Crafts

I've always really enjoyed crafts. In the past I've made cards although I got out of the habit. I plan on making all our cards this year as I have enough supplies in the house to do this. I have done scrapbooking, I made one for my Mum's 60th birthday. I enjoy cross stitch & tapestry.

My plan is to give as many home made gifts as possible this year. I've started on a cross stitch for a 65th birthday present. I need to think of something for Mothers Day as well.

For Easter we (as in Monkey & myself) are making small boxes & decorating them. I get a papercraft magazine (a years subscription thanks to Tesco rewards vouchers). A month or so back it came with templates for boxes so we'll use that. I'm going to buy some Tesco value chocolate, melt it & put it in some small egg moulds we have. Monkey can 'glue' the 2 half's together to make mini eggs to go inside the home made boxes. A simple & very cheap gift he can give family members for Easter. We made full size Easter eggs last year but it used loads of chocolate, hopefully this will be even cheaper.

I will start posting photos of things we make when they are completed.

I have decided to buy a sewing machine. I've been given the money to pay for it so it's not coming out of our budget. Hopefully this will help save even more money in the long term & expand the type of gifts, toys & possibly even clothes we can make ourselves. The only problem is I've not used one since school & that was over 25 years ago now! I really have no idea where to start so it's going to be an interesting journey. In September I will take a dressmaking course but hope to start using it well before then.