Haberdashery Pie

2010-05-10T12:13:00.003+01:00

This little tin came from a blind box machine and had a little dog model in it. I decorated it up and made a matching bracelet to go in it for my Mum's birthday.

I made this for the Sakura pendant swap on swap bot, the flower is made from layers of felt stitched together.

This cup cake is made from old woollen sweaters which have been felted. Most of the cupcakes I have made are pin cushions but this one is decorated with beads because I gave it to my Mum for her birthday.

Back on the Net!!!!

2010-05-10T10:13:00.001+01:00

Life has been so crazy! I won't go into details but here are a few bullet points to describe what has happened since my last post;

I had surgery
Father taken into care
Father died
New job
Moved house

Finally things are starting to settle down, I'm back on line and starting to get my virutal life back on track as well as my real one!

Despite everything I have always managed to find time to do a little bit of crafting, I don't think I would survive with out it! I will post a few photos of recent projects below.

Easter Bunnies

2009-04-25T23:31:00.001+01:00

Easter Bunnies, originally uploaded by Haberdashery Pie.

I haven't been able to make any entries for a while because I have been ill and then went to visit my folks for Easter.

I made these felt bunnies with their papier mache eggs for my parents as an Easter present.

works of art ATC's

2009-03-02T11:27:00.001Z

For trade FWAA, originally uploaded by Haberdashery Pie.

This week I also joined the flickr group "works of art ATC's". The founder of this group sets a weekly challange to create an ATC inspired by a famous/iconic work of art.

I made these ATC's for the week beginning 23rd February, the work of art was Da Vinci's The Annunciation.

My first Skinny!

2009-03-02T11:03:00.001Z

Once I caught a fish alive-skinnyweek-Viahto, originally uploaded by Haberdashery Pie.

This week I discovered Skinny's! These are like ATC's only bigger , 3x5 inches. I first saw them on poetboy's flickr photostream whilst I was looking at her ATC's for a trade, of course I had to find out more! I joined the flickr group "skinnys" and took part in their weekly challenge which for last week was to use numbers.

I made this skinny from; a piece of cardboard packaging for the base, images from an old fishing manual and numbers from bingo cards, with the addittion of some ink naturally!

It was lots of fun and I think I will quickly becone addicted to skinnys!

Where art and mail collide. card3

2009-02-25T22:31:00.001Z

art+mail #2 , originally uploaded by Haberdashery Pie.

I'm really into mail art at the moment and have been joining and creating swaps for it. I have also started a swap-bot group called "creative mail swappers".

This is the third card that I made for the swap-bot swap "where art and mail collide (great title!). I decided to keep it simple with this one, it is made from paperscraps.

Where art and mail collide. card2

2009-02-25T22:28:00.001Z

art+mail #2, originally uploaded by Haberdashery Pie.

I'm really into mail art at the moment and have been joining and creating swaps for it. I have also started a swap-bot group called "creative mail swappers".

This card was also made for the swa-bot swap "where art and mail collide". It is made from paperscraps and stamped images of fish left over from another project. This ia my favourite out of the 3 cards.

Where art and mail collide

2009-02-25T22:25:00.001Z

art+mail #2, originally uploaded by Haberdashery Pie.

I'm really into mail art at the moment and have been joining and creating swaps for it. I have also started a swap-bot group called "creative mail swappers".

This card was made for the swa-bot swap "where art and mail collide (great title!). It is made from paperscraps, stickers and images saved from note paper and ebvelopes etc which others have sent to me.

Current swaps

2009-02-22T13:33:00.000Z

I have been working to get all my swaps ready to send and will be sending off a big batch today. I finished making the 12 movie themes FB's for the S-B movie FB swap which I will be sending to redrose2007 and expressogirl74, you can see them on my flicker page. The russian doll is a bookmark and will be making it's way to robincanham. I am really into Matryoskas at the moment and had great fun making this bookmark. The other photo shows 4 ATC's I made with the theme wabi-sabi for a swap going to wackystuff.

Cranes for Chris - A Fitting Tribute

2009-02-19T16:03:00.000Z

A few weeks ago a friend of our, Chris Livesley, was tragically killed in a car crash. He was a well loved and important member of our community at the school where we work and live, his loss was felt by everyone.

You can read the East Grinstead Courier report here http://www.thisissussex.co.uk/eastgrinstead/news/Forest-Row-community-shock-crash-death-fireman/article-648431-detail/article.html.

I came up with the idea of asking everyone in the community to make at least one origami crane in memory of Chris. This was not only a fitting tribute to Chris but helped give us all a focus during this difficult time. We were aiming for 1000 cranes and had 500 folded and threaded into garlands in time to send to Chris' funeral, once the other 500 cranes are ready they will be hung up at the school in memory of Chris. The photo at the start of the post shows the 500 granes just before they went to the funeral.

Techno whizz.....NOOOT!!

2009-02-19T01:03:00.000Z

Today I have made a start with trying to get all this sorted out! I mean uploading photos to flicker and liking them to this site, something tells me this is going to take me a long time! At least by the end I might actually know what I'm doing! These ATC's are from a series entitled "Precious" which I made and are among the photos I uploaded today. You can checkout my Flickr Photostream at www.flickr.com/photos/haberdasherypie

Today I also discovered http://www.folksy.com/ , It is a great, new, UK version of Etsy where you \can buy and sell craft stuff, chat with other crafters and share ideas and patterns. At the m oment it is still in the beta phase and only available to UK users but it should go global soon, I'll keep you posted!

Flickr

2009-02-18T23:59:00.001Z

I have been putting photos on my Flickr and setting up links, this is a test post. Visit my profile at www.flickr.com/people/haberdasherypie

Starting a new blog

2009-02-17T21:48:00.000Z

For the last couple of years I have had my own web site and made a pitiful attempt at keeping a blog there as well as using it to host photo galleries of my art and craft work. I have now realised that there are loads of great free sites, like Blogger, out there where I can keep blogs, photo galleries and shops without the expensive subscription fees. Of course It means that everything won't all be in one place any more but with the help of Blogger, Flicker and Etsy I hope to tie it all together through this blog.