Live it: Christmas 2014

Wow, So Christmas is over and it's 2014 already! As you read on Wednesday we have some great goals for this year, but just before we brush 2013 under the carpet we thought we would share some of our festive photos with you.

H and I both had a lovely chilled couple of weeks with our family and friends, we were very lucky and got some great gifts. We ate lots of food and I watched lots of TV. How cool is American Horror Story!? Steve and I had a marathon and are just starting season 3. H and I's Craft day turned into a Glee marathon and blog chat day, but friend time is just as cool as crafting and there are many more craft days booked in for 2014.

I am so excited to get stuck into this year, I have so many plans for Sew Crafty and we have some plans for our blog too. We are attending some blog conferences and talks to hopefully meet some more lovely bloggers and grow our little community. 2013 was such an amazing year, what will 2014 hold... I cant wait to find out!

Sammy xxx

Love it: Sammy's Home

Last year I took the 'Life is Beautiful' E-course from the girls over at 'A Beautiful Mess' (my favourite blog like ever) in an effort to get back into real life documenting, i.e. not just shoving all my photos on Facebook. So for the last six months I have been putting together a scrapbook/photo journal of 'My 30th Year' It's coming along really well and I will share once I have finished it. I have included alot of photo collages, which I put together using Picassa. One of my favourite pages so far is the one dedicated to our Home, so I thought I would share it with you, like a sneak peak.

Review: The Make Escape

A few weeks ago I managed to drag myself over to good old Hackney to finally make it to The Make Escape at Hackney Picturehouse! It's been a long time coming and have been meaning to go for ages but not living in London anymore just means going to things is that little bit more effort! I had some time off so spent a few days in London staying with a friend and managed to convince her to come with me too!

The session was to Drop-in and Draw but there was a plenty of things on offer: Knitting, crochet, comic strip storyboarding, still life drawing and collage!

After getting to the top floor - or the attic as its known - we bought a drink and headed for a look around at all the different things on offer!  We decided upon the collage as who doesn't love a bit of cutting and glueing! I watch the kids when I am at work do it all the time but I don't get a look in - so this was my time! 

We sat on a large bank of tables and everyone around us got stuck in.  There were plenty of bits and bobs to use but I must admit to my inspiration being a bit thin on the ground - even though this was the day of me going around the V&A, I think I must have looked at too much!

This was my effort - You can tell I work with children most of the time

My friend Vic's collage - You can see who is the Illustrator!

We had a great time and it was nice to sit down and do something creative of an evening that wasn't a particular workshop.  You could spend time doing whatever you wanted and all for free!  Just keep buying the drinks to keep you going for the night.  You can see more about the night on their blog here.

They usually have guests that help with the workshops throughout the night and the lovely Becky from The Craft Closet was helping with the knitting and so it was a good chance to catch up in person for a change!

The next event is their Easter Extravaganza on Tuesday March 26th at the Hackney Attic. Drop in any time from 7.30pm to 11pm.

Live it

H