Our Toadstool Party for Little L

Celebrating my Little L's birthday with

cake decorating, animal hat making, toadstools and friends...

Our toadstool inspired cake with bunting flags.

Making hats, homemade cake ,cake pops and shaking our lametta shakers!

I am really pleased that we had a crafty party as it covered all ages and both boys and girls. Making animal woodland hats and icing cakes seemed to go down well. The little ones ate the icing instead of icing the cakes, but hey that's fine!

I made Little L a cake and her Godmother made these amazing cake pops and covered them in sugar art to match the theme. I wanted a toadstool cake but after our cat went missing (now found) we had to cut corners.

We had rolls (cobs in Derbyshire) from the local bakers just like my Gran used to give me, sandwich triangles, little iced cakes and treats for birthday tea. I must say a big thank you to all my family and friends for helping with the day. I could not have done anything without you! Love you xxx .

The local village hall was a good idea as all the glitter and glue was kept out of our house! It came well equipped to clean up afterwards. I could of had glitter in the carpets for weeks so I would recommend to any family thinking of a children's party.

Next year... well the ideas are already there!

See you next post,

New Family Weekly Plans

 It's All Change!

 

celebrating L's birthday last week

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now that L's is two, we are having a change to our family week. For the last six months or so I have been blogging and researching and launching my creative business Samantha Schofield Designs . 

It's been a little bit of a challenge purely from a time point.  I do love it but giving all to the work and family isn't as easy as it sounds.

Like most Mum's running their own business, I've discovered that we don't get time off and the line between work and family life is so fine. So today was a big day as we have now have a new weekly plan!

I am working more in the daytime as it's more productive and Little L is off to pre-school so less at the weekends and looking forward to freeing up our precious weekends to devote more time to family time!

I am lucky that I get a lot of support from my Mum and Mr. S, but having more time in the week and letting Little L go and make new friends I think will be good for us all.

So I am hoping for more blogging time, since she stopped her lunchtime sleep around June, you would of seen my tutorial slope off! More making time, I have plans to make and launch pretty fascinators and purses this Autumn with children's wear to follow. 

And more good quality family time too.

So today is the start of our new plan, I'll check in on Sunday and let you know how it goes!

Happy Monday,

Halloween 2013

Halloween isn't the same Halloween as when I was a little girl..

 

I am learning fast now Little L is 2. Halloween back then was children (usually naughty ones) throwing eggs at your windows and throwing fireworks. These days, it's all about children having fun, dressing up and having a party. It's fun!  Here is a few pictures from this weeks activities...

 

Happy Halloween,

 



spiders webs









felt pumpkin brooches



  

My Week On Instagram

This week it's been all about children's party preping, Halloween crafty projects and getting some beautiful purses and fascinators ready for Open Studios at Banks Mill in a few weeks!
Happy Monday,

My First Children's Party

On Saturday we held our first party for Little L, it was a crafty party with lots of hat making and bake icing and of course a tea with lots of cake!

We held it in the local village hall which is set in the local castle grounds, so the setting was perfect for a children's party, away from traffic on the edge of the park woodland. 

We played pass the parcel in our party hats and sang nursery rhymes before tea. At this point birthday girl got too excited, we hady a few tears so Grandma had to step in!

I'll post more pictures and projects this week.

For now here is the birthday girl decorating her cupcakes.

Bye for now,

P.S.For all my latest new 'like' me on Facebook www.facebook.com/samschof

Pretty Date Stamp

This week I came across this very cute date stamp on my travels and wanted to share. It's from a company called Amy Tangerine and is perfect for card crafting, personalisation or logging your own paperwork!

Amy Tangerine is a creative consultancy based in the U.S and this line was from one their scrapbook collections. Check out their website for inspiration.

The rubber date stamp is like any other normal stamp, but you can add up to 12 extras to the date like 'enjoy today' or 'snapshot'. I really like it!

I had a play with the stamped card on my lap top and came up with this...

 

Love to you what you think and how I can craft with my new date stamper?

Pretty Layered Papers

Using Punches, Old Books And Pretty Papers...

Create textures for your card-making projects

With some old books to give a vintage feel and pretty papers, I set about making textured Wedding cards inspired by the book 'The Secret Garden'. This is a lovely technique to make, it's very easy and I wanted to share this pretty effect.

Using layers of velum papers painted with inks and acrylic paints, I firstly made up a large sheet of pretty punched paper and then tore through this to add a layered on layer effect. Being as creative as you want to be see how the colours and textures grow and run to give an organic effect. I just love it as it is unique.

The end card using the layers of papers

To finish off, I took some metal sheet, similar to gold leaf (but much cheaper!) and brush this on and sealed with glue.

close up of the punch papers

What I have is a card which looks like you are peering through to a secret punched paper garden of prettiness. You can even add some little keys to finishes it off, 'keys to my heart' with little tags with your spouse to be's name on.

Lets me know if you have any similar ideas to this one as I am always keen to learn new ideas!

Bye, bye for now,

New Series! Create It Samantha - For Christmas!

Can I help you this Christmas?
 

Creating Christmas Projects - from your requests

Are you looking for a Christmas project?

Then maybe I can help you. I am looking for requests for crafty / sewing projects for Christmas. You might be looking for that perfect Christmas stocking pattern or maybe a great bake for family and friends. You maybe new to crafting and baking and want a quick idea to something a bit well...fancy!Well, I would be delighted to create the tutorial for you.

I stitch, sew, bake, craft (paper, soaps, gardens, homes) to make your crafts affordable and unique.

Check out my website for more info www.samanthaschofield.co.uk

Contact me and I'll get busy with your requests!

Bye, bye for now,

My First Food & Gift Fayre

Last weekend was my first Food & Gift Fayre. I was really looking forward to getting a reaction to my crafty products and workshops.

I took my little purses, gifty hearts, silver jewellery and samples of my vintage fascinators and creative canvases from the workshops.

It was a little rainy but we had lots of people around the fayre. It was better as I could speak to people interested in my courses!

Here are a few snaps of the day!

The chalk board with all my latest news on

Handmade silver jewellery

Fascinators that can be made in the Vintage Accessory Workshop

Lots of vintage inspired loveliness; hearts, cards and purses

Oh! What a beautiful view from the Hall. Great setting.

I used vintage tablecloths I have been searching for all Summer over thick blind fabric as a under cloth. The blackboards were great talking points too.

My Week on Instagram

This week it has been about making and getting ready for the Food & Craft Festival, Halloween & vintageness Chevys!
Happy Friday!
SS

 

Until next week,