Bloggy Birthday Giveaway!

A year ago (yesterday!) I wrote my first blog post, how time flies!

Big E at 1

little e at 1

So, to celebrate my 1st bloggy birthday I thought I might attempt to do a giveaway! The only problem is that I only have 47 followers and think loads of them are only following because I followed them and don't actually visit so maybe there will only be two people enter..... but hey, why not spread some love so here goes...


I am giving away a cabucon ring and earring set, either white rose, blue dahalia, or purple dahalia, you choose (oh and the earrings and ring will match just don't have all the dahalia ones made yet!!),

and a fabric flower brooch similar to this one but not the same, I will try and personalise it a bit!

So if you want to enter please be a follower of Heavenly Handmades and leave a comment telling me which flower you would like, rose, blue dahalia, or purple dahalia!

For another entry you could visit my wedding stationery site (www.heavenlyhandmades.co.uk) and have a wee look at the designs then come back here and leave a comment telling me which one you prefer (call it some free market research!!).

I will announce the winner (if anyone enters...) at 10.00pm GMT on the 19th January and it is open to anyone anywhere.

Thanks for following and hopefully the next year will be full of crafty goodness!

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2012 'HOME'

For me/us as a family 2012 is going to be all about home. Making our forever house into our forever home, well starting to anyway...! It is also the year I going to try and use up as much of my crafting stash as possible, and there is a lot, like 6 large plastic boxes and one large suitcase of fabric, at least 30 balls of wool, 40 tubs of glitter, 6 take away tubs of embellishments for cards..... I could go on but I will spare you the rest!

So, the point of this post, to show you my first stash busting project of 2012, HOME canvases.

 I have had the 4 wee canvases since the summer and wanted to try some glue gun 'art' so, using my new tiny glue gun that Big E got me for my Christmas, I 'glued' the letters on the canvases, waited till they were dried then gave them each 2 coats of paint, simple!

My letters could be neater but I like them. At the moment they are propped on the fire place waiting to find a permanent home bit at least they are out of the craft room!!

Just had another idea for some chipboard letters that I have 4 packs of...... back soon!!

Linking to these fab linky parties!

Have you entered my Bloggy Birthday Giveaway??

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Dining/Living Room Transformation

This is the first room we have tackled and it will be our dining room once the living room is done but for now it is a cosy living room.

It started off like this

 green artex (textured plaster stuff) on the walls, awful fake beams on the ceiling, horrendous carpet and mould on the walls, nice!

Husband took it back to the brick and took the ceiling down

then we got some fantastic restoration builders in to clad and insulate the walls.

They were then plastered and after a week of drying I painted.

Oak floor was laid

and we now have a fab room. We still need new doors, skirting and door architrave but it is so much better than it was and we have really enjoyed sitting in front of the fire this Christmas!

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