Wishing You A Lovely Weekend....

Quick hello to wish you all a lovely weekend, and to say have a lovely Mother's Day, hope you are pampered ;0) I am also thinking of those without their Mums this Mother's Day for whatever reason. Also those of you who want to be Mummies, I know there may be many of you out there who desperately wish for a child so hope your dream comes true. I too shall be thinking of Mummies like myself who have lost a much wanted and precious baby, always in my heart sweetest Joshua and I shall think of you as always on Mother's day :0)

I wanted to show you again the beautiful heart the very talented and lovely Clare handmade for me in memory for Joshua. I adore it and it has very special place in my home. Thank you Clare.

I have made my own special mum, a sweet cushion, remember the HMV poster....

I smiled when I saw this, as I had all ready my plans of what cushion I was going to make for her, and here it is.

It is actually quite big and I would rather like to keep it for myself, I think it looks nice, simple and classy :0) My mum has quite a grown up taste and her home although a lovely treasure trove, the shabby chic way it is not. I do think shabby chic for me, to be a rather fun, childlike, pretty, colourful look, and not quite in keeping with my mum's home. Though to be fair to my mum, who has been a wonderful support of my little makes, now has a little of my handmade bunting up in the hallway and some of my lavender hearts leading up the staircase, so she is doing her best to shabby it up ;0)

I think the Tanya Whelan fabric is perfect for projects like this, it really pretty things up. I too love the linen mix fabric I have used, I have made many cushions using it and I think the slubby and creased look are quite appealing. Of course I couldn't have the back completely plain, Ohooo no, a little pink from one of  my labels gives it that girly touch I love so much.

I have also finished off a couple of cushions for a personalised order for two very special little baby boys. It always makes me wonder when I have finished handmaking an order, and yet to show a photograph to the customer, what they shall think, you never quite know if what they had in their mind and what I have in my mind match. I am happy to report, the customer, who is also a friend, was over the moon :0)

I love the simplicity of the letters.

And not forgetting lovely Charlie.

Although the cushions are the same size, I obviously had to make Charlie's letters smaller, at one point I though they wouldn't all get on, but they did and I think the letters look so sweet all nestled together.  

I have to say I think these are going to two very classy boys and I can see them fitting in their, calm, tranquil nursery perfectly. I hope you like the look of them.

If you would like to see some more of my pretties, I have now set up a little store on Facebook, where I have to say I have some wonderful, loyal customers, who are also friends too which is extra nice. Please do feel free to hook up with me if you would like :0) Can you tell the husband and I had words, he says I don't promote my wares enough, so I need to, or else go out and get a proper job ;0) Eeeek so apologies for the little self promotion shpeel, I normally don't, but think tis about time I got on with it and got myself about a little. And the proof is always in the pudding, so we shall see. 

 Enjoy this special weekend

Love

Mary

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