How To Make Flowers with Dennison Crepe Paper

A new vintage book arrived today in the mail, How to make Flowers with Dennison Crepe Paper

Finally finished….in time for the luau

My 1950s Tiki Luau inspired raffia mini topper is also finally finished, photographed and ready to go. Is now available in the shop

Finally Finished

The big leopard print disc, and it is now photographed and ready to go! And now its available in the shop.

iPad to Drawing Tablet.

So Mr LiD was having a stressful time at work over the last few weeks with a difficult customer, and last Monday he decided he was in serious need of some gadget retail therapy

When Fray Check Strikes!

So your neatening an edge or securing a knotted thread with that little seamstresses gem Fray Check, when all of a sudden disaster strikes a drip of that liquid plastic accidentally lands on the main body of work!!

Well this happened to me, except I didn’t notice until a long time after the fact.
So I was hurriedly trying to find a solution which would work quickly and leave no trace (be warned to try it on a inconspicuous area first), and Fray Checks own parent company Prym or Dritz as its known in the US had the answer, rubbing alcohol.

Your supposed to soak the area for at least 30mins as it has to soak through the plastic, but for a tiny dot I found that a soaked cotton q-tip rubbed on the spot with a cotton bud behind then sponged away with another cotton bud on top, repeated until the mark was gone, about 4 times in my case, worked perfectly and kept work and drying to a minimum, in a similar way to a Dryel pen in cleaning a regular spot stain.

So pretty…..

These pretties are going to be adorning the back of someone’s wedding dress very soon.

Today I Have Been Working on….

A load of cute girly buttons. No hats today, far too many express orders in the button shop to get finished :)