Last year we brought 2 little bundles home, they take the form of whippets most of the time,but also have been known to be contortionists, seals and kangaroos.
and the beautiful Star..
After a couple of months i got thinking about a collar for them to wear in the house which could have a tag on it. I did a bit of research and found one i liked, beautiful braided leather collar, the only problem was it was in Australia and the wanted three times the cost just to post it here. That's when i started looking at trying to make my own. I found the company to order the materials and taught myself how to leather braid by watching you tube videos, http://www.starrcollars.co.uk/ was born.
Everything was good for the first few months, but then the recession hit and the exchange rate plummeted and well it became to costly to make the collars anymore. I was completely gutted, having put so much time and effort not to mention money into it and it all just had to stop like that.
So now i have had a rethink and StarR collars has become StarR crafts. I never really thought about it before but i love making things and well it seems silly to let the website for the collars go to waste so to keep it going by doing something a bit different in the hopes that one day it can go back to its original form.
Where to begin? Well i guess it tarted with my wrapping fetish. Yes i have a wrapping fetish. There is no excuse for messy wrapping, even the most difficult of shapes can be wrapped nicely with a bit of patience and know how.
Year one Christmas wrapping Black paper black ribbon with green baubles for decoration.
Year two Pink for the girls blue for the boys with spotty cellophane and a snowflake tag thing.
Year three this is where my fetish takes a new level, fed up of having to try wrap odd shapes and make them look just as good as the boxes, i invested in flat pack boxes 9"x6"x6" so everybody's presents that year had to fit in these boxes other wise they were not getting them.
White paper as the base layer, a white background paper with colourful snowflakes as a feature strip, 2" silver ribbon, topped with 1.5" white ribbon, topped with 3/4" sliver ribbon (which read Merry Christmas) and to finish it of red and shimmery white curling ribbon with 2 baubles.
Thinking back now it was a bit extreme but it looked so good, I'm so pleased the way it came out, look out for 2009 Xmas wrapping (I'm open to any ideas) :)
So i think that enough for just now, i have some other crafty ideas which i will add another time but this is basically where it all spiralled from.
Katie
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