Dino Christmas!

I believe it is safe for me to share this now.

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I'm writing this in November, but I won't be sharing this till about two days after Christmas day... Just playing! save.

Today is the 13th of November and I decided to make my dino nutty friend. Her Christmas card and sort out what I'm going to send.

This is the little card I made.

Isn't he super cute!

About a year ago I made some plain note cards and card holder.. (I guess that is what it is called right?)

I made the above after having the idea of making these up for friends. This is the only one I made and I fell in love with it.. I planned to make more but never got round to it.

 Maybe next year I will only time will tell!

The last thing I sent was this dino pattern and yarn..

I got the kit free from 'Lets Knit magazine' a while ago.

I knew I would never use the pattern..

Please let me know what you think?

Friday Haul

So today was my day off and I had to go and do the food shop.  The first stop was to my local Morrison's store and then on to Sainsburys. 

I find every time I go to Sainsburys I can never leave with out getting some sort of craft or stationary items.

So this is what I got from Sainsburys...

First item is A5 neon card the pack contains 10 sheets...

Second item is A4 Coloured card this pack also contains 10 sheets

Last item is oh my goodness I love this item A4 glitter card contains 10 sheets... I'm going to use these to finish making Christmas cards..

After Sainsburys I went home, put the shopping away and then I had a little rest. 

Before I went back out this time into town.  

In town I went to 'The Work's', Whsmiths, Tkmaxx, Poundland and wilkos...

This is what I got and where..

I found these large pink and purple paperclips at Whsmiths.. 99p each pack instead off 3.99

Then I went into 'The Works' and got a few bits and pieces. Actually I should have shares in the company..

After 'The Work's' I went into Tkmaxx I didn't get anythink there, I also went into both the Poundland stores in my town.  I got a few bits that I can't show due to Christmas.

Last stop was wilkos I went to get some gloss paint and while I was there I had a look at the Halloween section I want to get some black cat ears, for if I have to dress up for work. By the way I do not celebrate Halloween...

The only things I got was Dino's and more glitter card! 

After wilkos I came home..

A small haul

Today I needed to pop into my local Poundland shop.

To pick up some card blanks and envelopes, as they work out cheaper than the shop I normally go to.

While I was in there I also got a few other bits..

First three items are washi tape, and if I don't have enough already!

PVA glue this is one thing I needed, and the mini pegs will come in handy.. 

Last but not least the main reason I went in, was to these - I got two packs...

My reason is I have enough embellishments but I have ran out of card blanks. Plus I've started today making Christmas cards...

Please let me know what you think? 

A Tale Of A Minion And A Giraffe!

I think it is safe for me to put this on here now. Now that my brother and godmother as had their Christmas presents from me!

This is partly the reason why I have not been writing much on here, since about October. Instead I have been busy knitting, sewing and crafting goodies!!

I will start with my Godmother, she loves giraffes and her favourite colours are purple and green..

Before you say yuk - purple and green. If I'm right I believe those two colours are opposite to each other on the colour wheel...

I was looking through a knitting magazine and came across a pattern for a giraffe... I thought I know who I am going to make this for..... Lucky enough I had already had the colours I wanted in my yarn stash....

I tried not to feel attach to the little fella.. But I have to say I love how he turned out..

Actually I should stop called the giraffe a he as my godmother as called her Geraldine.. Yes like Vicar of Dibley.

Next. . . . . my brother...

So you know by now my brother loves and I mean he LOVES Minion's that much so you can read it Here .

Anyway I wanted to make my brother a minion cushion, but more I look for one online the more I realise there just wasn't a pattern... Which at the time I thought oh great how am I going to do this. 

Then I decided that it wasn't going to stop me. I design the minion by drawings and ordered the yarn from Deramores . Deramores is an online yarn shop actually anythink you want for knitting to crotchet... 

So this is what I made... 

Both my Godmother and brother love their gifts! 

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Its started!

So this month as been a interesting so far. . . On New Year Eve I made 27 cards then the next two days I just made more. All of a shudder I came to a nature stop. There is about fifhy all together.. Pictures below shows what I've been making!

Yes I know it is Christmas. . . . But it is part of my clear out for this year! 

