My first paid work!

A girl at work saw my wreath design from last week and was so impressed that she asked me to make her one as well, which she paid me for. She said I could do pretty much anything I wanted but as I really enjoyed working with the dried fruit I decided to incorporate that into the design.

I have actually changed the wreath slightly since I took this photo, by adding another cluster of dried fruit and a pine cone at the top, between the cinnamon and under the chillies. I just thought it looked a little uneven and it was bothering me!

Candy Canes

I'm a little bit obsessed with candy canes - I don't actually like eating them but I just love the way they look! So I wanted to find some ways to incorporate them into my Christmas decorating. I had a look around the good old Internet and came up with a couple of ideas and here they are:

Candy cane vase

Candy cane wreath

Table centrepiece

My mum tasked me with designing a centrepiece for the table on Christmas day, and this is what I came up with:

It did take me quite a while but I'm so pleased with the overall result that it was definitely worth it!

Christmas decorating: part 3

I had some cinnamon sticks leftover from my christmas decorations so I had a go at making some candle holders, and I love how they turned out. They're really very simple - they're just glass tealight holders from Ikea, cinnamon sticks, a glue gun, some ribbon and a pearl bead. And then the candle of course!

I think they would have been slightly better with a straight edge tealight holder though as the sticks have a few gaps.