by Lesley Oman on 19 January, 2013
Do you like it? Its a trash bag for the car!
You see, I am a self confessed messy car owner. In fact, my husband would say I am a messy car creator! He is always going on about how my car is full of rubbish. Meh. It doesnt bother me at all. The car is a way to get from A to B, its not like i have an emotional attachment to it. In a bid to try to at least appear more concerned, (and to avoid eye rolls from the hubs) I decided to address the situation. You see, the mess is mostly tissues or receipts or the odd choccy wrapper – just one or two of course. By no means would there ever be a situation where there were several strewn all over the car, evidence of a particularly tough week at work! ahem!
Remember my toy storage box that i made from denim? Well i had so much fun playing with an old pair of Craig’s jeans that i thought i would pull out the remains of denim from the fabric scraps drawer.
The main part of the bag is made using the leg of the jeans, with a square of denim sewn in as a base. I then lined it using this bright funky material. The hardest bit was adding that little tab – there were so many layers of denim that the stitches were a bit wonky at times. I think i need to invest in a thicker needle that will manage denim at bit better.
To use the bin, I have added a zip lock sandwich bag as a liner, so if there is any icky mess it wont damage or stink up the fabric.
While i was happily crafting, i decided to make something to hold some tissues. It makes me cringe when I have bambino in the car then I hear a sneeze from the back seat and there is no tissues within reach! ick!
I made this so it would hold a roll of toilet paper. I removed the inner cardboard tube and then pulled out the tissue from the inside of the roll. Once again the main part of the project was made using denim from a leg of jeans, but with trim at the top. Using this patterned paper I made a drawstring feature so it could gather the fabric up together at the top, but there was also a hole to feed through the tissue.
To make it pretty, I added a fabric flower and a button too.
So now the question is: will my car stay clean? Well, that would be telling wouldn’t it!!
by Lesley Oman on 18 January, 2013
Look at that wee face!
Back when the trees were starting to change colour and the rain hadn’t set in as yet, we took a stroll one Saturday afternoon to a stream about two minutes from our house. Who knew this was going to be the highlight of Piper’s year!? Even now, months later, she still talks about collecting leaves, listening to squirrels and throwing sticks in the river and watching them float away.
Thinking about this awesome day spent together as a family made me smile, so I knew I wanted to scrap it.
This project started with me playing with ink and Heidi swapp’s paper, but in the end I just included a little piece of this in the project.
It’s been ages since I did a 2-pager. I was delighted with myself when I came up with the idea of taping the two pages together at the back using washi tape. It stuck the pages together so I could use them as one canvas, but once my layout was finished I could remove the tape easily. Any overlapping papers I had to slice with my craft knife along this seam. It made working on a 12×24 project so much easier.
Here are some more piccys of the final project. Enjoy!
Oh, and by the way, I still have a few boxes left: Check out this post —-> GRAB BOXES
by Lesley Oman on 14 January, 2013
{Side Note: I still have a few Grab Boxes available – see this post for more info)
Are you like me? You know, when you make stuff, maybe even take some photos but then forget to blog it? I am rubbish at sharing everything i make. Self professed rubbishness.
I was flicking though my iPhone photo library and spotted lots of photos of projects which i hadn’t shared. I started making a list. The thing is… I always make lists. Grab a notebook. Make a list. Misplace the notebook. Grab another notebook. Make another list. ad infinitum.
Time for a change! When i was clearing down the craft room I found this little wooden box. It reminded me of the library card boxes. I took some scrapbook papers and my trimmer and set to work making a pile of little cards to fill the box.
I stuck some washi tape around the box and added some letter stickers. Next I took to my silhouette to make two little divider cards. Yeay! I love it. Now i can jot down each new project on one of the cards and stockpile them at the front, then once i blog it, can move it to the back. (from looking at the photos i have only just realised that i forgot to stick down the middle of the letter E. Ah well, never mind!)
Its even the perfect side to hold my date stamp. SORTED! 
by Lesley Oman on 14 January, 2013
UPDATE: We have a winner.
JUNE GARNER!
CONGRATULATIONS!
Please send me an email with your address so I can ship your prize to you. Lez (at) hungryheffycrafts (dotcom).
GIVEAWAY CLOSED Bonjour everyone.
I said last week that i would hold a giveaway because we reached 300 facebook followers. Here it is! And guess what!? we are already at 330 now!
I think that is absolutely fantastic, and i want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has popped over there to hit that like button. I want you to know that i appreciate every single one of you!
Over the next few days I will be randomly choosing a Facebook ‘Liker’ (is that what you call them?! heehee) to receive this crafty bundle . So if you haven’t already hit that like button – go and do it so you can be in for the chance to win! The page is http://www.facebook.com/HungryHeffyCrafts
(Note to self: pick a prize for the next giveaway so i’m ready beforehand and that means i won’t have to wait to take photographs!)
