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 !....

stuck for a cheap,but lovely birthday pressie try this!! :

I found this great idea in my book called Making Stuff:The Alternative Craft Book, published by Black dog. Its a great book for anyone that gets inspired by making eco friendly craft objects, for in and around the house! This particular idea is called Chai Bath Teabags.They are basically teabags you make full of lovely smelling salts and spices that make your bath smell lovely, and your love for tea goes a step further!! hah.
I'd say they would be perfect for a friend, or Mothers Day pressie!!I'm not sure if its really a guy thing, but how knows some might just love it!

For those that can't read my hand writing here is the ingredients again:!
*stapler
*glue
*3 tbsp loose green tea
*1 tbsp ginger            
*1 tbsp cinnamon
*1 tsp cardamom
*1 tsp cloves
*Remnant of white cotton fabric - try using an old (but clean)pillowcase
*White string
* Colourful felt squares
* Old tea box or tin

Please note this is what the book ingredients says so if you don't for instance have an old pillowcase, use a scrap of fabric - charity shops always have some sort of old cloth etc. etc!! ok.

All you need do now is add the ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, loose green tea all together, then pile it into the cloth. Stitch together into a teabag shape, and hay presto your pressie is all made!!*note* for extra cuteness you can cut out some little felt heart shapes and sew/staple them on the end of the teabag!!like this:

My brand spanking new home made I pod case !

 

Few sketches for ideas on ipod cases and teacosies, house styley!!

Theses are just a few images from my i pod collection. It was a gift I made for my sister for Christmas to fit her new i phone. I hope to make different size cases for different size i pods and can take orders for anyone that would like one for a gift!

My vintage button necklace!

My homemade bags!!!

 My sketchbook - little sketches of ideas of bags...

When 

    I studied my NCFE course in part-time textiles, I found this amazing material and thought that would just make a great looking bag. So I set to it, cutting the material out to make a bag shape and choosing a textile that would look nice as the handle.I then sewed it all together and hay presto it was made!! The handle is made out of vintage cream material with little antique roses all over it. I chose it because I love the contrast between the retro graphics and the vintage flower pattern.

I made this lovely bag by hand, from scratch. The pattern that is on this bag is my own design especially designed for Button and Bows. I sketched and designed the pattern myself, then screen printed the pattern onto the material! I love screen printing lots and lots!! then I found some vintage buttons and decided to sew them on the top and add a silk bow to add with the whole Buttons and Bows theme. I've used this bag quite a lot myself and love it!!