Monday, December 23, 2013

Even IKEA's Christmas trees are flat pack!

I bought this fabric a year ago at IKEA as I couldn't resist the idea of a flat, easy to store, easy to put away Christmas Tree!  All I had to do (which took a year, although was only completed in the last days) was sew a casing for a rod at the top, and sew on ribbons to attach ornaments.

Now that the hard work has been done, I'll drag it out earlier next year and use it as an advent calendar.

























Other examples of things people have done with the Christmas tree fabric are here.

Christmas Cards for the architect and builder

As readers may know, our house renovation was finished this year and we moved in. We love our new home, and I thought I would let the builder and architect know, in a Christmas card:

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Is it that time again already?

A few months ago I went to the warehouse sale of a paper merchant in Perth, Western Australia, and, thinking ahead, bought a pack of 100 of these: (die cut Christmas Tree cards)

I probably wont use all 100 of them, so I decided to share my bounty via eBay. And next week the school is having a Christmas Market, and I thought I could sell some more, but maybe I should make up a few as examples of what you can do with them - hence:


 I also have lots of marbled paper left over from exercises such as this, which I (or you!) could use.