away at Banks Mill winter open studios. I would have liked to have been there too, but I’m a bit bruised after a jolt earlier in the week, so decided I was better sitting at home eating chocolate pudding (oh the hardship!)

But that’s not the end of the weekends offerings. In Derby there is also the Fabulous Places Christmas Market which promises to be an amazing shopping experience in the run up to Christmas. We were truly quite gutted not to be able to attend as we were already booked at the mill.

But if you think that means a restful few weeks will follow you’d be mistaken. We are also attending the Christmas Craft fair at Kedleston Hall next weekend.

Then we have a smaller fair coming up the week after. Not exactly sure when we Santa will fit in all our his Christmas shopping in amongst all this, perhaps we can rope in a husband elf or two with a very specific list.

Crumpled Cup Review!

It’s a funny title for a post I admit, but I am honestly reviewing crumpled cups and I love them! As a preferred blogger with CSN Stores I was given another opportunity to review an item and this time I picked 3 Revol Froisses Porcelain Crumpled Cups. I chose the Cappuccino size.

Delivery & Packaging

Delivery was very prompt and by UPS. Packaging was a little lacking unfortunately. The 3 cups come in a plastic tube and this was slightly squashed. However the cups were unharmed, but a squashed tube wouldn’t be great if you were giving these as a gift.

Do the Cups Work?

Yes, although you may have noticed that my picture shows them full of sweets rather than coffee. This is partially because I think they look very cute used in this way and partly because, with the absence of a handle it’s quite hard to hold them if they have a hot drink inside. Coffee made with a coffee machine is usually not too hot though, but water straight from a kettle would be.

Would I recommend this item?

Without a doubt. I adore quirky items in my home and these have already been quite the talking point. They do come in other colours, but I don’t think you can beat the plain white for looking like an original plastic cup which has been squashed. I would dearly love to receive items like this for Christmas and I’m sure others would too. Apparently they are used in rather posh cafes in Paris and because they are available in different sizes there should be something to suit everyone.