Shoe Rack

Recently I have become a member of Pinterest which is essentially online scrapbooking...brilliant! Anyway, I was facing a shoe storage problem here at Bethanie so I typed in 'shoe rack' on Pinterest and found a great idea using a pallet. As pallets are a personal passion of mine, it just had to be done.
I attached some shelving brackets to prevent it from falling forward.

Measuring Stick!

It was always a tradition growing up in my family that when a child has a birthday their height would be recorded. As my family have moved around quite a bit, we have always used a wooden stick to record these measurements upon, so as we have moved, the stick has moved with us. Obviously, as we all grew up and left home, this tradition faded. However, my family has now grown considerably with the addition of many grandchildren and my mum and dad have re-instated this family tradition for them. As my parents are very settled where they live and its unlikely that they will move, the stick has now turned to a thin section of wall in their kitchen.
When I was over recently, I decided to re-vamp the measuring 'stick' to make it more of a feature.

Diamond Wedding Celebration

I recently got back from a trip to the UK where I was able to gather with lots of family members to celebrate my Grandparent's Diamond Wedding Anniversary (60 years)!
To contribute to the occassion I made some personalised bunting and a commemorative plate. The logo I designed consists of a diamond ring with the letters g+g in the centre (G&G is what all the grandchildren call my grandparents). Below the ring are two leaves from an oak tree and 1951 is when they got married. Around the edge of the plate are 23 acorns which represent their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Ashers Ice Cream Factory

I currently have some of my family visiting me in France, including my gorgeous nephew, Asher, who turned 2 yesterday.
We decided to throw an Ice Cream party to celebrate the occasion and spent the last week making and preparing decorations, ice cream, aprons, hats, games and a cake of course.
The weather, unfortunately, didnt hold out and so we ended up having to move the party indoors...but we still had lots of fun!

Ice cream flavours: Confiture de Lait (home made), Rhubarbe et Gingembre (home made), Chocolat, Pistache and Café.
The birthday cake; Chocolat Orange Beetroot cake...mmmmm! (here's the recipe)
The factory workers, ready to go!
The birthday boy!

More photos here!

for baby

Recently 2 of our best friends had their second child, Eponine. We love her name so much that we decided we should make her this to go up on her bedroom wall. We cut it out of MDF and painted it white. It measures roughly 100x30 cm.

Family Portrait

A while ago I blogged about my embroidered portraits of myself and my husband. I mentioned in the post that my plan was to frame the portriats in embroidery hoops and to also do one of our daughter, Pixie...well, here they are!

Annie Larson

Came across the wonderful Annie Larson recently and her fabulous knitwear...I actually cannot put into words how much I love this stuff!