Alexia Claire

Wednesday, 7 March 2012

A much needed catch up

I haven't blogged properly in a while, shameful I know, but at the same time it has been for very good reasons, and also means that I have a lot to share about! I have had visits from uni friends, as well as paid visits of my own. I have had snow days, design days, craft days you name it! Not to mention landing a new and very exciting job! I have attended a couple of craft fairs (with more to come) had a few awesome nights on the town with friends and helped out with volunteer projects. So watch this space for lots of bloggingly good content!

Thursday, 1 March 2012

International Women's Day Craft Fair

This Sunday (4th March) I will be one of many crafters selling their wares at the International Women's Day craft fair. This will be at the Queen's Hotel in Leeds (next to the train station) and is sponsored by The Co-Operative! So pop by and get a little something for your Mother for Mother's day!

See you there!

Friday, 3 February 2012

A catch up on my recent makes

I have made a couple of one off specials in the last month or two which I have yet to share with you all! So here is a quick peek at a few of them...

We bought my Grandma a Kindle for her birthday last year, and I made her a sleeve for it too. It may have been quite a while ago but here it is! She loves her kindle, she had to show me how to use it a few weeks ago when I was staying over.

An old school friend was moving away to begin her new amazing career at the start of this year, and she asked me if I could reproduce an Alexander Mcqueen cushion that she had seen, to go in her new place. I made two large cushions and she loved them.

This was a watercolour I did for my Grandma, we're both huge bird lovers (in case you didn't already know!) in particular water birds so I drew her this Kingfisher.

And finally, I knitted my best friend this Irish hiking scarf for her birthday this month. I ran out of wool and couldn't find the same wool anywhere so it was a bit shorter than I would have liked! My mum knitted me the same scarf for last Christmas and I've loved wearing it.

Friday, 20 January 2012

Valentines Day Gift Bag Idea

I have designed and made this Valentines fabric basket which you can now buy in my Etsy and Folksy shops. Perfect as a gift bag to put other little gifts in or to give as a useful reusable storage basket. It also comes with a matching gift tag!

Thursday, 12 January 2012

Handmade Laptop Sleeves

I have been making laptop sleeves for quite a while now but never got around to listing my silk screen printed sleeves online. Well now here they are! You can buy through my Etsy or my Folksy shop. The ones listed are all for a 13" MacBook as that is the laptop I have. I do however make sleeves for different sized laptops, all you've got to do is drop me a message with your exact dimensions and chosen design and I can take it from there! Email me at alexia@alexiaclaire.com. They are padded and have a toggle fastening. Here are a couple examples.