My Creative Space.....

in my creative space this week is more crafts for our school fete being held in October. My sew jo continues to evade me (my poor sewing machine is looking a little forlorn in the corner :(

so this week its paper crafting. My paper scraps drawer is OVERFLOWING so i though i might raid it and see what i could come up with to use some up ....

i always get these magnetic list makers as promo materials from our local real estate and the other day i was looking it and thought 'why not make one that is actually nice to look at?", they are handy for shopping lists, messages,notes, anything really. So this is what i came up with



They are super simple and quick to make with just basic supplies...






i was thinking of putting up a tutorial for these - would anyone be interested??

More creative spaces here


Thanks for stopping by!
JESS

Chenille love....

well the fete sewing continues and i just thought id post the end result of last week's my creative space.

the pattern called for chenille all over but decided to use a mix of cotton fabric and chenille just to use some different colours (and my supply of chenille is limited!) and also just trial to pattern. It was straight forward enough though i did have to get out the seam ripper when i realised that i forgot to leave an opening to stuff the arms..... whoops.

So id like you to meet ....

Florence


and Paige


How cute are there little faces?!
these ladies are headed off to the school fete craft stall that i've been madly sewing for .....

but i think im hooked!

i even managed to pick up a big scrap bag on ebay from this lovely lady who has the most incredible chenille collection. Thanks Selina!



hopefully there will be some more cute little faces popping up on here soon.

thanks for stopping by!

JESS

The fete craft stall...

Well the busyness of school holidays of over and its back to business as usual for us - so i finally have been able to steal a quiet moment while miss B is taking a nap to post.....

My son went into year one this year and at the start of the year we were informed that this year is a fete year - our school only hold one every two years. It is of course the biggest fundraiser the school holds and this year our class has been assigned the craft stall!!

I am excited to be able to create all sorts of goodies to contribute. So over the last few months i have started a 'fete box' which i aim to keep filling as i get a chance to sew and do some papercraft - and lets face it, you can never start too early!!

So i wanted to share just a couple of things that are starting to fill my box....

Not an original idea, as you all probably know but i think it will be popular with mums, are these 'art wallets' with space for crayons on one side and a pad of paper on the other...



fold it up and your armed with entertaiment for the littlies....


another item for the kiddies are these superhero headbands. I found this great tutorial over on the curlypops blog and the lovely Cam had kindly allowed me to use this pattern to make some to donate.








also some bean bags (filled with rice) - the kids LOVE to throw them around - i had about 20 of them zooming around my lounge room!




and some of these heart hanging ornaments...



and of course every crafters favorite friend - pincushions (which i forgot to take photos of - sorry!)

I have several other project in various stages of construction which i will share soon

But for now i'd love to put the call out to my readers for some suggestions and/or ideas??
I am a newbie to the fete thing so i am asking anyone - if you have had experience with fete craft stalls - i am open to suggestions - What sells well? What items are popular? What would you all like to see at the fete stall?

Any suggestion would be much appreciated!

Thanks for stopping by!

Jess