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Cracking on with Christmas!!

Having spent a little too much time thinking and gathering ideas for my christmas collection, I have finally started to crack on with making the first set on indivdual hanging hearts....I have made 5 in total today plus some more fabric brooches all in all it has been a good start.

In order to make sure I have enough stock for the Christmas craft fairs/car boots I hope my motivation and fast past will continue...

Any encouragement or comments that will keep me making/creating are welcome...thank you to those of you who have recently given me more ideas for crafts....its looking like christmas bunting could be the next project ( Thanks Amy)...

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Catching up... tea,cake + Craft

Today after riding into town on my bike and collecting my thoughts walking around town, I visited my craft buddy Helen!!!

On arrival I was offered a cup of tea in one of Helens very nice Kath kidston cups, carrott cake buns + a warm smiley welcome. Helen I are creating handmade crafts to sell at Christmas, we will be based in the cornwall,devon area! You may find us selling our gifts at various carboots/crafts fairs....details of dates + times will be posted soon.


Over the last 2 weeks, I have been thinking about various ideas for christmas crafts and have been gathering different materials, inspiration from shops etc

I also find inspiration when hanging around with good friends, walking,riding my bike,reading,listening to music and generally my everyday life activities....

any christmas craft ideas would be welcome!!! Please comment below or e-mail me on linzybenz@hotmail.com

Free Funky Material

After receiving a free 30ich television and DvD player from my local church Waterfront ( NewFrontiers) my faith in people and good heartedness has been restored....not only did I receive this as a free gift, BUT...I have also been given lots of fab fabrics ...

As any eager creative/textilely person out there would know...this can lead to all kinds of new inventions and ideas.... With all this new material I can get on with my crafty christmas collection!!!

I have managed to make a considerable amount of MINI fabric hearts now...some of which I have given away as small presents to friends...

Some of my christmas collection will consist of Fabric christmas tree decorations such as small hanging stars,stockings,mini trees etc

Apart form my busy fingers sewing, my mind creating and my soul contemplating...I have also enjoyed over the past 2 weeks spending time at BBQs, friends houses for meals, general socialsing, riding my bike, discussing God, holding cute babies and dancing my little heart out!!!

Any requests to purchase some christmas crafts from myself would be welcome please e-mail me on linzybenz@hotmail.com

MiNi HeArTs...

After a week of riding around on new found obsession( New Bike),Picking plums, blackberries,generally enjoying the weather!! I began to think about new creations for decorative fabric brooches. Having already made a few hanging hearts, the idea of making MINI hearts came to mind.....

Today I got straight on with task and have managed to make some....not bad for a first try!!!! I will continue to broaded my attempt at these and experiment with different patterns,beads,etc!!! Also the quality of the mimi hearts I am hoping will improve with practice..
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Surprisingly I have found the MINI hearts to be the most difficult to make so far due to they're small size, a little bit tricky and fiddly

My next design adventures with MINI hearts will be keyrings, scented and general acessories for bags,clothes,jackets,cardi's and anything else of choice.

I am also busy getting some camping stuff to go to a Together@Westpoint gathering organised by New Frontiers... This will be at Exeter show ground and will last for 4 days!!!! Things I still need to get are; Colourful/patterned wellies, Cag in bag, warm socks....

Any interest you may have in positivelycontributing to ideas for crafty creations or any commissions you would like then please do not hesitate to contact me via e-mail linzybenz@hotmail.com

Cupcake Mad!!

over the past week various people have given me ideas for my fabric pictures, such as birds,boats,teapots + cups, cupcakes.... Having thought about designing some new fabric pictures I experiemented with creating a cupcake material picture!!! This took about 3hrs to make and is one of my larger pieces of work. Having completed this, I can now develop and expand upon this theme....


Also as a side line...I fancied making + decorating some cupcakes ...which were delish : ) !!!

Over the weekend I had some friends around for some homemade lasagna, wine and Dvds all of which was good fun...we watched Little Miss Sunshine...which was about a massively dysfunctional family and hugely funny, but a bit wrong in places!!!!

Today after church me and my friend Helen visited a craft fair to get ideas and inspiration. Helen and I are both very interested in all things crafty ....Helen also has a blog and online shop if you are interested in visiting her blog please click on her link....

If you would like to purchase any of my crafts then please e-mail me on linzybenz@hotmail.com

Inspirations 2 ( Crafts + Class)

Having spent time in cornwall, particuarly Port Isaac for a few days!!! I gained some great ideas for new crafty creations!!!

I still had some fabric left from sue wooldridge and decided to make some more corsages, but with patterned material!!! Having sold a few brooches already... I wanted to expand my collection in order to appeal to different customer taste...

In order to broaden my collection of hand crafted stuff... I have experimented with creating pictures with material...my first attempt (Applique teapot) has been successful and will definitely help with developing ideas for the future!!!

Any ideas would be welcome for more applique pictures. Please e-mail me linzybenz@hotmail.com Comissions wil also be considered!!