Spring Wreath.

I've been a little absent here in September, I had a lot of changes going on in our little home including my husband working from home quite a bit and my boys being sick. Its been quite an adjustment for me and though I love having them all here it has made my normal routines a bit of a mess.

Anyway there has still been crafting happening here! There is always crafting happening here!

I have this white wreath hanging on my door since christmas and I had thought that it would be a lovely wreath to be able to change up with the seasons. Since it is spring here I wanted to add some colourful flowers and make it look happy and bright.

I simply bought a couple of cheap bunches of flowers from the cheap store and  pulled them apart by twisting the wire until I broke the stems apart. I have my pretty scissors here but I didn't end up using them because I didn't want to ruin them, some snippy pliers (very technical term, ha haa) would be much better but as I said I ended up just twisting them until the wire broke off.

Then I simply wound the flowers into the wreath. I guess I could have hot glued them but I want to be able to change this up for christmas so winding them in means that I will be able to pull them out and it has been enough to keep them put.

 This was a fun project and was finished in about 10 minutes and then hung straight back up on my front door.

 For just a few dollars I have a pretty colourful wreath, springy and happy. Especially nice since it hasn't stopped bucketing down here and we have had storms and flooding in little old south Australia ;)

Snail Mail #2

Some more Snail Mail went out last week and I can share it here now. Since I've been having a "thing" with yellow and blue and spring I went with it and gave my snail mail a spring theme.

 It all began with a letter written on a long piece of card stock which I added yet again (surprise surprise) butterflies too, I think I might just be a little obsessed with them at the moment! I adheared yellow polka dot  paper to the back of the letter and folded it all up like a little parcel.

 I added a tissue paper flower to the letter and folded it all up and popped it into this handmade envelope that I made to match.

 I added a small bunch of  blue project life cards

 And I also added one of my Handmade ice cream soaps, this one happens to be called 'Spring Kiss'

I'm enjoying this process so much, it is especially nice to have a girl to send something to, when you live in a house full of boys its nice to do some girl things!

Mamie Made: Spring Bunting

Spring Has Sprung! Here in my little town we are having lots of nice sunshiny days with only a few rainy ones in between. My son suggested that we put something pretty on the door (it was a proud mummy moment!)  he said the front door was looking bare, so who was I to refuse him!

 Well I finally decided on some bunting  but once I had made it I found that it was too big for the front door so I have hung it in our family room and it has cheered things up!

 Late last week I received an early birthday pressie, a silhouette!!! So I did use it to cut some of the parts of the bunting, the letters, the scalloped circles and the butterflies. The letters and the butterflies were all sprayed with some Heidi Swapp colour-shine, it gives such a pretty effect all shimmery and lovely.

I'm also loving making these tissue paper flowers, I remember making something similar when I was a kid, they are super simple and so much fun and they added some nice contrast to the yellow bunting. You can make them with different coloured layers too or even put something pretty in the center to give them an extra pop.

Don't worry I made another one exactly the same just a little smaller and hung it on my front door, its looking just as sweet and happy.