My Mumford & Sons Obsession

Not since Nirvana grabbed at the heart of 13-year old me has a band caused such feelings of complete musical love as Mumford & Sons. I feel soooo lucky to have seen them live last summer...'twas a thing of pure magic.

Anyway, I just found this video from The Grammys, with the Avett Brothers and Bob Dylan, and had to share the love...especially for Valentine's Day :)


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Warm and Fuzzy Wishes

Photo by Steph Says Hello on flickr

Happy Valentine's Day to one and all. May your day be filled with all things heart shaped and adorable.

Stitches and Stuff

So apparently the amount of time I spend blogging is quite heavily influenced by just how stressed out I feel with my workload.

Perhaps not a surprising development, but one I feel a bit sad about none-the-less.

For the past few weeks I have reached a whole new level of stressed-out-dom. It's something I need to sort out though, and I've spent the majority of my weekend unwinding and trying to focus back in on the important things in life.

I find blogging to be a lot of fun...so here I am again :) I thought I would share a few piccies of a recent stitching adventure of mine for the Three Tiny Movies swap over at Craftster.

I present to you the Fight Club pincushion. In honour of the iconic soap. It was so much fun to make and my first attempt at sewing anything like it, so I'm quite pleased with how it came out. Next time I think I'd draw up a pattern beforehand though...to avoid the "oh sh*t the pieces are never going to fit together" panic.

It helped that I seriously love that movie..I mean...seriously. I was also amused to see a bored housewives fight club in 30 Rock the other day...it got me wondering what other fight clubs might exist :)

TFI Friday - Time for Inspiration

Wow I've had a difficult week. Work related I hasten to add. I could not be any happier that it's Friday if I tried.

Anyway, putting that officially to one side until Monday morning...

I'm organising my very first swap over at Craftster , and it's a Moomin themed swap (hurrah for Moomins!). As a child I had a love-hate relationship with the Moomin TV show...I loved the Moomins themselves, the designs and the stories but something about that show haunted my childhood dreams and for a while I absolutely feared it. As I grew older the fear turned to respect for the beauty and wisdom of the Moomin world and now I find them absolutely captivating. I thought I'd share a few Moomin pics from Flickr that I've found while searching for some swap inspiration...


I love Moominpappa and his stylish top hat.



This handmade Moomin is just adorable.



Moomins + cupcakes = love



I felt a bit like this during the past week



But I'm hoping the weekend will be a bit more like this.

Imelda May

I think i have a new girl-crush...



I've just bought her second albumn - Mayhem - and on first listen it's just amazing - love, love, love her voice and her style. also - see that amazing dress she's wearing? I think it came from a shop i was drooling over in Brighton on wednesday Get Cutie.

Stitching Sunday - Bazinga!

Unfortunately I don't have any charts to share today (I absolutely need to get my designs in some kind of order so I can post them...sometime this year would be good ;) )

So to fill the gap...I thought I'd share a recent hoop I made for a swap over at Craftster . It was for a lovely crafter who was a big fan of vintage style...and of Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory. What else could be stitched other than a floral Bazinga?! :)

I absolutely love The Big Bang Theory...especially Sheldon, so this was a joy to stitch. I have a few other projects floating around my head along a similar theme...Sheldon is just so...quotable.

Woodland Hoops Ahoy!

I just wanted to share a couple of pics of these adorable hoops I received last week from a swap over at Craftster. They were both stitched by different people but I guess my love of all things woodland related came over loud and clear to them both :)

First of all...this tiny little gnome with his house (this is seriously so tiny and adorable as it's in a 3" hoop)

 And then this gorgeous squirrel...the stitching on this is amazing...I totally need to learn some new stitches.

I'll post one of the hoops I made for this swap tomorrow. Hoops are seriously so much fun to make. The only dilemma I have now is how to hang them...I'm dreaming of a hoopla wall at the moment but I'm not sure how kindly my landlord would take to me making approximately 1000 holes in the wall ;) I can feel some kind of ribbon or washing line construction taking shape...