Pattern madness!

I'm feeling much better now - thanks for the well wishes. A tiny snooze (Tara wouldn't sleep so I got about 10 mins before she was back up!) and several lots of painkillers have got rid of it. Fingers crossed it doesn't come back overnight as migraines tend to do with me :)

Anyway I have had lots and lost of luck with patterns recently and this past week was no exception. Take a look at these little beauties! For 25p each they had to come home with me.


I suppose now I really have to learn how to sew from a pattern don't I seeing as I have about 40 of the buggers :)

Blurggh

Migraine - yuck. And staring at a screen isn't helping. I may be back later but if not then I will be back tomorrow hopefully :)

Gift tags galore!

I've been busy making git tags for the vast majority of this weekend although I have made several badge sets too (more about that in another post!) I've been making them to send off to Little Silver Box which is a UK version of Little Black Box (US) and Little Purple Box (Canada). Basically gift boxes are made up and sold at craft fairs and directly through the site. I have looked into various US based box schemes like this but was thrilled when I saw a UK version - I'm still going to do the US versions but probably not until next month. So here are the tags I sent off.

They look quite good all together don't they!

Eeeeeek!

I've got 633 unread blog posts in my reader - I know what I'm doing today then!! Back later :)

Yeah - Eco press!

I'm sure that most of you know I am a member of the Eco Etsy team over on Etsy. Well they always like having eco tips for the Eco Etsy blog - I submitted one and was featured today! Yeah! They print your tip and then show a couple of items that are available in your shop. Can you guess that mine was something to do with line drying clothes, given my love of the subject :) Here are a couple of screenshots for you.


So if you are in search of other fabulous eco friendly treasures on Etsy then type teamecoetsy into the search bar and you will find other members of the team!

The winner!!

Eeeeeeek - sorry!! I got so carried away with my Mum and Dad being here that I forgot to do the draw for my giveaway!!

So drumroll...............(you kind of have to imagine a drumroll here guys)......................

It's number 14, Smeeta!!!

Well done Smeeta! I'll contact you with details of what to do :) And here's the proof of the random number generator thingy.

Bye for now :)

Hahahahahahahahah!

Sorry this post is going to be hilarious for those of you who know me in real life or through the forum as I am probably the least organised person ever. I got his book out of the library this week in an attempt to inspire me to get off my arse and try and make my craft room tidy and organised. Apologies in advance for the not so good photo's - taking them at 7 o clock at night isn't the best idea!

Here are some of the inspiration shots of other peoples workspaces.


I don't think I could be that organised if I tried really really hard! As a comparison this is a picture of my craft room - it was taken 18 months or so ago but is still comparable to now in terms of the amount of crap in it!

So a mammoth task ahead. I don't think it will get done this year :)

Ok - blogger has gone all scary on me!

It is Thursday today but it has labelled the post I have just done as Wednesday. Hmmmmmm. Have to see if it does it with this one too!

Edited to add - and it put the one I did to follow up this one right at the start of Wednesdays posts. It's something to do with the autosaving of posts but I'm not quite sure why!

On my desk....on a Thursday

....but we can pretend it's a Wednesday though right??

I know it's not exactly a desk but my lap will do nicely enough as a sewing table when the weather is this nice. I couldn't just sit inside and sew - I had to relish the sunshine as it's been a rare commodity in the UK over the past few months! The apron is part of a custom made baking set that comprises a personalised apron, recipe cards, child size baking tins that can actually go in the oven and a bag to put it all in. I'm hoping to get it all finished tonight to send off first thing tomorrow but if not then it will be tomorrow afternoon.

And this was the view from my 'desk' - not too shabby!

Better post today

well sort of anyway!! I've been up to some exciting things today with my Dad but the photo's aren't sorted yet so I can't show you. Actually it's probably not at all exciting to you but it is to me :) Anyway in the lack of exciting news I just have to tell you about an exchange I heard this morning between two mums on the walk back from school.

Mum 1 - Well I just can't get her up in the morning.
Mum 2 - What time are you getting her up?
Mum 1 - 8 o'clock
Mum 2 - Well what time does she go to bed?
Mum 1 - Oh she's in bed at 10pm but often doesn't get to sleep until 11ish.
Mum 2 - Well I wonder why she doesn't want to get up then (being completely serious!)

Me - Slack jawed and thinking 'Well I can tell you exactly why she doesn't want to get up at 8am!!' But I kept my mouth shut and kept walking :)