The first week in Januray there is a birthday... So I made a simple formula one card for the little boy who birthday it was, he loves cars. Then a week later it was his sisters birthday and she is a typically girly girl, who love pink, pony's and bears (all animals).  Picture below again

I have been up to some think else which I will share soon! 

Christmas Hand-made gift (part 1)

On Sunday 24th of June (2012) I started to think about Christmas, after all it was only six month's til Christmas Eve.  So like I always do I wrote and a list of people I needed to buy or make gifts for and wrote down the things they like.  I really wanted to make the gift's that had a little bit of love put into making the them, than those you buy in the shop's!

While surfing the net to find ideas - I came across a TY Beanie Baby of Mr Bean's Teddy. I first thought prefect, then saw the price near £6.00 - I was like I am not paying that! Like you do :-)  Then I wondered if there was a knitting pattern for Mr Bean's Teddy and yes there is.....

So I got my bag of wool out to find the colours out for Teddy

and my knitting needles and set to work.

I made Teddy for my brother as he love's Mr Bean film's and televison progamme's.

Also my brother about a month before had bought him self a Classic Austin Mini!

So I had decided to play on that fact! 

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Aunt's Birthday card (1)

Two weeks ago I started planning and designing my aunt's Birthday card.  I made a list of all the things that she likes, just like my Unlces 70th (which is her hubby).  My aunt is into fish's, westie's (dogs), cats and knitting. The theme I went for was fish, cats and knitting. I'm going to do westie's for Christmas, which I'm going to be making in the next few weeks. 

 I knew I was going to use the same template as
 my mum's 'mother day card'. 

Last week I did an special order for some die-cut cats, fish and knitting needles.  I found the cat and the fish, well fishbowl with fish, but could not find any think to do with knitting.  So I made my order and waited, I only needed to wait a day before my small parcel came.

I got out my craft mat, knife, double-sided sticky tape, embossing tool, ruler and sticky pads.  Then I looked out a peach colour card and envelope.  Then I popped the envelope to one side and opened up the card and layed it down on the mat.   I then took my embossing tool and ruler to mark the line across the top of one side of the card .  Then I took my craft knife and cut along the line I had made.


I used the same wrapping paper as I did for my mum's 'Mothers day card'.   This time I used the striped paper as the backing. Once I had stuck down the backing paper I made two square's from the same coloured card stock as the card and stuck on the wrapping paper.

I took the piece's to the fishbowl and made that up.  Then I got two cocktail sticks out and some pink wool. I then cast on about six stitches and knitted some row, it was hard work. But I got there in the end!  I then got some beads out and cut the end of the cocktail stick off.  I got out my trim-it glue and stuck the beads onto the end of each stick and made a little ball of wool. Then I stuck the knitting down onto the one of the squares I had made, and left that to set.  I got one of the cats out of the little bag (of 10) that the their came in, I had a small bit of card left over from the square's so I used that for the nose and two little gems for the eyes.

After that it was time to stick on the items. So I got my sticky-pads and stuck the square of the knitting on the left hand side in the middle of the card. I then got the fish bowl and again popped sticky-pads on and pop the fish bowl down the bottom on the right hand side of the card, just over lapping the square with the knitting on.  After that I did the same with the cat, but this time I pop the him up the top on the right hand side.

Please find picture's below:

To finish the card off, I cut to size an insert (saying: Wishing You A Very Happy Birthday). I popped a strip of double-sided sticky tape on one side of the insert and popped that in.

Please let me know what you think of the card..
I am now on twitter @Dorsetbotanybee

P.S... My uncle loved his Birthday card! I should find out over the weekend what my aunt thinks of the her card, I have a gut feeling she will love it!

New Knitting

At chritstmas one of my pressys were 'new' knitting looms

This is one thing I have been looking at for a while now!

So as you can guess I was so happy when I opened up this pressy to finded this inside!!

I could not wait to get these out to try. 

I will let you all know how I get on. 



Hi! Sorry I have not done any post's lately... I am having trouble with upload picture's.

Need to put a new camera on my Christmas List

Yesterday I started making my cards again, Yay!

I decide to start on some of my Christmas cards.  
There's no time like the present as there is only
about 92 days til Christmas.......

Oh gosh I've not done any present shopping yet!

Here is some of the cards:

Please let me know what you all think?