Facebook Page

I finally did it, published my facebook page for my hobby. It will still be a slow process, but this will be ok and hopefully one day I sell something! Sorted out some prices, but not postage. Postage seems to be a tricky dilemma, I want people to pay just for postage and recycle best what I can into packaging. I had thoughts on wrapping parcels in brown kraft paper and getting those sticky white labels to put addresses on and so forth, I mean mail is more fun when it looks like a package...right? Best I plug away with it and get back into the sewing that I enjoy!

Handmade Christmas Gift

Its been awhile since my last post. I was thinking about Christmas gifts last year and how I could make something handmade. My Dad has a passion for trains and I cannot keep up with all the books and DVDs he already owns! I found a video on Handmade gifts and in the second half of the video was a paper cutting http://www.abc.net.au/local/videos/2011/12/20/3394903.htm?site=ballarat and thought, I could do that!

 Sourced a picture of a train on google images, enlarged it to my liking and transferred it to some 200GSM white paper. I did adjust and add to the image moreso for cutting. Here is the result of this;

I'm quite proud, it turned out really well for a first timer! My Dad really, really liked it too! Maybe I'll do more of these in the future. The materials for this are very basic; 200GSM white paper (any sort of paper would do though - maybe not too thin as you will be cutting!), pencil and a hobby knife, plus a lot of patience and some patterned coloured paper for the background. Took me 2 days to do this. The size is almost A4, so it was a fairly large first time project and I really enjoyed creating this. It's a very clever and thoughtful gift to give to others!

Fabric Covered Buttons

I always thought fabric covered buttons were too expensive. Now that I have made a few of my own I can now justify these prices (well most of them).  I thought when I got my button making supplies this year it would be so easy to do! And it is...well...kind of.

The smaller the button that harder it is to keep the fabric there, however in saying that my large buttons that I am turning magnets were a bit of a struggle at times. Any how I checked back to the website where I got the so buttons from to double check I had been covering them right. Low and behold! I've been doing it wrong...

I cant even begin how to describe the way I was doing it!

Now I know the "right" way I can happily continue my button making journey!

Beginnings

Seems to be the craze, blogging about your craft, your ideas, your passionate hobbies and your life. Here I am embarking on my first blog about my Art and Craft.  I've been interested in Art and Craft for many, many years, even did two Diplomas at TAFE in Visual Art and Graphic Design. It's only now that during my years at University that my craft is beginning to come alive. My friends have always asked me, Are you going to start selling your stuff? In my first year of Uni I had an assignment where I needed to cater for a learning experience with children from ages 4 and up. And after many days of deciding what to do, it took even longer to work out to make what I intended!.

 When I got to show off my learning experience to my fellow classmates, the first question posed to me was Are you going to market that? That learning experience was children learning to make their own salad sandwiches. I had hand sewed  8 slices of bread, slices of ham, cheese, lettuce, beetroot and tomato all made from felt.

After that experience I was inspired to sew more and so the following year I hand sewed some felt cupcakes. They were adored by my friends and their positive comments inspired me to make more and more.

Of course making all these wonderful treasures I had collected and bought a lot of materials and now have this passion for all types of fabric and what I could do with it. So while I have been at this for some time, this will be my journey in the internet world of my ups and downs of my crafting.

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