Special Requests - Heart Pin Board

It's always a proud day when you have your first special request, mine happened around this time last year. 
My manager approached me about making some heart pin board for his two beautiful daughters and loving a challenge I set to it. 

Heart Pin Board - bespoke request

Heart shaped pin board with added badges

Heart Pin Board made by @GlitteredPink

Materials:
- MDF wood cut into hearts by a specialist
- wadding
- fabric, lined with iron on vyleen
- staples
- badges to decorate
The finished size of each of these hearts is approx 1 metre by 1.5 metres.
With his daughters aged 3 and 8 the plan is for these hearts to be filled with badges and pins of places which they have visited, a visual diary. A cute and unique way to remember all the fabulous things you have done as a child. The badges featured are in honor of the 2012 Jubilee and many more special occasions from 2012 - a truly remarkable year for UK history!

I would love to hear if you have any requests which I can help with....

I dream of...

...Trees!! Random I know so let me explain!

I went to a lovely cafe this weekend called the Leaping Hare in Suffolk. If you ever have chance to go I would highly recommend it. The Eggs Benedict with bacon is scummy and the carrot cake is Devine!

Leaping Hare - Bottle Trees

After a lovely lunch I went for a mooch in the shop and came across this fabulous wooden tree which I thought would be perfect for all my little craft items! Intrigued I asked the shop assistant where I could buy one. She politely informed me that the RRP was £500 a lot more than - a. I can I afford and b. I was expecting.

However not deterred and thanks to the power of the Internet that evening I set about a search and good old Google didn't take long in finding me one for $210 from Raw Space in Australia. A fraction of the price I had been quoted but still a little steep and not to mention on the other side of the world.

So the plan is find someone to make me my very own unique wooded tree...fingers crossed...how hard can that be. In the mean time I have my dreams!

Home Sweet Heart

This summer I gave my flat a fresh lick of paint and on a roll I took to some finishing touches too. Being a keen sewer there's always lots of crafty pieces in my flat including boxes and boxes of fabric. I think we all have one of those boxes filled with, 'oooo i love that material, but I'm saving it for something special'. I am guilty of this and as a self confessed hoarder I've always got fabric to hand! 

Saving and utilising scraps from a recent bunting project (I knew I was saving them for something) I set about making some art for the flat! I hope you like the results...my bedroom certainly does!