Polka dot and felt flowers...

So here is the first of many cushions. All it took was a little bit of cotton then some little felt flowers and leaves with a couple buttons for the centre (I do love buttons!)

Polka dot cotton and felt flowers

I love adding detail to shapes using embroidery thread, I think it give them a pretty folky style

Lets start at the beginning...

The idea board

So here's what my brain looks like at the minute, all ideas, colours, fabrics and the likes. Within the coming months, they will turn into real cushion covers...Hooray!

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside...Bournemouth baby!!

This summer saw me take my first ever trip to Bournemouth. Sitting on the beach, burning to a crisp (yay sunshine!) was a fab way to spend a day. Living a million miles away from the beach means that any trips to the seaside are always a novelty, like when you're a kid.And having taken two munchkins with us, there was the traditional seaside fun like burying eachother in the sand, a sandcastle building competition and swimming in the FREEZING sea...though we left that to the kids as, well, like I said, the sea was freezing!

My favourite thing about the seaside is the cute little beach huts, and I loved these ones, especially looking out over the sea. So pretty.

I think we will be taking another trip to Bournemouth next year.