Weekend Wishes : The high heeled Edition

As a recent covert Jen has been in training to wear heels.

This has inspired the newest illustration in her sketchbook…

Every Girl knows how important
a decent pair of high heels can be.
They can make or break and outfit

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Make or break confidence.
High heels are not only a wardrobe luxury,
they are super pretty for inspiration too!
Check out the beautiful focus and opulence of this pair.

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How about some jewellery for your feet?

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No other words, other than WOW for this amazing shoe cake!

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LOVE LOVE LOVE
The idea of making heels
shoe storage a feature

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Adore the way an outfit can be pulled together.

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They can inspire an entire outfit
and be the finishing touch

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Do you have a quick fix,
go to favourite pair of heels?
Lets us know!
Have a fabulous weekend.
Handmade in Minch
s+j x

Weekend in sight inspiration

Hurrah! It’s almost here!
How is your week going?
We’ve discovered polyvore.

 

An amazing website to design collections of your very own!
Do go and investigate, dont forget to friend us…
We’d love to see yours too!
Here is something to brighten your senses…
how adorable is the clutch?

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We’ve been enjoying the watery sunbeams,
and managed to get out on the common.
The beautiful colours inspired this …

In local news, the cows are out!
We love our free roaming cattle on the common.
Take care when you are out and about!

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Enjoy the wind down to your weekend!
Handmade Dreams are made in minch
S+J x

WEEKEND WISHES: the pony club edition

Welcome to a rather special pony edition of weekend wishes…
Here is a brand new illustration from Jen’s sketchbook, inspired by ponies of course!

This weekend should have been Badminton Horse Trials.
This is a traditional celebration of Horses, athletes, and country living.
Every year we visit, unfortunately this is the first time (that I can remember)
it has been cancelled due to our weather, with the Olympics,
there were chances that could not be taken.
The Trials are in 3 parts…
(Click on pictures to be taken to the photographers  flickr sites)

Dressage

Cross Country

Showjumping

Do you remember vintage horses you used to play with?
I had one like this…

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How adorable is this dress for a little one?

 

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A great DIY for creating your own horse Print dress from Elsie at a Beautiful Mess

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Beautiful horse jewellery

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Every house should have a rocking horse

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a horse lover’s cake party!

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Awesome driftwood Horse sculpture

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We love horses

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Do you have a favourite horse related memory?
Enjoy your Bank Holiday weekend!
Handmade Dreams are made in minch
love S and J x

Instant cheer: oilcloth DIY

It is ferociously nasty outside today.
The rain is lashing, the wind is howling, so hunker down
Stick the kettle on and come and cheer up with some easy,quick fixes
for brightening up your home.

PROJECT 1 Brighten up your kitchen table!

 We bought this gorgeous dark wood extendable table
and 4 chairs from Stroud Auctions for only a few pennies

Add a pretty oilcloth table cloth
SHAZAAAAM!
Instant colour,
Pattern,
Life and cheeriness
hurrah for the Cath Kidston influence

PROJECT 2
recovering an old cushion
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Jazz up a tired chair. Use contemporary fabrics,
We used an apple print oil cloth

You will need
*Fabric /oilcloth
*seat pad
*scissors
*drawing pins/stapler

First cut around the base of the seat cushion.
Remember to leave a decent border to accomodate
the depth of the cushion

The corners are the most important part of the operation!
Do not underestimate them. Take your time.

Pull the fabric tight against the 90 degree corner of the cushion.
Fold in the edges

If in doubt, follow the upholstery corner made before in the old fabric

Secure with a drawing pin
(if so desired repeat with a staple gun! Be careful!)

Secure the 4 corners first.
Work along the sides
Pulling to smooth out as you go.

Replace the seat pad and, ta da! all done!

PROJECT 3 mix and match bunting.
Raid your fabric stash.
c’mon you KNOW you have the perfect remenant somewhere.
Whizz up a few flags out of your favourites
and you have some instant summer,
even in this most foul of Aprils!

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Excuse us, now we are off to make more newborn presents…
it must be something in the water
Have a fabulous Sunday.
Handmade Dreams are Made in Minch
S+J x

Weekend wishes : The Button Edition

 Welcome to the latest edition of our weeknd wishes feature.
its been so much fun researching and collecting ideas for this week….
Oh Buttons, how do we we love thee? Let us count the ways….
Nothing makes us happier than rootling through a lovely jar of buttons.
Check out Jen’s Storage idea for Buttons here.
Buttons are inexpensive, cheery, and readily accessible.
A perfect reason as to why we love them!
These necklaces have been by far our best seller in Minchinhampton.

Today, we have been busily making cute, brightly coloured, and affordable earrings
(available at Stafford Cottage – Minchinhampton)

Do you have a favourite Tshirt?

Use buttons as a feature to disguise an unsightly mark.

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Buttons are not only pretty, but incredibly versitile.
Join us as we discover the many uses for these crafting favourites.

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Little flashes of colour for a button garland!

This would be gorgeous decoration for a baby/bridal shower!

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pretty adorable hair clips

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Make an art feature in a tiny tots room, or in your family room

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add them onto a hairband for a sweetly unique accessory

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Use them as unusual scrapbook page embellishments

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this would make a pretty unusual wedding theme… beautifully done

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wow! What a statement necklace

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We can only wish buttons grew on trees

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just in case you needed more button ideas

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Thank you for joining us this weekend, Do you have lots of plans?
we’d love hear which of our inspiration posts have been your favourite in the Button edition
HAve a fabulous weekend
Handmade Dreams are Made in Minch
Love S+J X

Weekend Wishes : The Wellington Boot Edition

Its been a mixed bag of tricks, weatherwise, in our corner of the cotswolds this weekend.
We’ve had everything from sunny picnic lunches, hailstorms, rainbows, rain like you wouldn’t believe and all in the space of a hour or so…. Its only fitting that we are prepared for such things… hence a wellington boot themed Weekend Wishes Edition.
Here we go! First off, what a beautiful example of illustration, and gorgeous handwriting

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This is such an amazing way to use up your old wellies.

Jen seems to have a penchant for splitting them right on the inside on the foot….
1 cheap pair lasted for 15 years…then 6 pairs in 12 months alone!
At least they will get a new lease of life!

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Work those wellies as part of an outfit.
Embrace your innerfashionista

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look at the wellies for tiny tots!

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Customising wellies is a fabulous idea.
Especially if you stuck indoors with tiny ones.
Then it is mandatory to go out and test said newly designed footwear in some puddles.
Its only right.

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Next in our sights is this Welly Printed fabric.
If made in oilskin how cute would a little raincoat be out of this?!

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Now we *really* get to it….. I have a friend who is getting perturbed at the forcast for her wedding in May… WORRY NOT!
This is for you! Living in the country we all love a good wedding.
This is just plain sensible!

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A wellington boot wearing bride…

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Wedding/welly obsession much?!?!

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We love the idea of this necklace celebrating our famous weather

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This is really impressive welly storage, dont you think?

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There really  is nothing better!

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We’ve packed a lot into our weekend already, and this morning looks no differesnt. Scrapbook commissions, 4 in 1 dresses, booties and dungarees… busy busy! But rest assured, we’ll be making the most out of the sunbeams and go splashing this afternoon.
What are your plans?
Handmade Dreams are Made in Minch
Love S+J x

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