Beaded bracelet from a friend & a new kit I'm working on

I've had a couple of nice pressies this week for no reason other than I just have some lovely, thoughtful friends. A very tasty parcel of American sweeties arrived from one friend and I'm doing a good job in demolishing those before they melt in this humid heat!

Met up with another old friend and she makes beautiful and very complex beaded jewellery and she had made me this little beauty.

As for me well I'm just putting the finishing touches to a new craft kit, it's going to be the Vintage Caravan Lovers - craft inspiration kit.

It centres around some rubber stamps I had made from my caravan drawings.

I'm quite a fan of using rubber stamps in unusual ways and it struck me this could be a very versatile design for creating mixed media pictures or pieces of embellished fabric for use in crafts as well as the traditional stamping on stationery.

The kit will have all you need to get stamping, it will also have some of my printed vintage camping fabric, natural cottons, linens and embroidery floss for sewing, some paper items and a small mystery bag of embellishments. I will include a little idea sheet to help the creative process and then hopefully people's imaginations will take over and lots of lovely caravanny things will be created.

July Reveal - Mollie Makes 42

Hot off the press today, Mollie Makes 42 and I can reveal my latest craft tutorial is featured.

It's a vintage caravan, plushie / cushion tutorial! Some of you know my like for the humble vintage caravan which turned into a fabric design, well that was the starting point for creating these cushions.

It has been in the making for many weeks and I've been keeping hush hush as requested by Mollie Makes until publication day, phew that was difficult!

I've spent quite a few hours burning the midnight oil with this one although it was somewhat less painful than the Nutcracker man tutorial which dragged on for months in the cold weather working times.

I'm really delighted with how this has come out and it should be pretty easy to follow and make if you fancy a go. 

After I had made my sample caravans I waited for some fine weather to trundle around Scarborough and Bridlington to take some lifestyle photos of them.

The caravans below were shot at the beach huts in Brid and these particular cushions are for sale in my Folksy shop along with some new colour caravan fabric.

Just a couple of final shots using my favourite charity shop pink chair.

I think I've done caravans to death now!!

Latest creations - sewing needle cases

It's been a while since I've put any crafty creations on here. I have lots of WIP as I'm sure most of us have but I have just finished some needle sewing cases to go in my Folksy shop.

I like to try and use up scraps for some of my things and this vintage style case uses a fair few scraps and some bits of embellished rubber stamps.

I wanted to make them a bit more interesting and added some accessories and a little pouch with a needle threader included.

Next to use some surplus bits of my camping fabric. I thought these might make good gifts for caravaners or campers, it's always handy to take a needle, thread and safety pins on holiday!

Similar but in yellow and blue.
I like making needle books.