chRistmas wiShes & joLLy craFting for 2014

May you all have a wonderful Christmas, laughter with family and friends, stockings filled with treats and inspired for many design delights and crafteries in 2014 xxxx

HAppy aDveNt sUndAy 1sT

Hello and happy advent Sunday.

This post merrily follows on from the craftie posts we have been sharing.

My mini1's love opening doors and seeing pictures or chocolates but this year I have opted for a hide a gift and seek the bag kind of advent calendar instead.

The girls enjoyed the hunting and foraging and finding their striped bags of yellow and white with a bold pink dot and Dec 1 on it. 

Inside their treat bags were a hand made white ceramic hanging decoration, a paper heart with date on and joined together with best of British liberty print fabric. Yes I did slip into pink for the girls and blue for the boy and of course we couldn't forget a little choc and although I didn't make the chocs I did enjoy eating a few whilst making the decorations!

Happy advent my mini1's and to you too xx

chRistMas cRaftEriE #2

With nativity costumes being made, rehearsals and more tipples being poured into the puds and cakes me and minimini1 took a break to get cRafTy!

Minimini1 loved the task if foraging and sorting all the 'just right' pompoms and then we got going and made lots and lots of Christmas cupcake toppers.

Minimini1 couldn't resist making one for wHiTe chRisTmaS mOuSe tOo....

chRistMas cRaFtinG #1

We are sorry we didn't get to share our finds, designs and crafting capers during September and October inc Halloween but we got super duper busy.

Fear not we are sharing from our CuckoO craFterie nest Christmas makes and in plenty of time for you to do yours too.

Here is a snap shot of our angel, pipe leaner trees and recycle trees too xxx

What we're wearing Wednesday......week #10

Hello, feeling a little cooler as we enter the second week of September but not too cool to pop on the ankle grazers and take the pooch for a stroll...she made a lovely accessory too :*) 

I did later add a knit layer!

                  

What we're wearing Wednesday .........week#9

Okay so it's not officially the ninth week as we have missed a few, I said at the beginning this might happen and with summer hols and lots of adventures Wednesdays wardrobe got a little pushed out.

Back today though and here is my clobber for today.......

                          

Plaited rolled knotted sleeve detail light marl grey tee top, with jungle palm and yellow flower floaty wrap skirt. I have gold strap sandals and big leaf hair piece to add a little roar.

 

What we're wearing Wednesday......week #8

Holiday.......

Simple triangle bikini top with matching bottoms, accessory of the day was a straw shallow circular basket with leather handles filled with a mix of things throughout the day ranging from towels, drinks, clothing change to washing ! 

                                   

What we're wearing Wednesday ...... Week#7

Although I'm partial to wearing an apron just because I love them and I think they make a gorgeous addition as does a scarf, a neckpiece or fabulous bag, today my apron saw plenty of cleaning action!

I've decided to show it as the main item as it was worn all day, yes my home glistens! 

Fun chunky neckwear in the form of wooden beads were added as was one of my hand made birds.

Super light weight denim skinny jeans and pastel petrol pumps were added too!

                                     

 

What we're wearing Wednesday.....week#6

Gorgeous 30 degrees again today so there was a wardrobe change however this dress was where I started the day and is a real favourite of mine and has been for some time. Contrast hemline appliqué and self fabric belt with very big beads at high waist.

                            

    

What we're wearing Wednesday.......week #5

Okay so a bit of an open the closet, grab, dress and we're off kind of morning today.

Literally all was go here, builder arrived, deliveries arrived, all 3 mini1's 'needing' something before 7

Anyway Wednesdays wardrobe did change throughout the day due to the delightful summer we are experiencing however this is the outfit that was popped on first!

Fine marl pewter jersey tee with knot shoulder detail

Washed lime cotton voile skirt with an abundance of French knot detailing at waist/hips

Shiny aubergine acrylic accessories

                          

      

What we're wearing Wednesday......Week #4

A lovely bright sunny summer morning so what better than a white linen dress with asym hemline put together with all the necessary trims that are needed on a school run; super light weight cotton floral printed vintage scarf, yolk yellow butterfly cinch belt, burnished metallic leather sandals and neon pink Cambridge satchel company satchel.

                                    

     

Oops yesterday's outfit that never got uploaded?

                                

What we're wearing Wednesday ..... Week #3

Today if I'm absolutely honest it was not just one outfit this was down to the fact we had plenty of food spillages and the weather got hotter. I'll share with you how I intended to wear Wednesday.....,

Mock separates dress consisting of stripe jersey upper body with a tulip woven navy lower skirt section. 

Is that it i hear you ask, yes I can keep it simple I just don't keep it simple for long....2 outfits followed!!

