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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A bird house; carefully created from cardboard and layers of book pages. Made all the more complete by the felted bird perched elegantly on the top, and the stamped word 'home'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's a bit wonky, but I love it for that all the more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So lovely readers, it has been too long since I last posted!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I bought this cupboard a few months ago; it was a plain dark wood, with some rather plain beige fabric on the back and shelves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">They are taken from a variety of places; Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, Roald Dahl, Shakespeare and some from the wonderful </span><a href="http://www.pinterest.com/missjones171/say-it-with-words/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Pinterest</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">. I love the difference in fonts; some fine and elegant, some bold and abrasive. I'd forgotten how much fun writing and drawing in fineliner was - might have to do this more often!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">With Christmas fast approaching, once again I started to make another wreath a couple of days ago. But a combination of things - waiting for glue to dry and going away for a couple of days - meant that I have only just finished it! I decided I would challenge myself to make it entirely from scratch - here are some instructions in case you are ever tempted to make one yourself!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Coat the ring in papier mâché (newspaper and glue) to make it stronger. I repeated this several times, letting it dry thoroughly in between. If it still doesn't seem very strong you can, like me, always add a ring of wire. I simply cut a length of wire to fit inside the circle and then used masking tape to attach it to the card; before adding another layer of papier mâché.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Choose a book - I used the remaining pages of Oliver Twist. Cut out three different sized leaf templates - you need one large, one small and one narrow and long. With the large leaf cut out 30/32 leaves from the pages of your chosen book (I only did 28 because that's when the pages ran out). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Stick these large leaves to the wreath (which is now hopefully dry!) You need to place one under the wreath and one on top of it so you make a kind of wreath sandwich. I left a gap of about 1cm between each leaf. </span><br />
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Today has not been the most creative of days; but I have succeeded in getting my hair cut and making some paper feathers. I had seen some similar feathers on <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/425097652298548821/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a>, and after admiring them for some time I figured it should be easy enough to accomplish (if I was careful and patient!)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Many weeks ago I set about creating a memory holder made from a vintage book. I had only vague ideas of what it was to eventually look like, but with a little bit of effort I quickly finished it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Unfortunately I was so busy in the weeks leading up to the <a href="http://thevintagebazaar.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Frome Vintage Fair</a> that I completely forgot to take a picture of my masterpiece. I sold it to my friend over at </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://vintage-jane.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Vintage Jane</a>, who was </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">so enamoured by my 'book' that she decided to blog about it too! You can find a link to it <a href="http://vintage-jane.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/weekend-indulgence.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I've matched the plain beige cover to a subtly patterned fabric; leaving more of it showing this time to provide a bit more colour. I carefully wrote out a quote from Alice in Wonderland - 'Curiouser and Curiouser' - quite apt don't you think? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">The memories included are a newspaper cutting from 'The Nursing Mirror' circa 1921 and a poem entitled 'The Sweet-Brier Rose'.</span></div>
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inspired by (well, I’m sure you can tell) cake! Because who doesn’t love a huge
slice of cake, a dainty cupcake or a delicious biscuit? The cupcake was definitely
missing that elusive ‘something’ that brings everything together, so I decided
to experiment with some beads. And I now love the finished project; just a
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given myself permission to drift off into the land of make believe and dream of
whimsical, and often impossible, ideas! I set aside a notebook and began
planning menus, decorations, outfits – everything that goes hand in hand with a
party. I soon had a rough idea of how the day was to commence, and just a week
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away. Then there were placemats. Full pages from the same Alice in Wonderland
book featuring lovely colour illustrations (these also later hung from the
backs of chairs). Then there was card bunting. A length of string, a pack of
cards, scissors and a hole punch was all that was needed to create this. Then I
set about to make some tiny ‘eat me’ cards designed to be stuck into the
delightful delicacies. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then it was
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sandwiches, cupcakes, mini cupcakes, jam tarts, a birthday tart and scones –
all before 5 o clock! Luckily the guests were late so there was ample time to
get changed into a fabulous dress, heels and hat, and carefully transfer
everything outside! No accidents occurred and the table looked wonderful!
Cocktails were served to everyone upon arrival. Poured from teapots into
quaint, mismatched teacups and garnished with a slice of lemon and umbrella,
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