Sunday, 4 July 2010

My first ever tutorial for an oversized beach bag

Ok fingers crossed this works.  i think i have managed to upload my tutorial on how to make the beachbag i made earlier this week.  This is my first tutorial so bear with me as i tend to waffle and go off at a tangent!!.  After spending hours last night trying to figure out how to put a pdf file in a post it took me 5 minutes today when i worked it out (thats if it has worked of course!!)  I uploaded it as a PDF file to a website called Scribd.com and then that gave me an embeded code to put in this post - confused ? i am !!!.  Anyhoo hopefully it works.  Can someone let me know if it has and if the tutorial is ok or is there anything obvious missing.


Oversized Beach Bag Tutorial by Dizzytina

Saturday, 3 July 2010

Help how do i attach a word doc or a PDF file to a post?

You know when you say you will do something and it turns out to be a complete ball ache well this is what happened when i said i would do my first ever tutorial about the beachbag i made!!  The bag took less than an hour to make the tutorial somewhat longer and now i can't work out how to put a PDF or word document into a post arrrgh!!.  Can anyone help me i'm clearly technically challenged.  So i'm hoping that one of my lovely followers knows more about blogging than me (that can't be hard!) and can tell me how i do it! anyone?

Friday, 2 July 2010

Possibly the biggest beach bag ever!!

I go on holiday in 8 days (cue lots of cheering!!) and need a new beachbag.  Now every year i look for a suitable beachbag and end up trying to force three beach towels, creams, hats, books, wim shoes, armbands etc etc into one bag which by the end of the holiday usually ends up in the bin!!.  This year i thought i would make myself a really large one to fit everything in.  Now i may have gone abit overboard as it is possibly the biggest beach bag ever!!! Still there should be no problem fitting everything but the kitchen sink in!. Of course i have also made Lili her own so there isn't the need for half the stuff in mine....
Anyway for anyone who is interested i will be doing my first ever tutorial on this tomorrow (i will probably scale down the measurements so you don't end up with a bag big enough to sleep in!).

Tuesday, 29 June 2010

A beach bag for my little girl



We go on holiday in a week and a half (and yes i am counting the days!!) and i thought it would be nice to make Lili her own beach bag so she can carry her own towel,cream,swim shoes etc.  She does have a peppa pig swim bag but its not really big enough for everything.  She had recently talked me into buying some disney princess pvc fabric so i used some of that to make it.


Sunday, 27 June 2010

CRAFTY SUNDAY

Howdie everyone,
Its that time of the week when i join in with crafty sunday and agree to share my crafty makes for the week.  Well this week i have made a few things...
Firstly some crayon rolls for my friends childrens birthdays this week. 

This one looks wonky but its not its just got padding on the cream seat under it.


Again the roll isn't wonky just the surface isn't flat!
I have to say they were dead easy to make apart from having to keep measuring every inch for the slots there is nothing technical about it.  If you want to try one the link to the tutorial i used is here
I have also made this pegbag out of a teatowel

And this dress for my little girl.....
This week i am planning on making a beach bag for our hols, a smaller beachbag for lili to carry her towel, some scrunchie bobbles from lili's old school polo shirt and mayber a maxi dress for my hols - ok the last one is a very long shot but you never know!!!