Sneaky Peak wedding Freak 2

After having my 3 bridesmaids around my flat, drinking wine,eating strawberries,chocolate and various healthy snacks, I realized that I only have 7 weeks until my wedding, so it is time to get busy!!!

Here I have tried a few ideas for my wedding such as; Crafted cones with hand made fabric flowers on and Customized bags with pearls for the bridesmaids.

Although these may not be used this should give you a flavour of the theme of my wedding.


I spent a couple hours today with my fiance drinking coffee mocha, eating toasted tea cakes, people watching and hugging...

Whilst walking back to the car, my fiance disapeared , I wandered where he went, but just assumed that perhaps he had found some kind of wood or building materials in someones garden skip, as he is working on a flat for us at the moment and at times manages to find some good finds!! But he popped out and handed me some flowers that he had hand picked, they were lovely...purple with yellow centers.

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Sneaky Peak wedding freak

It has been a busy time for me since finishing school organizing my wedding, as you all know I am a very crafty person and my wedding will reflect this. I have a few amigos on board to help with creative ideas and also help with sewing!!!! I have three very beautiful bridesmaids who I have managed to get very floaty elegant dresses for!

I am also going to make a little scrapbook with all the things I want to keep, that will remind me of the preparations leading up to the wedding day such as ribbons,materials,beads, etc. Here is a photo of one of the invitation confirmations I received which I thought was very quirky and funny....

I have posted some photos of some materials / colours and themes I am using for the wedding... enjoy!!!!

Friends + Felt

Last weekend my friend sophie visited me, we have been friends since we were 16, she has just walked the Camino Santiago which has been a very memorable journey for her. We chatted whilst drinking red wine and eating princess cake!

On her arrival sophie handed me a small pink felt heart as a present, this inspired me to make some felt hearts myself with a WoRLd of linz touch!

I thought I would use a white felt for the heart and a floral printed fabric for the center of the heart, with a pearl in the middle simple but effective.

I have also bought some materials, ribbons and many beads,sequins which I am looking forward to making lots of new creations with.

I am now on my Summer Holidays and looking forward to having time to make and sell my crafts please e-mail me for any thing you would like to purchase from myself linzybenz@hotmail.com.

Craftyness

Hey all !! thanks for taking the time to visit my blog.... I hope you enjoy the read and have fun entering my WorLd !!! Well the part of my WorLd that I allow you to view....


My new found colour is RED .... everything that seems to be catching my attention either is RED or has some kind of RED on it....yes us arty types tend to get get obsessed with various strange things whether a colour,object,subject,person or thing....please view my first blog on My obsessions...which has some what changed by now...apart from my girl crush on Ellie Goulding!!!


After recently looking through my material box I found some great stripey red material, plus red ribbon and some checked red material awesome !!!!

With the anticipating excitment that I feel about moving in after my marriage with Neil Jenner Mendia ( My Boaz) into our flat together, I am filled with ideas of what to create to put in our home..... So using the materials I found I decided to make the word LoVe out out the ribbon and add a spiritual dimension to this by using the scripture from the bible that talks about what love is from the book of Corinthians!!!!


On another note I was highly enraged last night, but also extremely flattered, while visiting the Plymouth College of Art and Design degree show, when I stumbled upon a business card with a picture of the craft work I had been selling on a stall at a recent Vintage Craft Fair. The business card was for Carousel magazine, I had no idea they had even taken a photo, ....check the picture out....please also view the link to carousel mag!!! Who now want to feature my work and write about it....amazing!!!!


Have fun crafting ...

Cushion fun

I have been very busy organizing my wedding to Mr Neil Jenner mendia :D so to give myself something different to think about I made a cushion cover!!!

Recently my friend Helen has been making cards with the word love and hello sown onto fabric...this inspired me and gave me the idea to applique the word love onto my beautiful floral material that I had been given a while back.....

The cushion looks great on my bed and i am now encouraged to make some more...any ideas you would like to share please do..... comments below...

Having said that I wanted something to think about that was not wedding planning....I recently decided who I was going to have as my bridesmaids, one of who has been a friend since my collage years.... Sophie is currently in spain and sent me a very lovely card saying how honored she was to my bridesmaid...

