Cornflower Lane News — videos

Hello, I know I say it nearly every week but this last week has flown by! I can't quite believe it is nearly the end of September and I keep hearing things like '95 days until Christmas' and 'only 3 more pay days before Christmas'.  So with Christmas fast approaching my attention has turned towards Christmassy things this week.  So this is my first ever crochet pattern. I made this tiny stocking and even managed to remember to write down the pattern. These will be in my shop when I launch my Christmas products. I don't actually know when that...

Hello, Yet another week older and I'm another year older after celebrating my birthday last week. I had a lovely day and ended up going out for lunch and dinner!  I was struggling a bit last week and after chatting to Dave (my husband), we've come up with a new plan for Cornflower Lane. You will start to see a few changes! Nothing is going away though, it will just be new and hopefully exciting things added. The journals and journaling will still be here and I will still be making journals, but it's not going to be the only...

Hello, I can't believe it's September! It's my birthday this month and I was thinking of having a sale on my website for the day. I will let you know in next weeks blog! So I launched my Halloween products today. I've had lots of fun making these products and am very happy with how they all turned out. There are two journals - an upcycled Halloween book and a pumpkin fabric cover - and some large journaling kits and some small journaling kits too.  (Click the photo to go and see the new Halloween products.) My first 'Journal With...

Hello, I hope everyone is having a wonderful week. This week I am starting my new 'Journal With Me' video series and I'm so excited. I have already filmed 5 videos for it and I'm enjoying journaling again!  This is the second spread I did and it was about teaching the boys how to cook pancakes. I've struggled over the last year or so with journaling. I got so far behind and then we moved house and I didn't have all my supplies to hand. So I ended up just sticking the photos down and not really decorating the pages...

Hello, This week part 2 of my 'How To Make An Upcycled Journal' video is out on YouTube.  So I'm going to write the process here, but if you'd like to watch the video just click the photo below. Step 9 So now we are ready to collect the papers we will use in the journal. Here I have a selection of scrapbook papers, vintage music paper, vintage book pages, vintage ledger paper, recycled paper and I also use the pages out of the original book.  Once I've gathered the papers together I'm ready to fold and cut them to size....