Stay At Home: Craft Challenge #2: Make something to decorate your home

Thanks for sharing all your lovely cards with us from the March 2020 challenge!
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This next challenge is a little more open ended so watch the video below for more details.
THIS CHALLENGE ENDS THIS WEEK - FRIDAY 15TH MAY!

This month's challenge is to make something to decorate your home. The possibilities are endless for this one. So share with us a picture of what you have done and join us again soon for our next challenge. (Also tell us if there is a story attached to your creation!)

APRIL 2020

Entry #1 - Annalee

Annalee from Sydney

So often we buy a kit when we are on holidays and then we get back to real life and it goes in the cupboard... unfinished. Well, this sweet embroidery was started in Thailand and now it is finishd and on her wall. It was not her intention to be living back at home for so long and a few months is going to turn into most of 2020 she thinks! So setting up and decorating her room has meant she still has a little haven of her own in a very busy house.
Lovely embroidery Annalee!

Entry #2 - Bev G
 I love the way Bev wrote to me that she had some lovely silk ribbon "resting in her stash".
Well during her isolation, she woke the ribbon up from it's rest and made this pretty garden of flowers! Thanks Bev. That is a perfect way to take on Challenge #2 to make something to decorate your home!

Ribbon Embroidery Garden by Bev G from Barden Ridge

Entry #3 - Marion
Marion has a pretty garden and also lives across the road from some classic Aussie Bush.
Her take on Challenge#2 was to make up some floral arrangements from flowers and greenery she found around her house. To be even more resourceful, she used mugs as vases. I hope she did actually decorate her house with one of these pretty arrangements because a little bird told me she drove around and delivered some to some dear friends who were in isolation in their homes. You are always so thoughtful Marion!

Floral arrangements in a mug by Marion in Barden Ridge

Entry #4 - Me! Diana
Being at home during Covid-19 has been tricky in some ways (with 6 lovely adults in our house!) and nice in other ways. But have you ever felt like me? You hang out to do certain creative or fun projects when you just have a bit of time.... then when the free time comes, you don't feel like it? I lost my oomph and so went out into the garden and pottered, just doing things that took my fancy. One project was to do some propagating. Water propagation is the most effective and so I thought I'd gather vases, bottles and an old glass platter (an old wedding present) and make a pretty display of them. If the take root then that will be an added bonus!

Entry #5 - Kay
A box of quilling papers were donated to The Craft Group. Hmmm, what can we do with it? We could teach quilling but that has been done in the past. Been there, done that. So what do I do with it all? Of course I give it to Kay and ask her about what a modern version of quilling might look like! And yet again, Kay did not disappoint! This is her entry for this challenge "Something to decorate your home".  Kay, it is absolutely gorgeous! She said she would have liked to put it in a bigger frame but, like many of us, is avoiding the shops for now. If anyone from our group would like to learn quilling later on, just let me know. I might be able to look around for someone to teach it!  ;)  This really is a lovely modern and fresh way to do quilling!  Thanks for your entry Kay!