Bee happy ..... bee mine

Who will be your Valentine?

 

I wanted to share these cute mercury dishes I bought in the sales.

 

They are perfect for storing sewing bits and pieces on my craft table.

 

 

Thought I would throw in a few hearts as it is Valentines Day soon.

 

Are you making something special for your Valentine?

 

Bee happy x

Bee happy ..... make a notice board

I have been busy making a notice board this weekend.

 

I had a wooden frame left from the kitchen fitters when they put our kitchen together.

 

I sprayed it with white paint.

 

 

I then with the help of Mr Happy cut some chicken wire to size and stapled this to the back of the frame. As the wire was from a roll 4 hands were great as the roll kept curling back up until cut to size.

 

Because the cut ends were really sharp I then used my glue gun and stuck down some thick felt over these to cover them up.

 

My new notice board is ready.

 

I can use it both ways and if I want to hang it on the wall I will just use some ribbon tied around the frame.

 

 

Hope you like my new notice board.

 

All of the hearts are available to buy in my shop.

 

Also, don't forget to enter my Valentines giveaway if you haven't already done so, the link to the giveaway post is in my sidebar.

 

Bee happy x

Bee happy .... lots of hearts

I have been busy making lots of hearts recently.

I also have a Valentine heart giveaway over on this post.

Head over here to enter.

I have made a bobbin heart and put it in my new box frame.

I have also made a heart garland from paper and the pages from an old book.

I have wanted to make one of these for a while and finally got around to it.

I used the sewing machine to stitch the 3 different sized hearts together.

Hope you are all keeping warm and cosy.

Bee happy x

Bee happy ..... a Valentine's giveaway

I am having a Valentine's giveaway!

These are just a selection of hearts available in my Bee happy eBay store.

To enter my giveaway you must:

1. Be a follower of this Bee happy blog

2. Pop over to my Bee happy eBay store and tell me which heart you would love to win.

For extra entries you can:

3. Follow my Bee happy design blog

4. Like my Bee happy page on FB

5. Follow my on Twitter @bee___happy

I will be picking 2 winners on 31st January.

Leave a comment for each entry you do so I can include each entry into the bag.

The only thing that I ask of the 2 winners is if you could kindly email me a short review on your product and  packaging from Bee happy home and accessories when you receive it.

Good luck everyone!

Bee happy x

Bee happy .... make Christmas decorations

I have been making some Christmas decorations over the last couple of days with some wooden hearts, stars, rusty bells and wooden bobbins.

 

 

For the wooden shapes I used Mod Podge and my French newspapers and stuck over both sides of the shapes.

 

One when side was dry I did the other side.

 

For the shapes with no holes in I used some ribbon and glued that down first under the newspaper for hanging with.

 

When each side was completely dry and hard I used my knife to cut off the excess paper.

 

When both sides were completed I then put glue all around the edges and rolled in red glitter.

 

My little Christmas tree is now decorated.

 

I used lace, ribbon and rusty bells for the large hearts.

 

For the wooden bobbins I wrapped a small amount of ribbon around and then for the hanger threaded some through the hole and knotted at the bottom to keep the ribbon holder in place.

 

My first felted pudding.

 

I used my Jane Means ribbon stash.

 

My little snowman and Christmas pudding were my first attempt at felting, I think they turned out quite well :)

 

What have you been making for Christmas?

 

Bee happy x

Bee happy .... make hearts

I've been a busy bee making hearts.  I love hearts and have loads around the house, fabric, wooden, twigs, metal. 

I have been inspired by Cox and Cox who sell white wedding hearts in packs of 24.  Because I am already married and I only wanted a couple I made them myself  :)

I used a fabric sample from John Lewis and got both hearts out of one sample.

I draw a paper shape I was happy with then cut out 4 pieces. 

Then I made up the hearts, filled and hand stitched the hole closed.

I then used some fine craft wire to poke through the fabric at the top of the heart, adding buttons and beads. 

I finished off twisting the wire around the last bead so everything didn't fall off, making sure I had loads of spare wire to hang it with.

I was also inspired by Diane at Heartshaped, find her at 

http://diane-heartshaped.blogspot.com/  

to make this heart.  It's longer than I usually make but I love the shape.  I will be making more like this me thinks.

I added loads of bits and bobs and am really pleased with the results.

Bee happy x
Have a delicious day!