Shabby Chic Workshop.............

Well I managed to take a few snaps of my workshop to share with you.
And what a productive 'taster' session we had!

My workshop was entitled - 'Shabby Chic Hearts & Birds'
In it I was hoping to get those attending to stitch and decorate a bird or a heart, or both if they were quick stitchers(!) To create a unique shabby chic decoration to adorn their homes. Something that was personal to them - their tastes, their colours, a decoration individual to them. I think it is wonderful to create something especially from remnants (which might otherwise have been discarded) with the addition of stitch, fabric fragments and buttons. The act of purely creating something from nothing as it were I feel is v rewarding.

Below are the samples I made by hand - not a machine stitch in sight for a change! - I had a heart and a bird sample and then a larger hanging to show what you could go on to do.




So here was my workshop............................... my bits all packed ready to take to the workshop, it doesn't look a lot but it was more than enough for some lovely creating



the workshop table in all its colourful glory!



and more!.......



And now for some 'action' shots of my workshoppers creating! I apologise for the quality of some of these photos, some are a bit blurry - due to the flurry of stitches and hand movement that was happening! so here are a few shots of the 'shabby chic' items that were being created

A beautiful bird having some wee wings added



A sweet finished heart from someone who said they had v basic sewing skills - (you know who you are!) how fab is it?!!



Another sweet heart in the making, which when finished had some beautiful pieces of contrasting ribbon hanging from it too



another little heart which had had the flower shape cut out and appliqued to the front, lovely



Another gorgeous bird with a scrummy fabric fragment being stitched on for a wing



The 2 hours went so quickly I felt like I'd no sooner got there than I was off again!

I would just like to say THANK YOU so much to Catriona for organising the 'taster' workshops with the Horsebridge Centre. It was a great experience and one I would definitely do again. I hope all the lovely ladies that came to the workshop have now found my blog??!! as I would just like to say a big THANK YOU to you all for attending and being so lovely to work with. I am so glad from your chat and comments during the workshop that you enjoyed taking part and was thrilled that many of you took bits home to continue making another shabby chic heart or bird!

So here's hoping to more stitching and workshops! you just never know what will be happening in the future...................!

Till then here's my shabby chic heart, both sides with 'love' from me to you............. X hope everyone is enjoying the sun this weekend ;0

All Gone, All Gone!!!!!

Hello All!

Just a wee note to say THANK YOU V MUCH!!!!!! to all those that have emailed me concerning my previous post and my 'clear out'

Everything is now GONE! All bits and pieces have been bagged by various crafty folk and will be winging their ways to you shortly, so keep an eye out for Mr or Mrs Postie!

*sigh* clearer spaces once again, until I find anything else or have another clear out at any rate!!! but I'll be sure to let you know!

Thanks again ;0 X

Roll Up! Roll Up! Stuff for Free!!!!!!

Yes that's right you did read FREE STUFF!!!!!

I'm having a tidy, a clear up and clear out! and so you my blog chums are more than welcome to treasures I will not be using. As they say - your trash is someone else's' treasure!
So below I have taken pics of all the bits and bobs I'm hoping other people may want and be able to use for some creative endeavour!
I shall put a few notes under each pic so you can get a better idea of what is 'going for a song!' quite literally......... falalalalalallaaaaa ;0



so first up 18 beading needles; 2 embroidery hoops 8"; 1 embroidery hoop 3 & 3/4 "; 2 spools of metallic thread in a chocolate brown colour and 2 in a rusty copper tone



2 floral brooches and 1 flower, I'm sure these can be used in a project, you could always remove them from their brooch backs; 1 set of sml & lrg square cardboard boxes; 1 set of sml & lrg rectangular cardboard boxes; 23 wooden pegs



various resin handles for bag making



oddments of string, cord, green wool, petrol green wool & pale blue wool; bag of feng shui leaves; Angelina fibres x 7 in watermelon, copper fire, calypso blue, ultra violet, raspberry, gold iris & ocean blue



1 & 1/2 packs of peacock feathers; 1 pack of white feathers; 1 pack of guinea hen feathers



1 large and 5 small packs of mixed coloured feathers



1 pack of various coloured tissue paper squares in 2"/4"/6"; 1 large blue butterfly peg; 1 small white butterfly peg; 1 pot of iridescent beads; 1 pack of royal blue sequins; 1 pack of lilac sequins; 14 bags of various coloured sequins



various coloured and sized beads. (The containers will NOT be included with the beads, I will put them into separate sealed plastic bags)



a few more beads and sequins



various pieces of colourful organza



various pieces of colourful polycotton



various remnant pieces of fabric


Phew I think that that is all for now!
So to the details......... here are the instructions/rules whatever you want to call them...

1. FIRST COME FIRST SERVED

2. EMAIL ME WITH THE ITEMS YOU ARE AFTER - hello(at)meplusmolly.co.uk, you know the symbol to replace the 'at' with.

3. I WILL POST THE ITEMS OUT TO YOU AS SOON AS POSS AFTER HEARING FROM YOU.

4. THE ONLY MAJOR RULING IS THIS - I ASK THAT YOU WOULD BE KIND ENOUGH TO SEND ME BACK IN THE POST THE COST OF THE POSTAGE IN STAMPS.

5. BECAUSE OF THE ABOVE RULE I CAN ONLY REALLY POST THESE 'FREEBIES' WITHIN THE UK OTHERWISE THE POSTAGE WOULD BE TOO COSTLY AND I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO USE THE STAMPS YOU SEND ME!!

There that's it, simple really!?? well I hope so anyway, any questions just ask. I've put the rules as it were in bold so that there aren't any confusions, well hopefully!
So hope to hear from you all soon, so I can have a cleaner, tidier workspace!!

Hope you're all having a good week, I'm nearing my taster workshop and its fully booked so there should be plenty of hearts and birds being created by various people on Thursday, hoping to be able to take pics to show, until then, laters taters! ;0