I can't believe I've left it so long to make another post - time really does fly by in Blogland doesn't it! It seems I am constantly thinking about new projects I want to try and lovely things that I want to tell you about and yet, try as I may, they never seem to make it into a post as soon as I would like them to. Darned life getting in the way again.
This week's distractions have included:-
1. Helping my younger brother to find his first car, including assisting in test-driving duties (it's quite scary for a brand new driver to go out onto an actual road at actual rush hour with an actual stranger sitting next to him - so I agreed to do the honours, with him closely monitoring any ominous-sounding rattles and squeaks from the back seat)
2. Going out for fantastic World Cup-avoidance drinks with friends on Friday night. Unfortunately, the only thing which equalled the brilliance of the evening's festivities was the brilliance of my subsequent hangover. This completely obliterated my Saturday.
3. Taking part in the Midnight Walk (a 10km fundraising walk starting at, you guessed it, midnight). Said walk took place on Saturday night/Sunday morning and actually nearly killed me. Never again will I drink to such excess and then attempt to participate in a 90 minute hike the following night.
4. Assisting Mr Kat with Glastonbury preparations - although, in fairness, this mainly involved lending him a backpack and dropping him off at the bus stop. Can't really use this as an excuse for anything. I reeeeeaaally wish I was going with him this year. Nowhere near as much as I wished I was there last year mind, when Bruce Springsteen tore the place apart with a display of pure rock magnificence- the man's a pro.
Anyway, I am determined to continue in my quest to become an Ultimate Blogger, and to try and avoid taking on too many other things which may detract my time and attention away from more creative pursuits.
The most recent of my creative pursuits are show in the picture above. I recently stumbled upon this wonderful blog and found a very crafty way to combine my love of all things flowery with my love of good grooming. Actually, that last bit is a complete lie - truth be told, my hair is usually somewhere between 'devil-may-care unkempt' and 'atrocious mess'. However, that's not to say I don't appreciate a good hair accessory when I see one and these beautiful handmade barrettes instantly piqued my imagination. Aren't they gorgeous?
So, with my collection of fabric scraps laid out before me, I decided to have a go at making my very own rose hair accessories. I currently have no felt in my collection so I plumped for some scraps of cotton instead. To try and make the cotton as rigid as possible, I decided to cut out two of everything from the pattern and stitch the two pieces together (right sides out) with a piece of interfacing in between them. Once I had all my stitched together pieces in front of me, I set about building them into a rose as so expertly illustrated by the Purl Bee.
My 'stitched-together' approach lends quite a shabby-chic feel to the end product, one which I actually quite like. I also slightly adapted the pattern by gluing a nice round bead in the centre of the rose.
I attached my first rose to a barrette...
And my second to a hair bobble...(is there a more grown-up name for hair bobble, does anyone know? Hair elastic perhaps...?)
I was quite pleased with these when I finished them and would definitely like to have a go at the original felt version once I have replenished my stock.
But for now, its back to my blessed clutch bag conundrum. What to do, what to do......
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