Yum! I found a lovely ‘two vanilla cupcakes’ recipe and they came out perfectly! Covered them with cream cheese icing and some white chocolate buttons!
Cushions.
Ahhh I decided to make the most of my Friday afternoon off work and dig out the sewing machine and whip up some new cushions for our bed!
We purchased the Citta Design Chiya duvet cover set with the matching euro cushions the other week - and we love it! Great quality and it is super comfy… think I may of managed to convince Guy that we should buy a new Citta duvet each season release :)
Here is their stunning photo of it:
(I wish our room looked as tidy at the moment!)
So we ended up getting the matching euro cushion covers instead of the Megura euro covers - so when my darling mother got me a Megura tea towel - I decided to get crafty!
Using the tea towel and some white drill cotton fabric, I made the most of my new invisible zipper foot to whip up some cushions!
And the finished product…..
To be honest…. I think they look great! And they look fantastic on our bed (will upload some pictures when I get the chance for some daylight!)! I have been sewing invisible zips using a normal zipper foot, so the new foot makes it a lot easier and gives a really clean final result! I definitely advise to use feather-inner cushions - gives a great plump look and very comfy to snuggle into!
Total cost of the two cushions:
- Citta Design Megura tea towel $11.50
- White Cotton Drill Fabric $2.5
- Invisible Zips $10
Great bargain!
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A quick photo I took on my phone at Wynyard Quarter this weekend - had a lovely lunch and planning another one for this Friday - will take more photos and if you haven’t been down there - check it out! And if you are not in Auckland, the webcam is just as interesting!
Lazy Sunday
Ah I have been enjoying a lazy relaxing day! Can never have too many of those!
Today has been spent catching up on some TV, spot of supermarket shopping and following the realtime twitter updates of the RMS Titanic!
I’m not much of a history buff - but it has been really interesting following the story of the Titanic as it is the 100-year anniversary of its sinking - check out TitanicRealTime on twitter, created by The History Press - it has been giving a perspective from the captain, crew, officers and passengers from the final engineer testing of the Titanic, through to the current stage of the Carpathia rescuing the passengers that were lucky enough to make it onto a lifeboat.
Right…. so that’s my History story for the year….
While following the tweets I got a little crafting in the Kitchen tonight.
After watching Masterchef NZ’s Masterclass last night, we were craving risotto - so made a yummy spinach & mushroom risotto!
And some yummy muffins for this weeks lunches!
Now I think an early night is best for a week of work, spending time with my Mum who is heading up to Auckland and no-doubt a spot of shopping (thank-you Mum in advance!)!
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Super Happy!
I am feeling very grateful, happy and spoiled this month as my ‘Canterbury Plains’ embroidery won the ‘Colour Me Happy’ prize for March over at Colour Me There!
So I am looking forward to doing some online shopping with my prize vouchers! Some new lunch boxes and pretty jewellery will be on the list!
Make sure you enter in for April - super easy! - just ‘like’ Colour Me There’s facebook page and follow through the details to enter through the Rafflecopter link and all you need to do is tell Maddie ‘something that makes you smile’!
Easy Peasy! Must get my entry in!
Lyla Quilt
Thought I would share a quilting project I completed a month or so ago and recently gifted to a friends beautiful daughter - Lyla!
Was my first attempt at using paper-pieced letters and found it all quite straight-forward!
Haven’t had a chance to do any sewing since I started working full-time… but my lovely mother taught me how to cut out a sewing pattern, so think I shall attempt fashion sewing… hmmm!
Colour Me Happy - March
Ekkkk it’s the 31st of March and I have made it in without a minute to spare!
This months challenge for Colour Me There’s (previously Li’l Magoolie) Colour Me There project was to get crafty with the colour green!
This month has been split between two weeks in my hometown of Christchurch spending some quality time with family and friends and the last two weeks have been spent starting my new job - so I decided to craft something a little different which did not require my sewing machine and would be a more portable project!
When I was flying into Christchurch I had a lovely view of the Canterbury Plains - such a great mix of greens and I love how ‘normal’ it looks compared to how Christchurch has been affected from the earthquakes.
