Leaf it out

It's Autumn! My favourite season due to the beautiful colours, cosiness and particularly its crunchy leaves :) I'm hoping to decorate another pumpkin this year, my first married pumpkin, but in the meantime I have decided to autumnify (is that a word?!) our flat. Starting with this felt leaf garland which I started almost a year ago but which went on the back burner when wedding planning reared its head!

It's not going to be a very long post I just wanted to show you how sweet it looks, its brightens up the window, especially when its bucketing down outside. I found the templates on Google, cut them out of felt & then spent a couple of hours the other night sewing on the veins in cable stitch while watching Modern Family.

And that's all for now folks, I've got to leave for uni in a second so can't be writing an essay for you, but I hope you liked my handiwork and I'll keep you posted if I get round to making anything else.

Amy x

Hen time!

This post is very out of date, most probably so are the main attraction of the post but I didn't want to eat them until I had proper photographic evidence of them, and that's taken a while! A couple of weeks ago Josh's lovely sister Em (my new new sister in law!) got married, and for her hen party we learned how to decorate cupcakes :) This is something I have ALWAYS wanted to do, and which the film Bridesmaids has only fuelled, so I was super excited about it, and look at the results!

A lady from Froghollow bakery came to show us how to make these six designs, and they all looked so good! We even got to make leaves for the flowers which I have also always wanted to do (again blame Bridesmaids).

My proudest one is the one below on the left, he's a piped rose - I piped that! My next task is to buy a load of different piping nozzles so I can try to recreate them, Becky made a load for the wedding and they look amazing :)

So if teaching doesn't work out, and floristry doesn't either, then you will find me working in a lovely bakery making these all day.

Speak to you soon,

Amy x

End of Summer love

Don't get me wrong, I flipping love autumn and I'm already excited for Christmas, but before that becomes a serious thing to have to think about I just wanted to share something which I have also fallen in love with this summer. And yet again it was sparked by my girl-crush, Cherry Menlove ( http://www.cherrymenlove.com/).

Turquoise and pink.

Who would have thought? It's so pretty! After reading her blog about tea caddy roses I went straight out and bought this very Fortnum and Mason caddy, haven't drunk the tea out of it yet but I'm just enjoying having it out and admiring it for the time being. One day it will become a vase or some other kind of vessel, but until then it will simply give me joy when I look at it.

But the love didn't stop there, it deepened! I mean simply look at all these things which look lovely just because they are these two colours:

Wowzers.

So anyway, we've entered Autumn now (the best season in my opinion), which requires a different and more cosy selection of colour combinations. My Pinterest seems to have gone into Autumn overdrive and I've had to restrict the amount of leaf pictures I add! Have a little gander at it and see what you think (http://pinterest.com/amylaurakennard/).

Until next time (when hopefully we'll have internet at the flat so I can post some wedding pictures), happy leaf crunching :)

Amy x