Stuffed Dog

A birthday present for a sweet boy. My nephew Max is turning 1 year old. He's not much into stuffed toys yet, but there's hope.

First DIY tools

It's never to early to get into DIY, so I sewed up a couple of toy hammers. Presents for new-ish babies I'm off to visit soon. I wanted to add rattles to them, but was struggling to come up with an eco-friendly way of making one. I didn't want to buy anything either, especially more plastic crap. Eventually I found a very small bottle lid, filled it with lentils and taped it shut with electrical tape. It just fits in the hammerhead, padded with lots of wadding.

Felt Flower

I made a flower brooch out of a felted recycled sweater from this tutorial. It's attached to the front of a birthday card for my sister, and is now flying airmail to California. I'm not a big fan of birthday cards as they're such a huge waste of paper, so really liked the idea of a birthday card plus. It's kind of like a mini-birthday present, which can be reused rather than a card which would just get ditched after a couple of weeks. Excuse the awful photo, which was taken late at night. It makes it look crappy, but believe me the brooch looks much better in reality. I couldn't wait till the next day to take a better photo cause as usual I was finishing this last minute and wanted to get it into the postbox down the street to be there for the first pickup in the morning. Luckily I also discovered that you can now pay for and print stamps online which is awesome. So instead of having to rush up to the post office first thing I was able to print off my stamp, post the parcel, and go relax for the rest of the evening.