Facial Topiary...

I love a bit on antique shopping and whilst perusing the shelves at my local antiques centre I found these bearded men and gave their facial hair a bit of a trim giving a new meaning to facial topiary...

I may make these into a zine so watch my etsy shop !

Hand Stitching...

Recently I've been doing a bit of hand stitch mainly because I have more time on my hands so I can afford to take my time over things. This week I've been sewing a cushion with a flower motif using hand stitch embroidery and also French knots. Progress has been quite slow but I'm happy with it, I plan on making it into a little scatter cushion and using piping round the edge to finish it off.

Here's the design so far ...