So as soon as I touched ground I knew I needed to make something to keep me busy while in Christchurch, so head off to get thread, fabric and a embroidery hoop!
Using a image from Google Maps I made my own wee plan for a embroidery piece inspired by the plains….
So thousands and thousands of stitches, more hours then I would ever think it would take and about 60m of thread later, I have my finished work hanging on our wall in Auckland - a great way reminder to were we will always be from and relate to!
Ekkk… haven’t posted for a while! Been busy the last few weeks where I have enjoyed my last 10 days of freedom in Christchurch and started my new job on Monday!
Will do an update with some of my highlights from Christchurch’s Ellerslie International Flower Show in the weekend, but in the meantime - here is a cool image of the 3-storey vertical garden wall that greats me when I pop by from the train platform and walk up to the stairs at work!
Image from Inhabitat - Click through to see more details of NZ’s largest ‘Green Wall’ at Britomart!
Ah. I am sort of in love with everything in Citta Design’s Tokyo collection. Birthday present list shall be sorted!
Check it out on their website - Citta Design
Flew into Christchurch today…. I love the ‘patchwork’ Canterbury plains… has an idea brewing in my mind!
Park and Ride.
Another project I managed to get finished in the weekend as the weather bomb hit NZ was the binding on a quilt I finished last week!
This quilt incorporates 1 yard of ‘Park and Ride’ fabric by Alexander Henry with little striped houses! I couldn’t bring myself to cutting the fabric up, as it has such a great overall pattern repeat - so I cut the yard into squares and then pieced together while incorporating the houses.
When including the seam allowances when piecing the squares together did mean that some of the ‘village people’ lost bodies, the odd head and there is a few funny looking cows!
For the quilting, I just followed along the seams but didn’t stitch over the houses - so on the backing, the stitches have an interesting pattern!
For the back of the quilt, I used a cool fabric I found at Spotlight - has a Marimekko feel about it!
As I only had 1 yard of the AH fabric - the quilt is more baby/lap sized… so not sure where this one will end up! For now it looks great on the wall!
Global Hassock.
Ahhhh lazy Sundays! Well sort of lazy…. quickly writing this so I can attend a Pump class at the gym!!
Thought I would take a few quick pictures of some of my latest crafty creations!
A week or so ago I purchased the Surrur book from Bolt of Cloth - it is a ‘Make your own Marimekko’ book with lovely pictures and ideas from Marimekko designers of creations - including plenty of patterns and tutorials - MUST HAVE from Marimekko fans!
I had planned to pick up the book when down in Christchurch this week, but couldn’t wait so had to send my father to the post office to send it north asap!
A love the ‘Global Hassock’ idea - a sort of cross between an old-school children’s toy/cushion/foot stool so was my first must-make!
Here is an image from the book…
I made a decision that making mine out of Marimekko fabric may be the end of my craft funds account, so used some fabric I had in my stash and here is my finished product….
I love it!
It ended up being about 40 x 40cm - so a little bit too small for a footstool (guess I will have to make another!)
Here it is on the couch…
And on the floor…
And with it’s miniature friend…
Looks great and brilliant cushion for napping on the couch!
The mini-me will live on my desk as a ‘distraction’ tool…
So much fun to make and piece together!
x
March.
So I have decided to not partake in Marchs Photo-A-Day challenge… quite a bit happening at my end!
Had some great news at the start of the month that my painted stool won Li’l Magoolie’s February challenge! Certainly made my day and I was surprised as there was some great painted furniture pieces - head over to her blog to check them out :)
(NOTE: Sorry that this had previously said ‘Li’l Magnolia’ - thats autocorrect typing for you!)
This month is about ‘getting crafty with the colour green’ - so I have my mind turning with different ideas… may have to dig out my ‘green’ fabric options!
This weekend I have a few projects to finish off before I head to Christchurch for 13 days… one is a quilt for a friend…
Just a sneak peek - as can’t give too much away, incase they see this!
Hope you all have a great weekend! We have been hit by a ‘weather bomb’ - so will see what this day holds!
