Have you seen...?

My husband has to put up with a lot. I'm not going to list my faults here because I'm hoping the most of you still think I'm normal and I don't want to risk changing that, but trust me, he puts up with a lot. One such fault though is a regular in our household.

I'm renown for temporarily forgetting where I've put things. I'm also not great at putting things in the same place more than once. As such objects are often prefixed with 'have you seen...?' 

Depending upon the urgency that my voice is saturated with my husband will start the inevitable three minute search until the item comes to the surface. 

I'm so bad at this sometimes I start the call to search the house but before my plea is finished I have found what I am looking for. Like I said, he puts up with a lot.

 Recently I purchased some items to give a craft I had seen a try - when I find them again I will no doubt be blogging about it - but because my husband is selfishly at work and I have the attention span of a five year old I moved on to do something different than I had planned. Reason being in my search I found something I had previously temporarily forgotten about and decided to play with that.

In Crafts Beautiful this month there was a feature on floral adornments: 

So when I found my tiny punches again I thought I would use their article as inspiration for my afternoon. As it is mothers day very soon I went with the word 'mum' using little flowers as the lettering. This is the outcome:

It's not backed onto the black card yet because I want to add some ribbon and use it as a gift tag. I don't have a gift for my mum yet but at least the gift tag is ready. Is giving just a gift tag as a gift a bit too mean? Maybe that can be the mum-in-law's gift. But seeing as I was on a punching adrenaline rush I made a heart too:

What I love about these two things is that the flowers are punched out of scraps of paper and card (after I gave my husband his valentines card I immediately reclaimed the very pretty envelope as crafting material) so they're really easy to source although I'm sure if CB wanted to send me some really pretty papers to play with there could be a much nicer effect ;)

Cute as a button

Hello everyone,

I'm very excited to announce I have a Facebook page dedicated to not only this blog but also the items that I am selling. I share this link on Twitter and other forums so although many of you probably already know about www.facebook.com/fattycraftertales I wanted to put the link here just in case you didn't.

On the page you can find lots of handmade goodies, my crafter tip of the week and usually comments about cake. I'm not the fatty crafter by accident! I also post events on there so if you find yourself my neck of the woods maybe there is a crafting party going on.

One such thing that I make, and will be teaching at an event coming soon, is this button heart:

It's selling on my page for £6 but as a special offer to any new likers I get from this blog you can have it for £5 and I will cover the postage. Remember to like my page first then when you message me to get yours remind me that you saw it here first. I'd love to have a good memory but a lot of the time my head is too full of cake. 

Up cycled baby grows

When you first meet me I promise your first instinct will not be 'wow what a maternal woman' it's much more likely to be 'wow how has this person survived on her own so long'. You think I'm kidding but my nearest and dearest often joke that I'm on day release and they are my carers.
My point: I'm probably the least likely person to be interested in baby clothes. Now I haven't gone to the lengths of Sarah Millican who accidentally collects baby clothes for when Cheryl Cole pops by but I do think they are cute.
This is not your invitation to suggest I start having babies, I know I'm a person in possession of a uterus that is still ornamental but I promise you, I'm merely making a statement.
My latest craft fix comes from taking the baby grow that the child has grown out of, (taking the clothes from babies while they are still wearing them is probably more frowned upon than taking candy right?) cutting it up and making it into something new. This something new happens to be a love heart made out of covered buttons using the baby grows. The parents pick the clothes so they get to treasure the memories for much longer than it's acceptable to keep the baby grow, if Sarah, you are reading this perhaps it's time the tiny jeans go, and you get a keepsake for their room. And it's not just for girls. When a colleague passed me a bag of boys clothes I had a mini melt down but then came up with the dinosaur you see at the bottom.
Both sets of mummies at least liked the pictures from what I could gather and it kept my hands from shoving cake into a reluctant face for at least a day so it's all good. Ok so the face wasn't reluctant. I want cake.