A Very Merry Minion Christmas!

Here at the Poyntz/Portsmouth household we had a truly magical Christmas which was lovely to share with all of our family. We got to have Oscar from Christmas Eve evening all the way through to Boxing day morning.

My mum had bought us all minion pyjamas and this was hilarious and created some of the best family photos!

David spoiled me rotten as only he can and surprised we with an iMac which I am writing this post from after he has passed out from excessive whiskey consumption! We shared Christmas day with my parents and all three grandparents and popped to see the in-laws in the afternoon.

Today was spent shamefully popping into town to view the sales before heading off for the boxing day extravaganza. I locked us out which caused a fuss but our lovely neighbours managed to hop over the fence so that we could get in!

All in all an extremely lovely time filled with gifts of embroidery, material and copious notepads - they all know me so well!

Did you have a nice Christmas?

Lil x

PS The addition of this beautiful computer should make blogging a dream!

Oscar's Minion - How to.

So, as I had mentioned in my previous post - I created a felt minion for Oscar to go alongside his birthday presents. I made the minion using a free pattern online from Lady Joyceley's Tumblr Page which is simply perfect which I came across on Pinterest! I was a bit apprehensive about creating something using a pattern for the first time but it was easy to use and follow and I really enjoyed the challenge!
 

 

This is the final minion which both Oscar and I were really pleased with.

 

 
The body pieces sew together to form a bullet shape - I did this part on the sewing machine and the remainder by hand. I used blanket stitch to attach everything to the body except where stitching was intended to be seen as per the pattern!

I decided to make felt eyes rather than use googly eyes so the whole minion was felt with some small black buttons on the front of his dungarees.





Such an enjoyable project and I can't wait to start my next. I would  love to know if anyone gives this a go or has also made a minion?
Lil x

Oscar's Minion

So, yesterday was Oscar's 4th Birthday and a big event in the Portsmouth household. Unfortunately Daisy had to go to work during the day but Oscar's Mummy was holding a huge minion themed party for all of the family and his friends. During the day, my Mum, Dad, Nan and I went along to Osk's birthday party to help him celebrate. It was super cute and in the evening we got to take Osk for ice cream and let him open the presents from us.
I made Oscar a felt minion which is in the pictures below and he was so chuffed with it, I got a very big hug and thank you kiss! I will post about how I made it next.
I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend
Lil x