Wednesday, 25 May 2011

craft fair

Went to a craft fair last weekend, and did well selling my flowers.

The girly bags went well too.
If you are interested still have white and red and sparkly black available.

My new mug cosy were well received but no buyers. I think they are very cute!


I was really pleased how it all went, but thoroughly exhausted!!!

Wednesday, 6 April 2011

Cakes and Flowers

Charlotte attended her first birthday party since moving, back in October, a friend from college. I had no idea what to buy so decided to make the gift and found a pattern for a puff petal keyring. I think she liked it, and it fitted well into my birthday present budget!

Birthday Present

Charlotte decided way before her birthday what cake she wanted, she had seen a chocolate present cake in Sainsburys. For some reason I decided to make my own. However I think it worked out quite well and Charlotte liked it too!

Brothers

2 cards for 2 brothers, different boys different cards.


Hats away!

For Phoebe, hand crocheted with love. And after 2nd attempt managed to get it on her without making her scream!!!

Sunday, 3 April 2011

More cards...

Anniversary card for special friends. Used PM Border Pack Simply Elegant.

A pretty card for a cute 2yr old. Used paper from a friend and added ric rac. (Hint: buy from haberdashers much cheaper)


New Baby Congratulations, 1st of three baby girl cards I will need to make. No2 due any day!

Birthday Cake Turkish Style

February saw Andrew's birthday roll around and I wracked my brains to try and top last year. (Climbing wall with climbers, will have to find pic to post). Anyhow another of his loves is turkish delight, so had this bright idea to make a box of sponge delight. How hard could it be. Well the yellow cake, not obvious on photo worked fine, but the pink didn't happen. FYI pink food colouring (liquid type) and sponge cake don't mix. No matter how much I put in and how bright it looked, when it emerged from the oven it just looked grey. Despite this Andrew seemed thrilled.

Tuesday, 15 February 2011

Thanks and Thinking

Wanted to thank some friends for a fab New Year's Eve party, made this using some mag freebies.



Sent this to family, just because, uses paper from PM Spring Life

Christmas Cake

My most recent cake creation. Fruit cake with royal icing and glitter, my favourite cake decorating addition.

Who am I?

Thought I would start a new blog about what I do.

I am Hummingbird Designs and started off by designing cards and stationery, (wedding, birth announcements etc.) then have expanded into scrapbooks (only for myself at the moment) and have just rediscovered crochet.

I love to while away the hours making gifts for friends and family and this has expanded into my first sales.

Enjoy!