Shiny Shoes!

This is what the girls and I had on our feet to go to the Halloween disco at school the other evening - we like shiny in this house! No guesses for who was the only parent up dancing with the children :)

I will hopefully be back with craft projects tomorrow and I honestly haven't forgotten about the giveaway - honest!

My Rainbow girl

It's Rainbow Day at nursery today which means that Tara had to go in dressed up in as many colours as she possibly could - not a problem in this house as we like our colour. We were also told to be as eclectic as possible - again not really a problem in this house! :D

Here she is channelling eclectic elderly lady in her favourite skirt.

Socks and tights to maximise the colours!

She borrowed her sisters bangles, necklaces and belt!

Well they did ask for eclectic! It also maximises the potential for colours not normally seen in children's clothes - mustard, grey, silver, mint green. All pinched from my ribbon stash.

Lots of different hair clips too - the big yo yo one was a present from Alex. Sorry for the bad photo!

And here she is :) It's all to raise money for the school - we are supposed to sponsor by colour but we were wise to that and gave a set amount instead!

Love brooches?

Do you love brooches? Make brooches? Then I have the perfect competition for you from Living Creatively in Australia. They are looking for your idea of a perfect brooch.

This is my perfect brooch - recycled (apart from the brooch back which is new), features a little bit of embroidery and, of course, buttons!

This one sold at a recent craft fair and I'm thinking of making more. I love red, white and blue together - what are your favourite colour combinations?

Christmas trees

I finally got some time to sew some of the recycled wool jumper Christmas trees that I started nearly 2 weeks ago.

Only 5 so far but they are slowly being done for some fairs I have coming up before Christmas. There are actually only 3 now as the 2 below were taken to Pad Gallery in Preston yesterday for a Christmas decoration competition they are having.

Luckily I had to be in Preston to return a book and I decided to drop them in by hand rather than rely on Royal Mail at the moment! I'm really pleased with the pink one at the bottom although it took quite a while to get all the sequins sewn on - I will just have to bite the bullet though as they look much better with sequins on!

Off out now to hunt down some more sequins and black thread! And I haven't forgotten about the giveaway - hopefully details soon :)

Pajama time

Well the heavens opened on the way back from school and we got wet through. Luckily I had been shopping today (along with dropping some stuff off at a local gallery which you can read about tomorrow!) and I had bought some new fluffy pajamas.

Here are our legs in our new jama's and the girls both have new slippers too (provided by Nana at the weekend) - unfortunately neither pair fit me so I'll have to make do with my old grey pair!

And here we are :) Matt also put his jama's on but headed upstairs to the study to do some work so I didn't get a photograph of him. Pajama's at 4 o'clock - what would the neighbours say? :D

Still here!

Well we are back from our jolly jaunts but I am still trying to sort out lots of things! Why is it that going away for a few days always knocks out your routines? :) While I get sorted out then you can check out my post over at UK Handmade - I'm showing you it a bit late as it was a Halloween post but you can still see some cute stuff :)

Happiness is....

...a little girl, her frog and a nice afternoon snooze in Mummy and Daddy's bed!

Some mending

When I had my things out for Creative Thursday the other day I did a bit of mending too.

This is what it looked like before the mending :)

Anya got a bit happy with the scissors at school!

Squirrel!!

Why is it that when I see things like this on my bird feeder...

I am reminded of this advert?

My Creative Space

is rather cramped today as I am working from the kitchen table! Yesterday it was even worse as both Matt and I were working from the kitchen table but he is out helping a friend today so it's just me!

I have finally chopped up the felted jumpers to make some Christmas decorations! Here they are waiting to be sewn.

The decision is which thread from my box of delights to choose?

And of course my cup of fruit tea is ever present!

Check out more creative Thursday people over here at Kootoyoo.