This is the most complicated one of those I’ve done so far because there are so many pieces!

So you need:

• 2 brown triangles with curved edge
• 1 smaller yellow triangle with curved edge
• 2 white triangles with curved edge
• cardboard triangle with curved edge
• 2 red semi circles
• 2 small white semi circles
• 3 green semi circles
• 4 white tear shapes
• stuffing
• thread/scissors/needle etc

Blanket stitch the yellow and white triangles together.

Then sandwich the cardboard between the brown triangles. The hole is there to stick a magnet in but I wanted to keep my options for use open so I left it.

Sit the two pieces you’ve made on top of each other like this:

Stitch them together, once you get to the back you need to hold it at an angle while you stitch. This makes the crust ^_^

Taadaa…

Now let’s make the top bits ^_^

Stack the white tears on top of each other. Running stitch through them all…

Fan them out into a dollop of cream and stitch again!

Now set that to the side and make the strawberries. Stitch some seeds with white thread onto the red semi circles.

Fold in half and blanket stitch up the side.

Flip it inside out and add stuffing.

Stitch the hole closed. Repeat for the other one too ^_^

Kiwi slice time! Stitch the white semi circles onto two of the green ones like this:

Add some little black dots for seeds!

Now stack them and stitch together!

Add them all together and you’re all finished! Good enough to eat yes?

What have you got planned for the weekend? I’m so looking forward to my time off!!

I hope your guys love it as much as I do, she’s really captured my tastes!

Which one is your favorite piece?

New information about the hardcover versions…

Now a whole lot of you said you were interested in purchasing it as a hardcover edition. I’ve looked into printing on demand via Blurb but as putting it out as a hardcover version involves me having to go through and change a lot of it (eg. changing many many clickable links into a text link reference section etc) I want to gauge the amount of interest in the price first.

If I was to print it via Blurb the cost would be AU$55 plus shipping or US$50 plus shipping. Not sure about the difference considering the current exchange rate but this is going off their prices. It’s a decent chunk of money so I completely understand if many of you who expressed interest in the previous post wouldn’t be able to afford it.

So I’ve set up a form below where if you think you would be interested in purchasing at that price or if you want one but would prefer it to be cheaper I can look at other options… Just pop in your email and I will keep you in the loop ^_^

Thanks so much for all of your support, I’m very excited about all of this ^_^

I hope those of you that decide to buy really enjoy the book and find it helpful! Do let me know if you have any questions or problems <3

*Edit* I’ve just been informed that the shop currently has layout issues when viewed in Chrome. I am trying to fix this now but in the mean time for best results please use Firefox or if you would like to purchase but can’t manage in your current browser just email me :) */Edit*

Basically Blurb is a website where you can upload whatever you like and they will print it into a fancy little book for you. They do hard covers and soft cover, pretty much anything you can think of.

I chose the hardcover option with an image wrap. It looks so beautiful and professional!

They make the process very easy so even someone with no design experience can creat something like a book with photos from their holidays and have a really pretty keepsake.

These are the three options they offer for book creation:

1. Bookify (our newest addition to the product range, this is an online bookmaking tool for streamlined book projects that can be done over a night or two) For example a quick travel book from your recent trip or a child’s birthday party.)

2. Booksmart (Blurb’s free software that’s made easy for everyone to download, pick a layout and just add content)

3. PDF To Book (for experienced designers and Indesign software users)

I was in a hurry so I used Booksmart and imported my page layouts. It look me about 15 minutes from opening the program to uploading my images :D Of course before that it took weeks of writing, drawing, colouring, editing and organizing the layout of the book XD

The best part:

All in all I am very happy with the quality and service from Blurb and I will be looking them up again if I ever write another ebook so I can have a personal printed copy :D

If you want to have your own book printed they have been nice enough to include a discount code for you all:

Code: VIOLETSHIP (this is case sensitive)

Good for Aud$9.99 off your shipping charges for books you make

Expires Nov 15, 2010
one per customer, one time use.

Get up to 3 books shipped for free!

Hurray! So there you go :D I will let you all know next week once it’s up and available in the shop!

In the mean time, if you want to get a little taste of what it’s about I have made a free low quality preview that you can download, it contains a random selection of 14 pages. Hopefully this will let you get an idea of things and decide if you would like to purchase the full book next week. It’s around 1.9mb big so if you have a download limit please take that into account.

Best viewed in Adobe Acrobat ^_^

DOWNLOAD THE PREVIEW!

• Update the Links, Tutorials, Snaps, and FAQ sections
• Make the layout equally friendly for people with small screens :)
• Make a new header
• If you have and comments or suggestions please let me know in the comments and I will look into them ^_^

So the biggest change is the addition of the “Violet’s Cuties” section!

As some of you will know, I’ve had a second Twitter account called VioletsCuties for a while now. So far I have been using it to post links to random cute things I find on the web but I’ve been wanting it to be more involved so I’ve set up a mobile blog via tumblr on my domain. Now I can update all the time with short fun posts without bothering everyone on this blog.

So what you will find there is:

• Things I think are adorable
• Cute shopping finds or bargains I stumble across on the web
• Random photos I’ve taken
• Links to articles or blog posts I’ve read and enjoyed
• Sneak previews of posts or upcoming tutorials
• Random sentences in Japanese as I try to practice and improve

I aim to update a couple of times a day so I hope you enjoy it ^_^

I know this isn’t going to be of interest to everyone and that’s why I’ve kept my regular blog and my mobile blog a little bit seperate, that way you can follow either, both or none of them. They have seperate RSS feeds as well as seperate Google Friend Connect accounts so how much you want to see is up to you :D

I will still be updating this blog as frequently and with exactly the same kind of things you’ve all come to expect, the other account will just be extra stuff ^_^

You can visit my new mobile blog by clicking the “Cuties” link at the top, the side or click below!

Visit Violet’s Cuties!

If any of you guys have tumblr accounts let me know, I would love to follow you all!

Lastly a new free forum which is all about deco has opened up so for those of you who enjoy deco as much as I do have a look here ^_^

Well I’ve clearly still got lots of work to do so I better back to it! Hope you’re all having a really good night :D