Half term is very soon so watch this space for more inspirational/original homemade crafts ....

Polka dot buttons + Shoes

After being awake since 4,30 in the morning, I thought that the best way to utilize my crazy awakeness was to create some crafts...... I have some plain black pumps which I bought about a month or so ago....My favorite material which is blue with white polka dots on, I had left over and used to cover two buttons...Perfect I thought!!! I used these buttons to cutomise the plain black shoes.

I knew the fabric covered buttons would come to use ...(see my blog on Fabric covered buttons)

Today is Easter Sunday...oooh that means chocolate eggs!!! but also the celebration that Jesus rose from the dead, although he was cruelly crucified on the cross by the Romans, it is written in scripture that he rose again 3 days later, with many witness's who claim to have seen him after his death...Jesus died but he also rose again and beat the power of death...all that believe in him and turn from sin in repentence, can also have this gift of living eternally ....death is not the end for those who trust and believe in him!!!!

Ok ! enough of the preaching...

Happy Easter.....Why not try customising some of your own shoes...any posted pictures or links to your own creations are more than welcome on my blog ....

Fabric covered buttons

After having a busy but fun bank holiday , this evening I decided to use some old buttons that I had spare, plus looked through some of my scrape material in order to decorate them ready to use for some future craft projects.

With such awesome weather I have been swimming in the sea and sunbathing ....plus eating outside in the garden and looking after my new recently planted potted plants.

Also due to getting married soon, I have been busy whilst I have time, thinking about who to chose for bridesmaids, what song I would like to walk down the isle to, who to have playing in the worship team ect.... I am going to my friend Helens on Sunday for a BBQ as it is her B-day....Helen has been very amazing at organising my hens for my Hen do, which is all a surprise for me :D

My buttons I think have turned out very well and I recommend to you, finding some spare buttons you have lying around and having ago at finding some funky or retro material to cover them. I now can have ago at deciding what to make in order to put the fabric buttons to use.

Watch this space.....

Princess/Marrigold + Fushia/Sweetpea = Moondust Delight

If you have had the pleasure of reading my Potting flowers fun post, the title of this blog with make sense to you. If not i suggest you read it, not only for your enjoyment in reading about my day, but also to see the range of flowers that I potted.

After buying the plants/flowers on Monday, I then continued to arrange my pots and decide what flowers to pot and how to arrange them...I have even exceeded myself by making a small rockery with some spare flowers that I had left over.

Me and My Fiancee had recently been to to the beach where we collected a number of white pebbles ....the intention for this was for our wedding table decoration.s..but I decided to take a few and place some in the pots and rockery ....very effective !!!!

Just need to wait a few weeks for the flowers to bud and let the magic begin!!

poTTinG FlOwErs FuN

With all this glorious weather we have had over the weekend ... I thought it was time to make my garden decking look pretty and appealing ready for the summer BBQs etc.....so plants for the decking it was ,woop!!!!

Recently my Fiancee mother Maite, gave me some outside pots that were her mother in laws who has sadly passed away.... perfect for planting new fresh plants/flowers in I thought!!

Being a total gardening virgin I headed to the local/closest store which I knew sold various gardening tools and plants. I picked up some sweet peas/yellow marigolds/ upright Lobilia/fushsia plus an extra pot.

The Fushsia pink and white flower which is referred to on the label as 'Patio Princess' I thought was quite fitting and aspire to be....the upright Lobila should have various moonlight colours ...romantic ....the sweet peas should add a touch of innocence
and the yellow Marigolds a blast of spark!!!

I also managed to get some compost which was buy one get one free! awesome, just need to wait until the clouds clear and then I can get potting and decide what pots to put which flowers in.

Simple but Effective

My Easter break has begun and the passion for getting started on some new crafts has risen.

My first project over my Easter break has been customizing some shoes that I bought, simple but effective! I have been very blessed and was given a big box of, various ribbons,lots of needles/cottons of many colours and scrap materials. This is fab and will help towards making some new original crafts.

