Feeling a bit blah!

As per usual, I need a little break after too many events to get my brain in gear for more sewing :)
Anyway, while I wait for my sew-jo to kick in, I've been going crazy gathering supplies for making Christmas decorations :) While we were in Bath we went to a shop called December 25th, that sells, you guessed it, Christmas stuff all year round! We went in to get some baubles for the tree we have in the sitting room, it's a cream and gold theme and we found lots of pretties! But while we were looking round I fell in love with the 'pink' section! The others said I couldn't put pink on an otherwise gold tree, so I've decided to have a tree in the new conservatory, and it's going to have a pink and white theme! I bought 3 or 4 baubles, and have a huge (and growing!) pile of bits and bobs to make more :) I just have to wait for the polystyrene balls I got on ebay to arrive so I can start decorating!! I think they may even have arrived while I'm stuck here at work! But I'm only doing a short day today ... :)

My first bauble :)

I was right, the spheres arrived while I was at work, so this evening I have been having a go at my first bauble :)


Made using thie tutorial from craftster.org : http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=324730.0;all
I completely forgot how many pins it would use! so now I need to get more before I can make another one like this.

Aaaand, another one :)

Sorry to pic-spam you all, but I just did another bauble that I think I like even more than the last ;)

The glue is all still drying, and you can't really see the 'puffyness' of it, but there you go! It's made on a styrofoam ball, it's marked into wedges, then the wedges are cut with a scalpel, and the fabric is 'shoved' (technical term!) into the slits, bead strip glued onto the 'seams' and beads and ribbon added for the loop and tassel.