applique phone case

This week my daughter got a new phone (an early birhday present).
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Her friend is buying her a phone case for her birthday, but I'm convinced she's going to drop it before then....so I've made a simple padded phone cover to protect it!

T-shirts

T-shirts...now I don't know wether my son is going to be a designer or he knows just what he wants and expects mum to deliver the goods, but two requests were made for knew t-.shirts.
The first was Yoda as he loves Star Wars.



The second was a Lego ninja t-shirt with his name in black letters underneath.


Very demanding!

Appliquéd bags

This year I'm into appliqué.
My daughter wanted a new sports bag for high school. She wanted something different to carry her trainers and football boots.
After looking through ideas, she finally came up with this...

She's even more pleased that some of the girls have asked her where she got it from!



Moving on fromthat. I decided to do a bag just for me...I have thing for caravans and own one myself.
So for me 'girls don't camp...they glamp




My son wants a t shirt or two doing now!

Gruffalo Party!!!

Can't believe it's a year since I last posted on this blog...apologies, but I have been sooo busy and promise to post more often.

It started off with all participants being fitted with a mask and claws.

 

 

They all had a sticker on so that at least I knew who they were and I put them into teams: team mouse, snake, fox or owl so that I knew which group they belonged with.

 

We made snake finger puppets from mrprintables and we then read the story with puppets I made (photos to be put in next blog)

 

 

 

 

 

I then split the four groups up into the four corners of the hall and for ten minutes they played that game before moving around clockwise to the next game:

 

 

Throw the beanbags through the Gruffalo's mouth.

 

                                                                         Pairs

 

Find the snakes egg in the nest (plastic hollow eggs, which you can open up and put in either a sweet or a Gruffalo themed sticker)

 

Pin the poisonous wart on the Gruffalo

 

 

We had the Gruffalo stomp game- stamping on a square of bubble wrap and the winner is the person who pops the most in the time given.

We also included the parents by pulling children's names out of the hat and the three names pulled out have to join in the game!

I made them horns attached to an alice band with a fringe of hair like the Gruffalo made from black wool.

 

 

 

Even my parents joined in!!

 

The sweets and prizes they won throughout the party they got to put in their party bags and fill them up.  I also made things for the bag.  They got to take home their masks and claws, I made Gruffalo finger puppets, pencil toppers and put in crayons with Gruffalo themed pictures.

 

Finally the cake was.......of course- Gruffalo

 

We had a great day and the party was a complete success

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dinosaur Party Success!!!!

Nearly a week since the dinosaur party and can't believe I no longer have to work on it!

My son really enjoyed his day

 

The guests all came into the party where they were given the choice of a handmade dinosaur mask and some handmade dinosaur feet.

 

 

They then had to go over to a table to decorate their own party bags with, you've guessed it, dinosaur foam stickers!  Throughout the party they had the chance to win prizes and put them in their party bags.

 

 

 

We had lots of dinosaur themed games with throw (dino) beanbags through Georgie (my son named him).  Georgie was made with MDF. I drew the dinosaur in pencil, cut out his mouth with a jigsaw and then painted him. Get all three in his mouth and win some dinosaur stickers, a dinosaur chocolate (made approx. 125 in a silicone mould) or a chocolate egg...I told them it was a dinosaur egg!

Bought some hollow plastic eggs at Easter, the kind that you can open.  Filled them with either a dinosaur chocolate, a chocolate egg or some stickers.  Put them in a box of shredded paper and they had to take turns to find an egg and see what prize they had won!

 

Another station was "bowling bones" where card bones were attached to drinks bottles and a ten pin bowling type game commenced (see above re prizes)

 

Fourth station was pin the horn on the triceratops

 

 

After each group had visited all four stations it was time for lunch with dinosaur themed food...dinosaur cut  out sandwiches, chocolates, chocolate eggs (dino eggs of course!) dinosaur turkey nuggets and biscuits- cut out with a dinosaur cutter and also had dinosaur footprints in round biscuits (washed a toy dinosaurs feet and stuck them in before baking!)

 

 

After lunch it was full group party games.

 

Hot rocks...bit like pass the parcel, but if your holding the hot rock when the music stops, you are out (though you are given a bag of sweets) I'm sure some of them held on just to get the sweets!

The last person in, won the main prize.

 

The next game was dinosaur stomp, which was such fun, I forgot to take photos!

Get some bubble wrap, a square for each person and put their name on the bottom of it.  When the music starts they have to jump on their own piece and try and pop as many bubbles as possible!

 

The last game was musical dinosaurs.  Like musical chairs but the dinosaurs stuck on the wall on the picture above, were placed on the floor and they had to stand on one when the music stopped, the one left without a dinosaur was out (again with a bag of sweets.)

 

Found plenty of goodies for their bags...dinosaur bubbles, dinosaur pencils, packets of dinosaur biscuits, dinosaur notepads and mini dinosaur models.

 

Hope you enjoyed my son's party...he wants an aeroplane one for next year!

 

Oh and the cake!

 

 

 



It's been a while

Had a very successful evening selling my jewellery at a spring fayre with lots of extra orders for other pieces to be made.

Got to now order more lovely crystals!

Been around local salons and nail bars to generate more local business. Got national interest from being featured in Wedding Ideas but would like more local also.

Got my sons dinosaur themed party coming up so lots of preparation happening there. Making masks,  feet, beanbags, bowling bones and chocolates...all dinosaur!

Will put some pictures on in next few days.

Take care xx

Great photos, great reviews

Got some lovely photos sent by two brides along with some lovely comments about the items they created with eiledon.co.uk

The beautiful Gemma had the Cynthia Side tiara created in topaz Swarovski crystals and Swarovski pearls to match in with her fiancée's waist coat.

 

 

The lovely Hayley had the Hayley bouquet made for her (and named after her) from organza, in purple, to match her bridesmaids outfits.  I'm sure you'll agree, she looks stunning!

 

 

I love to see the brides looking beautiful.

 

Enjoy xx