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Valentine Ninjas...

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I had to share these photos with a batch of Valentine Ninjas I knocked up a week or so ago, with the help of my lovely man.


Now available in my shop.

xxx

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Paper Flowers

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UPDATE....I found the link for the tutorial for these lovely flowers....
http://foldingtrees.com/2008/11/kusudama-tutorial-part-1/#more-1383

After such good intentions to return to the world of blogging and all things internetbased on Sunday, I was struck down by a horrible sickness bug on Monday, which made me pretty much incapable of anything! Which is why it's taken me up until now to actually...

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Oh Christmas Tree...

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When I got back from work on Sunday there was the sweetest (and quite tiny) Christmas tree waiting for me, still wrapped up and crying out to be decorated!

So here he is. I can't really get any great pictures because of the light, but I can assure you that it looks fantastic, very traditional. And every single decoration that adorns his branches was hand made by myself of Johnny which makes it even...

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Becoming a Ninja factory...

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That's certainly what my front room felt like yesterday as I spread out all my newly purchased supplies and begun making a mammoth amountof ninjas! I even went out in the rain especially to buy those supplies! It was not at all nice...and I'm absolutely certain that cars were deliberately speeding up to go super fast through those many puddles that soaked me from head to toe! I thought people were...

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A Baby Blue Blanket...

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As promised...here are some pictures of the (still very much in progress) baby blanket I've been knitting. I'm by no means an expert knitter, but I do really enjoy doing it as, a result this blanket will be incredibly simple, but well loved I hope.

I've been using Rowan Milk Cotton, I'm not really sure what inspired someone to make a yarn out of milk protein, but it is so so beautifully soft and...

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