DIY jingle bell heart - tutorial!

I love these jingle bell decorations but have never been able to bring myself to buy one since they looked so easy to DIY, and I was right!

Supplies to make a 12cm by 12cm heart -

100 tiny (~6mm) jingle bells with a loop on the top
Stiff but thin wire (got in the floristry section of Hobby Craft)
Thin nosed pliers

Bend wire to shape and make a loop in one end so the bells don't just fall off.

Start threading the bells on.

Keep threading.....bunch them up really tight so there is no movement.

When you have reached the end bend the wire over

then hook it together with the first loop

and you have a heart!

Tie a wee bit of ribbon round and hand it up!

A cute wee jingly jangly Christmas decoration that you could easily get away with keeping up all year!

Linking up to these linky parties!

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DIY Cargo Pants / Trousers

Santa's Elf has been hard at work in my house making Cargo trousers for Big E's friends Christmas.

They are a light ish weight cotton camo with a, rather groovy and not at all because I didn't have enough of one colour, fleece lining!

I made them in the same way as I made these except these are trousers not shorts! I added the mandatory pockets to the outside legs, plenty of room for stones and all other things 5 year old boys like to carry about! I have not done a diy for the pockets, if anyone wants one then let me know and I wll be happy to oblige!!

I made both the camo outer and the fleece inner to the stage of doing the waistband then, with the camo the right way out and the fleece inside out, put the fleece trousers in the camo trousers then basted the waist of camo and fleece together then carried on as before doing the waistband and leg hem.

I added a wee label since they are very similar front and back.

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I heart macro - just for fun

I know this isn't a proper maco but couldn't resist!

What do you think this is???

a towel maybe....



but no

it is a curtain! Tell me it is not normal to make the curtins in your bathroom out of towels...!

We got the keys for our new house on Friday and all I can say is, boy do we have a LOT of work to do....

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