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3 years!

We just celebrated our 3 year anniversary!

My lovely and wonderful husband has really spoilt me, giving me the same flowers we had at our wedding(we also had purple roses in there too) and these pretty cool gifts!

The traditional gift for 3 years is leather, which is a bit odd, and i shamefully still have to find an appropriate gift for him (hang my head in shame! it is such a masculine material aswell! i have no excuse, other than a severe lack of time...)

I love you Husband, and not just for the lovely gifts you give!

make your own ironing board cover!

Recently, i had noticed how hard i was working our ironing board..


it looked sad, run down, and burnt out!

So i thought to myself " how hard can it be to make an ironing board cover???

It was sooooo simple!

All you need is:

a piece of 100% COTTON fabric, the size of your board and a bit more. Make sure it is something you can live with, cause you will be seeing it a lot...

some store bought bias binding, any colour will do.

and a sewing machine.


And all you do is:

Take off the existing cover, and lay it flat on the new fabric you are using, having pulled out the string. Save the string!

cut out the shape, and the sew the bias binding around the edge, folded over. Don't forget to leave a gap for the string!

Thread the string through the bias binding, and put this over the old batting, over your board. Pull the string as tight as you can and tie.

Done!!! wow, it feels like a new board!!!!!!

Crafty Ireland launch!

Yay!

The first Crafty Ireland launch was great!

We met up and got to know a few of our Etsy Ireland team members and share some ideas for things that we can do together!

If you had hoped to come but couldn't make it, we will be meeting up again on August 15th in a location yet to be discussed and we will be learning about making treasuries, amoungst other things.

If you would like to join in, just get in touch, either drop a note here, or convo myself or Tanya Mac. It's that easy!!! This is going to be great!

Etsy meet up tommorrow!

Hi all,

if you are meeting up with the Etsy Ireland team tomorrow, keep an eye out for this banner, we will be meeting under it at the entrance to St Stephens green at 1 pm.

See you there!

helloooo! anyone home??

Have you seen this dolly?

For all those people who have waiting for me to make more Emily dolls, i have come up with a better solution.

You make her!

No, that is just rude! what i mean is that i am working on a pattern that you can make your own dolly, and even add your own personal touches to it! i hope to have this done by September, so that anyone who wants to have a project for Christmas will have plenty of time to make her! i promise you, i will make it super easy!!