Peggy and Victor

DIY Happy Birthday Cake Bunting

2012-07-05T11:06:00.003+10:00

Happy Birthday Cake Bunting

(Free templates included)

Ever iced a cake and wish you had an extra something to add - step in Birthday Cake Bunting!

This cute DIY cake accessory is perfect for any birthday - and we have included templates below for both boy / girl colours & styles.

You'll need:
- One of our free templates (see below)
- Two small skewers (cut the longer ones if necessary)
- Some string

Firstly, print one of the templates and cut out the flags.
The coloured part folds over the white part with the string in the centre.

Tip: Save time and make folds in the paper prior to cutting, so you don't have to do the individual flags later.

Tie string to skewers and place in cake.

Tip: I found the string I used was a little too think and it was quite fiddly. Good idea to either pull the strands apart on thick string and use half the thickness.

Optional extras:

- Use small pegs as further accessories on the sides of the skewers.

- Stick a lolly on top of the skewer such as a raspberry.

- Feeling extra ambitious? Skewer a musk stick and use these as your poles to your bunting.

Below are the images of our templates. Click the below links to download, save on your computer and print.
- Floral: download
- Red Polkadot: download
- Blue & Green polkadot: download
- Multi polkadot (used in our picture): download

DIY vintage art using embroidery circle frames

2012-06-25T10:57:00.002+10:00

Feeling crafty this week?

I have created these really cute & super easy material artworks for kids rooms.
There is a cowboy themed one for boys and a vintage chandelier one for girls.

It requires the following:

- A printer
- 1 x embroidery frame (17.5cmx 17.5cm) available at Spotight for $2.79
- Some double sided tape (thicker the better - 18mm ideal) available at Spotlight for $3.99 for 16m
- Piece of A4 card stock (thicker than paper)
- A strip (A4 size) of calico. This is also from Spotlight for only $3.99 per metre

This item requires you to print on material.
It's super easy and you'll be amazed your home printer can produce such beautiful and detailed printed material.

NB. If you have a wiz bang printer - I suggest you don't try this. Some printers may not feed the material as easily as some, so please be wary with this technique.

1. Download this FREE document that I have created for both frames. Each image is 20.5 x 20.5 square. When printed correctly you sould have very minimal space on either side of the page.

2. Update your child's name on the document.

3. Get the A4 piece of paper and cut a piece of calico the same size as the paper.

4. Make three strips of double sided tape long ways down the paper. One on each edge and one down
the middle and stick the calico to the paper.

5. Print the graphic you want on the paper. Using the rear tray on your printer, basically somewhere you can feed the paper though.
Nb. You may receive a warning that the print is outside the margins and do you want to proceed - click yes. You may want to use a piece of paper first and print an example.

6. Pull away the material from paper. Don't cut the circle out, as you will need excess material to tighten the print.

7. Put the material inside the embriodery frame. This will require some positioning and pulling through the tiny part of excess material.

8. Trim excess material once the frame tightened as far as it will go. You could alternatively glue the excess material around the back of the frame.
And there you have it - a personalised piece of vintage art to hang in any nursery or kids room!
Enjoy!

Using the fonts I have used:
You can use any font you like as the names, however to use the font I have used in the images, you'll need to add them to your font folder on your computer.
I have used the following fonts on my examples.
Fat Finger for the cowboy frame, and Adobe Caslon Pro for the chandelier graphic.
You can also dowload these below, and simpy place in your fonts folder
Fat Finger - download
Adobe Caslon Pr - download
ie, fonts folder is usually placed at the following on a PC C:/Windows/ Fonts
and the following on a mac: ~/Library/Fonts/
Once you've downloaded the fonts, simple drop and drag into the fonts folder and your new fonts should show up in word automatically.

Collectors teaspoon holder turned jewellery stand

2012-06-07T14:30:00.002+10:00

If you are anything like me, I love accessories and often forget which ones I have as they are all piled up a jewellery box..

Well, go and raid your local Op shop and you are bound to pick up these teaspoon collector racks for about $5 or less! (I found mine for $2 each)
With a paint over and a trip to bunnings to collect some small screw hooks, you'll have a great jewellery stand to hang on your wall.

The screw hooks, go into each wooden space and hold earings. I have also left the bottom line to hold necklaces.

Tips:
- Look for holders that have a large spaces on the bottom shelve. This is handy when you have larger or thicker necklaces.

- Use 3m velcro wall stickers to hang them in place.

- Here's a picture of a basic one (pre the transformation, if you have no idea what teaspoon holders are)

- You can even find glassed cabinet ones if you want to go really fancy!

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Peggy & Victor nursery prints available at our site www.peggyandvictor.com

Upholstered buttoned baby change table

2012-06-07T10:37:00.001+10:00

Searching around the shops, I didn't find much in the way of baby change tables to go with my french inspired nursery, so we knocked up this....

An upholstered baby change table with a shabby chic lick of paint to match.
The whole job took approx 6 hours to complete. Thanks to the hubby for knocking up the wooden frame.

We copied the actual frame from a change table we already had and made the head piece 55cm wide and 25cm high.

I used a staple gun and some great material from lincraft that had a streaky grey colour to it and a soft rubber backing. I used foam from Clark Rubber to fill the head and staple gunned the button holes to create the effect of the headboard. I then used a glue gun to add the black buttons.

Let me know if anyone is interested in seeing it step by step as I'll be happy to knock up another one and take pictures..

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Welcome..

2012-06-04T06:32:00.000+10:00

Welcome to the Peggy & Victor blog.
I have created this blog as I am always creating things for my home or online shop Peggy&Victor, that I am always asked about. So I figured I would share this info with anyone that was interested.

Peggy & Victor are my grandparents names - seperate sides of the family, but both hold a special place in my heart and hence the name of my business I created 8 years ago.

Peggy & Victor use to be the creation of canvas prints and photos - to which I have now re-branded the business to prints and hope to soon bring vintage and decorative items to the mix.

You'll find I have a love for french homewares and often create items for children.
I have a son, Quinn (almost 7 months) and love designing things to put up in his room or create for mothers to decorate and style a kids room that is a fun, pretty (for girls) and a haven to be in.

I will also often post freebie graphics I have designed - or if you are interested in my items, I also have an etsy store.

Thanks guys