December 29th, 2010

Just before Christmas I packed up all my stock and craft fair display items and put most of the boxes up in the loft to get them out of the way. I moved the rest of  the stuff out of my studio too, as we’re going to be laying the new floor soon as well as finishing off the walls so that I can move back in properly and get organised and get my work life back to normal. Anyway, the point of this story is…

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December 24th, 2010

Well it’s here at last! I’m saying Happy Christmas today as it’s Christmas Eve and as a Pole I celebrate Christmas Eve rather than Christmas Day – this works very well in the Milo/Andrews household as we get to have two Christmases – a Polish one on the 24th and an Irish one on the 25th and we meet in the middle by opening our presents at midnight tonight. I can’t wait.

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December 24th, 2010

This year I’ve been giving out lots of the glass stars I made in my stained glass nightclass – all made from scraps of glass too small for main projects. I’ve handed them out to friends and asked them all to make a wish upon each star this Christmas… We’ve got one hanging up in the living room and tonight I made my wish…

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December 23rd, 2010

For those of you, like me, who don’t decorate the house or your tree until Christmas Eve, here are a few decorations to get you in the mood.

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December 20th, 2010

Milomade is now closed for the holidays!

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December 17th, 2010

This is so lovely – bike tyres with a love heart pattern that would create playful love-filled tracks on the city streets. By Hamed Kohan from Iran, this is one of the shortlisted design entries from more than 3000 participants in the recent designboom competition, ‘Seoul Cycle Design 2010′, organized in collaboration with Seoul Design Foundation.

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December 16th, 2010

When it snows the dog loves it – it’s her favourite thing in the world! As the golf course has been closed due to the bad weather it’s been taken over by parents sledging with their kids [weep] and dog walkers. Last week I took the dog up there every morning, afternoon and night as she loved it so much.

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December 16th, 2010

I love handmade gifts! I love receiving them and I love making them and giving them too. This year I’ve been giving away a lot of my handmade glass stars that I’ve made in an evening class and I only have one left and that one I’m keeping for myself. Here’s a selection of things you can make yourself either as gifts, or to decorate your home, or as a treat for yourself.

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December 15th, 2010

I’ve been a bit too busy to post much on the blog lately, but did manage to take lots of pictures of the snow we’ve had over the past few weeks. It’s all melted and gone now and we do miss it as it was so much fun when it was here!

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December 14th, 2010

I love wrapping presents, but I don’t like buying fancy wrapping paper. I love wrapping my presents with pages from magazines and stuff like that. But one thing that I do have a particular fetish for is plain brown wrapping paper – but no-one [apart from me] wants to get a Christmas pressie wrapped in brown wrapping paper, so why not add a little bit of recycled bling by making some of these paper bows.

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December 10th, 2010

I used to one of those people who would fold down the corners of pages within books to remember the page I’d got to – but no more. Ever since I started making my origami bookmarks, I’ve stopped the nasty folding habit. Today, I’d like to share with you a few other ideas for bookmarks – these are all so cool and so cute.

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December 7th, 2010

We never have a real Christmas tree as we just don’t understand the concept of cutting tree down in it’s prime and bringing it into our home to watch it slowly die over the span of a couple of weeks. So instead we go on an annual festive twig hung and come home with something already dead and swirly with lots of branches to hang decorations from. Then on new years eve we chop it up into firewood and light the last fire of the year with it – it’s our own little annual tradition.

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December 6th, 2010

Strange light and beautiful rainbows.

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