Made With Love by Kat

In Manchester we have an annual Christmas market which, while great fun, is getting steadily and alarmingly more expensive. After a couple of pints of ale in the pub last weekend we decided it would be a much better idea to host the "Christmas market" at home. And so the "Christmas Mar-Kat" (geddit? Sorry) was born. Of course, as with most things, half of the fun is in the planning and I've been gleefully pinning to my Christmas decor inspiration Pinterest board . Here are some of my favourite finds - click to see the originals: I love the idea of clusters of baubles hanging like this I don't have a bell jar, but I'll be doing something similar with a clear glass vase Love these lights against the mountains   The colours in this pic are amazing Something else I can do at home With enough blu tac I can also do something along these lines I'm feeling very excited - I promise I'll post photos of the hou...

I've just done a lovely interview for UK Handmade's blog - you can read it here . I am also going to write a tutorial for the Christmas issue of their magazine. Initially I was going to do a step by step on reworking a brooch into something new, but as it's Christmas I'm thinking maybe I'll do a "how to" on making Christmas decorations out of vintage stuff instead - what do people think? What would you prefer? Or should I do something else altogether?