I have just then ( like I mean JUST then ) become obsessed with making a thousand ( or so ) fabric bows. Who knows why but there you have it. I've done a tutorial search and will probably begin this afternoon after work! Eee :) [standby for photographic evidence]
It's christmas time and as happens every year I walk around the shops despairing, trying to find cheap but beautiful presents for my friends and family but I am never successful. The items I want to shower all over my loved ones are too expensive for my tiny waitress' pocket. So I end up spending quite an amount of man hours making the one thing for everyone, slightly changed for each person. Last year I made origami flowers into brooches (or christmas tree ornaments for the man-types):
This year I have started to make Spiced Blueberry Syrup:
It is delicious and the bottles look so cute! It was super fun making the labels as well.
I just did this up quickly in photoshop and then printed it on coloured adhesive scrapbooking paper.I got the recipe out of a book called Simple Pleasures:
It's a super easy one and pretty impressive. The book is awesome too because not only does it give you recipes you can make as gifts for people, it gives you tutorials on how to make the packaging as well. Win!It's very sad but I have to go to work now. While I'm there preparing food and taking orders and cleaning dishes, I will be thinking about a field of small fabric bows, full of pretty promise, overtaking the mess that inhabits my boudoir and giving me something to do that isn't searching for a design job ( which is depressing ).
Song of the day: Autumn in New York by Billie Holiday :)
<3 CM
i am still super impressed with those labels. you are a layout wonder woman :)
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