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I've been a busy bee, making these Georgian inspired eye charms.  More of those in a moment though as I've also been messing about with coffee dyeing paper and making swirly patterns with watercolour pencils and oil pastels.   The coffee dyed paper were pages torn from a sketchpad, and took the colour nicely. I laid stencils over the pages as they were drying, and they took the imprint of the stencil patterns but only delicately.  Perhaps I need to weigh them down a little next time.   I watched this video while I was eating my bowl of porridge for breakfast, so had a go at making Kandinsky inspired pages afterwards.   These two won't win any artistic awards, but it was fun to play with colour and there is something genuinely pleasing and calming about just letting your thoughts go and making circles.   Now, for more of those lover's eye charms.  So much fun to create these!  I'm planning on making a short YouTube video tomorro...

  It's early on Sunday afternoon and I'm all caught up with The Archers, along with several political podcasts, not that either are filling me with much joy at the moment.  Anyhow, I thought I'd show you how this heart shaped sewing case turned out.  If you recall from my last post, it's based on a pattern by StitchWitch, picked up in a charity shop for 50p.  First off, I'll say I'm impressed by anyone who tackles the tricky art of writing instructions.  They're not easy to do, and on the whole these are pretty good.   This is the sewing case closed up, with a button and ribbon loop fastening.   Here is it opened out.  There's a pocket at the top, and on the left is a section for storing scissors in.  The original design has fabric strips glued in, intended to push your needles & pins into.  I substituted a flat rectangle of pale brown felt, blanket stitched into place.   My small Fiskars scissors aren't quite sma...