My Sister's Birthday

Having committed to spending less than £100 on birthday presents in the next twelve months, I started off by successfully making my first two birthday cards yesterday.  I was feeling rather pleased with my initial success until I realised this morning that it is my big sister's birthday at the beginning of October and I am away for the last two weeks of September, giving me only a few days to get a gift and card organised for her.  So all plans for the afternoon went on hold as I thought I had better get cracking on her present and card before the Birthday Madness Challenge is a failure before it has even begun.

After my initial mild panic, I am really pleased with the result:

My sister loves my guinea pigs, so I painted her one of her own!  For her present I made her a scented, padded coat hanger, as she has lots of clothes and is always running out of somewhere to put them.  I made her gift from an old wire hanger, which I had 'hanging' around from the last time I visited the dry cleaner and some scraps of material and wadding left over from other projects.

And I turned it into this:

Third birthday sorted.  I actually think my sister will be happier with this gift than the one I gave her last year; which was a rather natty set of driving gloves from John Lewis, which I have never seen her wear, (and the scarf I got her for Christmas was last seen on the muddy garden lawn where it had melted off the kids' snowman!)

Now I have to get on with birthday cards for my two Auntie's which need to be ready for next week, as my husband is working in their area and I want to miss out on postage costs too!