Today I completed a personalised bag commission for my lovely friend Georgina whom I met when we both made it to the top ten of Curvy Kate’s ‘Star in a Bra’ competition. Since the competition, Georgina has gone from strength to strength through her very popular blog ‘Fuller Figure Fuller Bust‘. She has had...
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Tags: bag, bespoke, Craft, curves, fuller figure fuller bust, georgina horne, gok wan, handmade, Love, personalised, shopper, tote, UK
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I was recently asked for help with a personalised gift for a very special young lady. Andrea contacted me in order to ask for something for her best friends daughter, Erin Rose. Erin is disabled and Andrea likes to make sure every gift for her is well thought out…only this time she’d run short...
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Tags: bag, bespoke, bib, floral, name, personalised, pink, purple
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I rather like my latest quilt creation, and if I was the mother of a little tot called Charlie I may have been inclined to keep it for myself! As it is, this latest design was requested by a lovely lady I know who had recently been honoured with the title of ‘god parent’...
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Tags: bespoke, charlie, christening, Craft, handmade, keepsake, memory, patchwork, personalised, quilt, quilting, rutland, UK
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I wrote a post a few days ago entitled ‘A Cake For Queenie‘ in which I designed and made a Jubilee cake that was then published in Rutland Living Magazine. It’s a great little local magazine and one that has been kind to me in publishing my work and taking contributions so it was...
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Tags: cake, coloured, cut, jubilee, living, magazine, published, queen, rutland, sponge
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Alright, I’ll be brief and to the point. June is MENTAL. I have three weddings, a styled shoot, an engagement session, a sibling portrait shoot and a jazz singers photos to do/edit. That is aside from the new website currently in production that I have to contribute to and the fact that no single...
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Tags: couples, fun, leicestershire, Love, personal, photography, portrait, rutland, styled, travel, Wedding
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I was very honoured to be asked to make a cake for this months RUTLAND LIVING MAGAZINE and one themed towards the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. I decided upon a simple sponge cake with a twist and a bit of crafting thrown in for good measure. Here is what I came up with, and a few...
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Tags: baking, blue, bunting, cake, homemade, icing, jubilee, queen, red, royal, sponge, white
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OK OK, so there is some bunting about…I don’t know if you’ve noticed but it’s Queenie’s Jubilee this weekend and the decoration of choice is BUNTING!! Houses without it are standing out like a sore thumb right now and every high street is lined with the stuff. So, I went ahead and joined the...
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Tags: bespoke, blue, bunting, Craft, handmade, jubilee, personalised, queenie, red, sewing, UK, white
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