Happy New Year: Welcome 2013

Happy New Year Bloggers!

I hope you enjoyed celebrations last night on welcoming a new year and I have a feeling this year will be a good one. Primarily because I will be graduating this year and can't wait to start living my life outside of university and putting this craft business into full swing.

I spent my New Year celebrations crafting and have been accumulating ideas for new workshops that will be beginning in March, so exciting times ahead and of course details will be posted as soon as finishing touches have been applied.

So do we have any New Year resolutions? Well.......

1. Continue to do more and bigger workshops in a variety of places - hopefully a new venue this year.

2. Set up an Etsy account for some of the projects we make.

3. Host our own Christmas Craft Fair - this may be the biggest and most challenging of the resolutions but will be so worth it if it all goes well.

4. Start and finish my Smashbook.

Has anyone else made any resolutions yet?

12 Days of Christmas: Day 12 - Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

For the final day I thought I would share with you an image of our magical tree. All the decorations that have been featured in the 12 days are all hanging on this tree with a unique collection of many vintage and Disney decorations. I also took a few close ups, so enjoy and I wish you all a Merry Christmas.

12 Days of Christmas: Day 11

White Dove Decoration

This decoration is once again so simple and effective to make and yet it is also so versatile as you could also use this as a decoration throughout the year.

Materials Needed:

Wooden Dove

White paint - highly recommend Annie Sloan paint for a perfect finish

Bell

Ribbon

This is the last of the decorations with only one more day to go which will complete the 12 days of Christmas.



12 Days of Christmas: Day 10

Star Decoration

So finding 12 ideas leading up to Christmas can be a bit overwhelming and therefore I have borrowed an idea from my sister's tree for day 10 and I think it looks fabulous and once again so simple to make.

Materials Needed:

Flat wooden star decoration

Festive paper

Pearl gems

Ribbon

12 Days of Christmas: Day 9

Christmas Angel

This beautiful Christmas angel will look perfect either at the top of the tree or hanging as a decoration below and once again very simple to make!

Materials Needed:

Peg - with a round end (to be used as the head)

Lace

Wings - either cut your own or use a die cut

Gold Ring - Amazon

Gold string

Glue gun

12 Days of Christmas: Day 8

Vintage Gift Bags

Make your gift extra special by placing it in a paper bag that has been decorated with vintage imagery and lace. It will look so pretty that they won't even want to undo it to see what's inside!

Materials Needed:

Brown Paper Bag

Printed Vintage Imagery

Bits of fabric and lace

Buttons

Small Peg

Ribbons

Glue Gun

12 Days of Christmas: Day 7

Photo Decorations

These decorations make the perfect gift for someone or if not a gift you can decorate your tree with the memories of loved ones.

Materials Needed:

Plain Wooden Decorations - Bauble Shape

Photo cut to shape of the decoration

Glossy Accents - this will create the glazed look over the top of the decoration

Ribbon