The Red Wren

the candelabra

I have a candelabra in the lounge room that I’m not really a fan of, but it’s a good space filler so it remains. Today I decided it was completely wrecking the Christmas theme and gave it an overhaul… Before- After- The candles- We have a cupboard of cream candles left over from out DIY wedding reception centrepieces which always come in handy at time like these- today I took the candles, pinned on some grosgrain ribbon and stuck on some Kaisercraft rhinstone decorations ...

Sewing and Craft, Tutorial

Doily Garland

Today we’re going to make a doily garland. It’s essentially a string of doily’s and paper circles sewn together. You need: 1 packet of paper doilys. My garland used 32 (plus one extra for your circle template) Christmas themed paper circle template – cut the centre ...

Our Home

woodland tree

My second tree- a much smaller tree which sits on the buffet- has a woodland theme. In some ways I prefer this little tree to my 7ft monster because the decorations are either homemade, or have more of a homemade look to them than my plastic baubles from spotlight that fill gaps on the big ...

Sewing and Craft

advent calendar

I had big plans for this year’s advent calendar until I realised that I was running out of time to actually make it. Luckily one appeared in my inbox the the other day from Mibo. It’s super easy to whip up (I just whipped mine up in 15 minutes) and it fits in with the lovely ...

Our Home

it’s the most wonderful time of the year….

I had an annual leave day today so I decided that since I’ll be at work for the majority of tomorrow, today would be a good day to get the tree out, clean up a bit and wonder how I’ve managed to accumulate such an enormous amount of decorations ready to be put up tomorrow. The tree ...

Sewing and Craft

Mobile – Stars and Circles

I whipped this one up tonight for a friend’s baby shower on the weekend. The light is bad in this photo, but the felt colours are pretty close to actual. This one just gives an idea of the overall mobile. The technique of assembly was inspired by this mobile here.

Gardening

Hydrangea

A week and a half ago my new hydrangea looked like this. Mainly green flowers with a hint of blue. Less than two weeks later it looks like this: We’ve been watering it with our grey water, at first it slowly went blue, now parts of it are going pink. Very little green left on the flowers ...

Food & Recipes

Can I have pumpkin pie, ma?

When I was a young lass I used to read the Babysitters Club books where they’d talk about strange desserts like pumpkin pie. ‘Pumpkin Pie?’ I’d think, ‘Who’d eat a dessert made from a vegetable?’ Years later Melbourne was lucky (?) enough to have USA ...

Sewing and Craft

Bunting

I’ve finally started Christmas decorations. Here’s my finished bunting!