Christmas at home

This year was the first time my husband and I have had our own flat to decorate for Christmas. I enthusiastically believed that I would make every decoration myself and have the perfect homemade home but as December edged nearer and life got busier I realised that this was ever more unlikely!

However through my browsing on Pinterest of homemade Christmas decs I stumbled upon this tutorial for felting baubles and here are the results. I'm now in favour of attempting one homemade decoration each year and gradually building up the collection!

However, my husband thinks that our alternative tree looks evil and would more at home on Nightmare Before Christmas and so we have a more traditional one too:

Recycled Cushions

I'm not always very good at throwing things away even if it's something I never use but I love to recycle. Clothing and other bits of material are especially good for this.

This green cushion was made out of a t-shirt that I'd had a little while and really loved but the style wasn't very good so I just didn't wear it much. It was fun to make (although not as easy as I'd expected it to be) and only took a few hours. I'd anticipated using the original side seams but they weren't straight enough so I ended up cutting a square each from the front and back and then sewing them together. I did however use the t-shirt's bottom hem on the back opening which gave a neat edge that I didn't have to do myself!

I also made the purple cushion from some old felt I had and another old t-shirt, but I can't claim originality for the idea because I found it on a Google image search!