Making a old Pair Of Jeans into a bralet top and high waisted hotpants!!

I seroiusly love girls that come up with such great ideas as theses!! so inspiring!! check out how to make your own tops and highwaisted shorts right here! Give it ago and make your own ,sure fair way of making your own amazing outfit, without spending loads of pennies on it!! :)! -


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8yLYBBfM6U

these are also very good plans for bralet tops!! enjoy!! -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c26cVvwiMFE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tl8xxXvyao

simple and affordible way to solve stress releif,Ideal homemade present for mother's day!!..

 

My mums always going on about how she needs to relax more,but doesn't have the money for a pamper session or any real time to fit making something to help her relax into....so for a christmas present i decided to make her these lavander tea-light candles holders,They are made from real dried lavander,having the smell of lavander near you is a natuaul remidie for relaxation,and its in expensive,pretty to look at,and will last you all year round...so now my mum can put these tea lights where she likes around the house, for a relaxating time for whenever she'd like one!


 I made these ones by recyling some unwanted jam jars,buying dried lavander and dreid roise buds(optional!!)from a local soupmakers store,and finding some ribbon i already had around my house-also can be bought cheaply from a textile shop-most places will do smaller strips of ribbon for under 50p,and buying some thin brown rope from a gardening centre,then its just finding a way that works for you,and looks pretty for organising it all to fit nicely around the jam jar,I did mine by triming the lavander to size for the jars,glueing each bit of lavander on,leaving it over night to set and then carefuly tying on some ribbon round the lavenader coated jar,into a bow!
You can also add some rose buds ,Though I just choose to do this because i thought my mum would like it this way!
Hope you have fun making them ,if you ever wunted too try it out for yourselfs or someone special to you!! have fun,

 

 

 

I origanlly got this idea from pinterest -if you love craft ideas but ain't to sure how to make something for little money,pinterest is really worth looking into : check out the link I found to make these:-http://pinterest.com/pin/335166397237913252/

make your own presents for your nearest and deareset!!

This year I decided to cut back on high street gifts and make my own things,that I know my  friends and family would love and appreciate!!
I've made an extra present for my sister to add to here knitted moomin collection! I started it last year but ran out of time before christmas day to finish it,so I thought i would finish it for her this year instead! she greaty loved it! and that's why its so nice to make things for people because they really do appreate it!!

Craft fair time again!!...

Here's some images from my latest craft fair!! ..I make my own "Make your own bunting" kits now so if anyone would like to prechase one them just give me an email! thanks!

 

 

 

 

 

 

yep knitted moomins!..

This was a joke present for my sister as a christmas present,we loved watching the moomins on tele as kids! and I did wunna prove to myself I could knit one really! made her laugh lots and lots! hope it inspires you !

redesigned and reworked by me!

These high waisted reworked skirts are remade and designed completely by me! With this recession on I couldn't afford the same skirts as my friends where buying on the high street eg.topshop £35 ones!,so I decided to hunt the sale rails of chairty shops-I came across these two long yet high waisted skirts (the type that are only really suitable for the over 60's that live in churches there whole life!! hah you know the ones!) anyway,I could see If I shortened the lenght by half they would make really lovely high waisted skirts,I hope you like them,I was heading more for the 1920's look with the light blue one and more of a country indie looks for the darker blue one!

 

I've also designed this tee,by buying a stencil book,and some fabric paint,then with the stencil of the dear I kept rotating the image,to create a futureistic look to it! hope you like it aswell,keep  your eyes pealed as ill be selling them on ebay shortly!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

miniture bunting!!

 

Here's some adorable miniture bunting Ive made for my best friend! I taken a simular style of bunting material as the other bunting  I've made,but just made it a smaller size.All material is reused from old vintage sraps of material I've selvide from friends and chairty shops! eg.old blankets,pillow cases and curtains!

homemade birthday pressents!!

Here's some homemade bunting ive made for my friend alices birthday! hope you enjoy seeing it! I love making personised presents for all my friends using all the fabrics I know they will love!! any feedback would be great!

Im Back! Here's some things I've been making while I've been recovering from my op.I decided to set up my first ever stall to sell some goodies at my village summer fair!

Today I met a lovely lady how has set up her own sock business,she makes all her own socks on this hand machine,I thought it looked so lovely I had to photograph it.(appoliges for the pretty shit compasion in the photograph!)
Ps .here is her website(incase anyone fancys spending £20 on very lovely cosy socks!) http://www.thedarngoodsockcompany.co.uk/#
Most her socks are homemade by 100% casmere!

                                                                                       photographed by Me (Sophie Cox)

George Shaw

Just found this new photographer/painter,and I love his work,his contemporary way of working that mixes photography,with graphics,painting and a love for artitecture is right up my street: heres a little vid I found of his work. hope he imspires you guys aswell.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/8535387/George-Shaw-South-London-Gallery-review.html
Blluuuup!

Old but new:

 Here are some little textile cards Ive created for my dad a little while back,in my family homemade cards always get more love then mass produced ones:

Back.                    Front.

Handmade by me for Fathers day:

Back.                      Front.

Handmade by me for my dads birthday:

Hope you enjoy both cards

Teaparty time!

childhood memories!

