#HomemadeMothersDay With Roberts Radio

Time to get your crafting supplies out and create a masterpiece to win a retro classic. Mothers Day is just around the corner and we have a great competition with the lovely people at Roberts Radio. The best part is that you get to show off your creative talents and we get to pick the winner!

With our love of all things retro, both H and I have had these classic radios on our own wish lists for a while. My Mum would love the classic black and of course H thinks her mum would love the the duck egg blue.

All you have to do to be in with a chance to win one of these adorable Roberts Radio Mini's for your Mum in a colour of her choice is:

• Create an original, one of a kind Mothers Day Card
• Share a photo or video of your handmade card with Roberts Radio on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. 
• Make sure to tag us and Roberts Radio
• Use the hashtag #HomeMadeMothersDay

The competition runs from the the 1st or March to 12 midnight on the 16th of March 2015 and winners will be announced on the 17th of March. The wining design will get a beautiful mini radio in the colour of your choice to give to your Mum. Check out full terms and conditions here.

We can't wait to see the cards that you make! Good Luck!

Sammy & H


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Mothers and Daughters

What would we all do without our Mums?  To learn from, to have fun with and to realise you are more like them in your adult life, than you ever thought you were - or wanted to admit to when younger!

We are both very lucky to have our mums in our lives and know that there are some of you out there who don't and we really can't imagine what that must be like.  The memories you have of them are what you have to hold on to and make you the person you are.

We have spoken before about how our mum's have been instrumental in our crafty upbringings and Sammy works with her mum at Sew Crafty sharing both their creative skills.  Without them we would not have made all manor of items out of loaf tins, matchboxes and some sticky-back plastic - if you can guess what those were then it shows your age!

Remembering those times at the kitchen table making and creating are what childhood is about and we are both lucky that we get to do that here on the blog aswell and that our mums are constantly learning and encouraging us along the way.

As it was Mother's Day here in the UK yesterday, we thought it would be a nice time to show you some old photos. 

This is me (H) with my mum when I was about 2 or 3.  I clearly had a thing for photographs even back then! - who doesn't love a Polaroid though.  My folks still have that fireplace now, which is quite scary and that fireguard comes in quite handy for the new generation in our lives.

Speaking of which, here is my mum with my niece at Christmas, mum is now a Grandma.  Meena was trying so hard to work out what the stocking was and once she realised it was all for her, she was in her element! Sounds so much like someone else I know.

Sammy and her mum were destined to work at a Haberdashery business together as in this photo, they are both modelling outfits made by Judith (Sammy's Mum) from matching fabric.  This was not the only occasion that their outfits were coordinated  as Sammy recalls 'my mum often bought an extra metre of fabric to make me an outfit to match hers'

'This photo is of us more recently and as you can see we have stopped wearing the same outfits, although we have been know to turn up to work unintentionally wearing the same colour'

So thanks go out to our Mum's for making us the women we are, we would not be where we are without you.

Love you

H & Sammy

Make it. Mothers day Tea Bags

It is Mothers day here in the UK on Sunday, so what do you do for the Mum who has everything? Why you make her some DIY heart shaped Peppermint teabags of course! I have been dying to try my hand at these since I saw something similar on Pinterest and my Mum's new love of peppermint tea was a great excuse. Of course you can use any flavour of tea to make these and make them in any shape you like too.

You will need: Coffee filters, Peppermint teabags, cotton thread, pretty string, scissors, fancy hole punch, a sewing machine and some stickers.

Start by emptying a teabag onto some paper, I used a spare coffee filter. Draw your heart shape around the pile of loose tea, leaving some space for movement. Pop the tea back in the bag and cut out your template. Use the template and draw around it onto your coffee filter.

Once you have drawn out all your hearts pin a second filter to the back of the first. Take your filters to the sewing machine and stitch around your heart shapes, just inside the line you have drawn, leaving a gap to fill the bags. As you have finished each bag take the thread ends and tie knots in each end then snip away the excess. It gets messy if you leave all the threads until the end. When you have stitched around all of your bags cut around the pencil line.

Go to the opening in your bag and tip in the contents of the original teabag. Next take your string and tie three knots over each other in one end, and pop it into the opening of your bag. Take your teabag back to the machine and stitch it closed.

Fetch a cup and pop the teabag in and measure how long you would like the string to be on the side of the mug and snip it to size. Get out a pretty hole punch, or a pair of scissors and cut your stickers into a cute shape. I used some small rubber stamps to decorate some plain stickers with little phrases. Take two of the stickers and pop them back to back over the end of the string to make the tag.

I made up some with kraft stickers as tags to mix in with the phrase ones, I love the combination of the white, kraft and pink. Perfect for Mothers day or for a tea lovers birthday. I am giving these to my Mum in this little mug, I'm going to wrap it in cellophane and add a matching gift tag. (I will also give her the rest of the original box of tea bags, so they don't go to waste). Why not add a box of your Mum's favourite biscuits to the parcel for a real tea time treat.

What DIY's are you having a go at this weekend as a gift for your Mum? Or just for fun?

Sammy xxx


We would love to see if you have a go at these. Like with all our DIY's if you do, take a photo and share it with us on Twitter or instagram with the hashtag #livelovemake

Friday Favourites: Mothers Day Gifts

Bath Hamper

Mothers Day is early this year, due to it being Easter weekend when we would usually celebrate our with our Mum's in the UK. Here are some Ideas for great gifts to give to your Mum.

Why not pop to Boots and pick up a selection of your Mum's favorite bath products, posh bath salts, body lotion, lush soaps and arrange them all in a box or basket with some nice tissue paper. Wrap with cellophane and a pretty ribbon. the perfect gift for a relaxing mothers day.

Is your Mum a whiz in the Kitchen, why not make her a lovely Vintage style Apron. Head to your local fabric store and choose some pretty fabric and a pattern and get stitching.

A really cute gift that keeps on giving is a Coupon book H gave me one for Christmas and I loved it. 

Think of a few things that don't cost a thing like breakfast in bed and a few things that do like a meal at her favourite restaurant and print them out voucher style, she can cash them in when ever she wants.

How about a Magazine Subscription to her favourite monthly read?

I am spending Mothers day with Steve's Mum this year, as we were with My family last weekend because of Birthday fun. We are popping over for a low key lunch. What are you treating your Mums to this year? We would love to hear what you guys are doing for your Mums.

Sammy xxx