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A massive wreath… and xmas goes pastel
Twisting on baubles in the garden
Here’s some pics of the craft projects I worked on for The Australian Women’s Weekly’s December issue a while back. I spent three days sourcing materials for the wreath alone and putting it all together with the sun beating down, then cut my hands to shreds on the wires, just about scraping in on deadline… but it all worked out in the end (hurrah!)
On the cover with Julie from Master Chef
I also made some boxes, crackers and xmas stockings for the Magic Moments feature, with the stockings making an appearance in the Michael Clarke shot. Here they are in our kitchen:
Pastel boxes & crackers
Incy boxes
Xmas stockings
I do love my sorbet colours but I’m not sure I made the pastel a success this time… what do you think? My favourite colours for the season are still fairly traditional: red, white and beige. Very French, very gorgeous… non?
Speaking of gorgeous, if you do see a copy of the Weekly, check out Marijke Kingma’s xmas craft feature on p298 – I think it’s lovely, particularly the doily thingummies on p300. I bought a stack of these at my local discount store a while back, so will experiment making them myself ASAP.
That is one awesome wreath.. never seen one that large. And talking of large – good to see the Aussie WW puts real women on the cover, not skinny excuses for womanhood.. good stuff I say!
Pastek is lovely in the last two pics… have to fess to not being a fan of orange and pastels TBH, soz! Orange and Red, however, now that’s zinging… but the stockings are very pretty xx