The delight is spreading..

So, when I came back from my *ahem* "short" little blog break I expected things at the most delightful adventure to have fallen rather quiet.  I was rather wrong.  While I was away a few craft projects got featured on various other blogs and instead of having zero page views, I had...thousands!  It was a fantastic surprise and I thought I would share a little bit of the excitement with you!

Over at Stephanie Gerber's blog Henry Happened you can find my embroidered locket d.i.y, right in the centre of 30 other sweet necklace tutorials!

You can also find it posted on March 14th on Cloth Magazine UK's facebook page here!

Over on Babble you can find my painted heart tights d.i.y - one of my first d.i.y.'s on the blog! - in their Trendspotting: 12 Awesome DIY Tights article.

Lastly you can find my vintage book bunting d.i.y. over at Saved by Love Creations as part of her paper garland round up!

And thanks to all of you for sharing the sweetness! Happy Spring! xo, T.

d.i.y. embroidered locket.

June continues to be sunny and wonderful, which is completely awesome and makes life so much happier!  This little craft project is one that I whipped up one rainy evening before the sun decided to come back.  It was super quick and easy, I've had this locket for ages but couldn't figure out what to put in it.  I decided to add some embroidered sweetness, I find hanging little pictures of people around your neck a little odd anyways.

All you need is an old locket, some muslin [or any white cotton fabric for that matter], a needle and embroidery thread.  A wooden hoop to pull the fabric tight in helps a lot but isn't necessary.  First I popped out the two thin, oval metal rings inside the locket [used to hold pictures in place], and traced them onto the fabric in pencil.  Then I lightly sketched out my design, put the fabric in the hoop and stitched away using a back stitch.  You could experiment with all kinds of stitches and thread thicknesses [sometimes I used all six strands for a thicker line, like on the heart, sometimes I just used three] to come up with all kinds of lovely designs!  I think this would make a super sweet, simple gift.

Also, since I've had more of a chance to work on blog entries I've also had more posts, which has made me decide that it is most likely getting pretty annoying having the bloglovin' links continually pop up on facebook. So, although that is the main way people connect to the blog I think I shall stop that for a while. Instead, you can subscribe to posts with bloglovin' [link on right], rss feed [link at bottom of page] or you can simply bookmark it and check back throughout the week! What do you think?

I hope you have the best week! xo.

hearts and fall love.

It's been awhile.  I'm sorry.

Unlike last time I posted, when I only wished it was fall, it is actually fall for real now.  Which means multiple lovely things; like wearing tights and boots and colourful leaves...and that school has started.  Once again I have no life.

But it's been rather wonderful, although it has been rather crazy and now that interm reviews are over, (yay!) I decided that I finally deserved a little break to do something fun, non-structural and incredibly frivolous!

I have been rather obsessed with Elsie's blog at A Beautiful Mess lately.  I love everything about her and her blog, her clothes, her craft projects, her store, her super great tattoos.  I somewhat want her life.  Anyways, all her adorable little projects and brightly coloured outfits inspired me to do something wonderful and lovely with my little bit of free time this week and so this is what resulted!

I had seen little projects for painted tights and jeans before so I thought I would give it a go and see what happened. 

I rather adore them. 

Everyone in my household is incredibly confused as to why I would want hearts on my tights, but they make me the happiest!

So if you happen to also love hearts, craft projects, frivolous things and confusing everyone around you with your choice in outfits, here you go!  Also, we should probably be best friends.

1.  cut out a little template out of card stock, don't make it too big since it will stretch out.   When my tights were lying flat the heart had about 1/2 inch extra fabric on either side and it was the perfect size!   I picked a heart but you could pick anything!

2.  while wearing your tights make a mark in pencil roughly where you want your hearts to be.  I marked off just below the knee and at the ankle.

3.  Trace your template to your heart's desire!  I traced three on each leg.



4.  paint in all your little hearts with fabric paint.  I used a crimson red, flat, flexible fabric paint.  Make sure you put a thin piece of cardboard between the layers of fabric in the tights so that it doesn't bleed through.  I used the piece of cardboard that came in my tights as a template to cut a second piece!



5.  let the paint dry according to manufacturer's directions, mine had to dry for four hours.

6.  your super sweet tights are done, yay!

I'm super happy with how they turned out!  Some white shows through when you wear them because the hearts stretch out, but I'm okay with that.  I like somewhat imperfect, worn things! 

I also got a chance to paint my nails yesterday, so very happy!  You have no idea how big of a deal it is to have this much free time.  Oh, and this is my favourite locket, my grandma "thrifted" it from the house next door before it got condemned.  I love my family.

Happy fall!  Hopefully a few more pictures will appear on here in the next little bit before life is insane again, I still have some summery ones I want to show you.  xo.