Maria's Little Wooden Home

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SUNSHINE!! ... and for the rest of the week!! Shall we pop to the beach this weekend? I think so!

I changed over my seasonal tree last week from hearts to bunny's! Feeling like Spring is coming and Easter is just around the corner.

I had fun a few weeks ago making some decoupage hearts for my shop, and while I was at it I made a couple for my tree with an empty tomb and three crosses.

Along with some sweet Easter Decorations you can find some other decoupage hearts I have listed here ->

Since getting rid of my caravan, I have a lot of folder, papers and office-type-things that now don't have a home. So I have made an organiser box for my essential oil business stuff :)

So with a cardboard box, some pretty paper and parcel tape I made up a box with slanting edges ....

I decided to add a divider in too but with some different paper

It is really tough and I know will be full very soon! haha :)

I think I will make some more, for home office stuff and other projects I have :)

I'm not a huge keeper of cards, but I do keep some special ones but when billy-boy was born, we got given so many lovely cards and I know he will get others for his first Christmas and birthday and other times in his life, so I wanted to keep them safe.

when shopping one day I came across a box for only £1 !! a nice bargain but it was very girly, so I decided to keep my eye out for some nice wrapping paper to cover it in ... and then I found it ... the perfect paper for his woodland bedroom :)

I really love it now, and it looks lovely on the bookshelf in his room :)

I feel so behind this Autumn, I have been sick pretty much since the wedding so I have not been on top of any jobs, and now Christmas is only a month away and I am beginning to panic! I have never been so un-organised :/

but I made a start this week and have managed to make some Christmas cards ... I have cheated a bit this year, they are not from original artwork that I have done, but I found among my stash of papers some Christmas papers that must have come with a magazine one year, so I have just had fun with them!

We had quite a few kids at our wedding and didn't want them to be bored, so made up some activity bags for them!

First I saved all the sandwich paste jars that Steves has in his lunch ...

I then cut out cellophane

got lots of bags of dolly-mixture and evenly divided them between all the jars ...

with elastic bands I secured the cellophane disks

I cut out lots of different fabric disks with pinking-scissors that matched the bunting and tied them on with cream ribbon

I made colouring books with a few puzzles in too. I made a few extra so if any of the adults wanted to have a go they could too!

We had pink bags for girls and green for boys ... each bag was made by my mum to save me some time and I individually packed them with the sweetie jars, pens, crayons, card games, stickers, clay models to make, jig-saws, toy cars and tractors and the colouring books

It was lovely to see the kids open them and they were all really well behaved!

as I said before I wasn't going to have a seating plan so wanted a branch for the wedding favours to hang on, then mum and I had the idea that they would be in a basket and the bridesmaids would go round handing them out, but thinking about the practicalities of it being a carvery and tables getting up one at a time for the first course and the room not being that big, I did give in and do the traditional thing of putting the gifts on the tables.

I made lots of wooden keyrings, personalised them with everyones name and tried to pick shapes that were suitable for each person ... even though they had their names on, I wanted to add tags that matched the seating tags, so made some slightly smaller!

I really enjoyed making them, although when Timber decided to eat one, I wasn't that impressed that I had to make another!

When we started planning our wedding I knew exactly what look and feel I wanted ... very country-ish sage green-gingham with cream and birds and roses ... gypsophelia flowers and gold ... I also knew I wanted to make as much of it as possible so it was truly a homemade wedding

after mum and I searching and searching we eventually found exactly the right shade of sage green gingham for the table clothes and bought 18 meters ... we did think about making the boys ties out of it too ... but they ended up with something different so lots of table clothes were then made ...

my dad drinks lots of lemon and honey tea and has runny honey in it too, he gets through a jar or so a week, so I asked mum to save me some ... about 30+ and after collecting lots of pretty ribbon and lace that fitted in with my colours I tied 3 different ribbons around the top of each jar ...

each one has a different combination of ribbons and the 3 bows are spaces around the top so they can be seen from each side.

I wasn't going to have table numbers or place settings, it was going to be very much a sit where you like, but due to the size of the room and the amount of guests we had, the only way was to have a seating plan ... so I made table numbers. My dad and brother added wood to the bottom so they would stand up.

I used a part of one of those canvas wardrobes, that we used when Timber was little to block off the living room, like a puppy gate, for the seating plan. Each table was printed out and tied on in the right layout.