Retro-cutesy hair slides.
As my part of NZ has nothing but orrid cerise pink hair paraphanalia for kids, neccesity was the mother of invention here and led me to DIY. I bought those cheapo plain white metal slides from the chemists, glued the ribbon to one end, wound the ribbon round the outer part of the metal slide (fiddly, argh!) then glued the end down and glued on a bow. The only way to keep it in her hair would be to glue it in too!
Peg and washi tape fridge magnets.
On the left are the 'professionally' produced ones, on the right my copies. Easy-peasy as long as the long edge of the tape to be trimmed is on the part of the peg with no metal bit so you can get a nice neat line, just chop up the crappy thin advertising magnets you get given everywhere and glue onto the back.
We got Claud a mini table and chairs this week since she refused to be highchaired any longer, and on the very day they arrived I saw this sweet
bloggy inspiration.
Here's my take...
How beautifully fresh and crisp this fabric, from an op-shopped sheet, is. I was surprised how quick and easy it was to run up these cushions (slightly mishapen) and table cloth.
The rest of the fabric awaits further inspiration.
Made for a handmade/op-shop swop, doily bunting. I saw this on a blog somewhere I forgot and winged it from there. I think it looks rather fab. Hubby thinks it looks like a madam's knickers on a clothes line!
I'm thinking starched, white and kept whole for 'snowflake' bunting at Christmastime.
Thee tier cake stand
Step 1-Collect three beautiful, opshopped plates of various vintages, here with gold edges and a pale blue colour theme.
Step 2-Buy the linky doodads from
trademe
Step 3-Drill with a masonry bit and water as per the instructions.
Step 4-Break two out of three plates.
Step 5-Sob, then break remaining plate over hubbys head. Heh!
We will have to suffice with a figure-friendly single decker until I russle up some replacement plates and we figure out what went wrong?!! Perhaps too much pressure on them as they took ages to drill through or maybe we just need to get a diamond tip drill bit instead?
Let me know if you know or I'll just have to re-google it!
I had hoped to finish my butterflies-in-a-box-frame but I've taken to my bed today after an exhausting week looking after Claud with gastroenteritis, which I've now caught, and a fierce cough. Urgh.
