updating...£1 shop find....

Had Mathew aged 7 and Ellen aged 9 in to "make something"...Mathew as usual knew exactly what he wanted to make down to the last detail....you can't see it on here but there is a rowing boat on the back of the pirate ship so the pirates can row to an island for the treasure !

see all the black cannons down the ships side?

Ellen wanted to make a Herring Girl like I had done...

heres an Oreo herring....The shapes are from Oreo lunch pack of two ...also a paper mache shell for follow the herring project.

My £1 shop find...a wire garden ornament...I had several ideas for the wire frames...this being the first one....outer frame wrapped with a strip of material, inner frame done the same way but raised by bending slightly, and the beaded stamens wrapped in sparkly black eyelash yarn. Just need a contrasting centre now....

Other ideas were covering the petals rather than the frame....

breaking the inner petals and stamens off and just decorating the outer ones

Making hearts out of the broken off petals....