What we're Wearing Wednesday .... Week 2

So here we are with the signature bird nest hair complete with bird thanks to Rice DK

Tiny fluo green beads with pops of pink

Orla Kiely wrap apron dress in house print

Cloud grey skinny jeans

and I feel comfy and happy, hope you do too today x

                                  

What We're Wearing Wednesday........Week 1

This post will come on all, some, or as many as I can Wednesdays and the first one is me!
A certain five year old thought she would have the first one but when I reminded her that she was wearing her summer uniform she decided she wanted to wait and pick a holiday Wednesday instead, shame really I quite like her uniform!
So Wednesdays wardrobe this week is me, and today I'm dressed in cobalt blue Nicole Farhi linen tunic with curved side splits, pockets which I love and knot fold detail at front.
Accessorised with one of my hand made neck pieces featuring fish flower and pompom, mushroom brogues with pink cotton petersham laces.
Hair in monkey buns! When mini1 first asked for monkey buns I had no idea what they were she says they are chunky curly hair buns, one each side (a bit Star Wars like if you ask me but much more nest like!)

Yay it was spot on.....

we just added a forest!

Lovely day with the three mini1's running around the forest, picnic, fun and games on children's wooden sculptures followed by good kid ice creams!

Tomorrows forecast........

Its twenty two hundred hours, still light skies, tinged with pink, birds singing and local church bells chiming.....beautiful evening.
Despite this today has been incredibly wet so I couldn't put my head down without knowing what tomorrow has in store after this gorgeous evening.
I think my little doodle darling illustrates tomorrow's forecast a treat.....
Little low cloud to start giving way to a sunny day, I'm happy!

sprinkles + washi + imagination = circus

It's Friday, it's fun and yummy too so roll-up take a peek and see what's in the mix for our circus party weekend....

animal heads....

I love them, and the choice is big now as this trend to pop a head on your wall continues to grow. What's better is that you don't have to have a real one so to speak because the possibilities and choices of these creatures adorning your walls in paper, fabric, wool or felt is vast!
Here are some of my favourite heads and if you click over to our wall deco board on Pinterest http://pinterest.com/itscloudcuckoo/wall-deco/ you can follow links to purchase or find out more on these beauties and see more that we have pinned too.

In the meantime a thank you to Molly-Meg, Anthropologie, Abigail Brown, Etsy, Mister Finch and Serendipity to name a few from the below for creating or sourcing or selling these lovies.

transformer tuesday #19

Well its been awhile since we tt'd! however today is tuesday and it just so happens wehavebeen transforming jars in prep for the forthcoming circus party, so here we have transformed jam jars into Circus party jars and what fun we have had putting them together (tasty too, the odd treat went astray!)......

Peep-po Circus.....

As in our last post we said all is go as the circus is coming to town....
Here is our latest in the planning and doing and thank you to poppa for help with construction and daddy for handy work with the jigsaw.....perfect peep-po holes!
We will soon be able to share the pictures of mini1's transforming from party peeps to lions and juggling balancing performers, we can't wait!

Circus is coming.....

We have a circus party in the pipeline for our soon to be three year old, with gifts, games, decor and party bags/jars it is all go with balloons, animals, pompoms, bunting and dress up kits, here are some of todays crafteries....... 

Fingers ready......

Felt fabric, googlie eyes, and glitter glue ready.....

Woohoo, we have puppets!

I like chalky........

Credits to....
Satchels WGSN store shot
Bud Vases Brian Giniewski
Feathers happinessetc.blogspot.co.uk
Ladders theinspiredroom.net
1807 house paint colours via google
Trees etsy
Room ladansla.blogspot.fr

To view more inspiring images chalky or bright pop along to our Pinterest boards, we love to see our followers and welcome new followers too, and there is something for everyone with smiles all round.

dOOdLe tWiGs

Always at the ready to up-cycle, recycle and re-use we have today given new life to our easter tree!
After dismantling the tree of feathers, chicks, paper flowers and mini pompom garlands we were left with white painted twigs which was just what we needed for our next project, in short doodled twigs, joined together to create letters and o e for each of the mini1's....
Mini1 the letter 'M'
Mini2 the letter 'C'
Mini3 the letter 'A'

As our twigs were already painted white we doodled with felt pens but if you wish to use natural unpainted twigs then colourful (or white) poster or acrylic paint would be great for doodling.

Doodle twigs are great fun and can be transformed into all kinds of letters, objects or left as twigs, we will be bringing more as they proved to be lots of fun.

The boy and his crackin' sisters.....

So all has been go this week, both on the design front, mama front and crafty easter front of course.....there has been bonnets, hunts, outfits and tree making and this morning we rounded off with egg blowing and well I'll let the pcs speak for themselves.

Happy Easter to you all and may we wish you a yummy crafty one at that!

If you to would like a go
1.grab your eggs
2.wash and blow them
3.decorate
4.most importantly have fun fun fun xx