Cat Morley


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Oct

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Tuesday
Blossoming Gifts sent me this gorgeous rainbow bouquet to get creative with and I was inspired to make an etched button vase for the office. It was so simple and looks really cute and crafty.

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Happy Monday
Today was a super Happy Monday because Jenny stayed over last night and we took her for breakfast at the Roseleaf, where she drew a giant happy monster in the toilets. Our breakfast was so tasty a...

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Sunday
Today was awesome for lots of reasons, the first was that Julia Minamata had created this gorgeous geisha Crafterella for Superhero Sunday. I love her pin cushion hairband and might have to make on...

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Saturday
Tom invited Duncan over to watch the F1 tomorrow which is in Russian, so we headed to the Polish Deli to find as many strange sounding Russian snacks as we could. I also baked a batch of borsch cu...

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Thursday
It was a lovely Autumn day and we had a craving for some fish & chips at the seaside, so we headed off to North Berwick. We stopped off at Fenton Barns to have a look in 2nd Time Round antique...

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Wednesday
I picked up some air plants while we were at the Eden Project last week and decided to use them to make terrariums for the office and Figgy. I wasn't sure if it would be really difficult to hollow...

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Tuesday
It's really starting to feel like Halloween at the moment with so many crunchy leaves in the street. It's my favourite time of year and I love seeing everyones pumpkins on their doorsteps. Tom tre...

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Sunday
Braidy Hughes created this amazing Crafterella art this week. I love the colours! As well as the salmon smoking kit, we were also sent some delicious white chocolate & raspberry handmade marsh...

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Saturday
I should have listened when I was told not to speak to strangers because a really friendly man started talking to me about how tasty the cakes are at Falko and then managed to spoil this week's epi...

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Thursday
We got back from our road-trip to find an awesome box of goodies from Crafty Creatives waiting on the doorstep. This month's #PAPERHAUL box is filled with cat themed stationery and I can't wait to ...

Sep

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Wild Ponies
When I'd heard there were wild ponies on Bodmin Moor, I really wanted to see some but thought they might be hard to track down. Luckily this morning, there were two right next to the road as we dro...

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Eden Project
We were invited to take a tour of the Eden Project today, which is somewhere I've always wanted to visit and have been really curious about. The project covers a huge space with two giant biodomes...

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Cornwall
I woke up to find this little seagull peeking in the window and every time I looked away, he'd get a little closer. Torquay really didn't feel like it was part of the UK, as we drove along the pal...

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Somerset
Sarah's sister Laura, had invited us to stay last night at their place in Midsomer Norton, which was only a short drive from Dismaland and took us all for brunch in Bradford on Avon. It was a real...

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Dismaland
After waking up at 5am this morning in Liverpool, Tom drove us down to Weston Super-Mare to go to Dismaland. We joined the six hour queue and hoped for the best. Luckily the weather was lovely and...

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Liverpool
After waking up in Liverpool this morning, Jenny offered to be our tour guide and show us around the city, so we jumped in the Fig and headed downtown. There was lots to spot on the way including ...

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Blackpool
Tom and I have been working and crafting hard all summer and really needed a holiday, so decided to take a mini road-trip across Britain. Tom has never visited Blackpool before, so we took a sligh...

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Wednesday
The Indie Yarn Store sent me a few skeins of their gorgeous hand spun and hand dyed yarn and I couldn't wait to start stitching. Knitting needles in hand, I headed out for a pumpkin spice latte an...

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Tuesday
Jacquard sent me one of their Cyanotype kits which you can use to create blueprints by painting fabric with a solution, placing items you want to print on top and then exposing to sunlight. Lookin...

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Monday
Ilopes Visual Artist created this amazing and surreal Crafterella art. I think she looks like a mermaid and would love to get a print for our bathroom.

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Keava & Rosa's Wedding
It was Keava & Rosa's wedding today which was being held at Arta in Glasgow. It was the perfect venue with hundreds of candles, flowers and mini cherubs everywhere. They looked so pretty in th...

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Saturday
Keava & Rosa are getting married tomorrow, so I was busy putting the finishing touches to a homemade picnic basket I was sewing for them. The basket is lined with some custom Zazzle fabric wit...

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Monday
I always forget to eat breakfast, so as an intensive, I'm been inventing new recipes to try. First up, I made some overnight oats with berries and apricot. Check out Overnight Berry Oats on Cut Ou...

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Sunday
I love paper dolls so of course, I love love love this amazing Crafterella paper doll art by Katie Chappell for Superohero Sunday. I've wanted a neon sign for a long time but they're so expensive,...

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Saturday
Dad & Tom had planned to watch the football this evening, so Mum & I treated ourselves to dinner at Earthy where I had a voucher for two mains and two glasses of wine. We shared a veggie b...