It has been quite a steep learning curve for me in terms of getting to grips with the technology. I managed to upload the videos last night (having spent all day working super hard on finishing them off) but I had issues with thumbnails argh…but this morning I have fixed it and I even managed to install a thingy-bob that lets me put them on my blog too. Yay!

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At the moment you can see the ‘welcome’ video (see above) and my first tutorial, which is about how to make envelopes. This was how I really got into crafting and so it seemed fitting that it was my first one! I’m not currently feeling that confident at being in front of the camera so for now, you’ll mainly see my hands in the tutorials! I did want to introduce myself properly though, so you can see me on camera in my first video. Here is my envelopes tutorial:

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One of the things that has been brilliant about making these is that Tom has composed some original music for my videos. I gave him a very brief brief, which was basically that I wanted some jolly tunes that people could hum along to as I do love a good tune! I also wanted the music for each video to be sort of the same but different – thankfully he knew what I meant by this, so the music uses the same instruments to tie them together. The opening and closing credits are the same for each video, but listen out for the different bits he has written. I am so grateful to Tom for writing this for me (thank you!). If you’d like, you can check out his website – Ordered Sound. I also want to say a big thank you to my lovely sister-in-law, Naomi, who first encouraged me to have a go at making some videos, and also showed me how to use iMovie and Garageband (which I use to make them). Thank you!

I am working on a few more ideas at the moment and so hopefully there will be more on the way soon. If you would like to subscribe to my channel that would be brilliant – just pop over to my channel and say hello. Thank you! Hope you have a super weekend

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This is another project that I’ve made for my business, Less Grafting More Crafting – sorry for another cross-post, but I’m just so chuffed with this!

We’ve been posting about this summer’s nautical trends on our blog and decided to design a project that you can make at the weekend. We were keen to do some fabric painting, and this is the result! It’s a DIY tutorial post so we take you through each step, and you can download the PDF template too. To see the full tutorial, click here. I’d love to hear what you think!

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To make a floral bouquet you will need:

Some flowers (I used roses and spray carnations for this bouquet)
Some floristry tape (not the waterproof one)
Sharp scissors
Floristry pins
Ribbon

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You’ll need to do a few practice runs before the real thing – experiment with different colours and flowers and pick your favourites too This is my actual wedding bouquet – I bought flowers from various stalls on York market to put it together:

Here are a few final tips!

I’ll be doing one more post about wedding planning – look out for that this weekend! :-)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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We were lucky enough to be able to borrow our family bunting to decorate our wonderful wedding venue, and the bunting is made from fabric contributed by Tom’s Aunt’s wedding guests a few years ago. It was such a lovely project to make and I thought this would make a perfect tutorial to share with you – you can recreate it with your friends and family for a wedding or any other special occasion!

This tutorial is available exclusively on the Festival of Thrift Google+ page – I’d love to hear what you think! Look out for more wedding-themed content this week too!

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