Posts Tagged ‘Trees’

02/12/2011

On the 2nd day of Christmas my true love gave to me….

Kirsty Elson Designs

A Kirsty Elson Mistletoe Robin

If you saw my blog post in the summer which featured Kirsty’s work, you may be familiar with her gorgeous drift wood greeting cards and handmade wall and celling hangings.

Below is a selection of her Christmas card range made from tiny pieces of wood, twigs, beads and fabric. The small pieces of drift wood, once carefully fitted together, create wonderful naive shapes which resemble robins, reindeers and Christmas puds.

Kirsty Elson Designs

Kirsty Elson Designs

Kirsty Elson Designs

As well as her Christmas cards, she has also been busy creating hanging decorations for the tree and fireplace. Here is a selection of her poker dot penguins, perched robins and patchwork Christmas trees.

Kirsty Elson Designs

Kirsty Elson Designs

Kirsty Elson Designs

Kirsty Elson Designs

This is just a snippet of some of the great work Kirsty’s produced. You can see much more on her website and blog. Why not also have a browse on her online shop and see if there are any presents to be had for family and friends!

(All images take from Kirsty Elson’s Facebook page or Blog)

 

07/04/2010

All the T’s in the trees

It was my birthday back in March and the fantastic
Top Left Design took me and the team (and some other tree huggers) to Go Ape. It was a fantastic 3 hours spent clambering around the death defying tree lined obstacle course (and also a good team building experience for the Top Lefters!).

We went to the new Black Park Go Ape center which is one of Go Apes many giant tree obstacle course around the UK.

We were all strapped up in our harnesses and then taken off to our training ground before our session began. Once we had mastered the “closed and opposed” technique we were all allowed to go bananas in the trees.

Here are some pics to prove we all a great time monkeying around!

It was such a laugh and it was great to try something new and exhilarating. One of the scariest, yet best bits, was the massive swing we had to make into a giant cargo net. Amazing and so funny at the same time!

Take a look at what Top Left Design had to say about our bit of tree action too.

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