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Maybe I should have been a baker....

Posted by vicki brown on

Well I am looking for a career change and I do have this huge obsession with cupcakes at the moment!

I just absolutely adore the aesthetics of these lovely little scrumptious cakes. I am particularly proud of the little cupcake buttons I made this morning. I have already adorned my favourite cardigan with these treasures and it looks super cute. Daylight is fading here so I shall post a picture...

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Beauty in Unexpected Places

Posted by vicki brown on

I just got back from a lovely spring walk around my little (well actually it's the biggest village in England, maybe even the world) village and it was so so surprising! We've lived here for almost 9 months now and yet there is so much more to it than I realised. The same thing happened in the summer when we decided to go wondering not expecting to find much, when we came across a lovely canal and...

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Busy Bees

Posted by vicki brown on

Indeed what a busy bee I was yesterday! Apart from all the boring things, going to the doctors, post office and food shopping, I also managed lots of creating!!

I am particularly proud of these....

I used glass beads for the sprinkles as a bit of an experiment and it worked! Horah!

I also painted some new ceramic magnets, this is them in their raw form, they still need to be glazed and fired...


I part...

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A fun Day Out at the Craft Fair

Posted by vicki brown on

Went to the Craft, Hobby and Stitchshow at the NEC in Birmingham yesterday with my Mum and my sister. I've never been to the NEC before and wasn't really prepared for its vastness!! It kind of feels like an airport. However I had loads of fun, although it was incredibly exhausting. The really annoying thing was none of the stalls were actually allowed to sell anything there on the day, so despite...

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Craft Room Mayhem!!

Posted by vicki brown on

I started to sort through all my craft supplies last night and my oh my are there a lot!!
Way more than I ever realised I possessed!!
After gathering everything from all it's little nooks and crannys around the house this is what it looked like...
Argh!! Once I had got this far I just wanted to give up on everything and go watch T.V. But I soldiered on through it and actually really enjoyed putting...

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