Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day! Hope you are all having a great day! I don't usually do anything for V-day, being single usually excludes you from traditional v-day activities but this year I decided to look at this holiday in a different way!
Valentine's Day is a day to celebrate love, all kinds of love! Today I am celebrating my friends who mean the world to me! I found this cute valentine's idea over at Dandee Designs and decided to adapt it to make these presents for my friends in York! I love making friendship bracelets (tutorial will be coming soon I promise) and choosing colours and patterns for specific friends is a great way of personalising them!

(Apologies for the poor pictures! I only finished these at about 9pm last night and that was the only chance I had to photograph them before giving them to my friends this morning! I put each in an envelope and slipped it under their doors (I need to post the third on my way to town later!)

Zigzag

Arrowhead

Stripey

Whoever you are spending today with, celebrate love and enjoy yourself!

Love Rebecca

Safety Pin Charm Bracelet Tutorial

I thought I would share with you a project I put together last summer when I was playing around with the contents of my jewellery box. To explain, for Christmas when I was 17, my Nana gave me a beautiful locket that I wear everyday. This has meant that all of my other necklaces never get worn anymore! I don't mind because I love the locket but it made me think about what I could do with the random charms left unworn in my jewellery box! They all have some sentimental value so it would be nice to find a way to still wear them! Enter the safety pin charm bracelet!

Materials
Safety pins (I used 10 - the number will depend on the size of your wrist)
Assorted charms (I used 5 as that was how many I had!)
One clasp

Instructions

1. Attach your charms to the safety pins - I added just one per pin but you can experiment!
2. Join the safety pins together in a chain
3. Attach a clasp to the end safety pin
4. That's it! You are done and ready to wear your charms!


Blogger wasn't coping well with individual pictures of all my charms so here they are in a collage below...

All of these charms have memories attached and its great that I can wear them again! I bought the paw print in Ottawa (one of my favourite places!) and the Hippo in Zanzibar. The pixie is from Cornwall, the pink gem was a gift from my Canadian presents and the teddy bear from my Grandparents (I think - that one is so old I cannot really remember!). Well there you have it! A quick and easy way to give those old charms a new lease of life!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend

Love Rebecca

P.S. I am so happy...my sewing machine arrived yesterday fully functional! Already completed one project, looking forward to some more sewing!

Linking to...

Naptime Crafters

The Grant Life 

Six Sisters Stuff

Tatertots and Jello

Family Ever After

Positively Splendid 

Mine for the Making 

Happy Hour Projects

Tape Measure Bracelet

I saw this bracelet on Wild Olive and decided to have a go. I wasn't sure how it would look but with a 35p tape measure I figured if I didn't like it, I wouldn't wear it!
Result? I haven't stopped wearing it! I actually really love it and it was so easy! My tape measure was the plasticy kind but with a sharp needle it was no problem! I used bright coloured embroidery threads to sew stitches, crosses, stars and even a heart! Now to find a use for the rest of the tape measure!



















Love Rebecca

Twilight - Breaking Dawn

I am so excited. Breaking Dawn is in cinemas today and later I will be on my way to Cambridge to watch the film with my friend Na. I have been looking forward to today for weeks and this week I had a go at a couple of Twilight key rings in honour of the occasion.
I came across this tutorial on mama says sew for a pillow that had a quote on it. The quote was printed on the fabric using an ordinary printer. Freezer paper is applied to the back of the fabric and it is then put in the printer as you would a  normal piece of paper! I had a go and created these key rings that match my PJ top!
















The key rings are made completely of scraps of fabric left over from other projects!

I also made a couple of friendship bracelets in colours inspired by the Breaking Dawn book cover!

Hope you all enjoy the film this weekend!

Love Rebecca