Leather Books

Yesterday was a very happy crafting day :D
My son has wanted to make a Midori-style leather journal for a while now. When we were on holiday in September we found a marvellous fabric shop which sold some amazing pieces of leather, from tiny little bits right through to full hides and the colours on offer were great, too!  I was very restrained with my purchase and only selected a small thick piece of brown (I did let a fat quarter of grey reindeer printed cotton jump into my arms amongst other things).
So this is my first attempt at a Midori-style leather journal:

 I know the edges are supposed to be neat but I just love the shape of this and the flappy-ness of it so I'm keeping it this odd shape.  I think I need to stiffen the inside at some point but I doubt I'll use it (it's too nice!!) so there's no rush for that...

and following on from this I made these teeny tiny little leather covered books...

 just gorgeous with their elaborate silver corners on the front

 and their thick pages inside

and a ragged little leather pocket tag book...

 ...which is waiting for some dark tags to be conjured up for inside and a little bit of decoration

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Christmas Bunting

A Little Book of Pockets

A little bit of stamping...

..and not of my feet :)

Just a very small selection of some of the cards I've been stamping...

My Tiny Yarden

I sadly don't have a vast garden with lush green lawns and delicious deep herbaceous borders full of magnificent hollyhocks, delphiniums and other glorious flora.  I don't even have a rear courtyard (despite calling it that for the past couple of decades much to the amusement of my husband) but I do have a very very small back yard which, to me, is my garden.  So this is a dinky little peek at my tiny 'yarden'...

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Early Twins :D

My Fairy God-daughter's twins arrived early!
Once I knew what their names were I got to work on some lovely bunting for them...

and I made a nice card too.

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Lots more lovely bundles of handmade envelopes...

all now listed in my little Folksy shop ♥

Dancing Fairy Rings

I was browsing through some old computer files, re-arranging and renaming photo's when I stumbled across these pictures of a couple of dancing fairy rings I made for a special little girl...

...I think I might have to make myself some for the Summer.  As the weather is getting warmer I can picture myself lolloping through a flowery meadow with my ribbons streaming behind me.

Unfortunately, I think the vision in my head and the reality of me dancing with the fairies will be similar to those pins you see so much of on Pinterest...

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New Baby Cards

I love this cutter of a fancy pram...

...it's so delicate and pretty...

...and makes beautiful New Baby cards.

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Hares!

Easter has been and gone and some of the gifts I made for people didn't even get their likeness taken.

I made lots of these lovely little fellows but only got snaps of these two...

so I'll try to snap a shot or two of the others with their new owners...

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