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All Things Bright and Beautiful

Do you remember a wee while ago I had mentioned it was Gran’s birthday?

…….. and I was going to make her a week bag for her frame

As I said I had made a couple of these for her before so when making this one it felt like a breeze, hence I decided to challenge myself with a little hand embroidery which I have done very little off before and the little I have done I was taught my my crafty mum in law. Was fairly pleased with the result of this and the secong change I made to the design of the bag was adding lace trimmings to the hem of the pocket and opening which really looked the part. Here is a few snaps of the finished product.

Gran was so pleased with her new bag and as soon as she opend it, the old one came off her frame and her new one went straight on.

My mum in law gave me a lovely phone call after to say how chuffed she is with it. When she wakes up each day and reads All things bright and beautiful she relives it every time and brings back pleasant memories for her.

Definately worth taking the time to make this for a very special wee lady.

Suzanne

This week I have has been a tad busier than normal weeks, with having three weddings it has certainly kept me on my toes. Once again I am still trying to get caught up on my past weddings but one by one we will get there.

This next one I want to share with you is again from a couple of weeks ago. It was the wedding of the lovely Suzanne which took place at the beautiful village of Crawfordsburn.

I had only met Suzanne once, oh twice (the night before her wedding as well) and I don’t think I had ever went through a list with a bride as quick before. As soon as Suzanne walked into the shop she seen what she liked and everything fell into place, although when it came to the time we had to make a few wee tweeks due to non availability as a result of the hot weather, although we had a good substitue.

Suzanne’s bouquet

Bridesmaids bouquets

Flowergirl Wands

Mens buttonholes – Scabiosa aren’t a normal choice for a buttonhole but aren’t they just lovely

Table arrangment

Cake top to compiment Bridal Bouquet

Handbag corsage

Joy

Just bring another wee blog post to you of a wedding we had a couple of weeks ago now.

Catherine carried a beautiful brooch bouquet which she got made and she wanted her bridesmaids to carry fresh flower bouquets. She came with photo wof what she would like and her choice was just gorgeous. Three i love, peony’s, hydrangeas and all white flowers. I just love the simpleness and elegance of all neutral flowers, also it was a perfect choice against her mink coloured bridesmaids dresses.

Mens buttonholes

Wrist Corsage

Table centres – Floating Roses in a fish bowl, so simple yet so effective. This is were we started to bring in a bit of colour to Catherines flowers. Catherines brooch bouquet had touches of peaches, creams, pink, blue and turquoise. Not colours you would automatically think go together but they did and they worked a treat.

2 Table Arrangments in Hall, this is were the colour from Catherine’s bouquet really got injected, sure its summer 🙂

And we put the two arrangments together to make one arrangment to sit on the top table.

Main Church Display’s

Grace

So I have got a wee bit behind with all my updates recently.

I don’t want to bombard you all at once so I will try and keep you posted again by the weekend with a little bit more of what I have been up too.

August has proved to be a very popular month in the wedding calender this year so I will have lots of lovely

weddings to show you. This one which I am blogging on I have entitled Grace as it was the name of this lovely bride and a name which I particuarly love as it is our daughters middle name and is also a personal testamony of mine.

Grace came with pictures of ideas of what she would like for her bouquets etc and everything else just fell into place from that.

In Grace’s bouquet I got to use gorgeous Peony’s and Lily of the Valley. I know these are flowers which many of you love

Then the Bridesmaids complimented the Brides with mixed Roses and Bouvardia

Mens Buttonholes

Church Entrance Flowers

Main Church Flowers

Grace provided me with all these lovely jugs to use for her special day, which just added to her flower beautifully.

Surprises!!

So last week was a week with a couple surprises, Im am just loving how the Lord is opening new doors for me 😀

First I got a phone call asking if I would attend a craft fair being held on Saturday 5th October, which I am looking forward to as this will be my first venture into the world of craft shows. My poor wee sewing machine won’t know whats hit it. I will schedule information about this in the events calender as I find out more in due course.

And secondly I got asked by a lovely lady if I would be able to do a special workshop for her… I can’t fill you in on any info on this as it is a big surprise and im soooo excited to be a part of it.

Next Wednesday is Alan’s Gran’s birthday….. Gran is in a home and as you can imagine it is always difficult to know what to get her. I have made her in the past a couple of bags that can be attached to her frame which she uses 24/7.