This is what I made for my end of year exihbtion for my National Diploma in Art and Design course, I took a few years ago,I have a love for textiles and had the Idea to try and remember my most frav/ happiest memories from my childhood and make a patch work quilt for my end of year exhibition so I could keep it forever.It turned out that it looked better a individial pieces so that is how I decided to keep it.
We had to do about Childhood memorys as it was the chosen topic for that year!
If any one fancys buying any textiles pieces just let me know .Hope you like them as much as I do! enjoy! ...

 My neighbours at the time! Where I live.

 My house!!...

 Me and phili doing dance routines to venga boys and steps ..sorry phili!

 When I was little my pa used to tell me and my sister that if you found some pattened pottery In the rivers or dug it up from the ground that it was real treasure!! He must have told us alot as me and my sister still call it treasure even these days! hense the pic!

 He he! me and philippas experimental cooking, me and my bestie used to make up games when we where younger ! we used to cook up some treats using what ever was in our kitchens or blind fold each other and make either our worst or most frav meal and wed have to eat whatever they gave us,u'd never know whether it was a good food or not until it was in your mouth! lots of funny horrible tasting memories from this!

 We as a family always go to hayle for a cheap summer get away, we stay in a really retro campsite where all the beach chalets have the same deco as from the 70's its really cool! Its lovely and chilled there and there are the biggest sand dunes in england there.When the sun went down and we were finished on the beach me and my sister used to race and glide down these Sand dunes on our body boards! I always loved the feeling of feeling soo free running down the dunes ! 

The best game of my childhood wolfie wolfie! made up game by my pa, he made it up so well I always used to think it was an actual game! It was basically my dad was the wolf out of the big bad wolf story and me and my sister were the pigs! we had to get round the whole garden in a certain way with out being court/eaten! If you got court you had to go to the coldreen where the wolf ate all his things he'd court that day! hah .So many lovely memories from this game.

Homemade Peg Bag!!!

This is my peg bag I made from an old vest top, a man's shirt,a baby grow suit and some antiquiey buttons all found from chairty shops in East St, London! with a little help from my mates sewing machine I made this made up in no time! I sewed the words :"1 peggy,2 peggys,3 peggys ...more"on  because I thought it would make it even more cuter!! I love it and I hope everyone else will too!

My little treasure necklace:

This is my little treasure necklace.I love it.

I created it by attaching a piece of ceramics I found in my local stream and filing it down ,and then drilling a hole in it so I could attach it to the chain.I hope you all like the final product!

Friendship ring from devon to taiwan...!!!!

I made this ring as a birthday present for my friend in London,that had to move back to Taiwan,hence that's why its a friendship/birthday present!!.I made it by buying the ring base from a textile/craft shop then I messed around with different shape and colour buttons until I could imagine how Yung Yu would like it. Found some super glue and stuck buttons onto the base.I'm very happy with the end result and so is Yung Yu!....smiles all round!!

my felt bracelet!!

I made this whole bracelet completely from scratch. It looks pretty easy to make, but it's really not. There's a real knack, you have to get to make the beads into beads instead of blobs that fall apart.You basically have to use strips of fleece and roll them in your hand, using the right amount of oil or fairy liquid in a circular motion until the fleece turns hard into felt. When you have got that ready they need washing and drying then you have to thread them onto the thread to make the bracelet!

A selection of my homemade earrings ...

My homemade mother of pearl ones!....

I got given these clip-ons when my nana passed away.They mean so much to me. I loved them so much I decided to attach them to hooks so I could wear them myself, I'm so grateful to have them!! they're so beautiful!! Think I may keep them my whole life just as my nana did !

          

These beads were part of an old bracelet I got given, but the elastic broke so I decided to make them into some pretty earrings instead! They're really useful if you wunna dress up a simple outfit, without making it to glammed up !

My sister loved Tiger beer when she was younger. I noticed the bottle tops had a really nice image on them and so decided to make them into earrings!! I love them and so do alot of other people!

When I was younger I got stongly inspired to make jewellery out of found objects. My mum used to take our family to the beach alot when I was younger. I always used to find these shells with natural holes worn in them and just thought they would make some great natural hoop earrings! 

My Grandma gave me this bead and I was going to a 80's fancy dress party so I decided to make it into a stud as I thought it would make a great accessory for the particular theme.

These are my lovely home made,antique earrings.I love them because it looks like your rolling with the whole vintage plug image.My neighbour gave me them as buttons and I thought they just had to be made into earrings, so I could keep them for ever and ever! Im pretty sure they are hand painted too!

Experimental mother of peal white little stars and black wooden beads ones :

These are both made from some sort of shell the top one was found in a shell shop in padstow! They had a collection of shells that where sawed right down the middle of the shell and me and my sister thought they so had to be made into earrings as they look amazing,

These are made out of an old wooden beaded necklace an old stone bracelet and some unused spare buttons twisted all together to make this pair of lovely earrings:

And the second one was part of a mother of peal bead set I bought from a local craft shop.I just needed to loop some metal wire together and connect the earring to to hook! Was pretty hard to get the wire hoop straight so the earring were identical to each other!but I reckon Ive done a pretty good job of it! 

These are my tropical crafty ones! They are for the ladies that like to wear the big crafty earrings.As for example did my art teachers at school! The bigger the better they always used to tell me!

                                 These are my first ever earrings I ever made,it was set as a D.T project in my school .They are main with tiny strips of articat witch was heated and twilled .

This is another set that I made while going though my found object stage,I wanted to create something a little different for people to see,so decided to make these!! Pretty cute really !....