A Spoonful of Sugar Blog Tour

Hello and wel­come to my stop on the A Spoon­ful of Sug­ar Blog Tour.

After fol­low­ing the A Spoon­ful of Sug­ar blog for years I was so excited to see that Lisa had writ­ten a book and even more so when she asked me to be a part of the blog tour for the book!  I knew the book would be filled with pretty & prac­tic­al pro­jects that would be so much fun to make and that I’d have a hard time choos­ing one.  Res­ist­ance was futile so I’ve star­ted with two!  You can pur­chase your own copy of the book by click­ing here.  Trust me, you’re going to want a copy.

I’m just about to head off to the US for quilt mar­ket and don’t have any­thing to put my jew­ellery in when I travel so I decided to start with the Pretty Patch­work Jew­ellery Wrap.

I had a mini charm pack of Scrump­tious by Bon­nie & Cam­ille that I’d been hoard­ing sav­ing for a good while and thought it would be just per­fect for this project.

The jew­ellery wrap came togeth­er very eas­ily thanks to the great instruc­tions Lisa provides in the book and was done in just one even­ing.  I love a quick pro­ject like this one and know I’ll be mak­ing a few as gifts in the future.

My second pro­ject was the Bon­jour Par­is Door­stop, only, mine isn’t very Bon­jour.   Richard, aka the worlds greatest hus­band (I may be a teeny bit biased), was born and raised in Vic­tor­ia.    If he was in charge of interi­or dec­or­at­ing there would be Vic­tori­an and Colling­wood Foot­ball Club themed things in every room of the house.  Luck­ily, dec­or­at­ing isn’t his depart­ment but I do love him to bits so I made the door­stop in a decidedly Vic­tori­an theme using Mel­ba by Emma Jean Jansen.

Just like the jew­ellery roll this pro­ject came togeth­er very quickly and was a breeze thanks to the easy to fol­low instruc­tions and dia­grams in the book.

I’m just a little bit in love with my black front door and I think the door­stop looks fab­ulous beside it don’t you?

I already have my third pro­ject planned out ready for when I get back from the US.  I’ll be mak­ing that one to join in with the Ins­tagram Sew Along that’s hap­pen­ing from June 1 – August 9.   We will be mak­ing pro­jects from A Spoon­ful of Sug­ar: Sew 20 Simple Pro­jects to Sweeten Your Sur­round­ings Zakka Style.  There will be five rounds, each last­ing for two weeks which will give you plenty of time to com­plete a pro­ject or two from the book.  Our good friend, Amy Sin­i­baldi from Nana Com­pany is the Guest Judge, with fant­ast­ic prizes for the win­ner of each round, plus a Grand Prize Win­ner, gen­er­ously sponsored by Alisha from Min­istry of Fab­ric. We really hope you join in the fun! #ASPOONFULOFSUGARSAL

Have a great week,