I know this is something which she gets great use from and a lot of others in the home admire so I thought I couldn’t go far wrong in making her a nice new one, but this time I am going to add a bit of hand embroidery to it with a line of one of her favourite courses “All things bright and beautiful”.

These are the fabrics I have chosen to make her a very pretty bag:-

Tanya Whelan Scattered Roses – Pink and Sweetie Rose – Taupe. You can find both of these on our online shop.

This will be my sewing project for the week working alongside a lovely summer wedding I am doing the flowers for this weekend. I’ll keep you posted on the finished product.

I have also been part of the doing the flowers for another couple of wedding over the last few weeks so I must the photos uploaded this week at some point for you too.

Charlene xx

29/07/2013
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New Shop Arrivals

Just back after a lovely week off and what greets me is a box off new fabrics to add to our existing lines. It feels like Christmas opening the boxes I always get so excited to see whats inside.

We now have a new Amy Butler – Gypsy Caravan cotton called WIND to add to the collection.

Im so pleased to let you know that we have also got two other gorgeous fabric collections now in.

One is by the designer Nel Whatmore with her Eden Collection, I absolutely love her prints, they remind me so much of being out in the garden

And the second is by Valorie Wells with her gorgeous “Wish” voile collection. These are such a beautiful light and floaty fabric, perfect for wee summer tops and dresses for this fab weather we have been having and the colours are so summery too.

I will get these loaded up later today onto the online shop for you to have a wee browse through.

22/07/2013
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We’re On Holiday!

We are closed now until Monday 22nd July for a little family holiday time. If you want to place any online orders feel free and we will put them together for you when we return on Monday 22nd.

Before I log off for the holidays I just want to leave you this wee blog of the Roman Blind which I made for my wee men’s bedroom which to my shame is well overdue.

I bought a kit which supplied all the tapes and rods etc needed to complete the project. I have made a Roman Blind before. It turned out ok but not perfect so I was sure that I was going to learn from my mistakes from it. The key to making one is MEASURE, MEASURE, MEASURE!! otherwise they are quick and fairly easy to do.

I began by measuring my window and adding a further 2cm seam allowance to the sides and top seams and added 6cm to the bottom.

I chose a heavy weight dark denim fabric which would sit nicely when gathered on the folds and doesn’t need any lining added to it.

I ironed it, measured it and cut it to size then folded in the sides and top seams and stiched them in place using red thread for a fun contrast.

I then repeated this for the bottom seam, leaving either end open to insurt the rod.

Next I pinned on the velcro to the top hem and stitched in place

Then I measured out my fabric evenly and drew a line with tailors chalk to mark were to sew on the rod tape.

My rods and main bar were a fraction to long so my hubby give them a chop for me

I then insurted the rods

Attached the blind to the main bar along the velcro strip

Brought the string from the bar down through the holes which are on the rod tape and secured in place with hooks that came in pack.

Then my hubby drilled holes for me to secure the bracked in place

And VOILA!!

Very pleased with the final result, just need to take it down to give it a little iron, as the creases in the fabric are making me cringe.

And whilst it was being put in placed and photgraphed at near 11pm there were two little men fast asleep completely none the wiser 🙂

Just one final note if you decide to make one and it will be hung in a childs room or there are children around.

Our NEW online store is now OPEN – come and have a look.

It gives me great pleasure to finally be able to share my first ever blog post with you thats all about our new venture developing into fabrics, yarns and haberdashery which will be working alongside our fresh and silk flowers.

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Its been a steady yet busy few weeks for us sourcing new suppliers and getting our new website put together but I’ve really enjoyed meeting all our new contacts. I never imagined sourcing fabrics to be so difficult as I was surrounded with such beautiful choices

I have to give a special credit and massive thanks to Darryl Bain from dbsquared who has been incredibly patient in giving advice and help. Couldn’t recommend him highly enough, he listened to all my thoughts and ideas and made them all possible and as a result I have now got this lovely new site to blog with and showcase all our products and flower designs.

In due course we plan to have our own wee sewing bee in operation where we will run all our workshops and classes.

Being surrounded by all the lovely fabric is making my mind burst with ideas of things I want to make! although being a working mum, it can be a challenge in itself getting time as I’m sure many of you will appreciate.

I hope you enjoy browsing around our new webside!

Charlene 😀 x

New fabrics soon!

Super EXCITED about a business meeting I have tomorrow with a fabric representative, but its not any sort of fabric…. its a designer one…. All will be revealed