Alexia Claire is born!

I decided to open my own Folksy shop this summer and sell my fabric makes and hopefully some of my print designs too. It would be nice to earn a little bit from it but to be honest I just really enjoy the whole making process and the feeling you get when someone wants to buy something you've made! I really like the fabric baskets I made so here's two of about 5 that I started out with in my shop. I also started with my iphone covers too. I chose 'AlexiaClaire' as surprisingly that's my name. My mum is called Claire and she has been a huge influence on my crafty side while growing up so it's nice that she gets represented.

Dimebag Darrel

For Jamie's birthday LAST YEAR I started this painting for him. I only got round to finishing it this June. As it was Dimebag's birthday the other day I thought I'd show you all as I'm quite proud of it! Based on the Dimebag tribute with a few of my own little tweaks including Rogue Status Gunshow on the shield.

Clappers

Back in June it was my little goddaughter / cousin's birthday. They live in France so I don't get to see them much so I wanted to do her and her sister something special for their birthdays this year. In keeping with my uni course I'm on I decided to make them both customised notebooks. I asked my uncle to send me photos of their favourite teddies for me to draw from.

So here is sketchpad number one in making. She loves to draw so I chose a sketchpad.

Joining the bandwagon

I've finally after two years of managing to avoid it.. given up and got myself an iphone. I'm an apple girl through and through always have been really from my dad's influence, so I've finally got one. since then I've been on the hunt for a really nice but affordable iphone sleeve because those who know me will agree I'm quite careless! (another reason I put off getting one) I gave up the hunt and tried my hand at making a few of my own. At the time I made these I decided I might try sell them too.

Easter break

When I came home for easter this time, I was all prepared with some fresh ideas for makes and some lovely new fabrics to make them out of. I got a lift home from uni so that I could take my sewing machine with me... I got home, cut out my patterns and fabric pieces... set up my sewing machine, only to find I'd left my pedal back at uni. Gutted. So an old friend's mum kindly lent me her Bernina sewing machine which was a dream to use compared to my cheapo Argos toyota!

Long story short here are a couple of the things I made in the few days I had the machine for...


This was a little commission for my friend emma, she saw a skirt that I'd made myself and asked for one making and she chose the fabric etc. I posted it to her and it took about 2 months to get to her about 80 miles away. Fail!

I made these little baskets for my mum's school's market stall. They have a stall on Wetherby market once a year selling the plants the students have grown, so they sold these baskets with a few little plants in them

Hootie treats

I made these little fellas to go in my mum and grandma's crackers last year. I've been having a spring clean on my laptop and found this photo the other day!

Naughty me

So I've been very lazy with my blogging of late, but things are gonna change! Get ready for an overload of posts of what I've been up to since my last blog, full of makes, drawings, failures, outings and more! Watch this space x