Brave!

Me with my Brave soundtrack, Brave poster and Cinema Poster

I am so proud to be Scottish!! I have seen the new Disney Pixar film twice now, once in 2D and then in 3D. I'm not a big fan of 3D it usually hurts my eyes after a while. But it was great! The first time I saw it was in Ireland and not many people laughed - and there were a lot of children crying at the bears and the witch. I then saw it in Edinburgh and everyone was laughing!

To the first performance I wore my mini kilt (Ferguson tartan) and decorated my cheeks with a thistle and a Scottish flag:

For the second visit I wore my tartan shawl.

I bought a Brave lunch box and it arrived today! It's so cute! 

I also bought a Merida doll to go with my Rapunzel doll that I got last year for Christmas!

More pictures to come of my Brave things! I'm moving into the flat for Uni on Saturday so by Monday I'll have my little Brave shrine set up in my room!

I edited that picture from the beginning of the post so that I became Merida!

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Cushions

My duvet cover from Next arrived today... followed by an embaressing pyjama incident outside! Its gorgeous - still have to wash it though and take it out of the packaging!

Bedding on Next website

Close up of heart embroidery on  duvet cover

Heart embroidery on the two pillows of my duvet set

I was inspired to make another cushion for the bed and here it is:

I had a pillow ready made and on the back of it pinned this lovely fabric (it was a scrap piece left over from the one made yesterday) and stitched it on using big obvious stitching. I then sewed on these wooden buttons I got from John Lewis.

Here's a picture of today's and yesterdays cushions together!

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Interior Decorating

I have less than two weeks before I move into the new flat for Uni! Im going into third year at Heriot Watt University (Studying design for textiles). I'm trying to get ready for that and also the summer project we have to do (which is a little confusing!).

I Love You Pillow (one end still needs to be stuffed more and sewn up!)

But I've sort of combined my research for interiors with creating stuff for the flat. I've gone for a pink/beige/white cutesy look for my room.

Close up of pillow

I bought a beautiful rug from John Lewis 100% cotton and it has a lovely jacquard floral pattern in it, but once I got it home I found out it was just a huge pillow case! So i've unpicked the seams EVERYWHERE - it really was well made :L - and I've finally got it looking like the lovely blanket it should have been =]

2nd Close up of pillow

Today I also made a lovely pillow saying I Love You on it - on each letter I used a different stitch/medium so that it all looked different I'm very pleased with it, plus it also goes with a little embroidery I made last night:

 It also coincidently goes with my other embroidery I completed a month ago:

More pics to come soon :D

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