Puerile fun on a Sunday!

Matt and the girls were playing with this online fart machine this morning - very funny if you are, like the girls, into bottom humour!

I think my favourite is the letter r - which is the race car fart sound! And yes - I did extensive research of the sounds for you :)

New brooch

Cor two posts in a row which don't contain either chickens or gift tags!

Instead I have made one of my button brooches (ignore the awful photographs - better ones will be taken as soon as there is decent light!)

It is 100% recycled/upcycled - nothing new went into the making of this brooch. The buttons are from Oxfam, the felt from the scrapstore, the thread was given to me by Lupin in a swap years ago and the brooch back also came in a swap but I can't remember who from.

Once better photographs have been taken it will be listed in one of my shops :)

Work in progress

I'm getting a *teensy* bit bored of making chickens and gift tags all day long so I have decided to take a break from that for a little while. Not too long I hasten to add as my shops are still woefully understocked! Instead I am going to be making something just for us.

And these are the patterns I'm loving at the moment!

Creative space

My creative space will not be taking place for a good few hours yet as in 10 minutes I am going to nursery to collect Tara and several of her friends (with parents) for lunch and a play. However when I do get change to do some crafting it will be to sort out this little lot!

All my tags were nicely set out in piles on the girls craft table by the window last week and then of course the burglars paid us a visit - all my work was swept up onto this tray and hasn't been touched since. My to do list is under there somewhere so it really does need sorting :)

For more creative spacers check out Kootoyoo.

Two more into the coop

Two new chicks that is!

Green Twist is in my Etsy shop

And pink flowery is in my Folksy shop. I've only had time to list these 2 but there are more waiting in the wings - hah, geddit?!

Charity shop gold!

These folders have been sitting in my front room for weeks now waiting to be photographed to be shown off to you - well here they are!

Recognise the image on the front? How about the writing on the sides?

Yep - Golden Hands magazines!! 6 folders full of Golden Hands magazines!

Only about 5 mags from the 75+ are missing and I'm hoping I can collect them from ebay or somewhere similar.


I could make things like this but don't think I will be!

I spotted these beauties in a charity shop when we were over at my mums for the jumble sale - £1 a folder. So I promptly grabbed all 6 and handed over my £6 :) I left very happy!

A new week!

Well it hasn't been the best of weekends(!) but we went to see this chap last night in Blackburn and he proved to be very funny and gave us both a boost :) Thanks Dave!

I won't tell you what he talked about as it would spoil the surprise if any of you are going to see him soon but rest assured he was his usual funny self. I'll hopefully be back to blogging properly again now although I am using Matt's laptop so any spelling mistakes/dodgy spacebar using is down to the laptop and not me, ok?!

Edited to add - how rude of me! I forgot to say thank you to all of you that left nice supportive messages/sent emails and texts. Thank you.

Bastards

Apologies for the swearing - some of the above broke into our house last night and stole Matt's wallet and my laptop. Little ****s! SoI won't be around for a few days while we sort things out.

Talk soon x

A buttontastic present

My friend Alex likes buttons so when it was her birthday this week I knew I had to have a button theme.

First I made a bottle of buttons topped with some pretty flowers that will never fade.

A pretty button box (bought from a Folksy seller via ebay for the Sue Ryder charity auction but I can't remember who!) that was filled with these; EDIT - it's this lovely lady :)

Shortbread button biscuits! I got the idea from here but used my own recipe.

All packaged up in this pretty bag.

And topped off with this cute button card from Ruth.

My Creative Space

I started early in my creative space this morning making these cakes - they look a little flat because I wanted to ice them.

Note to self - buy a decent icing set before attempting this again - they came out ok but I had lots of icing oooozing through the bag all over my hands (it was a kids one the girls had got for Christmas!)

I have also been making shortbread but I can't show you the finished items as they are for a birthday gift. Photo's tomorrow when the presents have been delivered!

I am continuing my gift tag re-stocking and it is very boring! I am getting on with it but they take a long time to make from scratch. I only have 88 sets (880 tags) to go! Wish me luck!!!

For more creative spacers check out Kootoyoo.