Arts and Crafts

After a family do, we managed to off-load the kids on grandma, however it was 5:30 by the time we got back into town. To cut a long story short we decided that we could spend the evening sitting at the dining table doing some crafts together.

...so off we went to HobbyCraft and bought some gear and then headed back home.

Making stuff is kinda 'my thing', I have tons of tools, glues, tapes and just about everything you could ever need. But I'd like to bring out the other-half's creative side, and have been trying to encourage her to take up a hobby so that she doesn't get so bored during the daytime.

The pasties wot I did dun.

So I decided to make some pasties. She has a DVD from the Ministry of Burlesque which shows you how to make nipple tassels and fascinators. I thought this would be a good start as they are fairly easy. Previously, I had forced her to go into charity shops and pick out a garment that we could chop up and make into pasties so we had some red felt and black sequins to make one set, and a blue blouse with embroidery to make a second set with.

I have to point out that this is an exercise purely to get her doing something so she can see how easy it is -- and so that we can spend some time doing something together.

As it turned out, she decided that she wanted to make some stuff to go in her hair instead which is great. And as it turned out, by the time we had done dinner and had a few glasses of wine, we were both very tired so we didn't get much done. I did finish a pair of pasties and this morning she finished a flower to go in her hair. It was a flower that was on a hair band, she chopped it off and glued it on a hair clip and then decorated it with some beads. Easy, done in 10 mins.

She loves going to charity shops and hunting down bargains, and hopefully if she can start hacking stuff up and making things, this will add a whole new dimension to that hobby.