Oh my word I just found out about this super coolness over at Poppytalk. This Swedish designed Manga inspired textile range (yes, you read that right) is now available at Ikea for the knee-high-to-a-grasshopper price of £3.99/m (yes, you read that right too).

Sadly, not my handy work, someone else’s. Cute eh? Read all about him here.

Ok so we haven’t actually built the kitchen that this will live in yet but…it was a bargain. And it’s beautiful. I had to have it.

Despite the fact that the temperature outside hasn’t budged much above zero this weekend, it is feeling decidedly Spring-like in our house. We had some family over for a bite to eat yesterday and they very kindly brought with them these beautiful colourful flowers. Add to that the little bunch of daffs I bought in [...]

Finished! Overall I’m pretty happy with it although the finish isn’t quite as neat as I would have liked. I followed instructions to make a basic hot water bottle cover in my Romantic Home Sewing book. It was all going swimmingly right up until the part where I had to attach the lining to the [...]

Well I did set up this blog to record my adventures in sewing and finally…I actually got around to making something! I’ve made a few bags before but I don’t mind telling you that I am particularly proud of this one. I really took my time over it so that every line of stitching would [...]

My favourite Christmas present 2009. No actually, my favourite Christmas present EVER! Ok… apart from the dove grey suede pixie boots that I got from Santa when I was 9. Obviously. It’s from The Conran Shop and I would love to give you a link to it but sadly (for you) it doesn’t seem to [...]

The best bit about taking down the Christmas decorations? Falling in love all over again with the things that bring joy for the other 11 months of the year.