The shoes that I bought where plain cream flat shoes from a well known company, they were purchased by myself at a very low cost.... then using an old patterned dress, which has small pink rose flowers, little polka dots on and a white background, decided to make small rosettes with a pearl bead center to sew onto the front of my shoes, I then thought it would be better to add a smaller rosette, with a small button in the center onto the front of the shoe as well.....this took no longer that half an hour and has transformed my plain shoes....I recommend this idea highly!!!

Alot of my new stock will include wedding crafts so watch this space and get inspired ......

New Stock -Fabric Brooches

After selling out of my brooches which are very popular amongst my customers , I have been busy making some new ones. This weekend I have managed to make 18 in total.

Here are some photos of the new brooches, each brooch are priced at £2.00 each. These brooches are unique to linseyloucreations and you will not find brooches of the same designs selling from any other company. 

Enjoy...

Little Delights for your Home-Items for sale

I am listing the current stock that I have left from the Vintage Craft fair .... there are some fab unique hand crafted items perfect for your home that you can purchase for very reasonable prices!!! contact me via e-mail linzybenz@hotmail.com or facebook giving details of the item that you want.

Pink Mini Hanging Hearts £5.00

This beautiful set of four small hanging hearts,are joined together by a pink ribbon and have a looped tag at the top so that you can hook them onto fixtures of your choice, they have been hand stitched, which give them a very unique look.  the measurements are; Full Length 37cm, the mini hearts each 7 cm x 6 cm.

Red Mini Hanging Hearts £5.00

 Thi is a set of 5 mini hanging hearts all hand stitched and my own unique design. They have a looped tag so that they can be hooked onto wall fixtures. The measurements are; Full length 45cm, the mini hearts each 7cm x 6cm.

Laura Ashley Material Hearts £2.50

The white heart with the Red Laura Ashley Printed design on have been stuffed with wadding usually used to stuff cushions with and are also made with my own heart template. The heart has a silver ribbed loop to hang the heart onto fixtures. The measurements are; width 11cm Length 12 cm.

Blue Hanging Heart £2.00

This has been made from my own heart template stuffed with wadding traditionally used to stuff cushions with. The white lace with button sewn in the middle is also my own created design. The heart has a ribbon looped at the top so that it can be hooked over fixtures of your choice. The measurements are 11 cm Width 12 cm Length.

Pin Cushions/or just decoration £2.00 Each

These pin cushions have been customised from watch cushions,the small cushions are made from a plastic leather, I have added the pretty blue and pink poker dotted ribbon around the middle and also the sweet little poker dotted buttons. The measurements are; 7.5cm Width and 9 cm length.

Pink Fleece Blanket £5.00

This eye catching pink fleece blanket has been customised by myself, using my heart template and some lovely floral material that I had left. There are three hearts in total placed down the middle of the blanket, which have been sewn on with my fab sewing machine using a small zig-zag stitch. The measurements are 1.26 cm Width and 1.52 cm Length.

If your Items need posting a small postage price will be added no more than 80p.

Vintage Craft Fair

Following Christmas I have been busy making new stock for the Vintage Craft fair on the 29th Jan, St.Matthias, plymouth.  

I still had some spare stock left from my last craft fair and so mixed this in with my new craft items. I customized two fleece blankets using a heart design with a Laura Ashley floral material, which I outlined with a zig-zag small stitch on my fab sewing machine. I also made two Pin cushions, large hanging hearts and also my famous heart and corsage brooches which proved to be very popular.

Overall I had lots of lovely comments and great suggestions about my crafts... these are just a few words/sentences that people banded around by my stool ... Beautiful , pretty, talented, "that would look lovely in my kitchen", "that matches my wall paper", "that would look great on my blue coat", "my little girl likes the heart brooches"...

My day at the craft fair included;

Seeing lots of familiar faces

recognizing people, but not sure who they were

chatting to the Berlesque girl next to me

looking at Vintage Clothes

Eating my packed lunch

freezing

cold

trying not to spend money that I had made on vintage stuff

takeaway coffee

I still have some stock left please e-mail me or facebook me if you are interested in purchasing the stock left   linzybenz@hotmail.com