I made a silly Tiktok which has tickled me

Over on my Tiktok

The Badge Cave is Open!

I’ve reopened my Etsy shop The Badge Cave!

I’ve got lots of 25mm pin badges available as well as customisable badges. I will make your your badge designs for you ❤️

I stopped my shop while I was doing my degree but I’m back and will be uploading new designs soon.

Back to my EPP

Travel EPP setup

It’s been a while! It’s a great project for when we’re away in the caravan. It’s been 5 years since I started this project in lockdown and it’s still toddling along.

Like I’ve said before, I don’t mind how long it takes, it’s more about the process than the end result.

I’ve still got quite a few chunks of cut hexis ready to prep.

Like this pile.

This is what I’ve sewn together so far…

It’s been hanging on my wall for a while now

I’m not sure if I want to continue this pattern or to make it more random and less calico plain hexis. Not sure yet… we’ll see!

When I get my physical copy of my new crafty journal, I’m looking forward to putting my EPP project into it! It’ll definitely help me come up with some more design and layout ideas for my EPP quilt ❤️🐝

Available on Amazon now!

Babi wearing 2 Mami made items today

My little model wearing her cute red polka dot red dress I made and a crochet cardigan. She loved doing twirls and showing off in her little outfit.

I do have another blog post about the little red dress so I hope to post that soon!

Free Crochet pattern “Flower child sweater” by Double Stitch Twins, from Yarnspirations.com

Ceirios

My son wanted me to help him this evening to fix a drawing he’d done on a wood cookie at forest school. And of course my 2yo daughter wanted to try too…well since everyone was doing it I wanted to play too!

Decorated wood cookie

So we got out our acrylic paint markers we’ve used for painting on pebbles and did some awesome art on our wood cookies!

My son did his name and some cool designs in purple (his favourite colour), my daughter made an incredible, multicoloured surreal extravaganza. And I did some cherries 🍒 Ceirios is my daughters name, it’s Cymraeg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 for Cherry.

Art by Ceirios – All the Colours

At forest school they make awesome things from wood cookies, as well as name “badges/lanyards”. They’re awesome so I made one for Ceirios too.

We go to our AMAZING local forest school at Dare Valley community woodland, situated in the Dare Valley Country Park. A massive area of reclaimed land previously used for coal mining.

Forest school fun

Can’t recommend enough!

4 years of EPP

Can’t believe I started my EPP quilt four years ago, right at the start of the first Covid lockdown down. seems like an actual lifetime ago!

Since then I’ve:

  • Finished my degree (with a 1st) *smug*
  • Got a job
  • Had a baby 😱
  • Continued my EPP whenever I’ve got a spare hour or so…

Little anniversaries make you reflect on what you’ve achieved (or not) in the time that’s past.

Wonder what we’ll be doing in four years time? 🤔

I wonder how far I’ll have got with my EPP! Will I ever finish it?!

Honestly, I don’t actually mind. I know this is a long term project, it doesn’t matter how long it takes. It’s more about the process than the finished product.

Back to the EPP!

My little armchair setup ❤️

New YouTube Short

My son, XuliGruff (please like and subscribe on YouTube) helped me make a little short video about making an EPP Hexagon. He filmed and edited it ❤️

Ok, this guy is adorable 💗🐙💗

My tiny furious crochet octopus