Julyhobby

This week on "Wonderful World of Etsy" I bring you the cute felt food and toy patterns from Etsy Store, Julyhobby. I had so much fun making Molly her felt food kit that I have started making more from patterns and making my own up. I am in love with the chicken from Julyhobby and think it would look super cute in Molly's oven!

• Lovely Japanese Sushi Set Pattern PDF
• Felt Cakes and Tarts Pattern PDF
• Chicken and Salad Party 3 PDF Felt Pattern
• Sweet Chocolate Gift Set PDF Felt Pattern

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Ikea - playhouse kitchen cuteness

Duktig plastic glasses

Duktig 9-piece fruit basket set

Duktig 10-piece coffee/tea set, multicolour

Duktig 14-piece vegetable set

This week for my 'shops i love' page I bring you Ikea. I chose Ikea this week because that is where I bought all of the above play kitchen cuties for Molly's playhouse on her birthday.



I started my inspiration for her playhouse back in May with my inspirational pinboard, Playhouse. Since then I have been making and buying little treasures for her house, like the felt food kit I showed you yesterday. Over the next few weeks I will be sharing with you all the other cuteness I bought and made, so stay tuned... It has been such a fun little project to do along with my sister and her husband. Oh, and Molly loved it!



Have a sweet day!

Felt Food Kit

Whilst I was shopping in Islington last week I came across the Felt Picnic set in a sale at the art store, Cass Art. I thought it would be great to make for Molly's play kitchen and give them to her for her birthday. I love how they turned out and made a few tweaks from the original kit by buying some red and yellow embroidery thread to match the felt, as the kit only provided brown and purple. I also put velcro on the bun and bread slices so she could make sandwiches and burgers rather than stitching the bread to the sandwich filling as per the instructions. I had so much fun making them that I went on to make felt iced gems and tea bags.



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Happy Birthday Molly!

Today is my cute niece, Molly's, 2nd birthday. Happy Birthday Molly!



Yesterday she had a birthday party and this year I decided to make a cake shaped like a house. I chose a house to match my gift to her which was lots of pretty treasures for her playhouse, more of which I will show you later....



Cake details

Gluten-free lemon flavoured, coloured layer cake with buttercream covered in fondant icing (recipe coming soon)



The roof, door and windows were made of pink wafer biscuits with a liberal sprinkling of pink glitter. I stuck pale blue M&M's which I had recently got at M&M world onto the roof. I made pale green fondant leaves for the corners of the house and roof and to get the brick effect on the house I used a textured brick mat from Blue Ribbon. The chimney was two green polka dot candles. I covered the top of my cake board with Cath Kidston wrapping paper with a layer of sticky back plastic over the top and stuck pink polka dot ribbon around the sides.



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British Cream Tea

This week on Flickr Faves Sunday, I bring you the delightful work of Ouissi who owns the Etsy shop British Cream Tea and currently features in Mollie Makes craft magazine. Check back soon for some more of the most inspirational photographers on Flickr.

Some beautiful shots from my Flickr favourites (clockwise from top left):

• The pretty Polka Dot Butterfly Cake
  
• The sweet party rings set
• The ever so cute Iced Gems
• The adorable Jammie Dodger

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New Ivy Style

This week on "Wonderful World of Etsy" I bring you Iro's wonderful fine art photography prints from Etsy Store, New Ivy Style, along with her beautiful origami paper boat garlands and recipe cards.

• Recipe cards for happy cooking
• True love never fades - fine art photography print
• Cotton & pebbles - fine art photography print
• Love & luck paper boat garland

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Rice DK Autumn/Winter 2011

This week for my 'shops i love' page I bring you fun, funky fabulous Danish brand, Rice DK, a brand that often appears here on Torie Jayne.

With all the new Autumn/Winter catalogues coming out now I thought I would first feature Rice DK. As always their collection is full of bright, happy colours like the bright pink and blue ostrich table lamps, kitchen hooks and candle holders. Following on the bird theme there are flamingo shaped hooks in a rainbow of colours and one arm ostrich and peacock candelabras. Cutlery in zesty lime, bubblegum pink and fresh mint to brighten up meal times. My favourite has to be their acrylic picture frames in a mixture of sizes and colours like mint, hot pink and lime green.

Have a sweet day!