Month: November 2025

‘Highland Cow’ punch needle project

Leave a comment

Hi there! 😊😊 My latest UnicornPostbox blog post is progression photos of my first ever punch needling project; a cute Highland Cow 🐄🐄 Hope you like!

I must admit, it was slightly tricky at first to get the hang of punch needling, the method, as I have never done it before! My idea was that it’d be an easy introduction to embroidery, as a beginner friendly craft. Once I got familiar with the guide; how to install the embroidery hoop, thread the yarn properly, remembering to punch the needle all the way through, poking in a consistent direction etc, it was relatively straight forward getting into the rhythm of it. Any mistakes can be quickly rectified anyway by pulling back the yarn a little and redoing that particular poke. Here is the finished result:

I am pretty satisfied with my first punch needle attempt! In hindsight, it might have been better to have chosen a design less intricate. With a simpler design and larger segments for example it might have been easier to learn. Also, I believe I will obtain more therapeutic enjoyment i.e. the associative stress relieving effects with more basic a pattern, as they’d be more repetitive movements. Hopefully I will get a few bought for Christmas 🎄🎄😜😜 and I might even progress onto more difficult embroidery! 💕💕

For my next UnicornPostbox blog post, I have a Christmas ‘Winter Stag’ pub painting 🎨🎨 next Saturday! I am also going to make a start on my next diamond art 💎, which will probably be my unicorn one 🦄🦄

Thank you as always for checking out my blog 💕💕 Lots of love, Lauren xx

© 2025 Lauren Parr / https://unicornpostbox.com

‘Haunted Castle’ diamond art

Leave a comment

Hi everyone! My latest UnicornPostbox blog post is progression photos of a ‘haunted castle ‘ diamond art 💎 🎨 Hope you enjoy!

I really enjoyed doing this diamond art! I have a few more to do before I am likely to be bought more for Christmas 🎄 haha 🤣 including a unicorn, a colourful eye and one of me and my boyfriend Aaron 🥰🥰 Hopefully I can get them done in time as they are very time consuming! Here is the finished haunted castle:

For my next UnicornPostbox blog post, I have done my first ever Highland Cow punch needle project! So keep a look out for a new blog post coming very soon! 🐄🐄

Thank you as ever for taking the time to read/view. Much love, Lauren xx 💕💕

© 2025 Lauren Parr / https://unicornpostbox.com

Halloween celebrations 2025 🎃🎃

Leave a comment

Hi everyone! This UnicornPostbox blog post is a description of my Halloween happenings this year, with accompanying photography.. hope you enjoy! 😄😄🎃🎃

On Monday 27th October, me, my boyfriend Aaron and friends Matty, Robyn, Rosie, Emma, and Emma’s teenage son Lucas attended Yorkshire Wildlife Park for their Spooktacular half-term Halloween event. Dotted around the park were creepy characters and frightful props, stations etc, it was great! 😄 I loved smashing pumpkins, and taking photos of the impressive spooky scenery. Of course, we also had the opportunity to see all the incredible animals. I was particularly excited to see the sea lions, as the last time I visited YWP, they were having essential maintenance on their exhibit. We took some photos of all the amazing animals! 🥰🥰 I liked the giraffes 🦒 and tigers 🐅 most of all 💕

On Tuesday 28th October, I attended the Halloween themed pub painting, with my friend Denise at BRIX coffee house, Doncaster. We both dressed up as witches! 🧙‍♀️🧙‍♀️

To start with, we painted a washy white on the canvas, incorporating then blues and yellows. The acrylic paint was glow in the dark, so it looked fantastic in the dark with fluorescent lights! More purple and pink hues were added to the background, and white stars created, with dots and paint flicks, as well as adding a crescent 🌙 moon. The grass was more of a deep blue than green, with white shades for definition. The hardest part was the witch 🧙‍♀️ herself, trying to get her proportions correct. Mine has a sort of an hourglass figure, whilst other people’s were more skinny or more curvaceous ladies. White paint was used once more for body definition, and to depict her wavy hair and crooked witch hat 🧙‍♀️

On Saturday 1st November 2025, me and my boyfriend Aaron and a big group of my friends attended a local pub, The Beverly, for a Halloween fancy dress disco and karaoke party 🥳 Me and Aaron went as Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf 🐺 Everyone complemented us on our outfits, but to be fair, there were some outstanding costumes! It was pretty scary too 😱 as some staff in costumes were chasing people, dressed as like Michael Myers or Art the clown 🤡 Arrghhh! Me and Aaron also went round town afterwards but it was literally dead 😱 Still such an enjoyable evening though!

Thank you as ever for taking the time to read/view 🥰🥰 For my next UnicornPostbox blog post, I am on with a gothic castle diamond  art 💎🎨 and also my first ever punch needle project!

Much love, Lauren xx

© 2025 Lauren Parr / https://unicornpostbox.com