Posts Tagged as ‘Miscellaneous’

April 19, 2009

Toy Car Launcher

Yes that’s right, it launches cars.  Go on, the weekend’s not over yet, this would really make you feel like you’d done something cool with your time instead of wasting it spending time outdoors having fun with your family and friends, building happy memories. All that stuff’s over-rated.
You know you want to … instructions to [...]

August 6, 2008

Rural Gothic

Well things have been getting just a bit too twee down here in Tweeshire … a year after moving from the big smoke and I’ve swallowed the whole ’so much for the city’ tagline, jam making and all, but now I need to mix it up a bit. So I’m going to add a [...]

June 8, 2008

Buttons II

I never knew I had such a thing about buttons, but apparently I have … for this week anyway.  My mother-in-law has very kindly donated me her own mother’s button collection and as a bonus, check out the gorgeous tin they’re in!  Looks like a hat box non?  Well you’re wrong, it once contained 7lbs [...]

May 20, 2008

Button Geek

God it’s official, I’m a craft geek. Found myself in a quilting shop in the Needlemakers last week getting all hot and bothered about buttons, of all things. Half an hour later and a few quid lighter I was still sufficiently excited about the whole experience to take a picture of purchased buttons [...]

May 13, 2008

Handbags at Dawn

Wow, an imaginative, creative and yet useful promo download from a commercial website for once … in a tribute to the blonde icy legend, Hermes have got a ‘Download Your Kelly‘ section on their website where you can choose a cutout handbag design, print it, fold it, glue it et voila. I’m thinking with [...]

May 9, 2008

Trug dealing

What better way to hail the start of summer than building a good old Sussex trug to store all that garden produce in. I went on this great course last week organised by Plumpton College at the Netherfield Centre, where they show you how to build a trug from start to finish. I’ve [...]