Showing posts with label bunting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bunting. Show all posts

18.11.13

*Get Your Christmas Craft On*- Day 4


Hiya...

Day 4 of some Christmas crafting...and this one is the easiest, happiest, simplest, loveliest 10 minute job before the big day, I could throw at you!

I'm flipping doily obsessed  a doily lover, like many of us that blog and read, and craft and blog, and read and *PIN*...

They are timeless...clever...and come in both fabric (for us serious collectors- yes Liz Troy!) and paper which allows you endless craft ideas!

Mason jars, filled with Christmas goodies and wrapped in string and a fabric doily- H.E.A.V.E.N. in my small world!

Beautiful soaps, wrapped in a fabric doily and beautiful, simple fabric ribbon- D.I.V.I.N.E- teacher's present done!

This craft, using paper doilies is fab- perfect for a little Christmas cheer- but simple enough to leave up ALL year...

In the past I have folded larger doilies in half and sewn the strings in the centre (find that *How To* here)...making for lovely paper bunting that stretches across rooms, and windows, and costs virtually nothing in both your time and money...

This year, I decided to make falling strings of doilies- a little like snow flakes- to fill an empty frame we have hanging above our sofas.

You need nothing but a small bag of doilies, any size...and your sewing machine!


If you don't own a sewing machine...or if you're thinking this is the perfect craft to palm off to to share with the kids, and their friends...
Then string or cotton, could be taped to the centre of each doily...(a small piece of invisible tape would do the job).

This is truly the best *10 minute festive DIY*.


I've got wee little nails in the top of my frame up there on the wall...they are at pretty random lengths- totally the way I work when it comes to quick crafting- and are strong enough to bung up a string of paper doily bunting, or to hang some fairy lights and Christmas deco's I can't bare to pack away.


Day 4- *Too Easy Paper Doily Bunting*...E.N.J.O.Y

I also have a stash of coloured paper doilies, gorgeous for birthday parties...this is a craft for every event in your calender!

Happy 10 Minute Crafting...

Melissa xox




6.2.12

*make it monday*...doily bunting how-to...

*make it monday*...


doily bunting...



i know this is not a new one...i've raved about my love of doily bunting a zillion fair few times on this

ol'blog o'mine...

but it's one to share again & again...as it makes a room happy, sweet...a little of the old-time-when-

the world-was-simple kinda decorating...

& for me- it says ol"Blighty all over...

anything that reminds me of our life in the English countryside is a heart-tugging winner in our little

house by the beach...



you know what you need gals...


paper doilies...{i found a stack of them in the gorgeous-ness that is PULP }

a ball of good ol'fashioned hardware store string...cheap & white...

a sewing machine...


simply fold in half over the string & sew...


don't attempt to sew the doilies & then thread them onto the string...

this will send you mental a little cross eyed & cause a huge flippin whallop few moments of

frustration...

just fold over the string as you go along & sew in straight stitch...

hang generously ALL over the house...


make it monday

short & oh so very sweet

old fashioned & fresh

the perfect combination


see ya tomorrow for a *virtual coffee*

love you to join me

we're in the garden- a little *Great Gatsby* like- for pots of tea
&
a proper *how's your week* catch up

xoxox


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